The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-07-25
Survivors Of Companies H and !
Of 33rd Wisconsin Infantry
Hold Reunion Sunday
tn. BISHOP GUEST or HONOR
Members of the Famous Fighting Corps
Spend the Entire Day Talking
Over the Events So Dear
to Their Memories

Recalling the memories of the Civil
War, ten of the surviving members
of Companies H and l of the 33rd
Wisconsin Infantry met in an in
formal reunion at the Eichelman
hotel on Sunday and spent the entire
day together recalling the exciting
events of the march and the battle
field. T. H. Bishop, of Pleasant
Dale, Neb., who was one of the most
popular members of Company H, has
been visiting old friends in Kenosha
for several days and on Saturday he
declared that he would like to meet
the survivors of the two companies
and when the reunion opened ten had
responded to the invitation.
Dinner was served at the hotel at
one O'Clock and after dinner the MEM
bers of the two companies retired to
the parlors of the hotel where the
regulation Grand Army camp fire
was held. There were no set speeches
at the afternoon gathering but there
was host of short stories which had
been preserved by the members of
the company since war times and it
mattered not that the members of the
companies had heard the stories be-
fore, they gathered new interest by
retelling.
The members of the two companies
attending the reunion included T. H.
Bishop, of Pleasant Dale, Neb. H. A.
King, of Pleasant Prairie; James
Eddy, of Bristol; Julius Kidder and
James E. Drom, of Chicago; A. H.
Thompson, of Rockford, ILL.,; Charles
Smith, of Racine, and Capt. George
Hale, of Kenosha, all of Company II.
S. P. Cropley, of Pleasant Prairie;
David Pierce, of Bristol, and H. E.
Benedict, of Richmond, ILL.,, of Com
pany l.
The most famous of the members of
the two companies attending the re-
union was A. H. Thompson, of Rock
ford, who is widely known throughout
the country as one of the boys of the
Civil war. Mr.. Thompson was born
in 1848 and he was just IA years of age
when he enlisted as volunteer with
Company H. Notwithstanding the
fact that he was the youngest person
in the company and the regiment, he
bore thestrials of the long struggle
with fortitude and was several times
noted in the dispatches for his bravery
on the field of battle. Thompson is.
still young man, but he has many
interesting memories of his boy SER
vice In the war and he twas one of the
principal takers at the reunion on
Sunday.
Companies H and were among the
noted fighting companies of the army
during the Civil war and they took
part in many of the most interesting
battles of the great struggle. They
were in service for three years and
most Of the time they were fighting.
The two companies were mustered in
as members of the Thirty.third at
Camp Utley in Racine on Nov. IL,
1862.
They went at once to Memphis,
Tenn, and hurried on to Oxford,
Miss. They returned by the way of
Holly Springs to Moscow, and were
fighting their way all along the line,
and went from Moscow back to Mem
phis, from which place they went to
Coldwater, Miss. Returning again to
Memphis they we're sent to Vicksburg
and Jackson, taking part in the bitter
conflicts at these places. Returning
to Vicksburg they we're sent to Nat.
chez. Returning to Vickshurg they
went to Meridian and took part in
Sherman's Meridian campaign, then
to Red River and Alexandria, La,
and then up the river to Mansfield.
Later they returned to the mouth of
the Red River, and went up the Miss
issippi to Memphis. Then on to Ia
pelo and on up the White river 10
Duealps Bluffs in Arkansaw. After
this trip they made run through
Missouri, stopping at St. Louis, JEFF
ferson and Warrensburg, and from
this point they went south again to
Nashville, and north again to East
port, Tenn, and Cairo, ILL.,, from
which point they went back down the
river to New Orleans, Mobile and
Spanish Fort. They took part in all
the battles about these many cities,
and late in 1865 they went.to Madison,
the state capital, andslater we're mus
tered out.
Plans are now beingslaidsfor gen
eral reunion of the atwo companies
which IS to be held next year, and
while there are only few of the sur
vivors OF the companies left it is ex-
pected thar twenty .of then. will be
present at the reunion next year.