The National tribune., 1900-08-23

| West Virginia until discharged on the 2Sth
day of August, 1861. On the 18th of No
vember, 1861, he again enlisted in Capt.
Louis Vaight's company Oh, 23d Ky.). In
August. 1862, after the battle of Perry
vile, Ky, he was promoted First Cor
poral. After the battle of Chickamauga
he was advanced to Fifth Sergeant. After
the battle of Missionary Ridge, during
which all the color guards and Color Ser
geant had been killed or wounded, he was
given the torn, bullet-pierced flag of his
| regiment to carry on to Knoxville, East
Tennessee, where at that time Gen. Burn
side was surrounded by Gen. Longstreet s
forces. After the relief of Knoxville, Mt
| Blain's Crossroads, East Tenn, the Odd
| Ky. re-enlisted for three years. On the
| recommendation of Claudius Tiff, Cap
tain of Co. II, Col. George w. Northup
regiment for bravery and meritorious con-
duct at the battle of Mission Ridge. Dur
| ing the Atlanta campaign Co. III lost all
its original commissioned and nOn-commis-
stoned officers, killed or wounded, but
Lieut.. Whitney and Sers't Brandy. Lieut..
Whitney having charge of two companies
(H and 81, he placed Serg't Brandy in
command of Co. II. Remaining in COM
mand of Co. II until November, 1864, he
was relieved by newly-promoted Cap
tain, Jacob S. Fox, at which time he was
promoted to First Sergeant. In the month
Of March, 1864, he was promoted to First
Lieutenant of Co. G of his regiment, go.
ing with the regiment to Texas after Max
| imillian, serving part of the time as Quar-
termaster. On Feb. l, 1866, at Louisville,
KY, he was mustered out of the service
| at the age Of %, having served four years
| and eight months, participating in all the
marches, battles and skirmishes in which
his regiment was engaged but two, the
| number of fights being about so. After
hiS licch1rua ba of aI hiS frola rvif n
his former employer, who had removed to
Clarksburg, w. Va. In the Spring of 1867
he went to Cottonwood Falls, Kans. In
1868 he returned to Clarksburg, where he
married the daughter of John n. Thorn,
| who, after giving birth to four children,
died in 1876. In 1879 he took his four
| children and again returned to Kansas,
following his business as jeweler in the
| towns of Cottonwood Falls, Winfield,
Chcrryvale and Coffeyville. In 1881 he
married Estelle w. Hunt, the daughter of
| II. l.. Hunt, of Cottonwood Falls, Kans.
In 1884 he was elected President of the
Sunset Town Company, in which capacity
| he, with n few others, organized Morton
| County, and took the first soldiers home
stead in Morton Co., Kans., going through
| the usual Western County-Scat fight and
proving UP his homestead. He joined the
Oklahoma boomers, and went in the first
rush to Oklahoma City, where he helped
organize the first Grand Army Post in that
| Territory, having also previously helped
organized and was the Commander of
Henry Clay Golf Post at Clarksburg and
Hackleman Post Of Cherryvale, KaIs. In
| 1880 he located in Olympia, Wash. where
he attended the meetings of the boys in
the Department Of Washington and Alas
ka. In 1892 he moved his family to Oak
land, Cal, where he joined Lyon Post. In
1893 he moved to the gold mining district
of California, Redding, Shasta County,
where he helped reorganize Winslow Post
and became its Commander. Returning
the same year to West Virginia, he To-
Gated at Huntington, in which place he
joined Baily Post and became its Com
mandcr. In 1894 he moved to Elkins, W.
| Va, helped organize the first and only
Post in Randolph County, and has been
its only Commander to the present time.
He has been in every State and Territory
west Of New York except Alaska, also Wis
iting British Columbia, Alberta, Assina-
balm, Manitoba and Toronto, of Her Mai
csty's possessions.