Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1910-10-26
SURVIVORS OE
GALLANT 18TH
GATHER TODAY
Annual Reunion of Members
OF Civil War Regiment In
This City.
ABOUT so ANSWER ROLL
hayor BolIschweiIor Ad-
dresses Old Veterans at
the Morning Session.
LUNCH AT PACKER HOUSE
Camp Fire Exercises This
Afternoon In Odd Fellows
BIdg.--The History.
ABOUT SO ANSWER ROLL
LUNCH AT PACKER HOUSE

flfty or more veterans of the Civil
war, practically all members of the
IWenty-eighth Regiment, New Jersey
volunteers Association, are in ses-
sion here today in their twenty-
iourth annual gathering. A larger
number of the white and gray-haired
Old soldiers than were expected turn
ed out, and with their wives and
daughters filled the Grand Army
room in the Odd Fellows building.
Mayor Bollschweiler told. the FAM
Gus story Of the soldier who had
Fought Nit Seigel" in his address
OF welcome this morning. Joseph II.
Strlcker and DR.. Frank Crowther
VIII speak this afternoon, when busl-
ness OF the meeting is concluded and
the old vets get together to talk
over old times as they were wont In
the days of SO.
Inc session opened about 1920
o'clock this morning with the read
ing of minutes of previous meetings.
Samuel G. Garretson, of this city, oc-
cupied the chair and welcomed the
comrades on behalf of Company /.
the local organization.
Mayor Recites Poem.
Shortly afterward Mayor Bollsch-
weller appeared and was ushered~to
the platform. Following his intro
duction he expressed his warmegt
admiration and feeling, for the for-
mer soldiers, and offered them the
freedom of the city.
can appreciate the sentiment
that draws you together each year,
said the mayor, "inasmuch as there
were soldiers in my family | had a
brother who fought In the Franco
German war, who caused no end of
anxiety TO my mother when he was
three hundred miles off lighting in a
revolution that meant either the ex-
istence or downfall of Germany,
Your ranks are diminishing as
the years roll on, and each succeed
ing year my admiration for the few
numbers remaining, gentlemen,
grows deeper. Every time / meet u
veteran l feel like taking off my hat.
And now / am at your service.
wish to welcome you to the city and
place it at your disposal"
President Garretson responded to
the mayors welcome, and in reply
ing referred to the German soldier
who had fought with Seigel. Then
the mayor recited that bit OF poetry
known to almost every soldier, of the
love of a dying soldier for his COM
mander, and his last wish that it be
to his wife and family
that he had Fought Nit Seigel."
Several communications were re- d
following the mayors address. Then
the roll was called, following which
the veterans INDUCED in singing
songs familiar to the battlefelds of
Gettysburg and Charlottesville.
Following LUNCH at the Packer
House the old heroes viii convene
again for Camp Fire exercises. DE-
Frank Crowther will be present, aGS
after his address the veterans will
renew memories of fifty years ago.
History of The Regiment.
Twenty-eighth Regiment, Infant
ry, Volunteers--The twenty-eighth
regiment was organized under the
provisions of an act of congress, ap-
proved July %, 1861, and under ex-
listing orders governing the enroll
ment of troops. A draft for 10,478
men to serve for nine months, unless
sooner discharged, had been made
upon the governor Of this state by
the President of the United States,
August 4, 1862, and soon after, full
Instructions for conducting 1t was
received from the war department.
The draft so ordered was not to
interfere with orders governing re-
cruiting, and all enlistments up to
September 1, 1862, would be placed
to the credit of the state. A general
desire manifested and expressed by
the state authorities as we'll as by
prominent citizens throughout the
state to avoid the draft gave an en-
thusiasm to recruiting which caused
the entire quota to be raised by vol
untary enlistment, and in camp by
the third day of September, 1852,
the time appointed for commencing
the draft.
The organization Of the regim snt
was fully completed, Differed and
equipped by the twenty-second dev
of September, 1862. at which time
the command was duly mustered in
the service of the United States for
nine months, at camp Vredenburgh.
near Freehold, by Frank d. Howell.
first lieutenant, seventeenth infan-
try. United States Army. having q
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