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balance of the boys could have been here to enjoy the treat with us,A number of reso ntions were passed, among them were the following :Resolved, That the love, high esteem and fond remem biance of the comrades of the 19th Iowa who have met in the thirty-ninth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Denver, Oolo., September5-9, 1905, be extended to our dear chaplain, the Rev. J. J. Sands—and wife —who so faithfully administered to our spiritual and moral wauts forty-odd years ago.Reserved, That Lieut. J. P. Stephenson communciate with Lieut. Ragsdale of Birmingham, Iowa, with a view to the reuuiou of the regiment at some point in Iowa on the 7th—the anniversary of the battle of Prairie Grove, Ark.—day of December, 1905.The stirring times of long ago were talked over. Then we talked of ourtimes. When I'iuformed him that Ihadjnot, he said that when he arrived back_home he“would send it to me. If he sends it 1 will forward it to you to have the words printed in a Fort Madison paper. He recited the words to me and they were a noble tribute to the valor of the 19th Iowa.Old comrade, good bye. with the best wishes of your “ward,”D. L. TKAOY.Denver, Colo., Sept. 11, 1905.P. S. Ted, a woman never writesa letter without a ftpostscript.» *There is considerable woman about me. 1 met this summer a colored mau who, wheu he was seventeen years old, stood in the old house above the orchard at Prairie Grove and looked out of the chamber window and saw the charge of the 19th Iowa up thelives as civilians since that time, and giope. His master owned the farmat nine o’clock oar love feast was disbanded with the silent thought in eachthat the battle was fought upon. 1 came very near being kissed by himof our hearts that some of us had met anC| bis sister—ttie sister especially in our last reunion on this side. NS jJO Was with him.(*Mr. Smith claimed the distinction Dear Old “Ted.’’—Just a heart to (?) 0f being my guardian through the heart talk for a moment: Yon cannot civil war, being appointed so by myay disappointment at not mother, Mrs. J. W. Ne*tou, wheu 1and tworealizemeeting you here, but as I did not I enlisted at fifteen yearsthought that perhaps you would be months of age in Co. E. 19th Iowa,interested in hevriug of the boys that August 14, 18b2, at Fort Madison,were here, that you were with wheu £0wa.men’s souls were tried.I have tried to write this letter so PUBLIC NOTICE.that if yon would thiuk it would be Notioe ,g ,)ereby glyen t|)at j wi„of interest to have it printed in a fce nsible for sny debt8 con-T ll * _ A. A _ M A A M ^ M AFort Madison paper you can do so.traoted by my wife Caroline GompfI sent you a paper and small souve- in mv uam0 aH i wiil not pay same.nirs to let yon know that I still remembered my old “Guardian,” who kept me frour falling into the show1mHENRY GOMPF, Franklin, Iowa!case at Keokuk forty-three years ago, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.and of “Lish” when I yelled, “Lish,pull me out.” On Thursday evening, September 21,I hope that you are well and that at the Ebiuger Graud opera house, atold Father Time is kiud to you.^o’clock, there will be a lecture giveI met a man in he parade who lives by Edward A, Kimball, O. S. D., a at Fayetteville, Ark., who asked me if member of the Ghristiau Science- j I bad ever heard of the “19th Iowa board of lectureship of the First- Bong” written by a Confederate sol- Church of Christ, Boston, Mass. The dier upon the batttle of Prairie Grove lecture is free and all are invited to and which he hud snug hundreds of attend.
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Fort Madison Weekly Democrat
Fort Madison, Iowa, US
Wed, Sep 20, 1905
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