The record-union., 1896-11-29

day they mutined and everyone of those
three thousand men left the camp and
spread over the city, where they staid
until they got hungry. when they once
more went to the camp.
Mr.. Sheehan admitted that personally
he was not well up in the question Of
countersigns, but had recently reread
his Harry Lorrequer and felt It his
duty to tell the story on the priest,
which Lever first heard around the
campfires on the peninsular. Thereupon
followed the story of his reverence who
was made to say Bloody end to the
Pope" while the officers Of the One
Hundred and Thirteenth split them
selves with laughter.
Comrade George M. Mott, when called
on. said he had joined Sumner Post In
1866, Just after the war. He left the cfty
shortly afrerward, and it took him a
long time to get back into the ranks
again. He did get in, however. and
while for the last twenty-five years he
had not been Of them. he had been with
them.
Co.nrade VIM. M. jerks said the cam
paig-n of 'o5. like these of other days,
had passed. and was settled as the sol
diers OF the G. A. r. desired. AT the
first attack on Vicksburg he had stood
beside a gallant Colonel when he fell.
In Sacramento at the recent battle an
other warrior had fallen, and he sin
cerely regretted the fall of Grove L..
johnson.
Comrade jerks spoke of all the cam
paigns from 1860 down to the present
time, and stated that he had always
marched. carrying either a bayonet or a
torch, under the leadership of the Repub-
lIcan party He felt proud of the part the
old soldiers had played in the last cam
paign. and felt that he had a right to
do so. and as long as they were allowed
to march he expected to see them car
rying torchlight under the same old
flag and the same old party.
Comrade Thomas Jefferson spoke
against disbanding the league, and ar
gued that a divided house could no.
stand. He. thought the Republican
party had in the past been the main
spoke in the wheel, and still continued
to be so.
Comrade George H. Herr, who had
recently visited many battlefields of the
South, gave vivid descriptions Of them
as they now appeared. He had been
told that the children at Richmond
sported the stars and bars, much the
same as the little people did the stars
and stripes in Sacramento. He ex-
planned very satisfactorily why it was
ITO the advantage of Grand Army men to
wear the button of the order while trav-
cling through the South.
He recalled the day in war time when
he and a comrade charged one of Joe
Hooker's officers SIG 75 for handcar
ride, and then paid SIG for Philadelphia
hombshells at SO a bottle, and six bits
for pies-arriving in camp broke but
happy
Comrade Davis, the oldest soldier In
the city, told in graphic manner how
he had marched in Frank Pierce's di-
vision of Scott's army to the City of
Mexico. and said that the motto then
was, Stay with them till you whip
them" and the same slogan had gone
up at the last campaign, and once more
they had been whipped.
Comrade Estabrook told how it felt to
be the youngest soldier in the army. and
then, on motion Of Comrade Bennett
the meeting adjourned to the call of the
Chair, after which the league rose in a
body and sang the first stanza of "Aul,,
Lang Syne,"
Snail old acquaintance be forgot,
And never called to mind?
Shall Old acquaintance be forgot.
And auld lang syne3''