Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-01
nuDN,T KNOW HE HAD A SON.

An Old War Veteran Finds Ills Son i'm This CIty-They Had Never Seen | Each other BefOre-Sounds Like Memorial Play Romance.
 Apropos of Memorial day, joyous and unusual reunion took place in this city a day or two ago. It is usually only in fiction that man completely changes his character by seeing ghost on Christmas day or on Thanksgiving day that the family of young woman, whose picture has for many years been turned towards the wall, becomes lenient and receives her again into the family fold.
 An old veteran soldier of the civil war found son whom he never knew existed, and whom he found living in this city and working in the Candee Rubber company's works.
 The circumstances of the existence of father and son, each oblivious of the others existence, and the coincidence of an old soldiers meeting'h his unknown son the valor of the common soldiery, is almost unprecedented in the annals of the many unexpected reunions following the war.
 At the opening of the war for the Union James Sullivan, who had immigrated to this country with his wife but short time before, was imbued with the spirit of patriotic feeling which stirred up less heroic hearts than beat within Irish breasts. His wife, after his departure for the front became homesick; so, selling their little possessions of the interrupted system of letter carriage and the difficulty in camp life of writing the husband heard the meagre news that his wife was dead. =
 The regiment that he was in was the One Hundred and Eighth New York regiment.
 With no further ties of friends he went through the war, never stunning danger in battle, and with his vigorous good na- ture always ready to lend hand in the march. Throughout the war he followed the vicissitudes of the One Hundred and Eighth in their various campaigns except for a short period spent in Libby prison and when the bullets of the Confederates laid him up in the camp hospital. At the close of the war he entered the regular army and after long and honor able service and many brushes with the l Indians, his health broke down and he entered the Soldiers home at Philadelphia l and later was awarded a pension of $24 a month.
 While at the home he learned through 6
 relative in New York, who had heard that
 he was still alive, that some of his rela tives in Ireland had immigrated to this | country and lived in New York city With an old mans eagerness to find con | nections of his own blood, he sought out | his friends. They proved to be his wife's l sisters whom she had visited on going te l Ireland.
 There he learned that his wife had diec
 in child birth not long after her return te
 her native country, giving birth to 8 son The boy had been nurtured in Ireland and
 later had come with his aunt to this coun
 try and had settled in New Haven.
 letter was sent to this city and shor
 time ago the father came to live with thu l son and grandchildren of whom he hac
 for all these many years neve
 been aware. The son whose father
 advent added junior tofA hi
 name is, as stated above, an emp1oye o
 the Candee Rubber company, and lives o1
 the corner of Chapel and East streets, an'
 is twenty y-eight years old.
 The resemb blsnce between the old warrio
 and his son is very marked, and with tn | filial feelings that neither time nor separa
 tion can obliterate, the two are living mos
 happily together.