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PITTSBURGH PROVISION AND PACKING CO., PIG. A. R, HOLDS MEETING.(Continued from i.)an enviable record as fighters and winners. During the last six months they captured seventy-five battle flags from the enemy and lost not one, captured 111 field guns and 10,000 prisoners. Comrade Miller had a map six feet long with every engagement and batle marked day and date given of each. His story like the others was full of interest and was received with applause.Comrade W- A. Keck, the last speaker, was a volunteer, enlisting August 11, 1S62, in the 146th Pa. regiment. The company was mustered fnto service, August 20, 18G2, at Erie, Pa. Left Erie September 11, 1862, for the front. Their objective point was Chambersburg and thence to Hagerstown, Md., and thence to An-tietam where a hard lmttle was anticipated. Their regiment joined the main army and was assigned a position on. the right wing. After the battle he was in the detail to go back and bury the dead rebels and horses. He says it was a sickening sight and a hard job. Tlience to Harper's Ferry and Fredericksburg and Chancel-lorsvdlle where they participated in the thickest of fight. He was taken prisoner at Chancellorsville, sent to Belle Isle, Richmond. Va.r arid from there t.o another prison pen and there parolled. He c.amo home on his parole reported to D. V. Derrickson,; Mead-ville, who was provost marshal for this district, when he was exchangedDerrickson notified him to return to•camp, which he did, and remained until the war closed. General Grant niul President Lincoln visited . the regiment and greeted the boys and praised them for, their loyalty and valor—certainly a pleasant remembrance.It was a mighty interesting story from start to finish. To tell it. all would require1 quite a volume. On their first march from Chambersburg to Hagerstown the boys got pretty hungry. Iveck said he borrowed a fat hen from a farmer and cooked it in a borrowed kettle, made a lot of brotli ami each-comrade, of the mess received a coffe-cup full of. the soup and broke in hard tack and was preparing for a sumptuous meal when they saw little, white worms floating on the top of the tin cups. That was too much .for the boys who had leftScene from Damaged Goods,” crecy from the most! vital sex prom Monday evening, Dec. 14.home a month before and they emptied the contents on the ground. The worms came out of the crackers which might have been two years old, worms get in them like they do in a chestnut He said a year after they would have skimmed off»tlie worms and gone on with-the banquet.The stories of our great Civil Avar are beiug told by living active participants for the last time. There are people-living in Greenville who will see the last soldier mustered out to join the great army on the other side.ticSafe deposit boxes, Greenville National bank. dS-lfGA
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Greenville Evening Record
Greenville, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Dec 08, 1914
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