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The Indiana Loyal Legion assembly £ at JxnlUimpolis Friday night was an JJ unusually brilliant one and thy ban- ki 2:2n‘,ce:rsnoJ.?atoClor.ha.nilquel was reraurkahlc Tor the distinguished men who grucmi the festalboard. General Lew Wallace prusliluiJ and referred U the taut that the me el*lag was being held on the eightieth anniversary of the uiliuhmlnn of the slate Into the union. For that reason some nf iln Loplrs unsigned to thu «peukei'« had reference to Indiana. IJe spoke of the essence of HtatChoUil :ls hijlnK Liu! aplril Of the i-iiL110r lIulji mi vi moments, commercial prosperity and a great population. On the port of Indiana, lie snhl nlii! cuiild enter into a comparison ivith every oilier state that could only re* don ml :o her own credit. He challenge.! comparison as to patriotism slip I moral character of Indiana's people. He thought /that In Ihe past there had not been enough state* pride, but believed that In the future ihe peopte would be aroused tu untlius-lasm for the -state. Captain Alien H, uougai. or this city, responded to th« toast. **Benturi\-iiJe,T' and .Mr. John I. 'White, Col. D.N* Foster and C«l, Robert S. RoberUon, of ibis eKj\ wmamong the honored guests. *• vThirty-four y$ara ago to-day occurred the battle of Fredericksburg, Vfi., when Lliu uplun troups threw themselves against t‘ ii c ‘ s t one wall behind- which the rebel ;baUeries were masked. The Hon. S- M, Hen till* of LVils city, was a boy soldier of sixteen, and in one af the ter rill i: charge* he was severely wQumled by a. fragment of a shell. The judge was a members of a Pennsylvania regiment attached to Humphrey’s brigade.
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Fort Wayne Journal
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Sun, Dec 13, 1896
Page 7
Full Page
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