The National tribune., 1894-03-29
MUSTERED OUT.
Veterans of the Country's Grandest Army
Who Have Answered the Last Call.

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Who Have Answered the Last Call.
Tsenders of obituaries will please adhere strictly
to the form in which the notices below worded.
Notices must be brief and be sent Immediately after
| the event to which they relate-I
MoRRIsoN.-At Clearwater, Kan, March IS,
of dropsy, Jonathan p. Morrison, Co. E. 102d
H. aged 30. Comrade Morrison was born in
Kentucky, and went to Illinois in 1858. He
| enlisted in August, 1862, and was mustered out
| in 1863 He moved to Kansas in 1872. He
| leaves widow and two sons.
| CREAMER.-At ChiElicothe, No., Feb. % Of
pneumonia, A w. Creamer, Captain, Co. E. 5th
N. Y. Cav, aged g. Capt. Dreamer went to
Missouri soon after the close of the war, and
| lived in Chilicothe for several years. He
| moved to Kansas City, and accepted position
| as depot and baggage-master in the Union Depot
there, which position he filed for over II years.
| but on account of i'll health he resigned, and
| returned to ChlIicothe in 1898. COmrade
Dreamer was member of Tindall Post, 90, and
| the Post took charge of his remains and buried
him with full military honOrs.
| COLBY.-At Someryille, Mass, March 4, Col.
| E T. Colby aged 81. Col. Colby was born in
| Salisbury, Mass. In 1s4S Col. Colby moved to
Lawrence and entered the office of the Bay
| State Mills. Col. Colby left Lawrence for the
| position of paymaster of mill IN NOosupcOn,
Conn, but returned to Lawrence in 1854. be-
coming paymaster of the big Pacific Mills
| year later He occupied that Office until 1862,
when he welt to the war. He was President
| of the Common Council when President Lin
coin made his first call for troops. In 1862 Col.
Colby. in conjunction with Mai. George s.
| Merrill and John K. Tarbox, raised company,
| and assisted in raising others, which were COM
manded BY Hon. John r. Rollins and Hon. Il.
! J. Sherman. The company of which Col. Colby
was Captain was intended for an Essex County
regiment, to be called the 4Sth. They raised
| eight com panes and then the two from Law
-o1 he Al
| Col. Colby was chosen Lieutenaht-C0lOnel.
| Capt. Henry Walker, of the Ancient and Hon.
orable Artillery Company, was Colonel. The
regiment was sent to New Orleans as part Of
| Gen. Banks's command where it remained q
year. Col. Colby then returned to Boston, and
engaged in manufacturing until 1868, when ne
entered the customs service, being appointed
April 1 of that year. He was a member of
Post 40. Newburyport.
SIMPsoN-At Watertown, N Y, March z,
Jos Ii. Simpson, Lieutenant, Co. i, 30th N. Y,
aged 81. He was in command of the company
most of the time during the two years service.
He entered the service afterwards as Captain
in the 18th N. Y. Cav. He was Commander
of Joe Spratt Post for several terms, and his
funeral was attended by 81 members of that
Post.
CRoMER-At University Hospital, Philadei.
phia, Pa Feb %, Hon. Jere Cromer. old Co. ID,
49th Pa COmrade CrOmer was wounded at
was prominent Republican, was DOOrkeeper
of the Senate, Sergeant-at-Arms of the House,
and elected a member of the House in 1884.
EvANs.-At Taunton. Mass, March 10, Jas.
NJ Evans, Co. H. Sd Mass.
HUFF-At Kingfisher, Okla, Feb. IL, J. ri.
HUFF, 47th Ind, aged 81. COmrade HUFF en-
listed in 1861. In the Fall of 1862 he lay sick
long time at Memphis, Tenn. As soon as ablo
to be removed he was taken TO the hospital at
KeOkuk, where he was soon after discharged.
In the Spring of 1868 he again enlisted in the
Sth Iowa Cav, in which he served until the end
of the war. He was captured at Newman, Ga,
during the Stoneman aud McCOOk raid in the
rear of Atlanta Ga. He was taken to Anderson
vile prison, where he remained a long time, and
when exchanged he was the last member called
from prison. He was promoted from Orderly
Sergeant to First Lieutenant of his company
for meritorious conduct at the capture of q pOr-
ton of his regiment. Comrade Huff was brave,
kind, and true, and was always at his post OF
duty.