The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-06-04
Tribute to the Memory Of
John w. Tritsch.
tstoutsville News.1

Comrades: We are Fastening
on to another Memorial Day to
honor Our loyal dead" who are
today sleeping in graves in our
beautiful cemeteries ard in the
Southland. Therefore, on that
day, as living heroes who fought
IN tie Civil War to maintain the
, Union, let us, as In the past, re-
pair to the graves of our dead
comrades, carrying with us fow-
ers, and the flag they helped to
save from dishonor. and strew
their honored graves with wreathes
and flowers, and thus teach by our
example that devotion to country
and flag is worthy Of imperishable
remembrance. The deaths of
Comrades of the Goth Ohio Init.
to Join their Comrades on the other
side of the river since your last
Memorial Day and your Reunion
at Jeffersonvllle, o last Septem-
ber, has made it an eventful one
for your association, and only
few more years, and there will be
no soldiers to care for the flag,
and your monument at Chicha-
mauga and your History will alone
remain to tell the story.
One of the brave and faithful
soldiers Of Co. "E" and one of the
founders Of your Survivors AS
sociation, in the welfare of which
he took particular interest, we
hoped that he would be spared to
you few years longer, and that
upon the reunion to be held in his
home town (Logan, o., this fall,
the writer should have the pleas
ure of grasping his hand once
more Now he has gone from you,
and his chair is vacant, reminder
to us all that we are all now in the
evening of life, and know that we,
too, must soon follow in his foot
steps and answer the last roll call.
Yes, Comrade Tritsch is gone
from you, but the memory of his
pleasant greeting, and his true
friendship for his comrades of the
Regiment and Association which
characterized his life upon every
recurrence of your interesting re-
unions will ever be held in CRATE
full remembrance by the writer,
and we trust and believe by you,
as survivors.
Your deceased comrade fired
with patriotic zeal for the preser-
walton of the Union, entered the
service at the age of 16 yrs. and
Z mos. into the U. S. service Aug.
20, 1862, at Camp Circleville, o.,
by the writer, then a Captain in
the 18th Regt., U. S. Infantry.
The Goth Regt. saw much serv-
ice, and did its duty faithfully
and we'll.
Your Comrade remained with it
until the close of the war, when
he was honorably discharged, hav-
ing full share of it's dangers and
hardships. Though the fortunes
of that great struggle 6l-l865)
didn't give him shoulder straps,
he bore the musket like hundreds
of thousands of other brave pri.
Yates and non. commissioned SOL
diers, and made it possible for
their officers to win victories and
promotions achieved on the battle
field. All honor to your comrades
who have gone to "Fames eternal
camping ground" All honor to
your living comrades of the rank
and file.
Brave soldier, dear comrade and
friend farewell.
We were not acquainted with
his family, but in their hours of
sorrow we would tender them our
sincerest condolences as faint
expression of our sympathy In the
death of our comrade.in-arms,
John w. Tritsch.
FRANK P. M0HLENBERG,
Late Capt 18th U. S. Infy.
& Bvt. Maj. u. S. A.
Surviving mastering Officer of
the Goth Ohio Vol, Infy. Aug. 30,