Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-27
CAMP FIRE BURNS BRIGHTLY.

CAMP FIRE BURNS BRIGHTLY.
Addresses and . General Good Time
Last Evening.
Last evening occurred the camp
fire. President Thomas Campbell Of
the district association, presided.
There was a large attendance despite
the cool e"ening, and the tasty ar
rangment of electric lights ahd jap
anese lanterns shed lustre through
the improvised amphitheatre.
Maj Il. c. Connolly was the first
speaker, and at the outses of his re-
! maks he made allusion to the beaute-
Gus environments and the historical
renown OF Black Hawk Watch Tower
and the Rock river valley which it
overshadowed. The islands near by
recalled the grand encampment OF
veterans a few years ago when Gen.
John A. Logan, the ideal of the vol.
unteer soldier, delivered an Grafton
which will always linger in the
mind Of the veterans who heard his
eloquent, imprisoned words. Like
wise the scenes and surroundings be-
fore the speaker. brought up that
noble chieftain of the tribe who
originally inhabited this coun-
try-Black Hawk-whose warfar e
with the government had its origi n
with the cession by braves of his
tribe while drunk of 700 miles Of
this rich, magnificent domain en-
tending up and down the Missis-
sippi, and which act Black Hawk
deemed a wrong to which he could
not submit or become reconciled
The visits of Black Hawk about the
| country and to Washington in COM
pany with white men were referred
to, as was one incident when he took
breakfast at Maj. Connelly's fathers
house in Pennsylvania, when the
speaker was boy 6 years of age,
and from these historical reminis-
cences, so apt to the occasion, Mai.
Connolly turned to the significance
OF gathering of so many of the
comrade survivors Of history's most
terrible war. on historic ground.
With deep feeling he referred to the
old soldiers like himself, who had
PARTICIPATED in the campaigns in
Kentucky, in east Tennessee under
Gen. Burnside. in the Atlanta cam
paign. including the capture of
Atlanta; in the Hood campaign. in
GLIDING the retreat OF our army from
the Tennessee river to Nashville, and
The great aud decisive battles OF
Franklin and Nashville. He related
incidents of interest which occurred
in the Morgan raid through Ken
lucky, Indiana and Ohio. He spoke
of the great campaign under Gen.
Burnside in East Tennessee includ-
ing the capture OF Cumberland Gap.
the siege of Knoxville and other en-
| gagements therein.
Other Exercises.
| Mrs. Minnie Ransom Barker then
sang sweetly 'sBingan on the Rhine, >
and Maj. j. NJ. Beard-ley was intro.
duced and made an address abound.
ing in eloquence of patriotic feeling
and the r. citation of the events of 81
years ago. Then there was a selec-
ton by the mandolin club, led BY
Prof. Kilmer, and Carl Yarrow pre-.
ceeded his recitation of 1.-The Bows OF
g." with humorous anecdotes. The
quartet composed of b. F. Boydston
A. +. Elmer. l.. C.. Daugherty aud
j. A. johnson sang "Tenting To.
night" and The Veterans Las,
WISH" and Capt. F. A. Freer, oil
Galesburg, then related entertaining
anecdotes of the war and told of the
lessons and results that had come
from it. Mrs. Barker sang ..The
Shawnee River" and Col. Isaac Glenn
ents. Of Carbondale, spoke. He DIRE
an eloquent picture of the war, it.
lessons and teachings and punctured
his remarks with flashes of wit. Mu
sic by the mandolin club concluded
the exercises.
| Gen. Add Sanders, of Davenport
who was overcome at the close of hi.
address in the afternoon, was re-
ported today TO DE rapidly recover.
ing.
More of the Visitors.
The following were added today to
:he register of attendants from on,
Of the city:
William Bischoff, Andrew SNYDER
William Tyler, Rapids City: Jesse
Davis, Nelson Trickle, w. Walker
Atkinson; John Samuelson, j. H.
Lippincott, Orion; E. P. Lewis, Viii
liam Haddick, Sherrard; J. A. Nc.
Laughlin. G. w. Benedict, william
Harbaugh. A. Dunlap. A. P. Olson,
Geneseo; Michael Conner, George
Wilson. Coal Valley; P. Ohaver,
Bowling; S. H. Harris, Annavap
Samuel lkes, Swedona; j. E. r. Viii
liams. Carbon Cliff; William Pvburn
Walnut; F. Merry man, Kearuey
Neb.; Elwell Griffith, Rural: Charlie.
Titierington. J. A. Carpenter, Edg.
ington; J. B. Vance, Preemption; A.
J. Sibley. Hampton; ]. N. Jack son,
Morrison: George W. Buck, SUNNY
Hill; W. H. Rounds, r. j. Dickin.
son. Toulon; II. &. y. johnson. Por,
Byron; j. ". Wi:hrow. A. Dunlau
Geneseo; Perry Langford. ALBANY
c. F. Bahrineer, James NJ. Dunn
W. B. Kuhns. James Venable, Rev
nO1da. Charles Rsupn Colo.. 4