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«, -saitr-onditi)•f-i.s,ISitIS3.s-io3-LATE PBIS0SER8 OF WAB•* r“^+Notable BeuoioiL on the 8th end ”7tii—Fell I*!efr'oTThoee in Attend-ance—Vice Fr+eideuts Appoint*ed end Resolutions Adopted.As heretofore stated the surviving boys who ware the blue during the lute war and fought for the preservation of the Union, and were prisoners cf war during the rebellion, held a reunion m Decatur in connection wHh the soldiers* love* feast given under the auspices of the Ms-con County Veteran Association* io,coQ:t junction'' .with the Slsfi Dhi1 Vol. ■ Thin gathering of** prisoners wn the largest meeting o' the kind that has been held in this slate, and gave unbounded satisfaction to those in attendance, as they graped^eacopier by the hand and^look* ed bf^Lot£er iojjp face, {many Jbf'thfiRS.taMP**ticjit; Um^ for sixteen yeajtorwitft*moistening eye and quivering lip, each seeming to realize what the other had suffered, both before end since the lastvJIJ/Jc/1IJIJ,IJJlt;Ic£111JAr'IJ£tJJ\JMlt;parting at the gate of prison pens of the febelA-.And aaCthey^thariSfdn littleaicAntdL.Imrkidye-r*fo-na-9,9.le,he-isidregroups and talked with a low, trembling voice of those they had parted-wiih, whose bones were carried out to be hid-den from, the „sight qXlt; \he]r.fjnhqwny keepersiftfie tWa^Ouldr^ ujrtJid drtfe flWrt,' and iheir minds seemed'so carrfed backto the soenei of their mutual suffering, that they could hardly realize they were in 4God's Country/5 We give below a list of nitiCI ot late prisoners of war in attendance: prisoners of war.Willis T. Wilholt, Private Co. I, 59th IU.B i5l pfprh'i'ie D, I78tb Ohio, Mansfield,inJohn W*rd, Ber*.B.41at III./DeMitur, III. •D, K. Pound; Prlvnto QvtVHla III- Elwin, III.. M. MajyPrtvata U 7tb Pa. Car., Deeatufcnii. ■/,. B- Prather, Lieut. C, llfltb Il!,.Casner, III.fle,AHe• lLeBe1U. H. Asbraore, Chag.:25th lU.Fairrnount,III.J. W, Morritt, E, 25th III., Atwood, 111-Wm. Woods. b\ I4tb Mo. Cav., Kaboka, Mo. Wni. Owen, K, aucli New York,Jas. Vandolab, F, »7tb Ind.,J. D, McCanco. li, lUitbO., Homer, III.E. Casoeil, H, 20tb lib, Florid, 111.John w. January, B. 14thltl.Cav,Mlnonk.Ill, Jobn Skinner, E ttUn 111., Nuwmun, 111.T. D. Lane. G. S6th III., Deor Crook, ill. Emuel Dodd, E, 107th III., Cisco, III.Ed. Denmlro, D, TOtli Iowa, Sandusky, Iowa. F W. Kirby, A, 15tb III.. Atwood, III.L. H. Carloy,ist LJcut. Co. E.fitb Iowa Cav., GroveCltr, 111 C. H. Paikbur8t,C.ft5th III , Central Jo, III. StepbeD Dukmnn, H, Tilth III,, Atwood, 1U.Ira Grcon, K, 4th Ky., Hugo, 111... luf.W. P. Buck, Scrg. 8th III.W. H. Hoskins, E, 2ist 111., Bethany, 111.III.It. B. Helm, E, 79th III.. Murdock, 1 H. W, Keys, Private F,*2d Iiid,, Neoga, I j. A. H. Snyder, Private C, 15M O., Mattoonjll, J. W, Halea,Sergeant E, 14tb 111.Cavalry,'iiinlllu l.lvfi*JIIjto:Nlt;ilo,mmrethAmSt\vMioLctoGi
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Decatur Weekly Republican
Decatur, Illinois, US
Thu, Oct 14, 1880
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