The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-06-02

| menu at Gettysburg.
| The heart of the COnfederacy VIZ
broken there on Cemetery Ridge an
| Round Top where Hancock, and Co
vile, and the first Minnesota stool
and fell, and from how many hearts
Minnesota did light 60 out tina
July day.
| There came a day when the Gran
Army Of the Republic "came marcel
ing hOme." and in their ranks marcel
ed many, who, thankful that they ha
escaped from the whiStling bulle
knew not TT at they had heard an
been touched by the. rustling wing
of AZrael: and all too soon they wen
in answer to their signals
Still other multitudes have given {
their lives that the nation might llv,
Statistics indicate that the life of til
| Grand Army of 1865 has been shorter
| ed, and from ten to twelve years ht
| been taken from each of it's member
| Wounds, imprisonment, disease, pr
| vatiOnS, hardShipS and anXietieS ha
taxed their virile strength to its liml
and beyond, and this tax too is bein
paid. 2SS thousand years of huma
life, in Minnesota's quota, which
being added as fuel to the Sacrifici;
fire.
Young men and maidens the libe
ty we enjoy today was bought with
price and is not our own. AleXande
Wilkin Post 10 e. A. r. was chartere
on Feb. 9th, 1888. Its total enrol
ment has been 300. They came t
this Post from almost every battl,
field Of the war. Some Of the con
radeS had carried the State colorS {
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont
Massachusetts, New York, New JeI
sey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio
Indiana, Illinois. Michigan, Wi
sin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas,
lucky, Missouri, Mississippi, COLI
and California, but they had all
ried above State colOrS or insignia
flag of the Union, our political sy
of one Lord, one Faith and one
tiSm.
Every regiment sent from NJ
sofa is represented ia the membel
of Wilkin Post. Since the Orga
tion of this Grand Army Post,
our comrades ,have one by one
laid upon their cOuntry's bosom.
Grand Army of the Republic
makers, rather than recorders O.
tory. but some neurological data
been cleaned, mainly from the re,
of Alexander Wilkin Post. Scan
have been the results of my scare
materials which would form 9.
graphical sketch, the limits of
occasion compel severe abridgen
simply a mention, and few nam,
men and of battles will outline
tory and biography.
Let us recall those in this elias
whom this monument is memo
John A Meyers of the Both New =
Joseph Schwartzenburg, OF the
Wisconsin, one of the 300, wore
flannel disc of the LIST Corps Arm
the Potomac, led by McDoWel
Cedar Mountain and Manassas p
Hooker at South Mountain and
tietam, and by Reynolds at Fredr
burg and Gettysburg.
John BedfOrd'S lSt Cavalry div 81
and Reynolds 1st ArmyCorps by
stubborn and heroic contest on the Is
of July made it possible for HancOc
and Mead to choose the field OF Get
tysburg for the bloody conflicts Whlc
was inevitable.
John Griswold of the Sth n. Y
heavy artillery.
Chas. Mansfield, 1st Minnesota,
times wounded), Jas. Cannon, Is
Minnesota, twice wounded, and
prisoner), were Spartan soldiers
Spartan regiments and Sparta
corps. Their service was with th
second Army Corps a. p, the largcs
n no
sustaining the heaviest losses of an
III the Union service. The grizZ
Sumner was its first commander an
on the field of Fair Oaks it gathere
it's first laurels 1t passed throug
the Peninsular Campaign and reache
Chantilly to strike d blow, and marc
on to battle it's feet in the blood of Al
tietam. Under the command {
Cough, it passed through friedrich
burg and charlottesville. and led /
Hancock came to Gettysburg, Han
cock and the 2nd Corps at Gettysbur!
when will their glory fade?" FroI
Gettysburg, by way OF Bristoe, Min
Run, the Wilderness, SpOttsylvaniS
Cold HarbOr, Petersburg and Earn
Vile, it reached the prize of it's big
calling at AppomattoX.
Chas. NJ. Swanen, 18th NY. I'M
Battery, listed at l7,served three yeaI
and died at 33. He wore the damon
badge of the third army corps A. L
firsti under Heinzelman. with Hool
er and Kearney commanding div
sions, at Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Glel
dale, Malvern, Manas sas, Chantil
(where Kearney fell Fredericksburg
Charlottesville, where under Sickle
it bore the brunt, and Gettysbur
The boys who followed the lead
such as Joe Hooker and Phil Kearnt
through three years Of war were reaC
to lie down to their eternal rest at 3
Let them not be forgotten when HI
roeS are remembered.
Samuel l. Osborn. 31St Ind, 30
Oscar Troenkler served on the At
corps army of Cumberland. If | me-
tionGordon Granger 90. Howard an
II. j. Wood, its corps commander
the long list of it's battles from Mi
sionary Ridge, where it climbed to tt
summit of its fame, to Nashvlll
which closed it's active service, wi
pass before you as panorama.
Frank Bragdon It'll Maine, 300: TO
lowed the fortunes of the 9th corr
army Patomac. We say 9th corps an
think of Sedgwick and Spottsylvani
where he fell, of Cold HarbOr, of il
career in the Shenandoah under She
idan and its chase to the death {
AppomatoX.
A. H. Wood, 14th n. Y. heavy a
tillery, served in the 9th corps Arm
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