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Three Veterans Who Served in South’s Prisons Meet AgainlEf'T'TO RIGHT: 1L 15. MO WRY, ELIJAH CARTER, GEO..Friendship, ^formed during1 the trying-days oc the Civil war when tJicy were thrown logellteg into the terrible prisons of the Confederates, and kept through communication in tl\e three scojc years that have followed was cemented when .Elijah Curler, Janesville, last week saw his two comrades for the first time since tlm war, The meeting was during 1hc G. A. Th tonVcnUon in Milwaukee,Thisxpicture was taken ina. Mil-Carter group.Y, 7»,Mankec hotel and shows Mr. ns*fthe control figure in the Onj’ Ills loft, is II. 15. Mow Gr.conJleUl» Mass., and on the right asvJGeorgo 3 lawks, S3, Fargo, IN\ YX Mr;- Carter ’is the daddy of the trio, being SG years young.* The three saw little of'the G. A.HAWES*R'. convention, *but sat together telling reminiscences of the war, memories of which huvo kindled in their thoughts by the meeting.. Mi*. CarLcr recalled how he .escaped from tho %,RebsM through a ruse. Only sick and -wounded men were .. traded and this apparently burred Mr. Carter, who was -strong ln: body, hut through the help of a comrade \\o planned to escape. .ITcs played sic It and got away, and ih on rcenlisted and served throughout the duration of the wan 'Mi\ Carter -is- one of the'few surviving veterans of Mic Civil-war remaining in Janesville, Ho fought in 3 3' engagements, mostly in North p Carolina. He llrst came to Jhnes-jvll!o in ;1S,7G and although away jseveral times, ahvay's returns. Ho J resides at 43 9 Cherry street. ' , •W'/VSrt^VWlA,runnrn n*nt!0T0•teams and .is captain and fullback ot the GJ.amlCt team this year.- Miss)
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Janesville Daily Gazette
Janesville, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Sep 21, 1923
Page 29
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Ruth A.
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