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Ey ELMO SCOTT WATSON
RESS dispatche
Chicago recent;
a story about
Civil war
which there are
only three survivors out
of an origin¢ total of
1,184. The ry
as follows:
I thts
“Three are al
from
carried
famous
regiment of
now
reads
form a com
what they
pany
called
ch of a
cavalry
roll call
Randolph
Since
have mu
Illinois
alry—
reunion
with only to answer
even in Memorial hall at
street and Michigan aven
Comrade Perry, ninety year
old, died last summer at his kom
Sycamore, there isn't g
sixty-fifth annual
“Not that
actually disbanded, by
rows of vacant cl
generous spaces of
toss back at them
echoes of thelr odd
the songs that once roare
to the rafters waken too many
Too many gentle
but you
of the
three
George
to be §
reunion.
the gloriot id Eighth is
ne
gaping
memao-
ries, walk
there,
“Qn
ghosts
have heen
The records
the faded old flags
furled for the last time,
will remain 1. Finis is being
written to the gallant that
on October 18 back in up
Pennsylvania avenue in W ngton
past the Whité House, where the
troops halted to give t! rousing
cheers for Abraham Lincoln, The
regiment that the President watching
them dubbed in his own quaint phrase-
ology, ‘Farnsworth's Big Abolition
Regiment.’
“They were eleven hundred
eighty-four strong that day, moun
but without carbines or sabers. John
F. Farnsworth, recruited them,
largely from Chicago and Evanston,
at Camp Kane, St. Charles, Ill, was
elected first of the
He had reason look upon
pridefully.
“Those who remain of the reg
that was mustered
Benton B Louis, in
of 1865 and returned to
final payment and disch
Duff of Dundee, Henry
Milwaukee and , W. Blath
Chicago. Comrade Duff was
of the vanished post.”
Such a story could be written about
almost every regiment which marched
away to war 70 years ago, for of more
than three millions who wore the Blue
or the Gray in 1561 to 1865, only a
handful remain. Last summer in Still
water, Minn., there took place a dra-
matic scene which symbolized strik-
ingly the passing of “the rear guard
of the Civil war,” It last
meeting of the now-famous “Last
Man's Club”—a meeting attended by
only one man. He was Charles Lock-
wood, eighty-seven years old, now a
resident of Chamberlain, 8. D.. but
once a member of a group of young
men who responded to President Lin-
coin’s first call for volunteers.
It was on Sunday morning, April 21,
1861, that a company of gay young
men marched from Stillwater after a
night of dancing at the Sawyer house,
They went to Fort Snelling, where
they were formed into Company B,
First Minnesota Volunteer infantry,
Then came Bull Run, battle of Fair
Oaks, Antietam and Fredericksburg.
They built the Grapevine bridge, sal-
vation of Keyes corps at Seven Pines
in "62. After Pickett’'s charge at Get-
tysburg oniy a few of the gallant Com
pany B remained fit for duty,
In 1885 several of the veterans de-
elded to form an organization of their
comrades. They met on September
17, 1885, The ranks of the company
had declined from 80 to 34. Louis
Hospes, father of Al Hospes, known
as the “baby” of the company, gave
the organization a bottle of Burgun-
dy wine, and it was decided to form
a “Last Man's Club,” and the last
man was to open the wine and drink
a final toast to his departed comrades,
Each took a pledge to do this, The
purpose of the organization was to
keep “alive the memory of the fallen
comrades.”
“I think the boys got the Idea of
the Last Man's club from reading
closed
regiment
18681 rode
ashi
ree
and
ited
who
colonel
to
regiment,
them
iment
out of service at
arracks, St June
erwick
captain
wns the
Re LOCKWOOD
|OmMe
Lockw
wine suppers every
cided to hold the
Jwiy an.
story of French 1diers,”
ood. “They used ve those
year.” was de-
annua UNIONS
the anniversary f the
of wi
long with
. E. Hayden |
entitled “The
Dead Comrades.™
ne
i
His
Ti fire smo!
are black
np
C ds
sky,
No taps of drums,
My comrades, wy
ivy 1020 there
the 34 left-—-lock
of St. Paul and
ter, Minn, Withi
three of
John 8B. Goff
Peter "Rall of Atwa-
n the next year both
Goff and Hall had died July
21, 1930, came around it fell to the lot
of Lockwood to hold the Inst meeting
of the “Last Man's (Cl
stood glone among
chairs, black-draped,
table in the Lowell
on the site of the old
‘a tired old man,
a race gainst
patches ot the
raised his glass in salut
rades!” took a sip of what
been sparkling
which had by
vinegar, and
“he Last Survivor to His Dead Com
Then with his ful-
filled he turned away-—and the "Last
Man's Club” had reached its destiny
of «issolution.
