The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-09-20

Inc iath Name forever, hOorah, boys,
hDurah,
Valiant in battle, sturdy TODAY.
You who fought meath Colonel Dyer have
lajlled once again,
-: shouting the comrade cry of welcome !
What struggle through the fash, bows,
and up Red River way,
Worn out, but to keep a-going;
And again at Sabine Cross Roads and
Pleasant Hill next DAY,
he'd with blood nom c, Mrades flowing
CHORUS.
Can You ever forget Cane river or Man
sura and its toll,
Each proving soon bloody station?
Or Fort Semmes or ESpera1Za, down on
Texas Island soil,
Crowded with men'rieS of priyatiop9
CHORUS.
There's your jaunt 10 Pensacola and Bar
rancaS for a "Spell,'
Where for three months You gladly rest
L hen twas back to New Orleans, where
SO many comrades fell,
On land by ''Iebs' so lately tested
CHORUS.
In Shenandoah valley how you fellows
saved the day,
Think how Phil Sheridan was greeted !.
Il was no wonder Early'S men quickly turn
ed the other way,
Crushed back and utterly defeated
CHORUS.
(Encorel
May you rally oft again, is our parting
wish tonight,
\ on IN your blue of army station.
With your good old Colonel Dyer-you
soon won thro' might and right;
Thank God you saved glorious nation !!
The comrades left on the electric cars
Thursday morning for North Bangor
from whence they took the B. Il A.
train to SearSport where they spent the
day in looking over the large docks.
An excellent shore dinner was served
at the pavilion at Penobscot park and
the day will be long remembered among
left for their homes direct from Sears
port but the greater part of them re-
turned to Bangor before going home.
THE 18th MAINE, ETC. The annual
reunion of the 4th Maine Regiment, I'd
Maine Battery, Berdan's Sharpshooters
and Naval Association was held in Rock
land Sept. 18th, with good attendance.
The business meeting was held at Grand
Army hail and dinner was served in
the bauqueting room there. In the even
ing the usual campfire was held. The
president of the association, Given B.
Thorndike of Rockland, presided at the
business meeting. An animated dis
cussion was held on proposition to
hold the reunion next year at Vinal-
haven instead of Rockland, the perma-
nent headquarters, but the motion was
voted down. 1t was decided to hold
the next meeting at Rockland and TO
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date. The following officers were elect
Frank E. Awkward, .. S. N; First Vice
President, George Carver, Co. \, LIST
Maine Regiment; Second Vice Presi-
dent, F. p. Whitman, End Maine Bat
terry; Third Vice President, Edgar
Crockett, Berdan Sharpshooters; See
rotary and Treasurer, j. W. Titus.
Amos Fisk of the 1st Maine Cavalry,
was voted in as an honorary member.
THE 26TH MAINE. A reunion of the
Twenty-sixth Maine Regiment held in
Rockport, Sept. 18th, called out veterans
from all over the state to the number
of one hundred and fifty. At 10 80 a.
m. a business meeting was held in the
opera house and officers elected to take
the places of those who died last year.
AT II a. m. the roll-call was read and
many of the names were unanswered.
At II m. the Fred A Norwood Relief
Corps served dinner to the old soldiers
in the Grand Army hall. This conclud-
ed the official program for the day and
in the afternoon the veterans renewed
old friendships and fought their battles
over once more. Towards evening they
dispersed, good many going home in
the steamer Castine, which stopped at
Belfast and Searsport while a goodly de-
legation took the cars to Rockland and
from there boats to Vinalhaven and
the neighboring islands.
"DO you really mean to say, colonel. that
you ran for Congress before you were OF
age?" Certainly, before | was Is; in fact,
l was page in the House. "-Philadelphia
Public Ledger.