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Marlon County Mexican Veteran*.There are twenty-seven Mexican war veterans living In this city and county. They are the following:Edw. C. Busklrk, Wm. Judkins.George Clramermanjohn T. Keys, las. J. Cassady, Wm. W. Lowe.John Callahan, B. Otto Lots.Robert Copllnger, Lafayette Milner, 3amuel Cain, 3eo. F. McGinnis,Wharton R. CUntonjohn Parkhurst, Edward T. Dickey, Wm. L. Peggs,Jason Dame, Jonathan J. Roach,John Helm, Samuel Roach,Leonard Haalinger. Thomas Richardson, Charles W. Jon?*, Edward Schobe. Evans C, Jones, Harrison Stanley,Warder Vannos-.All Mexican war veterans; North and South, even though they may have serv'd In the Confederate army during the war of the rebellion, stand alike on the pension rolls of the Government, and all who are beyond the age of sixty-two receive pensions.The Mexican War,” said Gen. George F. McGinnis, “was the first war in which, the United .Stares engaged where her troops left the count! y for a foreign larA During the revolutionary wai and afterward, during the war of 1512-15, United Slates tioops (Waded Canada, but those campaigns were brief and without special incident. The Mexican war was as strange, picturesque and novel to the American sohlior of over half a century ago ;\b the Philippine war Is to the American soldier of to-day. In fact, it seamed a mucn more venturesome and hazardous thing to invade Mexico thun it is to-day to go to the Philippines. There weie people then, as now, who wore willing to see the honor of the country get at naught and the authority of our Government accounted ac not worth fighting fur.g\t Wkltr !«•*«•
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Indianapolis News
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Sat, Sep 09, 1899
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