Connecticut western news., 1913-07-17
"IIM" QUINN PLEASED
Says Soldiers Pared We'll at the Big
 Gettysburg Reunion.

Says Soldiers Pared We'll at the Big
 Gettysburg Reunion.
 James Quinn, Canaan's Gettysburg veteran. who returned last week from the great reunion on that historic battle field, is enthusiastic over the experience and has nothing but words of praise for the excellent manner in which the fifty odd thousand old soldiers were enter tained and cared for. He met none of the comrades of his own old command the Twelfth United States Infantry-but encountered number of acquaintances among the old comrades of other regi- ments. It was his intention to climb Round Top mountain and visit again the big shelving rock that furnished shelter to himself and his army chum during the tremendous Fourth of July rain- storm that followed the three-d days battle, until the torrents that poured down the mountain side nearly drowned them and drove them out but on arriving at the foot of the hill, after fifty years and the loss of one leg had somewhat dampened his ardor for hill-climbing, he was con tent to look up to the spot. far up toward the summit, where he had undergone his drenching experience, and let it go at that. The hill appeared about the same as 90 years ago-rough, rocky and jagged, and the distance and effort necessary to climb it appeared far more formidable than it did fifty years before.
 The battlefield itself, he says. has nothing in it's appearance to suggest the bloody locality that it was when he saw It last ,strewn with dead men, dead horses and wrecked and abandoned implements of war. It is now vast and beautiful park, clothed with beautiful monuments, carpeted with well-kept lawn and adorned with flowers and trained shrubbery -one of the peaceful beauty spots of the earth.
 One of the most enjoyable features of the Gettysburg reunion experience according to MT. Quinn, was the meet ing with the rebel veterans, especially those who were in the Gettysburg battle It was like meeting long-lost brothers these grizzled old warriors who fifty years ago were shooting at one another with intense desire to kill, came together at the reunion with affectionate hand clasp and cordial greeting. and the ex' change of reminiscence and personal ex- perience was mutual pleasure
 The worst discomfort of the entire re. union week was the intense heat. which discouraged many of the veterans SC they returned home after the first day in camp. Mir. Quinn stood the strain without serious results, and remained in camp until July 5. Among his tent mates were Charles Thompson, of Gan. aan Valley, and ''Joe" Simpson. of Tor rington, a former resident of Canaan, who will be remembered by the older Canaanites. MT. Quinn and his travel. ing companions, who left Canaan Mon day morning, reached Gettysburg late the same night, but it was 3 o'clock the next morning before they found their quarters in the camp.
 Reference has been made in these columns to MT. Quinn's war experlence and to his injuries in the Spottsylvania battle, where he was wounded three times and received the injury that cost him his right leg. He was left on the battlefield, for dead, and remained there, on the open field, among the dead and dying, for 24 hours, suffering untold agony from his wounds. Finally he managed to crawl off the field and out of rebel territory, to the Union lines, where he was taken to an old barn used as an improvised hospital, where his wounds were treated and his leg am- putated, and in this barn he remained six days before he was able to be removed, and as soon as he could stand the strain of the journey he was sent home.
 MT. Quinn is modest and 10th to talk about his war experiences, except to comrades who know by reason of thelr own experience, and never voluntarily refers to the part he acted in the war. A friend, in conversation with him, a few days ago, referred to this apparent modesty with regard to his own expert ence.
 "Well," said MT. Quinn, "I have run across so many who are willing to admit that they individually fought the whole war to finish and put down the re- bellion, that the little part had in it doesn't seem worth mentioning" | That's modest Jim Quinn.
 Boy Dies of Lockjaw.