The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-05-23

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Chicago, May, 23,--Forty years OF
search now has located the scattered
eurviving members of THE only battery
of the civil war to which the war de-
partment presented stand OF colors
this Memorial day the roster OF
the Chicago Board of Trade battery
will be complete. fact announced
at a recent reunion here by the notes
OF the battery's old brass bugle which
had been silent since the members
scstered in June 1866. The civil War
ended May 20, 1S65-forty years ago.
But 46 men remain Of the 165
whose names once were known thro-
ughout the Northwest. Fortune has
not smiled on all alike; some are now
miilionaries and some have welcomed
the shelter of the soldiers homes.
One made fortune with AnSrew Car
negie In steel, another grew rich In
drugs. General Jamel II. Stokes, the
Arst captain of the battery. long
since Joined those who fell in south
ern battle fields. Captain G. l. Rob
inson, who succeeded to the COM
mand, is one of the survivors,
though in III health, perhaps soon
to be numbered among those to
whose memories a monument In
Rosehill cemetery. this city, was un-
veiled on Memoriai day seven years
ego. The completed record of the
veterans and their present homes
now stand as follows:
Capt. q. l. Robinson. Milwaukee,
Wis.
Lieut.. r. d. Griffin, st. Louis.
p. l.. Auten. Pasadena. California.
w. avery. Royal Oak, Mich.
George Bowers, York, Nebraska.
Henry Bennett. Topeka, Kansas.
wv. W. Brown, Decatur. Ills.
III. b. Chandler. Chicago, Ills.
Fred DuPhuis, Chicago. Ills.
g. s. Dwight. Chicago. Ills.
s. A. Dubois, st. Louis, Mo.
Gavin Durand Chicago. aia.
C.. w. Erby, Chicago, III.
]. C. Fleming. Chicago, Ills.
r.. C. Foster, Chicago, Ill.
j. B. Finlay, Chicago. Ill.
s. l.. Ford, Washington. d. G.
VIM. George. Tacoma. Wash.
DR.. c. A. p. Gansey, Evanston,
Ill.
C.. Holyland. Pittsburg. Pa.
S. C.. Hotchkiss, Monticello. Ark.
y. d. Jewett. North hampton,
Mass.
Frank Knight, Chicago, Ill.
S. A. Lock, Chicago, Ill.
Edmund Lun. Oak Pork, Chicago
III.
G.. w. Little. Chicago. Ill.
"a. w. Lester, Antioch, Calf.
Charles LaSuer, Toledo, Ohio.
ALBERT McElery. PittsburE, Pa.
j. A. Nourse. Chicago. Ill.
j. T. Peters, Chicago, Ill.
T. w. Peck, Danville, Ill
#. B. Rockwood, Chicago, Ill.
#. S. lockwood, Chicago, Ill.
VIM. Randolph. Madison, Wis.
s. M. Randolph. Chicago, III.
s. C. Stevens. Chicago. Ill.
i. NJ. Sexton. Danville. Ill.
v. Steele, Chicago. Ill.
M. H. Salisbury, Chicago, Ill.
VIM. Shipley, Des Moines. Ia.
]. B. Saeman. Washington, d. @.
w. l.. Taylor. Canton. Ill.
C. A. Winslow, Fitzgerald. Ga.
Robt. Warrall St. Joseph, La.
III. C. Young, Chicago, Ill.
when President Lincoln In 1856
sent out his call for 100000 men tn
West was quick to respond. Anon
the frst kilograms he received wa
the following one. dispatched With
4S hours after the call;
Chicago, July %, 1862.
abraham Lincoln, President OF tn
United States: THE Board OF Trad
OF this city have, within the la'
AZ hours. have raised $4,000 bount
money and have recruited full con
psny OF artillery.
Signed;
l.. Hancock, Geo. Armour,
II. w. Hinsdale. VIM. Sturgi
@. II. Walker, S. II. Stevens
Fired by this quick patriotic a
the other commercial bodies In u
north prepared TO furnish eith
money or recruits.
The dag the batterly left was
memorable one for Chicago. Cor
pletely equipped by the Board
Trade. the 156 mon and their ;
cannon, marched up Market stre'
past the old Board OF Trade bull
ing. The brokers and grain m
in the Ales beside the cannon way
brawely TO their colleagues In I
cheering crowds on the sldewal
That, at least for three years, W
their. last glimpse OF the buildi
where their days had been sper
tAmid waving hands and wild che
ang, they marched south to Cal