Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05
Union Veteran Legion.

| THE sick comrades of No. are reporteC
| better. Morrison and Mccall are themselye.
| again.
CHARLES B. BULLOCK, late of Hampton.
| Battery, was one of the six recruits taker
into No. at the last meeting.
Four applications were received and re
ferred to committees and six new member.
! mustered into Encampment No. on Mon
day night.
ENcAMPMENT No. 6 has fixed the evening o,
| July l6 for inspection, and as Comrade A. B
Hay is to do the inspecting, the boys will
| take notice and be ready.
JOHN W. Ross, Company D, Seventieth
Pennsylvania Volunteers, found his soldier
| home with Encampment No. l. and was
mustered at the last assembly.
| WILLIAM WALKER and James Rankins both
members of Company II, Sixty-second Regi
| ment, were mustered at the meeting of En-.
| campment No. on Monday night last.
| ENCAMPMENT No. l will be inspected in the
| near future by Lieutenant j. H. Stevenson
| of No. 6, and the boys of No. should have
their accouterments in good order or they'll
catch 1t.
CoMRADE W. H. DUNLAP of New Brighton,
member of No. 6, was in the city several
| days last week. He generally hunts up
some of his old Roundhead chums to have q
little war talk.
CoMRADE REV. GEORGE W. BROWN enter
tanned Encampment No with some very
appropriate remarks after his muster Com
rade Brown is good talker, and says he is
well pleased with the Legion.
Ex-CoLoNEL j. X. CAMPBELL is a good
actor as well as talker, and can tell an enter
tanning story as well as the next one His
recollection of his early soldier days was
well told and appreciated by all.
J. d. McILwAINE, of No. 6, managed to
stray into the last meeting of the encamp-
ment, the first time for several months. He
is veteran of the One Hundredth Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers. He will attend oftener
in the future.
THE Reserves continue to increase the
membership of Encampment No. l. Com
rade Andrew II. McWilliams, late of Com
pany X, Tenth Pennsylvania Reserves was
the last one to find congenial home among
the old soldiers.
CoMRADE JOHN R. JOHNSON, of Enoamp-
ment No. 8, Youngstown, o., presented En-
campment No. l, through Comrade Callow, a
very f1ne porcelain canteen, handsomely dec
GRATED with the shield of the Legion. A vote
of thanks was given to Comrade johnson.
AFTER the capteen presentation at the last
meeting OF No. Comrade Chalmers recited
in his inimitable way, 1--WE Drank From the
Same Canteen.' 1t made the mouths of
some of the old boys water to think of the
good old time when they drank from the
same canteens
The last meeting of Encampment No. 1
was one of the largest and certainly most
enjoyable held for long time Many of the
members are now absent from home, but the
membership of No. is so large that there is
always enough left to make it interesting
The library and parlor of the Legion is a
very attractive place to many of the mem
bers. Good books and lots of fun.
The $50 per cent racket of the Erie Sol
diers Home was aired at the last meeting of
No. 6. J. II. Stevens on took the ground that
o soldiers pension is for himself and family
and not for the expenses of the Home, but
that pensions of inmates should-that is, the
most of them-go to the wife of the pen
sioner if he has one. Comrades Fulmer, Nc
Clelland and Wheeler assumed similar
ground.
ENoAMPMENT No. 1 has lost another of its
members by death. Comrade j. NJ. Kent late
Captain in the Eighth Reserves, died at his
home, No. IS Isabella street, Allegheny, on
Thursday last and his remains were taken
to his old home at Waynesburg, Pa, for in
terment Many of the members of the en-
campment paid their last tribute of respect
by escorting the remains to the Union sta
tion. Comrade Kent was one of the very
best soldiers of that noted military organf-
zation, the Pennsylvania Reserves.
SOME of the pensions granted the past
week to old soldiers in this region are re-
ported as follows by J. H. Stevenson & Co:
Simon Gerstel, Company II, Seventy eighth
Pennsylvania; Jospeh Gendel, Company C,
Sixth Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery; James
John, Company B, Thirty-second United
States Cavalry Troop; J. p. Riggs Company
NJ, One Hundred and Second Pennsylvania;
William Baker, Company H, Seventy-eighth
William Tesh, Company G.
First Maryland Cavalry; r. B. Crawford,
J. v. S. Harper, Company I, Twelfth West
Virginia.