The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-09-12
Veterans of the Country's Grandess Arr
Who Have Answered. the Lat Call

Veterans Of the Country's Grandsss Army
! Who Have Answered the Last Call.
-CLARKsoS.-As GreenYills. H.. Aux "a. OF
catsrrh, J. J. GARRISON. 1881 and I44tS Ill.
! Deceased was a member Of Colby POST BOZ.
CARPENTER.-At King City. No, Aug 10.
I Henry Austin Carpenter. ID Me. and 10th Ne.
/ Comrade Carpenter was member Of King City
i Post, SO. He leaves widow and five children
/ WEEBs-As Auburn. N. y. Aug II, Jas.
/ Webs, Co. G, 18th y. T., aged 81. He attended
\ the funeral Of George Washington when i've
| years old and served in che Mexican and Florida
/ wars and in order TO enlist in the civil war
| gave his age incorrectly. lie held his age so
we'll as TO have the appearances OF not being oyer
- years old. Seward Post, 81, furnished bearers
/ and he was laid at rest in the soldiers plot ia
SOule's Cemetery.
HuNTER.-At Brunswick BE. Aug. Is, Bel.
Wills K Hunter. Co. A. 18th u. 5. aged a. Conn
rade Hunter was a Worcester Mass policeman,
: and started on his 10 days vacation Wednesday,
/ Aug. H. intending 10 take the Bath boat from
/ Boston, and then 20 the home OF his brother at
/ Iopsham, Me. After he bad seen bis wife safely
on board the boat he returned to shore TO pur-
chase some fruit, and before his return the
/ boat sailed, and he had to take the cars for
/ brunswick, arriving there at 1920 a. M He
then undertook 10 walk down the track to his
/ brothers in TOpsham, but before reaching there
/ he was in some manner unknown run over by
| the cars and killed. He leaves n widow Ha
Il u
| TERRITT.-At Baldwinviile Mass, Aug. 10,
OF heart disease, Irving L. Merritt, Co. ID, 36sh
Mass, aged %. COmrade Merritt was mem
Der of Ward Post, TO-
MfLLARD.-At Cory. Pa, June 80 Henry
| Millard. Co. !. Goth Pa. aged g. He was a
member of Post 20. widow survives him.
BARRETT.-At Francestown. n. H., Aug.9,
Cyrus A Barrett, Co. Z, 81 n. H., aged 81.
COmrade Barrett lost bis pension last Spring
He buried by Stevens Post 6.
MARsTOS.-At Newburyport, Mass, Aug. 49,
, Geo. w. MsrstOq, Co. y, 35th Mass, aged ~.
Comrade Marston was severely wounded at
South Mountain. He was member of Post 40.
IIOTCHKIss.-At Pawtucket r. J., Aug. %,
Lester L. Hotchkiss. Go. (, 149th N Y, aged
So He was buried by Tower Post. H. Of which
he WAS a member. He leaves widow and
three children.
EvEsoS.-In Benton County, Ore Aug. IS,
John t. Eveson, Corporal Co. A, I5lst n. Y.
aged 90 years. Comrade Eveson was born in
England and served in the Royal Army there
for several years. He was formerly a member
of Frank Blair Post. /, st. Louis no. When he
moved to Albany. Ore. he became a member Of
Mcpherson Post, 3. His remains were inferred
at Albany, Ore. The services at the grave were
conducted by Fair Oaks Circle, ], L. OF GAR.
He leaves two daughters aud son.
GAUL.-At Defiance. N. j., Aug. 26 Capt. 8.
N. Ganl. Co. +, 4th N. j., aged q. Samuel
A. GsuI was born Sept. Q. 1922, at ia Coates
street then (How Fairmount aveHue), Philadel-
phia. His life up to the breaking out of the
great rebellion had been uneventfa as nothing
of consequences had arisen in the staid old
Quaker City to disturb the serenity of either
State or Nation. Early in July, 1861, company
organized aud differed as follows: Capt,
Henry VI. Jewett; First Lieut.. s. N. Gaul, and
Second Lieut., Elias Wright Samuel M Gaal
not only gave his services to bis country but
took with him his two eldest sOns-JOhn and
m hav diadk vuo
days after the battle Of Gainess Mill, June q,
1862. Frank danced to the masic four years.
and still survives. Finally, the company
being accepted as Co. G. 4th N. j.. was mus
tered for three years or during the war on
Aug. L. 1861, and three days later was in
Virginia, and completed the infsntry con-
tingent of the First N. J. Brigade, under
command of the gallant Phil Kcarny; the
brigade at that time being a ysung army,
composed as it was of the 1st, ID. Sd and 4sh
n. j.. two troops 1st N. Y. Cav. (I.inc0lnL
and Battery A, 1st n. J.. Art. (HexamerJ.
On June q, 1862, at the battle Of Gaines's
Mill, Va, the 4tt regiment aud the 11sh Pa.
Reserves were tSfown in as q fOrlorn hope and
sacrificed TO cover McClellans retreat. and had
the honor OF being the first two organizations
in the Union army to enter Richmond invol-
UNFAIRLY. They were confined in the famous
Libby Prison AZ days when they were ex-
changed and rejOined the army at HarrisOn's
Landing. From there TO the second battle OF
Bull Run, to Chautiiiy, then Champions Pass
Sept. II, 1862, where he was wounded, missing
Antietam. bnt rejoiniBg the regiment in time
to participate Dec. 13 1862, at Fredericksburg,
where Col. Hatch falling mortally wounded,
the command of the regiment devolved on
him. he being the senior Captain. Then
until during the Valley campaign under Sheri-
dan in the Summer of 1864 at Winchester, he
was captured and held as a hostage for three
months at LyRchburg, Va. for the Chambers
burg raiders who were at that time under sem
tence of death at Washington, d. C. After
having had the rope around his neck for three
months he was finally released as a hostage
but hold as a prisoner of war and sent to Dam
willie, Va, and kept there until Feb. D. 1865,
when be was released and got the first glimpse
Of Old Glory for eight months. and struck
Gods country a physical wreck. and from
which he never recovered. He rejOined his
regiment as soon as he had sufficiently
recovered, and after the surrender al
AppOmattox had the great qualification Of
marching into DanYille with the gallant
Sixth Corps victor" the Sixth Corps (Sheri-
dams flying Infantry having been detached
from the Army of the Potomac and sent to
Danville to intercept the rebel Gen. Joe John
ston whose army had not yet surrendered.
He returned to Camden after the war, where,
under the city charter he was elected its
first Mayor in 1871 for three years. His civic
record is equally as creditable as his military.
The funeral services were held on Aug 30.
The body lay in state at the hall OF Hatch Post
during the early part of the day.