When the Grand Army of the Re
public went to Portland, Maine,
its annual grand encampment in 1929,
veterans attracted much atten
tion by the Insignia which they wore
on their hats, The ornament was the
tail of a deer, for these two men, Wil
lam A. McKay of Utica, Pa. and Har-
ley Drips of Derby, Pa., both of the
Samuel P. Town post of the G. A. R.
in Philadelphia, among the few
survivors of the famous “Bucktall®
regiments of Pennsyivania, There
were two regiments of “Bucktalls” in
Civil war the First Pennsyl-
vania Rifles and later the One Hun-
dred Fiftieth Pennsylvania Rifles,
So far ns Is know n the last survivor
of the original yucktall” regiment,
the First Pennsylvania Rifles, died in
1027. An issue of the Potter County
Journal at Coudersport, Pa. during
that year contained this news story:
The recent death of Charles W,
Dickenson, aged eighty-eight,
marked the passing of the last
member of the original Bucktail
regiment, famous for its record
during the Civil war.
The regiment, organized in
1861, through the influence of Gen.
Thomas L. Kane, founder of the
city of Kane, was made up large
ly of hardy mountaineers of this
section of the country. On April
18, 1861, representatives from Me-
Kean, Elk and Cameron counties
met at the Smethport courthouse
in answer to summons sent out
by General Kane. Three com-
panies, the McKean County Rifles,
the Elk County Rifles and the
Cameron County Wild Cats, were
organized and formed the nucleus
of what later became the DBucktail
regiment,
It was ant Smethport that the ine
signin by which the regiment
were only
wood
, Bo when
ahout =a
inn, ich stands
Saw yer house-—
‘ ‘or of
press
deseribed him
time
"to my com-
had
wine but
turned to
words of
once
repeats
rades.” promise
for
wo
are
days
i
’”»
& )
Harrie &
forced
Remin
town
ary dee
During
ed color-bearer
retreat the wounds
ame separated from
his comrades and the Sag fell Ir
of the
Was preser
hands
Davis, and wi
when he wn
1860 It was
Pennsylvania,
In th
& cits
Last
even
year also
an
of th
aa
ber of the
survivor
fonal
npEress
Unite Hate fits an!
of ivil war sere
ing our nat
legislature Up until
ther
erans,
e were a number of Civil
both t
and those who wore the Gray
of jut
saw number
war vet-
Blae
in both
Inst
cut down
when there
that year
retired to
of ninety and
marked the
Union from
house of representatives In
Senator Francis
died and th ion veteran was
gone from And last year
the death of Major Stedman of North
Carolina removed not only the last
Confederate veteran but also the last
Civil war veteran on either side from
both houses,
hose who wore the
houses Congress, the
decade
steadily until
only three left. In
lsane Sherwood of
private life at
his departure
the ant
the
1925
Gen,
Ohio
the nage
Yeteran the
1208
arren of Wyoming
Un
the senate,
e last
Major Stedman was
20, 1841, in Pittshoro, N. C., and en-
tered the University of North Caro
lina at the age of sixteen. He was
graduated from the university in 1861
and received his diploma, but before
the commencement exercises could be
held he had responded to a call for
volunteers and enlisted as a private
in the Fayetteville Light Infantry
company which was a part of the
First North Carolina (or Bethel)
regiment. Upon the dishanding of
this regiment he joined a company
from Chatham county, rose to the
rank of lieutenant, then captain and
finally major. He served In the army
of Gen. Robert E, Lee throughout the
war and was present at the historic
surrender at Appamattox. Major
Stedman was wounded three times
during the war but survived his
wounds to become a lawyer and to he
elected from the Greensboro district
of North Carolina to the Sixty-second
congress 20 years ago.
