The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-14
CONEY IS ATTACKED
ON WAR RECORD
Continued From First Page.

Rev. Bernard Kelly, Abran1 w. Smith,
Thomas j. Anderson, A. L. Greene and
c. J. iceland, Jr.,- past department. com
mander; T: II. Grisham, Judge advo-
cate general Of the Kansas department,
and Colonel j. H. Rickel. That part
of the circular to which exception has
been taken reads as follows:
'sComrade Coney enlisted in the gal
liant One Hundred and Eleventh New
York infantry, Company. II, and par
ticipated in all the battles of his regi-
ment until Appomatox,i among the po-
sitions held by that Regiment being the
Salient at Gettysburg that met and
Pickett, when the Confederate General
Armistead fell dead within the lines
of regimental front, and again stood
in the ssbloody angle'' at Spottsylva.
MIA, his regiment losing. 412 out of
1908 fighting men, of the line. Captain
battle of Peach Orchard, in front Of
Petersburg, Va, June l6, 1864. -
AS part Of the printed statement
issued against the Coney candidacy is
copy Of letter from f. F.. Ware
of Kansas, when pension commissioner,
and bearing date May g., 1904. That
letter, date at Washington, is as fol
lows:
H. Coney, I will say that I know moth
ing personally concerning his record,
but T find the following among the
files in the office: 49,, :, ,
sIPatrick H. Coney was enrolled
March 81, 1864, at Cazenovia, N, Y,
and was mustered into service on the
same day as a musician of Company
H, One hundred and Eleventh New
York infantry.
''It appears that he was present for
duty with his command until June p,
1864, when he was admitted to Depot
Field hospital, Second army corps, City
Point, Va, with diagnosis of diar-
rhea. On July 8, 1864, he was admit
ted to the Mount Pleasant General hos
pital, Washington, D. c., with dag
nosis of Econvalescent from pneumo-
MIA He was furloughed from this hos
pital on July %, and was readmitted
from furlough Oct: s, 1864, and was
returned for duty Oct. II, 1864.
| WHe reioined his regiment Oct. 20
1864, and remained until June 4. 1865
at which time he was transferred tc
the Fourth New York artillery. with
which organization he served until mus
tered out, Sept. 26, 1865. =
"He received in bounties $310 fo1
enlistment. He has drawn a pension
from Sept 81, 1867
An Error in Attack.
Obviously, Captain Coney could not
have been with his regiment at Gettys
burg, since he did not enlist until eight
months after that battle had beer
fought, nor does the record refer tc
wounds Of any sort. He might, how
ever, have been at Spottsy fo7
the Ware letter says that he was
present for duty with his command un
til June 22, 1864, when he was ad
mitted to Depot Field hospital -
Spottsylvania was fought more thai
month prior to this date of admission
to the hospital.
In this respect, therefore, the circr
lar attacking Captain Conev is clearly
in error, and this error invites the sus
picion that possibly, and even prob
ably, there is nothing worth while ii
the rest of the circular. The Cone,
candidacy, however, has been made al
issue, and will serve to embitter tn
encampment week for great many O.
his friends. There is not getting ava,
from the proposition that Kansas is fo
him, unanimously. His headquarters
and that Of his state, at the Brunswick
hotel, are the two warmest spots IL
the Grand Army section of the city
and there is on duty there continual,
small army Of as enthusiastic and op
timistic boomers as ever attended :,
Grand Army national epcampment i
the interest of '.tsfavorite g son. - 80