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Veterans of the Regular Army Reach Ninth Decade in Retirement
Washington bystander notes five army survivors in their nineties among the retired list, led by Brigadier General David Gordon born 1832 in Pennsylvania. The piece highlights Gordon’s service from Bull Run to Gettysburg and frontier duty, with contemporaries Major John W Lauderdale and Major John Wesley Bean, plus Captain William H. Nelson and Brigadier General Aaron Dacett, all aged 90 plus and retaining honor from Civil War to China and Cuba campaigns.
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Kirke L. Simpson
Washington
Uncle Sam
Dean
David Stewart Gordon
Franklin County
Pennsylvania
America
Gettysburg
Wyoming
Blmers
Gordons
Keyes
Bull Run
Fredericksburg
Brandy Station
Culpepper the Wilderness
Toad’s Tavern
Qld Church
Cold Harbor
Dakotas
Chicago
Gordon
John W. Lauderdale
Brooklyn
New York
John Wesley Bean
Attleboro
Mass
Fredricksburg
Chancellorsv
Antietam
Second Bull Run
South Mountain
Yorktown
Wiliam H. Nelson
Roan Mountain
Tenn
Aaron Simon Dacett
Maine
Dacett
Chna
Pekin
Darett
Gaines Mill
San Juan
Cuba
Spottsylvania