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acanaamic30 s18ss! Gadt:e$$• .• Regimental Reunion.The reunion of surviving soldiers of the Twenty-seventh and Sixty-seventh Regiments of Indiana Volunteers, held at Seymour on Thursday and Friday, was reasonably well attended and passed of very pleasantly. About 84 survivors of the 27tli and 70 of the 67th were present, among whom were thefollowing residents of Jackson County:SIXTY- S E YE NTH It EG I ME NT.Lindlev Ruddiek, Elwood Ruddiek, Wm. Duckworth, Frank Bennette,N. H. Clayton, Aleck T. Sweany, Silas Ruddiek, Oliver M. Glasson and Stephen Story, of Seymour.Wm. P. Holman, Meredith Bland g and Eli W. Miller, of Brownstown. jLuther Bedel, of Chestnut Ridge.Alexander Scott, of Clear Spring.John C. Gossinan, of Vallonia.W. B. Weekly, of Spray town.E. B. Williams, of Cortland.H. C. Wilkie, of Freetown.TWENTY-SE VENTII REG IMENT.Joseph Balsley, James Richards, Henry Bretthauer and J. L. Foster, of Seymour.D. B. Vance and E. M. 'Wells, of Brownstown.Griff. Stradiey, Langdon’s Station.Philip Cox and Wm, Cox, of Chestnut Ridge.A pleasing feature of the occasion was the return of the old flag of the G7til Regiment, which was presented to the association by J. S. Alexander in a neat little address, from which weextract the following:Comrades: I .have something here that ought to make the heart of every 67th man throb with joy and patriotism. It is the old Regimental Banner which was borne away from the State by the 67th, and which proudly floated over the brave boys at Chieisaw bayou, or first attack in rear of Vicksburg, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Champion Hill, and was one of the first to be planted on the works of the enemy at Black river bridge. It was at the fronta]in the memorable seige of Vicksburg,]cbiblt;rlt;ylt;I«p■iCKIte1and the subsequent campaign to Jackson, and it finally fell into the hands of the enemy at Carrion Crow bayou, Louisiana, November 3d, 1S03, buti^ through no fault of any merpber of the j 67th, and, had I time, I would like to j ^ say something of what I think of Ip where the responsibility for that unfor- | b tunate affair, which seemed to fall so heavily on the 67th, ought to rest.The history of this Banner during its captivity, I have tried hard to get, but I can only learn that the banner, in some way fell into the hands of Major H. B. Adams, who was in some Texas regiment, and who confronted us at Vicksburg and who was afterwards on the staff of General Walker in the Trans-Mississippi department.The Major now resides at San Antonio, Texas. It seems that about ten years ago he made an effort to return the banner to its rightful owners, and that he placed it in the hands of one W. Iv. Sullivan, of Chicago, who tried in vain for many years to find some one in Indiana interested enough to receive and receipt for it. The correspondence accompanying the banner shows that lie wrote repeatedly to Governor Blue Jeans Williams and the then adjutant general of Indiana, who in turn wrote to Colonel Frank Emerson us the one most likely to be interested, but, receiving no answer, he finally gave up in despair and expressed it back to Major Adams, at San Antonio, Texas.Lieutenant O. M. Smith, of the 22nd U. S. infantry, and on the staff of General Stanley, commanding the department of Texas, now stationed at San Antonio, who is an Indianian, having served in the 13th Indiana during the war, after becoming acquainted with Major Adams, who. Smith says, is now a good, staunch Union citizen, asked him to make another effort to place the banner in the hands of some of itsfriends. He sent it to a friend, GeorgeE. Lowry of Indianapolis who, seeing my address in the National Tribune, wrote to me in regard to the banner, as he also did to comrade Ben L. Smith and. possibly others, and after the temporary organization was formed at Indianapolis, last winter, he turned.it over to me as Secretary of the association. ’And I now have the honor and pleasure of turning it over to you, the survivors of the 67th. And now if comrade Miller, of company “C,” I believe, who had the banner on that eventful 3d of November, is here and will step forward, I would love to place it in his hands again after the lapse of nearly twenty-fiiur years, y ^ ;vvy*7y-:v’;A. vote of thanks was tendered toMajor Adams, of the J Cpn^erdte Army, the return of The hafctte?worn flag.v-•ehbVitrlt;ytlt;riiist.e7-U\AIobdesHrI.V
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Brownstown Banner
Brownstown, Indiana, US
Thu, Sep 01, 1887
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