Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-02
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CHICKENS" MEET
Seventy-five of Doughty 37th
Regiments Survivors
Hold Reunion.
WAR TIME YARNS AT
SOLDIERS HOME, KEARNY
Gen. and Mrs. Grubb Receive
and Daughter Violet Sings
Marching Through Georgia.

"Grubb's Game Chickens" seventy
five of them, got together yesterday
for a reunion at the Soldiers Home,
kearny, which their commander, Cen
eral E. Burd Grubb, now directs. The
Game Chickens in ease you don't
know, were the members of the Thir-
t~y-seventh regiment, New Jersey
Volunteers. 81 dubbed during the Civil
War because they were all youths of
~ or so, and the scrappiest collection
of fighters that the Federal govern
ment mi out to help quell the re-
bellion.
General and Mrs. Grub greeted the
generals old comrades as they drift
ed into the grounds earlyin the after
non and showed them through the
Soldiers Home buildings. At 2 O'Clock
luncheon was served in the main din
ing hall. and after this the veterans
went to the chapel, where speeches
We're made and the "Chickens"
snapped old battle yarns.
Got Name at Petersburg.
General Grub told holn his men
got their sobriquet. 1t was during
the siege of Petersburg by General
Grant. The older soldiers of the
Union side when they saw the beard
less youths from New Jersey the first
time called them the Spring Chick
ems"
AS the siege progressed The fighting
qualities of the boys from this STATE
stood out SO prominently that they
acquired the name that sticks to the
survivors Of the regiment yet.
Two Old Vets Meet.
The reunion was made particu. .rly
two old veterans who had not seen
orsheard of each other since TIE days
OF the Civil War. John Kay, a menu
Der of the Thirty-seventh New Jer-
sey Volunteers, who came from New
Haven to attend the reunion, Went
amone his comrades to review the
stories of the battlefield.
-. Kay happened - be in con-
versation with John Peters, an or
derby at the home, and after less
than a minutes time the men reco3-
nized each other, Peters as having
been lieutenant and Kay as being a
nierlber of his company. The two
old comrades enjoyed an afternoon
%rehearsing their experiences and re-
newing the acquaintance Of the carly
sixties.
Saved as by Miracle.
- An interesting story, and true, wa
.-aI - tIAn Ii,anny In which Jnhn
Horn, Of Bordentown, a member of
the Thirty-seventh New Jersey o
unteers, was the hero. Incidentally
the reunion yesterday was the first
ore which this particular hero has
missed. General Grubb stated 10
day that he could not account for his
absence, but the story was told Just
the same.
Horn was shot by a rebel during
the war. and when an investigation
was made into the extent of his in
juries his comrades found a copy of
the New Testament, which Horn had
placed in a pocket in his shirt direct
ly over his heart.
The rebels bullet had penetrated
the New Testament through the
books of Matthew, Mark and Luke.
end had stopped at the fourth chap
ter of st. John. where it was found
lattened out.
Since that time Horn has been re-
ferred to as 1.-The man who was shot
in the fourth chapter of st. John"
Horn still keeps the New Testament
and the old fiattened bullet as ma
terial proof If the story. He asserts
that his life was saved by the book,
and il it had not received the bullet
he would have been struck in the
heart and mortally wounded.
State Commander Terence f. Mac