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ONLY EIGHT OLD SOLDIEBSVT I’HAIKIE GBOVE BEI’NIONA company of eight men, veteransof the Civil War, had dinner together«at Cook’s Cafe yesterday, guests of E. C. Condit of Denver, who wasspending the day in Washington.These men, the seven besides the host,!are the sole survivors of the Dattle of ,Prairie Grove, residing in this County.and the little affair yesterday, not aspretentious as in former years when the ranks wTere not so thin, was in(commemoration of the fifty-eighth anniversary of this particular battle.Company C, 19th Iowa left Wash-1Iington county with something over a hundred men on its roll under the!captaincy of T. H. Stanton. Whenpromotion came to him, finally placing him as Paymaster of the Army,John S. Gray, late of this city, wast1nchosen captain. The battle of PrairieGrove was their hardest fought battle, fourteen thousand men defeating a southern army of twenty-eight thousand. One hundred and ninety-two men of the 19th were killed. IfovobSiwe mistake not, this was the battle in which W. R. Jeffrey received his wounds.PomirAfter dinner yesterday, the men hadtheir pictures taken and later w'entwto the G. A. R. Hall wrhere they spentseveral hours socially. Those whowore there were:—E. C. Condit,, ofPnttDenver. Colo., W. R. Jeffrey, J. M.trLytle. J. W. Morton, Joe Dawson, IVlarsh Wilkin, and William Blair alltiHof Co. C. 19th Iowa and J. A. Montgomery of Co. B, same regiment.SctlPlt;rt
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Washington Democrat
Washington, Iowa, US
Wed, Dec 08, 1920
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