Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-29
FEATURES OF G. A. X. PARADE
WHICH PROVED OF INTEREST

Promptly at 10 o'clock one of the field
pieces Of the regular field artillery,
stationed in front of the statue of Car
field, fired signal salute. Lieut. Gen.
Nelson A. Miles, then gave the com
mand for the parade to march forward
It took the regular troops and the
National Guard of the District of Co
lumbia, composing the escort just
twenty minutes to pass the Peace
Monument. The line of veterans then
started their march.
Headed by A D. Hutchinson, chief
marshal of the Grand Army in Allen
town, and T. S. Gutenberg, who was
on duty at the hanging of Mai. Wirz.
the Andersonville jailer. a party OF
sixty Allentown, Pa. veterans partici-
pated in the parade.
Nearly or quite all had participated
in the grand review. In the party
Sergt. Maj. U. S. Litzenberg. A. D.
Hutchinson, A. j. Helfrich, Jacob Wer-
ley. Walter scholl Henry Mack. Solo
liam H Kramer, J. H. Peiffer. James
Stuber, Abandon S. Meyer, James F.
Frey. George a. Roth. Gus w. Mennig.
E H KEEPER, John S. Lewis, Mrs. Ruth
Silfies, Ignatz Gresser. Milton Focht.
Peter Leater, Charles Knauss. Charles
Adams and a number of veterans of
the 47th Regiment and Capt. Joseph
Matchette and Francis Erdell, Catas-
auqua-
In the delegation Of Chicago veterans
were ninety-two old soldiers, employed
in the Chicago post office.
Members of Company x. 18th Penn
sylvania Cavalry, rode in from Con-
nellsville. Pa. to take part In the pa
rade equipped as in the $685. and on
their own mounts Il .
a record breaking march for old 1t
Grams, during which pilgrimage will be
made to many of the historic battle
fields of the war of the rebellion, and
Scores of civil war drummer boys
were in line, several of whom are en-
gagged in heated controversy as to VINO
is really the youngest drummer boy.
A drummer boy who marched in the
van of the 18th Ohio Volunteers when
the regiment responded to the call of
President Lincoln for defenders Of the
Union in 1861 is DIR. Peter Lamb OF
st. Cloud, Fla, who paraded today.
The one-time drummer of the 18th
Ohio is not a stranger in Washington
He lived here fifteen years. having
been employed in one OF the govern
ment departments. He comes this
time. however, not only the surviving
drummer of his regiment. but the rep
iresentative. with about fifty or hun
bred others of one of the unique set
Elements in the nation-the Soldiers
Colony of St Cloud, Fla.
! At the head of the parade flag was
I carried by Mai S. w Smith of Mason
! City, Iowa. reelected to the presidency
| of the Northwestern Iowa Veterans
| Association for four times. who had
| been personally designated for this
work by the COMMUNICATIVE chief Maj.
Smith. had three brothers nj the war
one in the list Minnesota, another in
! the 5th Wisconsin and the third in
the nth Wisconsin. to which he him
self belonged. He went into the serv-
| ice when but fourteen years old.
| Considerable rivalry was manifested
as to which post could show In Its
| marching columns the Oldest veteran.
| There were at least four over ninety
| years of age. and to Martin Suter of
| Iowa-ninety -three-is by many con-
| coded that honor. ety-two-year-
| old man from Seattle Is Benjamin F:
| Luce Several groups of brothers. all
! of whom had gone into the service very
| Young, were conspicuous in the forma-
| ton of the marching column.
| Four brothers, who met at the last G..
A. r. reunion in Washington, in 1902,
for the first time in thirty-e eight years,
| and a brother-in-law, who was Sc
! Harbor. were an interesting group.
| They are Samuel Roberts. seventy-one.
Highspire Pa: Albert Roberts. sixty
nine Bellefonte, Pa; Edward Roberts.
| the youngest, sixty-six. Cincinnati.
Ohio, and William A. Roberts seventy
| seven. Langdon, ID. c.
The brother-in-law is at the National
| Soldiers Home in Dayton. Ohio. He
| was severely wounded at the battle OF
| Cold Harbor. Va. June 3. 1864.
These four brothers became separated
| after the war: The youngest enlisted
| in 1864. at the age of fourteen. as
| drummer boy in Company F, 45th
Pennsylvania Infantry. and served
until the close of the war. He later
| served out two enlistments in the 18th
United States Infantry against the In
dams The two elder brothers, aged
| fifteen and seventeen years, enlisted in
| 1861 and served as drummer boys dur
ing the entire four years of the war.
| One was drummer Of Company X, 18th
Pennsylvania Infantry, and the other
was drummer Of Company A, SD Penn
ylvania Infantry.
Five "boys in blue" four brothers
and their only sisters husband. are
William H., James Nelson, Dewitt Mel