Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-21
Survivors Of Seventh Iowa Regiment Listen
to Address and Familiar Army Airs.
SIXTH REUNION OF OLD ARMY COMRADES
LAST EVENING HOUSE VISITING VETERANS
WERE Observation-Disclosures BY DRUM CORPS
ENJoYED-MAJoR SAMUEL MAHoN DELIVERS AID.
49,. DRESS OF WELCOME.
TFrom Thursday's Dailv.l

from Thursdays Dailv.1
Last evening at the Grand opera
house the surviving members of the
Seventh Iowa Volunteer Infantry Reg
iment held camp fire and listened to
addresses by members of their regi-
ment. The members of the G. A. r.,
the w. r. G.. and the S. of V. were
invited to attend, and large audience
was assembled to enjoy the program
which had been prepared for the en-
tertalnment of the visiting veterans.
Major Samuel Mahon, who was rank
Ing ofiicerof the regiment present, pre-
sided at the meeting.
Familiar Army Airs.
The camp fire was opened with a
bugle call, the reveille, and the faces
of the old soldiers were seen to light
up at the sound of this familiar air.
Old army airs by the Ottumwa fife and
drum corps We're also loudly applauded
by the veterans, to whom no sweeter
music can be given. Miss Ella Dow
Cloutman rendered a vocal solo and
was required to respond to an encore.
She sang America the audience ris-
Ing while she sang. The meeting
closed with the bugle call of taps. The
program was given in the Courier yes
terday.
Address Of Welcome.
Comrades, it devolves upon me the
welcome task of welcoming your sixth
reunion to the city of Ottumwa As
! look in the faces of the comrades be-
fore me my memory carries me back
forty-one years to 1861, when war was
in the land and men were called to
save this nation from division and de.
struction. You will remember with
me the gathering at old Camp Warden
at Burlington. The boys from the
farm, from the store, from the office
and from the professions crowding
down to fill UP the regiment, and all
of you will remember the instructions
You received there during the short
stay until the regiment was ordered
to the front. unarmed and ununiform
ed. You will remember with me how
we went down the Mississippi to st
Louis, Where We were armed but not
uniformed, and fastened to the front
going into camp at Birds Point.
Lost Many of Number.
You will remember the battle Of
1oClhohl, NHSlS d llullUeE VI luc DGSl
and bravest of our number We're left
on the battlefield And there We're the
engagements of Fort Donelson and
Fort Henry, and the victory at Fort
Donelson, where We first raised the
hopes of the nation. My memory car
ried me farther up the Tennessee river
to Shiloh, where the memorable battle
in the woods was fought.
From Atlantic to the Sea.
"Then you remember how we partic
1pated in the advance on Corinth
where one-half of the regiment lies
buried. In the next summer we march
ed across the country to Chattanooga
under General w. T. Sherman, to the
relief of General Rosecrans. The Sew
enth participated in the campaign re
sulting in the battles of Lookout Noun
tain and Missionary Ridge and in the
relief of Chattanooga. After the Chat
tanooga engagement the regiment par
ucipated in the Atlanta campaign il
the summer of 1864, and in the fall
look up the march to the sea with
General Sherman which resulted il
the capture of Savannah. Agar
Shouldering our muskets, marching
through swamps that were said to be
impossible, arriving at Raleigh, N. G.
in time to he in at the death, wher
Johnson surrendered after the surren