The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-17
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A friend of the late Hon. Hannibal
Hamlin has prepared the following inter
esting "reminiscences of MFR. Hamlin's Dit
triotic services as aprivate in the army:
How happens itithat Hannibal Hamlip
wears Grand Army uniform and a
Gran1 Army badge?" was doubtless the
question asked by many spectator as
the venerable ex. Vice President, i'm Aug
ust last, rode imam open barouche through
the streets of Boston in the great process.
sion, bowling right and left in response
to the plaudits of the crowd. Tho fol-
lowing paragraph answers the question:
'tStop-ai pay and allowances at his
request was what Capt. Clark of the
Adjutant Generals office in Maine read
not long ago on the roll of company A,
Maine State Guard called to Fort MeClary
in Kittery from July to September. 1saI
Scar Uhing tile records nc came upon this
muster roll, and the foregoing comment
was written under the, head of "Re-
marks against the name of Private
Hannibal Hamlin. l.0,"
Mr.. Hamlin was at that time Vice
President Of the United States, and it is
fact that this famous man, whom
Maine has long delighted to claim as her
own, while holding the next to the high
est Office in the Nations gift, actually
enlisted as private in the United States
service at a critical stage of the war, and
donning his Suit Of blue and shoulder
ing his musket, held himself in readi-
ness for a call TO the front or wherever
else the military powers that be might
ortlain. Tl,T tiFlr
OF this record he was Justly proud to
the day of his death, and also that it was
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