The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-18
FIGHT THEIR BATTLES OYER
FOUR REGIMENTS HELD ANNUAL
 REUNIONS YESTERDAY.

teenth c. V.'s in Hartford,
 The thirty-third annual reunion of the Eleventh regiment c. ", was held in Admiral Foote G. A. R. hall yester- day.
 There were 15O present, including several ladies, wives and daughters Colonel Horne called the meeting to or der and Vice President Henry A. Hull of New Brunswick, N. J., presided, with c. Quien of Danbury, Conn.,. sec retary.
 Addresses were made by Labor Com missioner Horne and others.
 F. A. Cummins of Hartford was given vote of thanks for having transferred the regimental monument from it's for mer location on the battlefield of An tietam to the Antietam bridge. At this bridge the regiment lost POO men in holding the bridge against a brigade of General Longstreet's army. Colonel H. c. Kingsbury was killed in the en- gagement.
 MT. Cummins said yesterday that Brigadier General J. D. Jones, who commanded the attacking rebel bri- gade, was brother-in-law of Colonel Kingsbury, and when the rebel general heard of the death of Colonel Kings bury he asked to be relieved of his command. He never again joined his brigade. He was taken sick and died soon after the battle.
 Colonel Horne presented the associa- ton with number of pictures of the monument and the brigade and was given vote of thanks.
 The officers for the ensuing year were next elected. as follows: Presi- dent, F. A. Cummings of Hartford; vice presidents, J. Dauchey, Company A; J. Goodwill, Company B; John Monthe, Company c; G. o. Lord, Com pany D; John Wilson, Company E; John Scandon, Company F; w. H. H. George, Company G; J. H. Emerson, Company H; Dr. Hull, Company I; Frank Shanley, Company K; secretary and treasurer Captain c. Quien.
 It was voted to hold the next reunion in Hartford, and then the veterans ad- journed for dinner
 EIGHTH c. V. BOYS OUT IN FORGE
 -NEXT MEET IN MERIDEN.
 Meriden, Sept. 1.-The Eighth reg- ment of Connecticut celebrated it's tWenty-seventh annual reunion here to- day. Between seventy-five and one hundred were present
 The members who have died since the meeting in Hartford last year are: Francis Hart, Noroton; Arthur Honor, Waterbury; Corporal S. B. Huling, Preston; William Kelley, Thompson vile; Christopher Congdon, Simsbury; Captain N. P. Ives, New Haven; Syl- vanus J. Wilcox, Kansas Lieutenant Jacob Bishop, Brattleboro, Vt; Amos Wade, New Haven; Captain Andrew J. Morgan, Westerly, R. l.; Corporal William Webster. Pennington; Frank A. Fenner, Pawtucket, R. T.; John Edgecomb, North Stonington.
 Comrades A. F. Bartram of Bridge port and Jewett of Westerly were ap- pointed a committee to send greetings Eleventh and Sixteenth regiments at Hartford and New Haven to-day.
 Colonel Upham asked if any of the members knew the precise location where General Rodman received his mortal wound at Antietam, as General Carman wrote him to find out Jared Wheeler said that he remembered Rod- mans last orders which he gave while at the left of the Eighth regiment W. H. Lamphere said that Rodman was shot at the right of the regiment
 There was a strong fight put up by J. S. Lane and William Hagadon to have the convention meet in Meriden next year. MT. Bartram put in plea for Bridgeport, MT. Lamphere for New London or Mystic, and MT. Spencer for Waterbury, Meriden won the fight and the Eighth will be here again on Sep tember IT, 1897.
 The following officers were elected:
 President, Frederick Gallup, Groton.
 Vice presidents, c. L. Upham and T. B. Williams Meriden.
 Secretary and treasurer, T. B. Flaw ley, Forestville.
 Chaplain, Rev J. J. Woolley. Paw tucket
 Color bearer, Luther Matthews Southington.
 Executive committee, J. S. Lane William Hagadon and Fred Parker, all of Meriden.
 THE SIXTEENTH c. V.'S GATHER
 ING-NExT MEET IN MADISON.
 Hartford, Sept 16.-The thirtieth an- nual reunion of the Sixteenth regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, was held here to-day About 100 members were pres ent A cablegram of greeting was sent by the veterans to Colonel Frank w. Cheney, who is travelling in Switzer land.
 Report of the nominating commit tee was presented by Captain Pomeroy. Dr. Nathan Mayer of this city was se- lected for vice president, Captain Will liam H. Lockwood, Norman L. Hope, George O. Whitney and Elisha Risley, executive committee. This report was adopted unanimously. The executive committee is unchanged from last year.
 The place for the next reunion was left with the executive committee. Af- ter the annual session was through with the annual dinner was served in Jewell hall One hundred and twenty five plates were guaranteed by General Clapp and not far from that number partook of the bounties arranged for the day
 Hartford, Sept. 17.-The auunal re- union of the Fourteenth regiment, Con-