(6 by Wester Newspaper Union)
born January
WORLD
WAR
YARNS
by Lieut. Frank E. Hagan
One Chance in a Million
Muybe you think you're pretty brave
when you “play a long shot” in sport
about a ven
chances ure, say
the thing you're
The history of
with such In
two that are
lose Is money. Dut what
ture in which yur
one in a million and
ng Is your life?
the A, E. ¥ Is filled
He.e are
Charley
but
The little
perhaps
outfit in which
little in
served
defended
size,
courage wis attacking
German trench
There wasn't much doubt but that
they'd capture it but to do it they
would have to pay a fearful So
little Charley ran aro
and took a position which wns swe
price
trench
1 by
ind the
the fire of his own outfit S| min
ould on the
Believing were
2 ns
wned tire
that they
surrounded, he ICY
haste hoist th
yell “Kamerad!™
imilar
nan Korth
ne but
a soldier ns an wiio
United Sta birt! Her
man was s gunner and in one
he!d ap be
sun
loud as he «¢ he of
Germans.
completely
made and
Her
thie
and
stunt was that of
the banks of
American
Inimed the
horn on
as good an
for our
artiliery on
Herman
| to the top
inners 1o
fact
f the
hun
} him
"harley Carm-
million,
chance,
Ro
stakes [2 wr
the
his
Camouflage
that picturesque French
were
Army
niry off
at the
where iInfa cers
nufactured wholesale
Americans
ng the
arrots
per.
baa
NCES ser
af con
lecture
two
whom wonld
chances of comn
their
for a hot ment loaf, heard
described
didn't h
either, that
that his ads
body
in enthusiastic
eip the
neck
im's did
drooped and
as he spoka
vilues, savory
heans—all a pant
ihsent, American
the lecturer's thin
twiehad ¢ apple
flipflops,
his weak eyes mao'stened
his anemic
feelingly of caloric
stews, fragrant,
of the generous,
ration.
The
ended. =
and hands, slowly repaired to the mess
shack. Yes Carrots again!
“A h—] of a note,” grumbled Can
didate No. 1. “But here's something
new! Pie! By all that's holy. Yum
Pumpkin! Or sweet
crisp
but
famished when
candidates were
he idly they washed
yum, Great!
potato, ma
“Ask the
Candidate
vhe
eant.” suggested
! but ti
mess serge
No, 2 “Cee is ple
is swell.”
“The ple?”
geant., “Oh,
lectured to
repeated the mess ser.
yeah! The officer
youse guys
how to make it. 'ompkin? H
It's made out of carrots.”
» » *
Duke
Puke the name signed to his
third enlistment papers, so that was
what the other soldiers called him
In America, Duke was company bar
ber, mandolin musician. habitue of the
guardhouse. Every now and then he
soldiered, and did it well, Bot most
time he entertained with his
whn
me
-~} naw!
showed
was
queerer than ever In
became an imitator of
like a dog at unex.
and getting his share
belly” Inughs from his mates.
The tool” made good when his com.
pany was stopped October 15. In the
Meuse- Argonne scrap. Help from the
artillery was needed to go ahead
Needed bad, Communications were
The only means of send
ing back word was hy running. This
meant almost certain death, for in
rear the Helrles had the road covered.
Duke volunteered. He was excited
when the captain let him go. Barking
joudly, he looked ‘round to collect a
farewell laugh, then plunged across a
sunken road as the red-hot machine
gun bullets smoked into him.
He was still barking—and shaking
his head waggishiy, his comrades
learned later, when he lurched up the
opposite side of the road and pressed
his eaptain’s message inte eager hands
hands that took back the plea for
help to where the big guns waited.
(@ 1930. Western Newspaper Union.)
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Japan's many attractions draw trav.
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a hearty welcome awaits visitors,
Japun's people, thelr dress, customs
and habits of life differ from those of
every other nation, Traditions and
legends for the last 2,000 years today
are as frosh as ever.
Duke ns
France He
animals, barking
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Cant REST
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