The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-09

SEVEHTHAHD TENTH
VETERANS OF TWO MINNESOTA
REGIMENTS HOLD INTEREST,"
ING ANNUAL REUNIONS.
cOMRADESHIP OF 1861-65
is REVIVED by THE CORDIAL
GRASP OF HANDS LONG
PARTED.
OTHERS WILL GATHER TODAY.
There Will BE Meeting of the
Fourth Minnesota Here This
Afternoon.
coMRADEsHlP OF 1876
OTHERS WILL GATHER TODAY

Over half hundred veterans of the
Seventh Minnesota regiment met at
the capitol yesterday, in accordance
with the custom of the regiment. The
following registered:
Field and Staff-A. A. Ames
Company A-D. Goodhue, Peter Delaney,
W. w. Sidwell, Amos Bice Peter Simons.
AmaZiah Slocum, Alexander Bates, D. F..
Kelley, A. Thorpe, j. w. Thompson, Peter
Morgan, Frank Kendall Roland Weeks, Geo.
Robinson.
Company B-J. W. Moore, William Rogers,
c. Grady, E. ]. Dowling. D. O. BurIey.
Company CIV. X. Folsom, E. H. Wood,
Company De. Brickert, N. w. Mallory,
Company E-M. j. Butler. c. H. Perry.
Wesley Stevens. Charles Gorton, John Nc
Company F-Joel Darling. A. Fuecher, J..
H. Holmes, L. W. Collins.
Company G-H. P. MeIntire, H.. H. Dan
ielson, Peter Wagner, S. w. Parks, N T.
Berg.
Company H-Jacob Harrisburger, Franz
Grassinger, c. B. Wilkinson, A. E. Messen-
ger, Ed Schultz, H. l.. Mills, William String
err E. S. Lightbourn.
Company ~. E. West, Dan McCaster,
Isaac Carter.
Company K was unrepresented. Sec
retary and Treasurer Lightbourn
reported the death of the following
comrades during the year: George j.
Virtue, William F. Colby, George Hol-
house and William H. Jarvis. Secre-
tary Lightbourn now has information
as to the address of three comrades,
leaving 1877 addresses not known. There
are 535 known and 379 have died, either
during or since the war. There is a
balance of $4166 in the treasury, and
the organization is prosperous.
Dr. A. A. Ames, of Minneapolis, sur
geon Of the regiment, was again hon
ored by election as president, and
Judge L. W. Collins of ST. Cloud, as
first vice president. Daniel Goodhue
was reelected second vice president
and E. S. Lightbourn secretary and
treasurer.
The following resolutions on the
death of Col William r. Marshall, bre-
vet brigadier general, were enrolled
upon the minutes of the regiment
Whereas. We have heard with sorrow OF
the departure from this life of our late COM
mander and beloved eomrade. Gen. William
R. Marshall. Words are not adequate for
the expression Of our sense of loss, hard as
it is upon our estimate of the character and
merits of the departed He was ideal SOL
dier, officer and man. His unquestioned
bravery the field of battle; his wise gov
ernment OF the force unQer his command,
his affectionate interest in the welfare of
his men, to whom he ever stood in the rela-
tion of comrade as well commander; his
ardent patriotism; his upright moral char
acter and unf1inching fidelity to the interests
committed to his care, have given him an
unqueStioned title to cur respect and anectlon.
Assuredly. there was no Drawer man or better
on our list of heroes.
Whereas, We remember, also that in civil
life he acquitted himself as honorably as
on the field OF battle. and we refer with pride
to the hOnorS conferred upon him by
grateful state, in making him twice its chief
executive.
Whereas, To u.s. of the Seventh regiment,
Minnesota volunteer infantry, he stood in
nearer and dearer relation, that of comrade,
tried and true, the one whom delighted
most to honor, whose presence at our an
nual reunions seemed a necessity and whose
absence today and henceforth creates a va
cancy that can never be filled. Sadly we
miss the warm pressure of his hand in
brotherly greeting, the genial expression of
his face and his brotherly greetings as he
was permitted to look again upon the faces
of the men of his now decimated regiment.
We miss his intense enjoyment of these re-
unions and our hearts are proportionately
saddened look upon his vacant chair.
Whereupon
Resolved That we hereby express our deep
sense of the loss, by his departure. to the
state whose interests he ever held deeply
at heart; to his immediate circle of friends
and relatives. and last to ourselves as as
sociated sc intimately with him in the de-
fense of the country and in the long and
peaceful years that crowned the successful
struggle for the preservation of the Union.
Resolved, That we. his late comrades, will
hold his virtues in remembrance till we too
are called to take our places in the silent
halls of death to await with him the reveille
of the Great Commander.