The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-22
Survivors of Companies \ and !
of the 33rd Wisconsin Guests
Of Dr.. RoWeII Sunday
TALK OVER STIRRING DAYS
Comrade z. w. Sherwood of Evanston
as Principal Speaker Pays Tribute
to the Valor of His
Comrades in Arns


sin Infantry in the Civil War held
their annual reunion at the home of
Dr. Il. i. Rowell on Durkee avenue on
Sunday and sixteen members Of the
two companies from various cities and
villages in this section came to Keno
sha to attend the reunion. DIR.
RoWell. proved to be a royal enter
tainer and the reunion was one of the
most interesting ever held by the sur
vivors of the two companies. Dr.
Rowell had a number of automobiles
at the disposal of the veterans and
gave them q ride about the city and
county and during the day entertained
them at a dinner at the Hotel Eichel
man at which covers were laid for
eighteen people. After the dinner was
over an informal camp fire was held
at which e. w. Sherwood of Evans
ton was the principal speaker. Mr..
Sherwood SAID in part:
"President Hale invited me a short
time ago to write something for your
entertainments wish to say some
thing more. When our government
called for troops the community at
large urged us to go and promised us
any entertainment we might ask if we
would only go to the front in defense
of the nation. But ON this pact it
was selfish motive. 1t was to save
others from the draft and to save them
from going down into their pockets
and fishing out their golden sheckels
but today it is changed. Here is a
young man and his wife who enter
tain us today who were not then born
1t is purely patriotic move and some
thing | never saw before. 1t is i'm
possible for me to express my, appre
citation for" this unprecedented and
unique entertainment. 1t is given by
our host purely in honor of you fol-
the Aservlces rendered in the defense
Of the nation.''
Continuing Comrade Sherwood said;
III congratulate you comrades! BY
your valor! BY your courage! BY
your heorlsm! Because of-Fthe sacri-
fec you made in the hour of our ma
TONS peril: you are today the honor
ed guests of one of Kenosha s most
patriotic and respected citizens, DR.. E
#. Rowen.
GIVE meet once more in kind re-
membrance of the fellowship we had
when we stood shoulder to shoulder
a wall of flesh and blood between the
nation IS liberties and its foes in the
hour of the nation s danger. And il
is but meet, and our duty to pay q
token of respect and love to our faller
comrades. Sometimes when memory
recalls scenes now past and gone
scenes which you and [ witnessed anG
often had our part to perform, seen
like panorama to pass before my
vision, and startle me sometimes as il
anightmare, the reality Of which there
is no doubt, yet often seem almost
impossible and fill my soul with sad
ness and regret.
E.,But those things had to be! Wher
recall the sad events that transpir
ed at our camp at Moscow, Tennessee
of the homesick boys; of the sicl
ones; of the suffering; of the dying
and as l hear again the sound Of the
mnfhed drum, [ hear the shrill fife
the Dead March I see the sad funer
al procession with its guard of hono1
bearing the remains of some poor boy
who is never to see home and mothe,
again, being borne to it's last lonely
home, in a distant and strange lane
far from the friends he loved, a feel
ing of sadness and sorrow comes owe
me that fairly chills my bones A
such times it seems to me that moth
ing but the sound of the long roll
the rattle of the stirring drum, as i
Calls us to duty, could dispel this emo
ton and infuse new life into m,
being.
HSAnd as memory recalls our fina
adieu over the casket of our gallan
Captain Lindsey, of the sadness O
the whole company at the grave o
Private Fred Taylor, as | remembe
the burial of our drummer boy. AS
Harris, one whom everybody loved, i
the cemetery at Natchez, as memor,
pictures the scenes at the burial a
dead of night; of our comrade, Steve
Collett. killed at the battle of TupelC
as they wrapped blankets around hir
and laid him in his lonely grave, Their
To rest until God calls us all once more
Never can forget the words of on
late comrade Thomas Karnes as h
stood beside me and said: what pit
to bury so good a boy There wa
nobility of character, a noble pun
pose implanted in the hearts of thos
brave men, though poor and obscure
humble in life, the sacrificing of sci
for the nations good stamps them t
bemen Of the highest order and anon
the bravest Of the brave.
"a 4 The respect and love among tn
men Of the Volunteer Army was nc
confined to the officers alone. Th
men Of the Rank and File had hig