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*iniSpent Private Fortune inCOCountry’s Service.( paoil!tIi*dechRECRUITING OFFICERwztoch li\ 1 heFor Four Years, and is Said to Have! teshRecruited Almost All of the Thirty-hiTidcsecond Indiana Volunteer Infantry MHas Documents Signed by O. P.exH I saTime—Is Eighty-eight Years Old. toMorton and Other Notables of thebew; l in *’ luPeter Anheier, one oi the mostlamous recruiting sergeants of theCivil war period in the state, and aman who spent a fortune and the best o' years of his life in the service of his nj country, has, at the age of eighty- d eight years, asknowledged that he is j n practically at the end of his resources, .J and he will finally consent to accept a pension—something he would notcaado as long as his lunds held out. | 0Mr. Anheier has to this end put in the hands of John I. Viney, pension agent, certain papers and documents. From these Mr. Viney has prepared a petition to congress asking for a spec- j rlal bill allowing Mr. Anheier the regular pension for veterans of his age from this date forward.Mr. Viney’s petition, touching as it does on the vivid and stirring days of the early sixties, will be in many respects a remarkable document. The papers furnished him by Mr. An-i e cheier comprize an affidavit of service and efficiency signed by Oliver PerryMorton, any number of formal re- j 1ceipts of men delivered signed by various colonels and adjutants of the day. most of them made out by trie flicker of candlelight in the field of- j 1 ficer’s tent. !1Mr. Anheier was appointed recruiting sergeant for Indiana at the outbreak of the war, and he served faithfully for four years, turning overcompany atter company. It is saidof him that he practically recruited j single-handed the Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers.IThe sergeant had been hired at $100 a month for the work. He served practically lour years. At the end of that time lie had*received nothingfor his services, and found that prbb-F ably half his fortune, amounting to over $50,000, had melted away. Much he lost by leaving his business to lookafter itself, but the major portion had been spent in securing recruits for the! service of his country.Since the war Mr. Anheier lookedafter his business affairs, but he found the business badly tangled, and he never succeeded in getting “on his^ feet” again. Frequently he was urg-;1 j ed to ask for the pay that had never been given him. but he always shookhis head. He adopted the same courseai-,tr-in regrad to asking for a pension, saying that he would not take one as longas lie could live without it. Now. ine1-sthe evening of his life, he is asking back some portion of the substance he spent in an earlier day.Mr. Viney’s papers will be forwarded to Congressman Landis as soon asI completed.
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Kokomo Daily Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Sat, Feb 08, 1908
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