Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-02-18


|, G. P. Foster Post, of Wolcott, will hold
18th. The Relief Corps and Sons of Vet
Grams are invited to take part in the exer-
cises.
VIM. Nichols, Co. A., End, VT. admitted
to the Vermont Soldiers Home Aug. 10th,
1891, died while on a furlough at North
Adams, Mass, Jan. 18th 1892, and was burr
led at Stamford.
Farnsworth Post G. A. R. of Lyndon
vile will hold campfire at Music Hall that
place, on the evening of Feb. q. Gen.
stephen A. Thomas OF Montpelier is ez-
pected 10 be the speaker of the evening.
VIM. P. Russell Post, No. SO, G. A. R. of
j Middlebury, gave an entertainment at
their hall Wednesday evening Feb. 10.
| The exercises consisted OF an address by
A. X. Carr, recitations. readings, music,
etc, and at the close the Ladies' Aid Socie-
ty furnished supper.
The election OF Lieut.. William ii. Hum
phrey OF Essex Junction as junior vice
commander OF the Vermont G. A. r. gives
general satisfaction throughout the State.
Lieut.. Humphrey was one of the best sol
diers that left Vermont and he gave his
right leg in the service of his country. He
enlisted as private, Co. +, 2nd regiment,
u. 5. sharpshooters, October 80, 1861, re
enlisted Dec. 21, 1858, and was promoted
sergeant. On Nov. II. 1864, he was again
promoted, this time to LIST lieutenant and
transferred to Co. G.. 5th vol. Feb. 25, 1865.
Lieut. Humphrey served in all the battles
OF his command until the breaking of the
lines at Petersburg, where he lost his leg.
The letter received at the Adjutant Gen
erals Office in Montpelier and subsequent
Investigation by the friend of the soldier,
Mrs. James 5. Peck led to the old veterans
being placed and made comfortable in the
Soldiers Home at Bennington was brought
A
Montpelier, and the comrades quickly di
rected that the hat be passed. A collection
of S3S was secured and a check for that
amount was sent thelady in Boston who
so benevolently gave from her small wages
for the support of the suffering soldier.
and makes her present OF S13 which will
no doubt be very gratefully received by
the true christian spirited woman.
Gems. Henry Heth and John c. Stearns,
commissioners under the McComas Bill to
restore the lines on the battlefield of An
tietam, have almost completed their labors
having been in correspondence for several
months with officers who commanded in
the field. They have defined the positions
of forty-three OF the Union regiments en-
gagged, in addition to making out the lines
of battle of both armies. Flat stones, prop
erly inscribed, have been placed in each Of
the positions. To illustrate how accur-
hlcly the Work mas DeeH uODet one DutleIy
lieutenant states in reply to communica-
tion from the board, that his battery was
stationed in front OF the Dunkard church,
two Of the guns being placed between two
hewn gate-posts that stood directly in
front of the church doors and several hun
dred feet away. He describes a slight hol-
low that fell away toward the edifice, stat
ing that the battery was placed on the
highest point of the hill that rose from the
holloH. With these minute directions it
was comparatively easy to locate exactly
the position of his battery. The spot where
the hewn posts were, has been found and
even portion of the square pillars them
selves obtained. Gems. Heth and Stearns
have been negotiating with the farmers
who own the old battle-ground for the pur-
chase of sites twenty-fiy feet square to in
dicate where the different commands were
posted, but the farmers set such a high
value on their land that nego-
tiations were broken of abruptly. Ii is
now suggested that the state OF Maryland
step in and buy up the whole battle-ground
for national park. Such an undertaking
IS really the business of Congress, but Nc
haig, the successor of McComas, shows no
fO move in the matter