The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-22


 Year and After Dinner Senator Hawley
 Delive,e ed an Address in Which He Spoke
 Feellngly of His Friendship for the Regi-
 mont.
 The Sixth Connecticut Volunteers had the finest of August days on which to hold their twenty-eighth reunion at the Forbes house at Morris Cove yesterday. The veterans with members of their families and friends were con- veyed to the Cove by two special cars. At 12 o'clock a meeting was held, at which the following were elected as officers for the coming year: President, J, M. Anderson; vice presidents for the field and staff, Dr. Robinson, Go. A; A. Leach, B. c. Moore, c. J. Miller, D. G. W. Anderson, E. A. Paul, F. Albert Donns, G, E. Yates, H. George Soder, A. w. w. Walker K. c. Rowlinson; historian, G. K. Caldwell. w. F. Smith was reelected treasurer and secretary, which offices he has held for over twen- ty-five years. The members who have died during the past year are Lewis R. Cook, Lyman Doolit'e, Luzon D. Barnes and Charles Jones. OnIy z9S members of the regiment are known to be living at present, although the muster rolls of the Sixth contain nearly 1900 names. The regiment voted to hold the re- union next year at Stamford on the third Wednesday in August. At 1 o'clock the veterans and their friends sat down to a shore dinner, which was served on tables on the lawn by the Forbes house. Here the veterans seem- ed for a time to forget the hardships of war with its hard tack and muddy coffee in doing justice to the shore dinner After dinner President Bouton | introduced the speakers of the occasion, the first speaker being General Joseph R. Hawley. He spoke feelingly of his l friendship for the Sixth, he having been at one time colonel of the Seventh, which served beside the Sixth, and later general of the Second brigade, to which | the Sixth belonged.
 He also spoke of several of his friends | in the Sixth and their presen where abouts. Grant is now living in New | borough, N. G." he said. ana you wno are republicans will be glad to know that he is straight republican, and you who are democrats tliat he is a | first rate good fellow anyhow, Ga voice isn't he mugwump'0 oh, no, indeed l he's not mugwump. Comrades, l these occasions grow more interesting | to us every year, but yet we may not | be able to enjoy them forty years from now, mathematician has figures from l statistics, in which he kills the last federal soldier in 194S recall the story of Quaker boy who was eager to en- list, but fearing the displeasure of his | parents, who as became Quakers, were nominally for peace, but at heart earn l est for the union cause, went and en- | listed secretly, and then with fear and | trembling came and conferred the mat | ter to his father, who said If thou dost go, Nicodemus, see to it that thou | dost thy dutyr'
 Again after one of the fights in which the colored troops in the union army had distinguished themselves for their gal | lantry someone asked a confederate oiiiS1b NiioI ilC LllOuShL OI tliGHlp it answered they stood killing d-d well, but did not hurt us much"
 James H. OlmsteaG of Stamford spoke in place of his father-in-law Colonel Meeker, who was kept from the meeting by his duties in the sub-treas- ury in New York. He said said I had promised my father-in-law, Colonel Meeker, that I would stay at home | from the war in order that he might enlist, and a short time afterwards while drawing out the names of the l men to fill out draft I drew out my own and at once procured a substitute who served creditably in the Sixth, and so gentlemen l am a member of your regiment by proxy. He expressed his affection for the boys of the Sixth and assured them warm reception at Stamford next year. Comrade Wells
 who served on board the shir
 'Tronside," next spoke in feel ing terms of the association of the
 "Ironsider" with the Sixth and how he had watched from the deck of the Iron. sider'' the men of the Sixth on shore
 engaged in picket duty or about the camp; how breathlessly he had watched it's men roll down from the sides of Fort
 Wagner in the dreadful assault which
 they made He also pictured the mid
 night attack on Fort Sumpter of
 Charleston, where love with his thun ders sought to rival the furious bonn. bardment from land and sea batteries
 Colonel Wooster, who commanded the first colored regiment sent out from Connecticut, told an incident which hap
 pened in the fight at Deep Bottom. Ow.
 ing to the darkness and confusion there
 it was impossible to tell any one bu
 by the sense of touch. h. the darkness
 he felt some one feel of his hair anG . heard a voice exclaim, ''Be jases, he's (
 nigger! The colonel told very anus ing story of an Episcopal minister whicf
 elicited another from General Hawley . who is always primed with stories. The general said: "I'll tell you, colonel, wha sort of Episcopalians we are here. 4 man who removed to a western towr
 went about trying to find man of tht
 Episcopal faith. After looking a Ions
 time he at last found a western char acter who claimed to be an Episcopaliar
 and he asked him if lie had been con firmed The man answered, No Well how do you make yourself an Episco palian?' the inquirer asked. Well, thu way of it is boss the man replied. ' ! tirrr i1r. Nl,