Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-10-20
RESOLUTIONS.

Great Bend, kanS., Ocl. I'm. 1911.
70 the Officers and Members Of Pap
Thomas Post, No. 50, Department
of Kansas, Grand Army of the
Republic: ,
Your Memorial Committee, with
Eeveremt affection and respect, makes
&e following report:
Again, the Great Creator of all
ShingE has taken from our ranks one
q; the most esteemed members Of
our Post, Comrade A. S. Allen, who
h0nored himself and his country by
volunteering his services as sol
der during the War of the Rebellion,
in Company F in the S2nd Ohio Vol
0rteer infantry Regiment, which reg
tmeHt was in the 11th and goth Army !
Corps, that participated in some of
The most bloody BATTLES of the Civil ,
War. He was in tine fierce Strug-
g9es at Charlottesville, Va, and
Ge6lsburg, Pa, where the action of
his command was so creditable in
gaIhntEy by the 18th Corps, that |
q u almost amounted to more than one
mans share in the honor and glory
Of being in such sanguinary contests.
He was also with the 10th Army
Corps under the command of General
Joe Hooker, where he participated in
many battles in that grand old Army
Corps, and in which he marched with
General Sherman to the sea.
It became our sad duty to accom-
pany his remains to his last rest
ang place last Thursday, where we
assembled in goodly numbers, with
fervent and proper solemnity, and in
sfratemal ceremony We offered the
last sad rites within our power to
render The very elements seemed
to be in sympathy with the occasion
and offered solemn protest against
any disregard for the ceremony by its
SWirling, dust laden winds from the
south, typical of the old drouthy days
an Kansas, when the then numerous
old veterans of the Civil War Sour
Eied around the corners in like wea-
ther TO reach COmrade Aliens drug
store, where we assembled to dis
Euss the events, battles, marches and
suffeTdngs of the war, politics and
other current matters Of inter
est.
The winds seem to cali a halt to
the strenuous commercialism of the
present time and say in the accenhu-
ated gusts that one more old sol
die' has gone TO nest, that helped TO
make it possible Ito have OUT present
prosperity. Our stately buildings re
,su3ting from this Incompatible opu-
, lence were enveloped in crepe OF
dust in ion of THE sad
event and yet the great leviathan
grinis on mmindfu of the unprece-
denied events that brought
about these conditions And the
sound of taps at his grave, TO an old
soldier the saddest expression OF
sympathy, respect and all of those
sentiments which go into the wind
ing sheet of an old comrade in arms
IN requiem, our minds went back to-
She days of his youth when he shoul-
.dered his musket in his country S de-
tense, we could see in our minds his
TUidy youth, elastic sbep and what
in those days we felt.
Comrade Allen was one of the. ear
hest active business men in the city.
building and pushing his Interests
'' 20 the front with energy unsurpassed
by any others, yet however much
pressed by his duties, he had time
20 go back with enthusiastic recur
renee Of events Of the Civil War in
discussion with the old comrades. Ht
was an ardent supporter of our Post
&. and the principles of the G. A. R.
and his membership with us was
great pleasure and now, and herewith
we take this occasion in testifyins
TO his worthy and honorable soldier
record, and his unQuestionable higi
class citizenship. He was ever ii
the forefront in municipal bettermentS
public improvements, civic right teouE
ness and the good and glory Of oul
city.
No man among us, considering hi
financial ability, was more phila1
o Ehropic and benevolent 10 his SUI
fering fellow man. No man in Grea
Bend, or Barton county, possessed
more tender heart, and his symps
Ehy for the needy and suffering ofte