Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29
Veterans of the Civil War
in the Sixty-First Congress

! the few men living who have served il
| two volunteer armies. He enlisted tire,
! days later than Gen. Sherwood in the 81
| Ohio Infantry and was commissioned ma
| jor. In 1852 he was promoted to colone
of the 110th Ohio and TO brigadier genera
! in 1864 for gallant services at Opequon
| Fishers Hill and Cedar Creek. President
Lincoln named him j major general If
! 1865
| Gen. Keifer served under Grant dur
| ing the campaign which ended in the sur
render OF Gen. r. T.. Lee.
| He was wounded several times. the
most severely at the battle OF the Wilder
ness in Virginia, in 1854
In the Forty-seventh Congress he was
elected Speaker during his third term.
During the war with Spain Gen. keifer
was given command of the 1st Division.
18th Army Corps. and invested Havana
January l. 1899. when the American
flag was raised over Cuba. lie returned
to Congress in 1906.
Gen. John 4. T. Hull Of the Des
Moincs. Iowa, district enlisted in the sd
Iowa in 1862 He was made captain and
placed in charge of intrenchments al
Black river May Il, 1865. In an engage
ment when the Entertainments were
charged ny the enemy Capt. Hull
STATED his discharge. He has been in
Congress for twenty years.
one of the active old men of the House
is Nehemiah d. Sperry OF Connecticut
He helped to nominate Lincoln for Presi
dent. sitting a a delegate fifty years ago
this month in the Chicago "wigwam''
convention.
He was appointed by Lincoln as re-
cruiting officer during the war and was
bondSman for the contractor who built
the ironcIad Monitor, John Ericsson. He
has been in Congress some eighteen
years.
When an ''od soldier is elected 20
Congress. especially if he be u Confeder-
ate. he generally remains there. George
Washington Taylor of the first Alabama
district let college at the age of fifteen
and enlisted in the LIST South Carolina
Cavalry. He served ell through the fight
and since the tifty-tifth Congress open
ed his district has returned him to Wash
ington.
William II. Graham of the twenty
ninth Pennsylvania district had some
trouble in getting into the Union army
He enlisted first at Pittsburg. but could
not get mustered into service. Quota
fuli." was the repiy he received at the
recruiting station. So he got on boat and
went down the river and finally landed
in the I'd West Virginia Cavalry. He
served with distinction under Gems.
Sheridan, Crook and Averili.
Adm b. Capron of Rhode Island is an
ex-U'nion soldier and officer III the Signal
Corps. He was promoted TO captain for
faithful service performed in battles.
David A Hollinsworth, sixteenth Ohio
district. enlisted as a schoolboy in the
18th regiment of his state. He served
until the end of the war, became law
yer and has held many Offices. He came
to Congress in 1905.
John 2. Swasey of the second Maine
district, while in his junior year at Tufts
College. 1862. enlisted in the 18th Maine
and was made lieutenant
William \. Calderhead Of the fifth KAN
sas district left school and went to war
in August OF 1862. Served in several
regiments until his discharge in 1865.
At the age OF sixteen Washington
Gardner OF Albion. Mich, representative
from the third district. enlisted in the
65th Ohio and served from October, 1861.
10 December, 1865