The Penn's Grove record., 1915-12-10
WAR VETERANS COMING
The Re-URlOn Of The Path Regiment
Survivors Will Be In PennS
Grove Next Monday

The oath annual reunion of the sur
yiyors of the 24th Regiment, New Jer-
sey Volunteers, will be held next Mon
day, December 13, 1915, in Odd Fellows
Hall, Penns Grove. # will be the 53d
anniversary of the Battle of Fredericks-
burg, Va, the battle in which they first
experienced the rain of shot and shell.
1t is customary to commemorate vic
tories won, but as the regiment was in
only one other battle, that at Chancellor
vile, Va, OF May LIST and I'd, 1868, when
the Union army was also defeated, the
anniversary is held on the anniversary
of their first battle, which first caused
them to nave a fellow-felling of being
real comrades of war.
General George b. Mcclellan having
been defeated in the Peninsula campaign,
because the reinforcements he expected
were withdrawn by orders from Washing
ton for political reasons, the country was
put into farther gloom by General Pope
getting whipped worse at the second bat
tie of Bull Run, than Mcclellan was
at Antietam. President Lincoln called
for 100000 men to wipe the Johnny
Rebs off the face of the earth in nine
months.
The patriotism of the Township Com
mittee was aroused to offer a bounty
for enrolment of men to save the Union.
The fighting zeal of the young men were
aroused and a company was organized,
known as Company X, 9th Regiment.
From Upper Penns Neck Township
(which then included Penns Grove Bor-
ough and Oldmans Township and Lower
Penns Neck, eighty-two men enlisted,
through the efforts of Capt. John S.
Locke and Sergeant Hiram H. DeGrofft.
The Company left Pehns Grove on
August IS. 1862, on the steamer, Major
Reybold. They took another boat at
Philadelphia for Beverly where they were
sworn into service, and had their first
encampment and drills before being sent
to the front.
OF the eighty-two men who left Up
per Penns Neck. the following are the
only survivors Samuel NJ. Denny, SER
geant; David G. Simpkins, musician
John Giblin, James Hutchinson, james
Moore, Daniel Myers, Isaac 2. Simkins,
James ID. Forton. Several of the conf
pany re-enlisted after their nine months
expired. Some entered the navy. These
survivors with veterans who belongd to
othr regiments now comprise Acton Post,
No. SO, G. A. r., of Penns Grove, with
fourteen MEMBERS.
Reunions Of the Regiment were held
in PENIS Grove in 1894, 1901 and 1909.
The survivors are so few that another
reunion is not likely to be held in Penns
Grove, so the citizens will make a special
effort to give them an enthusiastic well
come which will be under the manage
ment of the Sons of Veterans and the
Ladies' Auxiliary who are very active
in patriotic work il. Penns Grove.
Isaac p Simkins is president of the
Association and e. l.. Rice, secretary
and treasurer. The reunion will be held
IN the lodge room of Odd Fellows hall
at 1920 a. M. Rev. Edward Mount will
give an address of welcome which will
be responded to by Rev. w. L. Morton.
After the business session, dinner will
be served in the auditorium. In the af-
ternoon addresses will be made and rem
i~niscences related. The veterans are few
and this will be their last reunion in
Penns Grove. All the survivors who
were boys in 1862 are now past 20 years
of age, and a word of cheer now for
their brave service in facing the can
mons mouth and the bullets whizzing
death speed will be an appreciation of
their patriotism.