The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-09-21
FIFTEENTH'S REUNION.
Nearly one Hundred veterans of Fam
GUS Regiment Answer Roll Call.

Nearly one hundred veterans of the
famous g Fighting Fifteenth" assem-
bled in Morristown Thursday at the
thirtieth annual reunion of the Eff
teenth New Jersey Volunteer Veteran
association. They were accompanied
| by their ladies and made their head
quarters at the United States hotel
Thursday morning business session
Of the association was held in the
rooms of A. T. A. Torbert Post, No.
"A, G.. A. r., during which the ladies
were taken on sight seeing trip in
automobiles.
President Edwin A. DotyI presided
over the business session which was
opened by prayer by Torbert Post
Commander, the Rev. Andrew M.
sherman, Of this town. The roll call
by Secretary Stephen W. Gordon, of
Newark, showed ten deaths during
the year. Treasurer William FL. Cav
ley, of Somerville, reported receipts of
S2O66 IS and balance of $60.21 in the
treasury.
Letters of regret at their Inability
| to attend the convention were re-
ceived from Governor joint Franklin
Fort, former Senator John f. Dryden,
Brigadier- General R. Heber BRENT
nall, Congressman r. Wayne Parker,
General William Sadler, Capt. w. H.
| Howard, of Newark, and Abram Trau-
ger, Lambertville.
The pilgrimage committee reported
that they had not been able to secure
81 900 of the state appropriation for
the two monuments at Fredericksburg
and had borrowed S2,40O to pay the
balance on the work with the expecta-
tion of getting a further appropriation
| from the next legislature. The state
appropriated $4,000 for the purpose
but through the ignorance of the law
the committee failed sto make proper
application for the money and lost the
appropriation.
The association voted unanimously
for pilgrimage next year Ito Gettys-
burg, Antietam and the Luray cavern
to cover period Of five days.
Officers we're elected as follows
president, Abram 5. Tranger, Lam
bertyille; first vice-president, Manuel
/ johnson, of Morristown; second vice
president, Isaac M. Andrews, Wash
lington, N. j.; secretary, Stephen W.
Gordon, Newark treasurer, William
III. Cawley, Somerville quarter-mas-
ter-sergeant, Robert W.. Whitehead,
Newark; sergeant-major, H. II. Hoff-
man, Newark; members of executive
committee, Samuel ST. VanDoren,
East Milestone, and d. e. Flint, Wash
ington, N. j.
Hope league rendered the veterans
and their friends sumptuous repast
in the Miller hall at one o'clock. Dr.
Stephen Pierson, Of this town was
toaStmaster. Former Vice-Chancel-
lor Henry O. Pitney and Vice Chancel-
Tor John r. Emery, both of this town,
addressed the veterans as did former
Mayor Alfred Mills.
| Mr.. Mills welcomed the men to Nor
ristown and expressed his regard for
their services in fighting for the union.
Mr.. Pitney told them they had the
respect, admiration and love of their
fellow citizens and expressed the desire
that he might meet with them again
though he doubted his ability to do
so, Vice-Chancellor Emery spoke of
the thinning ranks of the regiment,
how but half dozen of the thirty
eight officers mustered in at Fleming
ton remained. In referring to the
ceremonies incidental to the unwilling
of the Spottsylvania monument he as
serted that in no other country would
both sides in a great war be found
uniting to erect monument to those
who fell on the battlefield.
| Edwin A. Doty narrated his advent
ures as prisoner of war in Libby prison
Kand remarks were also made by A. w.
Whitehead and w. Fl. II. .Wyckoff.
Gilbert D. Young, past commander of
Torbert Post of this town, who was a
member of the Eleventh N. ]. Volun-
teers, facetiously referred to the birth
Thursday morning of his fifteenth
grandchild, an eight and sone-half
pound boy, and asserted it was in
honor of the meeting in Morristown
of the Fifteenth" 1t was unani-
mously carried that the lad, the son
of Assistant Fire Chief Wilbur f.
Lay. jr., be elected a member of the
association.
An interesting feature of the occa.
sion was she singing of chaplain
Haines Quartet organized by the
chaplain of the Fifteenth to sing at
the services during the war. 1t was
quartet in name only for only three
members are now living and were
present, Silas p Genung, Israel d
Lum and Lewis L. Davis. John w.
Cliff, the other member, is dead An
impromptu orchestra assisted in the
music, Miss Nellie Slater, pianist !;
Miss Ada Sherman, violinist; Rev
-Andrew M. Sherman, flute; and Geo.
Udall, cornet. The latter sounded
several of the old bugle calls. The
Rev. DR.. James b. Beaumont asked