Omaha daily bee., 1898-09-29
FIRST CAVALRY REUNION
Veterans Of the War of the Rebellion Meet
for the Sixth Time.
DAY SPENT IN RENEWING OLD TIMES
Members of Famous Regiment
which Holds Triennial Conclnyes
Are Having n Good Time
Among Themselves.
DAY SPENT IN RENEWING OLD TIME

About 100 veterans of the First Iowa cav
airy volunteers gathered at the Grand hotel
yesterday morning to attend the sixth trl-
ennial reunion of their old regiment. The
reunion lasts over today and more are ex
pected to arrive this morning Many of the
visitors are accompanied by their wives and
other members of their families, who have
taken advantage of the reunion to spend
a couple of days or so at the exposition.
Most OF yesterday was spent by the veterans
in renewing acquaintance and talking over
old times when the regiment was engaged
in bushwackng fighting from Missouri to
Tennessee. short meeting was held in the
afternoon in the League rooms at the hotel,
at which some ordinary routine business was
transacted and committee of one from each
company appointed TO secure the names
and addresses of surviving members in order
that the roster of the regiment might be
revised. In the evening large number of
the visiting veterans went across the river
to the exposition. At the meeting this
morning the election of officers for the en-
suing three years will take place, after
which the members in attendance will pro-
ceed in a body to the exposition.
The first reunion of the regiment was
held fifteen years ago at Davenport. at which
the attendance was 10. At the second re-
union at Cedar Rapids twelve years ago
| there was an attendance of IFS; at Ottumwa
nine years ago. 149; at Keokuk six years
! ago, 149, and at Clinton three years ago 1877.
| OF the field officers of the regiment there
| are yet living Colonel Dan Anderson OF
Abba, Ia. Colonel William Thompson of
Bismarck, N. D., and Lieutenant Colonel
| A. G. Mcqueen of Flora, Ill.
The following registered yesterday with
Secretary Krapfel and were provided with a
badge of orange silk bearing the following
| inscription: 1861 to 1866; First Iowa Cav
airy Volunteers, organized June 10, 1861
veterans January, 1864, dsbanded March
16, 1866; reunion Council Bluffs, Ia, Septem-
| Der 2S and 20, 1S9S:"
| Company A-William Goodwin, Farming.
! ton, Ia. f. J. Babcock, Davenport, Ia; Johr
| Henkle, Arispie, Ia; G. A. Carter, BentonS.
port, Ia; f. l.. Sweet, Greeley. la.
Company B-H. S. Herberlin. Chicago
George A. Allen, Ell Reno, o. T.; Isaac Guile
State Center, Ia; d. S. Bullock, Harlan
| Ia; G. r. Carney, Monroe, Ia. Paul An
derson, Abba, Ia; B. S. Woodward Clinton
Ia; l.. l.. Pearson, Rising City, Neb.; R
B. Fulton, Red Cloud, Neb.
| Company CA. c. Brice, Bedford, Ia: j
Hammond, Augusta, Kan; Joe E. Ritchey
| Des Mones, Ia; C. B. Johnson, Anita Ia.
Company D-J. l.. McClelland, East Peru
Ia; T. T. Steadley, Swan, Ia; j. w. Kirk
Council Bluffs, Ia; A. NJ. Benge, Winter
| set, Ia.
Company E-J. e. Frank, Red Oak, Ia.
G. w. Vanorsdal, Topeka, Kan; w. A. Coul
| ter, Hubbell Neb.
Morton Hager, Hazelton, Ia; d. b. Boyd
Williamsburg. Ia. r. ]. Young, Oelwein
Ia. w. e. Totman, Harper, Kan; J. Z
Hutchinson, Hennessey, o. T.. P. e. Shaver
Kalona, Ia; Charles Mayer Welman, Ia.
Ira II. Wildman, Central City. Neb. j. A
Morrow, Blue Rapids, Kan; D. N McCord
Omaha.
Company G-J. w. Krapfel Waterloo. la.
X. M. Higinbotham, Eldora, Ia; George Det
rick, Oelwein, Ia; E. H. McMilln, low
Falls Ia; F. H. Severance, Central City
Neb.; II. S. Bradfeld, Williams, Ia:
Schoonover, Anamosa, Ia; Charles P Nc
Carly Oakland, Kan; Ed ]. Brown, Quincy
ILL.,. w. H. Rambaugh, Eldora, Ia; l..
Bronson, Raymond, la.
Company Holm Hitchings, Independ
ence, Ia; David c. Kenworthy, Abba Ia
A. T. Hart. Woodworth, Ia; Dyas Nei
, Lineville, Ia; W. II. Jefferson, Lneville, Ii
Company Nv. Hawk, Blue Rapids, Kan
A: B. Phelps, Conception, Ia; Henry
t Uhler, Emmett Kan; ID. C. Dinsmore Kinks
vile, Ia; A. J. Glllispe Atlantic Ia; {
Springer, shckley, Neb; B. F. Crocke
Martensburg, Ia
Company K-J. A. Lyons, Guthrie Cente
r Ia; James Bolton, Racine, Wis; Thoma
j. Tupper, Rock Rapids, Ia; w. Reynold
Wayne, Neb.; Ezra Hawk Martensburg Il
Company L-C. l.. Miller Highland, Kan
William Jenkin, Quincy, H.. L. B. Main
waring, Wheatland, Ia; Alex Barner, Salen
: Kan; Caleb Burns, Holstein, Ia; j. \
Simeral, Omaha C. NJ. Made, Red Oak la
d. c. McVillip, Seward, Neb; S. X. Keye
Cambridge, Neb,; A. E. Watson, Counc
0 Bluffs.
A Company M-George Thompson, NJ
Pleasant, Ia; N. U. Ballard, Mt Vernon
Ia; M. Ballard, Omaha; E. B. Kinds, Odel
:. Neb