COUNTY VETERANS' REUNION ENDED
Get your own Free Home PageCarson, IA., Aug. 16--With a crowd of 5,000 people in attendance from all parts of Iowa the veterans' reunion here closed tonight with a camp fire following a day full of events of interest to the old soldiers and their friends present. Eighty-two old soldiers registered during the three days of the encampment.
Today's program consisted of several concerts by the Avoca Band, addresses by Frank Shinn, A. L. Preston, Shirley Gillilland of Mills County and J. J. Hess of Council Bluffs. This evening was devoted to story telling by soldiers of the Civil War, addresses and music.
The program for last night's camp fire was as follows: a band concert; addresses by C. G. Saunders of Council Bluffs on "Past and Present," Hon. John Fletcher of Avoca, James Patton of Macedonia and others, interspersed with the music.
Five thousand people were on the grounds.
The list of veterans registered after the first day of the reunion, with their companies, regiments, ages and postoffice addresses, follows:
Auckland, S., Company I, One Hundred and Forty-sixth Illinois, age 62, Macedonia;
Bell, Jet, Company H, Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, age 59, Henderson;
Breezley, Paul, Company F, Twentieth Ohio, age 68, Oakland;
Bullis, Allen, Company E, Nineteenth Wisconsin, age 60;
Butler, W. B., Company C, Twenty-third Iowa, age 69, Crescent;
Cooper, W. R., Company F, Fifteenth Iowa, age 62, Henderson;
Coppick, J., Company A, Eighth Ohio Cavalry, age 66, Henderson;
Crofts, H. B., Company C, Thirteenth Wisconsin, age 72, Oakland;
Cughell, Jacob, Company D, Thirty-fifth Ohio, age 67, Henderson;
Davidson, John, Company A, Thirty-second Illinois Infantry, age 62, Hastings;
Donald, C. O., Company A, Fifth Iowa Cavalry, age 72;
Edic, W. S., Company D, One Hundred and Forty-sixth Illinois, age 68, Oakland;
Fletcher, G. W., Company H, Seventh Illinois, age 67;
Freeman, George W., Company C, Fortieth Wisconsin, age 92, Oakland;
Gardner, I. N., Company C, Eighty-eighth Iowa, age 65, Crescent;
Gates, Joseph, Company E, Tenth Iowa, age 63, Crescent;
Gingras, Jos., Company C, Tenth Vermont, age 63;
Hardin, I. D., Company D, Eighth Iowa Cavalry, age 72, Oakland;
Humston, Henry, Company K, Thirty-sixth Iowa, age 72, Crescent;
Larrison, G. B., Company B, Second Illinois Cavalry, age 62, Crescent;
Larrison, Hiram, Company E, Ninety-seventh Ohio, age 61, Treynor;
Leyman, William, Company C, Twenty-ninth Iowa, age 62, Crescent;
Miller, A. M., Company I, Thirteenth Iowa, age 68, Crescent;
Miller, J. M., Company G, Fifty-seventh Indiana, age 64;
Moore, James J., Company G, Sixth Iowa, age 66;
Phillips, R. T., Company H, Seventeenth Ohio, age 75, Oakland;
Pollock, J. B., Company H, Eighty-fourth Illinois, age 65, Oakland;
Redfern, Sol, Company D, Fifteenth Illinois, age 64, Oakland;
Rodwell, John, Company B, Fifty-seventh Illinois, age 61, Crescent;
Ross, John, Company H, Thirty-first Iowa, age 60, Crescent;
Russell, Henry, Company A, Thirty-sixth Illinois, age 70;