Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-26

December, IS. Bishop. a colleague. was
just past nineteen when wound that he
received at Lees Mills Va, while fighting
as private in the SD New York. made
the amputatiCn of his right arm u neces-
sity.
Wiley of New Jersey was nineteen when
he graduated from college and went to
the defense of the Union, serving into ga.
Gardner of the same state a veteran
at twenty, after three years on the firing
line with New Jersey volunteers. Bradley
of New York seventeen on the out
break of hostilities. He seriously
wounded at Gettysburg, the Wilderness and
before Petersburg. He rose from private
to captain in the l24th New York. He was
aid-de-camp to Maj Gen. Mott. He dis
played great gallantry at Charlottesville
for which he received the congressional
medal of honor. When he was brevetted
major for meritorious service In the cam
paign terminating at Appomattox he was
only few days beyond his majority
Scroggy of Ohio was eighteen when, in
July of 81, he enlisted as a private in the
Both Ohio. He was severely wounded while
aiding in the assault on the confederate
works at Nickajack Creek, Ga. Independ-
ence day, "a. He was then a corporal. All
of Representative Scroggys brothers. five
In number, were in the civil war One was
killed at Lookout mountain. another wound
ed and a third taken prisoner at Danville,
Va.
How Graham Got in the Fray.
When the first call for volunteers came
Graham of Pennsylvania. then a STRIPPING
of seventeen offered himself to the recruit
ing officers at Pittsburg So great had
been the rush TO arms that the states quota
was already full. Nothing daunted, how
ever, Graham and his comrades chartered
n steamer, sailed down the Ohio to Wheel
ing and there enlisted in Company of the
I'd Virginia Infantry. Two years later the
regiment was mounted and became the
9Th West Virginia Cavalry. While he was
still in his minority Graham saw hard
fighting under three noted cavalry leaders
Averell, Crook and Sheridan. He was
wounded in the battle of White Sulphur
Springs, w. Va, but served till the end
Of the war and witnessed the surrender of
Lee.
Capron Of Rhode Island, of the famous
army family of that name, was twenty
when he enlisted in the I'd Rhode Island.
A few months lated he was detached and
placed in the Signal Corps, serving with it
until the end of the war, coming out a first
lieutenant, U. S. A, and captain and major
by brevet.
Bankhead of Alabama was lieutenant
in the 10th Alabama at nineteen. He
wounded three times, but despite all the
lead that he stopped he managed to give
the confederacy four years of his young
life.
Richardson, also of Alabama, was put
out of the fighting business by Uuion bull
let at Chickamauga, when he was wound
ed for the third time. He began lighting
at sixteen.
Other boy warriors now representatives
are Holiday of Indiana who went through
the war with the 9TH Kansas: Hedge OF
Iowa, who became a second lieutenant IN
the l16th New York, and after the var
over graduated from Yale: Howell of New
Jersey, who enlisted at eighteen IN the 18th
New Jersey and served till the close o. the
struggle; Field of Texas. who saw service
under Gen. n. B. Forrest: Jenkins OF VS.
cousin, who swops camp fire yarns with the
other survivors of the 9th Wisconsin, and
Wadsworth of New York who entered
tne army in "a at the age of eighteen. He
leIt off preparing for Yale to do So and
he served till peace had come on the staff
of Gen. G. K. Warren.
OF the boy warrior representatives seven
were confederates, eighteen gave of their
youthful vigor and whole-hear-e mess to
the Union. OF the boy warrior senators six
were Johnny Rebs, while five wera Yanks.
That all these thirty-six boys fought well
their records, here briefly outli IL l. make
plain.
Keifer's Record
Eleven of these boy soldiers-ra1rly Gre
third of their strength--were wounded six
other veterans now in the Congress were
also bored by bullets five by confederate
missiles. These six are all representati> IS.
Hull of Iowa was dropped by JOHNNY
Rebs bullet while charging with his reg
ment on the intrenchment at Black River.
was compelled to resign in October of the
same year. He was then captain in the
23d Iowa. having been prom pted from first
lieutenant. Hull entered the army in 62, af
ter graduating, at the age of twenty -one.
from the Cincinnati Law School
Keifer of Ohio. whose military record is
exceptionally brilliant. was wounded four
times-severe,y at tie Wilderness and thrice
slightly before that. May 3, 1864. He was
among the Ohioans who responded to Lin
coins initial call for volunteers, and he
stayed in the fighting to the end In 81 he
saw service in western Virginia and Ken
lucky; the year following in Kentucky,
Tennessee, Alabama and West Virginia
and from then on till the close of the con-
fiict In Maryland and Virginia In addition
he was in New York and Brooklyn in
August and September of SO to enforce the
draft.
Eight days after enlisting he was commits
stoned a major In the 3D. Ohio. and he was
named major general by breyet In July of
60 He became brevet brigadier general
in November of "a for gallant and meri-
torious services in the battles of Opeduon,
Fishers Hill and Cedar Creek. Virginia.
The following month he was assigned to