The sun., 1903-12-06
THIRTEEN EX-CONFEDERATE
Combined Ages OF Those At . Recent IA
union Amounted to SEQ Years.

10 SOO 168Tt.
Il have just come back from . reunios
OF the remnants Of Company I, Eleventh
Missouri Infantry, c. S. A." said tnembea
of the Southern Society. 1T was Gen.
Parsons old brigade and was attached u
the division Of Major-Gen. Sterling Prioe
at the very beginning Of the civil war.
There were thirteen of us at the reunion
and we had our little meet in the farm
house in the county where the company
was organized forty-two years ago
-The ages Of the thirteen who Broke old
Missouri corn -pone bread and ate applea
footed up S88 years. That was enough
to make fellow feel that he was an ancient,
but when you consider that most of ui
of the reunion, and that we stayed up pretty
late. you must admit that We were moi
deorepit.
"The Captain of the company has been
DC dead d. several y years but the Lientensnt'
wives. and children and grandchildren
The Oldest man present is 10, the Youngest
is So. Two are bordering on the patri,
archal allotment, and all of the other,
are past IS with the exception of one wha
The First Lieutenant of the company,
William Dolan, OF Freeman, Cass county
is still living within few miles of the pac,
where he was born 81 years ago, anc
within sight Of the place, where Conn
pany ] was recruited and where it elected
its officers. Dolan had four brothers who
were in the same company, and the entira
lot fought through the war until Lee,
surrender. and returned to their old hom,
where they enlisted, and not one OF thelr
although they were all in many hot fight
and skirmishes.
1.-TWO were captured but subsequently,
exchanged and returned to the fight A.
an old soldier do not hesitate to say tha,
this is rather remarkable. Two OF thesa
brothers were at the reunion. one 10 dead
the others were unable to be present.
who owe Went Al. out @ as FIRST Ieutenant and DC cam, Sn,
back Captain, William Dolan, has lvet
in the town, which he helped to lay out jus
after the war, from that time until th
present. He was appointed Postmastaa
and continued to hold the Office. believe
until the present administration.
His father. James Monroe Dolan. was
Virgnian and was the son of a Revolutionary
soldier, who held his commission from
Washington. James Monroe Dolan wenl
to Missouri and entered the tract Of land
upon which he lived until his death, and OF
which all his children, six, were born:
He was married in the house which h
built and which stood until 1t was burnee
by Kansas Jayhawkers after his sons ha<
enlisted in the civil war He and his good
old wife were banished from their hom
during the civil war. but they lived to se1
it's end and the return of their children.
THE property had been confiscated BY
Uncle Sam, but through the efforts Of thu
present Senator Cockrel of Missouri, tn,
property was restored, and Judge Dollar
and his boys built new house on the ole
farm; and in that house the venerable
jurist died, surrounded by all his family
Take it all in all !. do not think you vii
find many family histories that will parable
this. The fine old father of this extraor
dnary family is buried on the old hom
site
"You may think that the thirteen mel
who attended this reunion are about read!
to quit business. Well, we didn't act "a
if we were. We appointed committe,
of three to arrange for reunion Sept, u
1904. at which time we all hope to be present
and we intend to try to have the few re
naming ones who didn't get to the reunion
this year with us next year.
The dinner served at our reunion fev
weeks ago was prepared by the wives
several of the old eX-Confeds, and ever.
dish was cooked la Dixie. and when itwa!
all over we all sang Dixie in a way ths'
must have made the rafters of the old farp
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