Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-30
EIGHT congressman
ARE UNION VETERANS
Five Senators and Three Members of
the House Fought During
the Civil War.
All Have Records for Calamity and
Most of Them Earned
Their Stripes.

The Grand Army of the Republic is
represented in Congress today by eight
men who wore the blue during the CIVIL
war, five senators and three members
of the House. A few years ago there
were many veterans in the halls OF Con-
gress, but death. changes in the politi-
cal world and old age have removed
almost all of them.
The senator's who served with the
Union armies are daI Point of Delaware,
Golf of West Virginia, Nelson of Min
nesota, Warren of wyoming ana
Works of California In the other wing
of the Capitol are serving Representa-
tives Ebenezer ]. Hill of Connecticut,
who went out of public life under the
democratic landslide in 1912 but who
was elected to his old seat last fall:
Isaac r. Sherwood of Ohio and d. A.
Hollingsworth of Ohio. AS it happens,
all of the senators who served in the
Union armies are republicans. Repre-
sentative Sherwood OF Ohio is demo-
crat, and Representatives Hill and
Hollingsworsh are republicans
Has Brilliant Record.
All these legislators served their
country with distinction during the
civil war Senator Henry Algernon
du Pont of Delaware was born in Della
ware in 1888. He is West Pointer.
having become Il graduate of the Mill
tary Academy in 1861. fIe was gradu-
ated at the head of his class. He was
commissioned q second lieutenant in
the Engineer Corps of the army i'm
mediately He was appointed first
lieutenant of the 9TH Artillery week
later Senator du Pont has record for
gaIlantry in the field that has rarely
been equaled.
He was twice b.cevetted for gallant
and meritorious services in battle:
and was awarded a congressional
medal of honor for most distinguished
gallantry and exp psure to the enemy's
fire at a critical moment" during the
battle of Cedar CIR, A,k. He served with
Sheridani n the ca mpaign of the val
ley of Virginia and commanded the ar
tillery brigade of looks corps. Other
battles in which he took part were the
battle of Winches ter, Fishers Hill.
He was brevetted a lieutenant colonel
at the close of the wa Z. Senator du Pont
remained in the army' until 1875, when
he resigned and bee ,me president of
the Wilmington and Northern Railroad
Company. E'e retired! from business
several years ago. and he was elected
first to the Sc nate in pos.
Senator Knute Nelso y of Minnesota
was porn IN Ss1rWay IN 1880 dno came
to the United States W zen he was six
years old. He served in the 4th Wis
consin Regiment during the civil war
private and noncomi pissioned Off
Ger. He was wO1nded AID taken pris-
oner by the Coniederates at Fort Hud-
son. La, June IA, 1868.
Senator Nathan Golf o. West Vir-
ginia enlisted in the Tn ION army in
1851 and served in the Sd Regiment
Virginia Volunteer Infantry. He
served as lieutenant and bdjutant of
Company G of that regimen I, and later
as major of the 4th Vfrginiit Volun teer
Cavalry. When he was elet ted to the
Senate in 1913 Senator Golf vas United
States circuit judge for the fourth ju-
dicial circuit.
Enlisted at Sixteen Y, ,ars.
Senator John Downey Works, of Cali
fornia is native of Indiana, where he
was born in 1s47. When he W: rs sixteen
and a half years old Senator WORKS en-
listed in the Union army and served
eighteen months. until the clio: e of the
war
Senator Francis Emroy W: rren of
wyoming was born in Massach llsetts in
1874. His war service began in 1862.
when he enlisted in the 49th hssachu-
sets Infantry Regiment. He perved as
private and non-comnlisSioned officer in
that regiment until mustered put He
received the congressional medal of honor
FOR gallantry at Port Hudson, La
Representative Isaac x. SheI wood of
Ohio was born in New York in 1895. He
Joined the Union army as rivate in
April. 1861. and was mustered Gut Octo-
Der 1865, as brigadier ge aeral. by
order Of the Secretary Of War. Repre-
sentative Sherwood was in forty-dhree
battles and was mentioned in slscia or
defs six times for conspicuous f.allantry