Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-20
SAVERS Of CAPITAL
RECALL DAYS OF ga
Survivors of 25th New Yorl
Volunteer Cavalry Have
Reunion Here.
LISTEN TO ADDRESSES
AT CONTINENTAL HOTEL
First Time They Had Met Since
the Battle at Fort
Stevens.

| In the glow Of the evenings camp
fire, this time not builded from logs
gathered from the battlefield, but rep
resented by the modern electric light,
! ten lone veterans, survivors of the 18th
| New York Volunteer Cavalry, whose
| gallantry was responsible for pre-
venting the capture of Washington
July IL, 1854, gathered last night at
the Continental Hotel pulled forth
their pipes, talked over the old times
and disbanded to meet here again next
year with the Grand Army of the Re-
public. These veterans were owen j.
Brady, New York; George F. Currey.
New York; Theodore Basterdes. Marl-
| boro, Mass; R. Currey. Drainsville, N.
Y; John H. Wolff Of this city, Henry
Clay Broas, G. Frank Sutherland,
Hackensack, N Y; r. r. Lord. Ofton,
| N. Y; William D. Campbell, Columbia.
Pa, and Peter Banks, Long Island, N.
Y. Until they clasped hands yesterday
at the unwilling of the monument to
the 18th New York Cavalry at the
Battle Ground cemetery on Georgia
avenue, above Brlghtwood, it was the
first time they had met since the battle
| at Fort Stevens, when. alone, the 25th
New York held back Early's forces, SUI
perior in numbers, for several hours
pending the reinforcement by the 9Th
Army Corps.
| Both the blue and gray Joined hands
Yesterday afternoon in paying tribute
| to the gallant 25th-joined as friends
| forever" as Gen. ]. Floyd King, c. S.
A., Gen. Early's chief of artillery, put
| 1t in the course of his address, a re-
| mark which brought forth cheers to
evidence the healing of the differences
| Of the sixties.
Went Over Battlefield.
| When the monument had been I'M
yelled, the speakers had concluded and
the benediction had been pronounced,
| the handful of survivors of the 25th
New York fell i'm and were photo
| rraphed abreast the monument of
| granite which will stand as a mute re-
hinder of the fighters who resisted
Confederate occupation of the capital
And then they went over the old bat
chance some of them had had to go
over it since they contested every foot
of the area when hard pressed by Gen.
Earlys numerically superior forces.
| The action Of the forces in and around
Washington which leo 10 the ~ l., a.
| Fort Stevens, July II. 1864, was traved
| by the speakers yesterday afternoon, and
not one of them failed to give the credit
to the 25th New York Volunteer Cavalry.
Gen F. W. Whitaker. who commanded
| the northern cavalry, traced the work of
the cavalry throughout the campaign.
| The speeches were full o. "reminiscences
| of the battle of Fort Stevens. Gen. King
| denied the reports that Gen. Early had
| anything like the forces with which he
was credited with having. He had only
1000 soldiers, but they were all seas oned
soldiers High tribute to Early as SOL
der was paid by Gen. King
! Recognized Lincoln.
In the fight at Fort Stevens. Gen. King
said, he remembered seeing silk hat
in the distance and he recognized Lin
coin, and instantly several Of the veterans
in the audience nodded and each de-
cIared: II saw him. too"
| Maj. J. F. Carter told how the 25th
saved Washington and how the carbines
saved the 25th. When they opened fire
with those then new Hes. he said. Gen.
Early thought the 9Th Army Corps had
Lewis Cass White of this city called
to the attention of those present that
the battle Of Fort Stevens was the only
battle in the District of Columbia of the
500 battles of the civil war.
When the ceremonies at the cemetery
were over yesterday the ten veterans
gathered around an elderly negro wom-
an. a relic Of the slavery days. She was
giving some of her reminlsce noes, and
was asking the veterans who stole my
lbeef and beans"
II would know the man If should
tsee him." she remarked, with an accom-
p.nylng laugh None of the veterans
did admit that they had eaten some of