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Reunion of 104th Regiment' i *The forty-second annual reunion of the 104th, O. V. I., was held at Kent, Thursday. A large number of veterans of this regiment that did three years service and engaged in many battles were present. George W. Hulett, a resident of Kent, given food when he was starving and nursed when wounded after the battle of Franklin, Tenn., by a southern maid, returned to the South ! more than forty years after, found the girl and married her were present at i the reunion.Many of the 104th were on the Sul- , tana, returning from rebel prisons, ! when it sank in the Mississippi river 1 carying 1700 men to death. Mr. Hulett is one of the survivors. At the camp fire, one of the notable events of this reunion was Miss Julia Sawyer singing ' “The Song that Reached my' Heart” j which she sang to the comrades at their | twenty-second reunion held at K$nt I twenty years ago. The regiment was i commanded by Gen. Reilly for whose I $200,000 eBtate a big fight is being i waged at Wellsville. The regimen^I • '»»'».*■• /w \ m t i j j 0 .j aaa» vw oi tue estate ior a monument for their General and his regiment to be erected at Massillon where !1the regiment was first mobalized in! June 1862. Isaac Pontius enlisted and j served the greater part of the time in ■ this regiment until the close of the i ; war. 1
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Orrville Courier
Orrville, Ohio, US
Tue, Aug 15, 1911
Page 3
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