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More Than a Score of Them hold their Third Annual Reunion in thia City.It Is in every way eminently fitting that Hillsdale, the hnm'1 of so many Union soldiers and loyal citizens, where the hearts of all beat warmly for those who answered their country’s call in the trying hour, should be the first citv in Michigan7 7 Wto be honored as the meeting place of the Sultana Survivors. Those who escaped death in that horrible disaster met in their annual reunion Friday, April 27, 1888, at the G. A. K. post rooms, which had been placed at their disposal for that pupose through the courtesy of the members ofC. J. Dickerson Post No. 6. The numberof flags that floated from the hotels andleading business places bespoke the hearty welcome on all sides, and gave the citya gala day appearance.This meeting of its survivors is in commemoration of the saddest and most appalling incident in connection with the late war, which occurred on the morningof April 27, 1865. The beautiful but ill-fated steamer Sultana, having on boardtwenty-two hundred exchanged prisoners of war, just released from the prison pens of Georgia and A’abama, was steaming northward up the Mississippi bearing the nation’s loyal defenders whose hearts beatjoyfully with the hope of soon seeinghome and friends, when one of the boilers
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Hillsdale Standard
Hillsdale, Michigan, US
Tue, May 01, 1888
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