The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-18
CONN. CAVALRY REUNION
WILL BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY,
 AT SAVIN ROCK.
WiII Enjoy a Shore Dinner The President and Secretary Have Charge of Arrangements-TheM Make up of Ghe OrganizatIou-ThOse Who Live in New Haven.

up of Ghe OrganizattOm-ThOse Who Live fla New Haven.
 On Wednesday. August 20, the Con necticut Cavalry association will hold its thirty-fifth annual reunion at Will sons Pier restaurant, Savin Rock The arrangements are in charge of Weston Ferris, president, and Charles F. Boll- man, secretary both of this city. The business meeting vii be called to order at noon in the CoIonnade adjoining the restaurant Dinner will be served at 1 p. m.
 This association was originally organ ized by the survivors of the First Con necticut volunteer cavalry regiment. It now represents all the states that dur | ing the civil war furnished cavalry 1 organization to the federal government. Any resident of this state who during the war Of the rebellion served in and was honorably discharged from union cavalry regiment is entitled to mem- bership and is solicited to join.
 Of it's two Connecticut contingents one is composed of the surviving veter- ans of the First squadron of Connecti- cut cavalry, which was recruited in this state in August, 1861, but was later &C., credited to the state of New York and did telling service as part of the fa- nous Harris Light cavalry"
 | But the greater number of the asso- ciation's members are veterans of the First Connecticut volunteer cavalry regiment, which was organized at West Meriden in October, 1861, and under I Generals Sheridan and Custer did much conspicuous service in the Shenandoah valley, Virginia, and elsewhere, and at Appomatt0x, at Lees surrender, furn- ished General Grants body guard. This was known as General Clusters favorite regiment, and from 1t that daring sol- | dier. selected his we'll known chief of staff, Brigadier General Edward w. l Whitaker, now pension attorney at 14O6 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, D. C., who is expected to be heard from at this reunion. After the grand re- view in May, 1865, at Washington, Gen. eral Custer gave a special farewell re- view to the First Connecticut cavalry, and every member then actually pres ent received a handsome Custer medal and long scarlet red necktie, such as Custer himself was then in the habit of wearing. Tn proud memory of their young dashing leader these veterans still wear the flowing red Custer tie" at all their reunions
 | Grant, Sheridan, Custer and nearly all the military leaders during our countrys most perilous years have gone
 to eternal peace. There most of their soldiers have again and forever joined
 them. Those who still survive have changed somewhat in appearance since
 their muster out in 1865. Only compar-
 atively few of them could now undergo
 another campaign or do good service in the saddle But at their annual gath
 erihgs when the cheering presence of their old comrades in arms and the "reminiscences of the trying yet glorious
 days of their youth render them for getful of the years they have lived since then their eyes and words still show the old time fire and enthusiasm and they feel ready once more to save their country, if.need be.
 On the roster the following named res
 idents of New Haven appear as mem
 bers: Lyman A. Adams, Walter P. Aims
 worth, George A. Barrett, Charles F. Bollman, Marcus S. Burwell, Giles w. Clark. John E. Clark, Thomas Coleman
 Sylvester R. Davis, Charles R. Dayton, Alonzo Derrick. Weston Ferris, Emory l CS 11-a rra N,,1iC Ia ~ ct ings, John w. Hill, Daniel B. Horton, Frederick Hausman, David B. Haw-
 kins, Lewis R. Johnson, Bartholomew l Kelly, John J. Lawler Theodore A.
 Maltby, Joseph Marshal, Frank A. Mon- son, Merritt F. Munsell, John OConnell, Henry S. Parmeee, Edward H. Peck,
 James w. Shuhert, George S. Stratton.
 Herman Voltz.