Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1892, Page 9

“THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY At THE STAR BUILDINGS. 2101 Pennsylvania Avenne, corer 11th 8. by The Evening Star News;aper Company, S. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't. Sew York ( 3 EDITION. Enters! at tue Post Office at Washington, D.: . (& omlclass mal) matter. | — Che Evening Star. ae % PART IT $.~ All wail subscriptions must be paid in s@vance Ratee f advertising mace GRAND ARMY EDITION. WASHINGTON, 20. 1 ton. Po.; Chaz. W. Paver, Springfleld, Ti; R. | F. Wilson, Toledo, Ohio; Geo. W. Grant, Min- neayolis, Minn. | Stephen M. Long, president of the National Association of Union ex-Prisoners of War, was | born in New York city March 25, 1844, and en- listed on August 28, when but seventeen RISONEKS AND| years of ago, under the first call for three-year ee teers, in company H, seventy-recond regi- ee en ‘s nsylvania volunteers, better known as ourees of romance, 's Philadelphia Fire Zouaves. Comrade but in one organiza | Long was wounded inthe left eg atthe battle of country | Savagostation on June 29, 1862,at the time of Gen, en ee we act, | MeCuollan's retreat from’ before Michmoad, and oe | beizg in the field hospital was taken prisoner ter into the question | a¢ that time. When able to go about be, with of p Every | others, were put on a train and sent to Rich- member of the Nation~ | mond and coutiued in Libby prison, where with thea ion | Others he suffered from the cruel treatment ac- ‘ | corded our prisoners. a few weeks’ con- apni or less time | Gnement in Libby prison he was transferred to | apriconer of war, and | Bello Island, where he remained several months, what the realities ofthe cate are. Daring thecenfinement at Belle Island the pris OF THE OROASTIZATIOS. oners received but one meal a day, consisting ofa nding of the eer af the cebellion | small piece of dry bread about six inches | mist From theenuding of the je ce | Square, which was served to them, however, until 1 © were numerous eforts made to | esperar conta Baan wloraa organize the Uni prisoners of war into ® ral months’ confinement as nati . all of which fa | at East | Crange, N.J.. which he still conducts, and is also the township clerk. - In 1375 he was appointed postmaster. which ition he held until 1886, when President one of bis own party to Willian i, ou B ‘ogra Comrade Long was the publisher of the East liv of April, 1874, a convention | Orange Gazette for nine years, when on ac- meee oun th he was corpelied to dispose He is also o of the charter members of tho New Jersey Associntic n_ex-Prisoners of War, organized and has held the position of e that time, and has ec national association every year. His interest in the Prisoners of and he is con- 1 in every tantly ale possible way | He isa member of Uz G. A. R. of € FmE OnSECTA, to aid such orgn the Union e«-Prisonersof War Association are to strengthen of fra- ternal compan Union, among t isons: to perp bose who have fall 11 Dodd Post, No. 12, ange, N. J., having filled the ing the war for the vivors of rebel military name and fame of pens of the nd together survivors of the its members in re Justice to the | 4 to xssist such need belp and pro- | ows len; to cor ing rebel | prisons justice may be done living and honor to th of our fellow-pi teetion and to and orphans fm order that historic: ourselves and the Survivors of Ai Miutary Prisom je of Seranton, was elected dW. B. Osgood of Hartford,Conn., Wilkesbarrs and Robert I. Kel- | ae initia loge of mn., was elected Col, Marfon TT. Anderson, vice president of ton, Pa, wecre- | : . | the association, is a native of Inc * na, and at | ‘The next meeting of which record was kept | the time of the surrender of Fort Sumter was was beld in t New Yori Soptember 6, | a college studen he next 1882, when I. I slee of War Por aa his A badge to be worn by dvebetaad he association was ad x f Cleveland was elected presi- held in Cleveland, Ohio, Sep- to his home for the first to answer the call of President Lincoln for pose of being one of the troc title of the association warsday, April 18, 1961, he ontered Camp ton asa soldier and was mu | rate Info company C, seventh Ind Re ‘| teers, on the 24d of sume month. His regiment Mich. ing on the 13th of August. C. | was the first to leave the state. It was ordered C. Shank: 1 president, and vari- | t5 Grafton, W. Va.,where it arrived at 4 o'clock @us amendments were made to the constitution | Jy,,, lett there June 2, proceeded to Phil- o that place, red the first rebel Zog of the great en in action June 3, 1861. being a daring rider was led as one of » company of forty ndered excellent service in and rel Hill, Bealton and Car- rticipating in each of those en- gagements. "He, with eaid company, and at times with but one companion; passed’ through many bair-breadth escapes and hand-to-hand contests. On or about the middle of August, his term of enlistment having expired, he wus honorably discharged. He very soon ro-en- listed as a private in company D, = reg: iment, Indiana volunteers, and again entered the field. About the Ist of December, 1461, he received his first promotion—to that of orderly | sergeant. After the great battle of Shilch he Was made second lieutenant—April $0, 1962,— and the following December he was comumis- sioned as captain of his company. His regi- ment was engaged for ten or eleven days prior | to and during the bloody battle of Stone rivor. ! On the Siat of ember, when at tho head of his company, he received his first desperate | of the eiation « ion Prisoners o} The meeting for 1534 was b 2 Was 1: lipi and? led the advance there cay war, which was | Young Ander: Pepecia’ scouts, He vand Phillipi, La 's Ford, PRESIDENT Loxa. and by-laws of the association. ‘The annual Meeting for 1895 was beld at Philadelphia Au- at 19. J. H. Longnecker of Pennsylvania was | Wound, bya bomb shell. Iis wound was thought sscted president and David T. Davies of Phils. | 10 be mortal, but be recovered and rejoined | edelpbis, secret | bis regiment in time to accompany it on the fa | ‘The assoc: met in Buffalo, N. ¥., | mous raid made by Gen. Stright far to the rear of the rebel army. Said raid was destined tobean unfortunate one for the entire com- mand. Ammunition became exhausted; fur- ther fighting was an impossibility; beyond the | line where reinforcements could reach them, | surrounded by five times their number, the brigade was forced to surrender. The enlisted Atgust 15, 1586, at which time John McElroy, @ditor of the National Trilune, Washington, D. C., was elected president and Dr. Wm. Ht. Mattingly gas appointed secretary. The meet- fing for 1557 was held in Chicago September 22 emi 23. It was then decided that all state asso- €iations should be abolished, local associations Feporting ly to the national, and as ex-| Men were eent home, but the officers were taken ners were ao widely seattered a system of | to Libby prison, Ricbmond, Va., and there re- widual membervhtp to the national associ- | tained." Capt. Anderson, with some seventy- ation the # established and the hi ru four other captains, was forced to undergo one coal Amociation of Union ex ttion | of the most tying wdeals during bis Inccrocre- “\S. H. Powell of Belleville, | tion that men. were ever subjected to. ‘They TL. was elected president and L. P. | were by Gen. Winder compelied todraw lots for Williams of Washington, D. C., was| their lives, as two of their number were appointed secretary and treasurer. The | doomed to die at sunrise the next morning, the annual meeting for 155% was held at Indianapo- | Unfortunate ones being Capta Flynn and Saw- Mis, Ind.. september 15, ond Capt. Thos. H. | yer. ana elected president. | After eight long months of incarceration, for 189 was held at Milwaukee, | starvation and brutal treatmefit this youn, the week of the G.A.K. en- | officer ucceeded in accomplishing what be ld, Mr. E. H. Williams of Incianapo- | from the first, been planning to do—thet was ed president. The convention of | to take French leave. Therefore, on the night the house of representatives, | of December 11, 1863, with but one companion, August 12, re-elected E. HH! | he made a daring, hazardous, but successful | escape from that bastile of the south to the | Union lines, Arriving at Williamsburg, after | undergoing great hardships, about 2 a.m. De- | cember 16, his clothing in rags and tatters, en- | tirely barefooted, his feet full of briars and thorns, torn and bleeding and almost fami-hed from hunger, exhaustion and suff » be Williams president. ‘The annual meeting for 1891 was held in De- troit, Mich tember 6. Stephen M. Long . N.J., was chosen president. L. Las been’ successively for five years Sppointed secretary and treasurer of the na- floral association. | The interest in this organization bas fn- | soon recuperated and again went to the front, greased from year to vear and is now looked | Joining bis regiment at Chattanooga, where he forward to as one of the special features of en-| was at once detailed at tal head~ eampment week bya large number of com- | quarters asa ficld officer. Col, veter- fades scattered throughout the entire country. } snized with bis regiment and took them home PRESENT OFFICERS. to Indiana on their veteran furlo Upon ‘The prosent officers are: hisarrival at Indi is be wae A President, SM. Long, East Orange, N. J, | Sommission as lieutenant colouel of a ne Vice President, M. T. Anderson, Washington, | to bis old regiment, then so short of officers, he D. poruistently refused the promotion and ‘re- ‘Chaplain, Rev. J. 8 Ferguson, Keokuk,Iowa. | turned to the field with two bars on Historian, Warren Lee Goss. Norwich, Conn. | bis shoulder. instead of a silver Secrviary gnd treasurer, L. P. Williams, box| leaf. From the time he —_foined $87, Washington, D. ¢ his regiment at Chat in January, 1864, Bussutive coustaitiee, Rare Tl. Ripple, Semas- unl the close of the war 1865 be was con- } ing | front, he bade his wife tinuously on duty as a field officer, except some two months in the summer of 1864, and very many times during the last eighteen months of his eervice he was in command of his regiment and led it.in « number of engagements. At the battle of Nashville, while leading his regiment, of then 800 men, in afurious charge on the Overton hill, ke was again most desperately wounded, at the time being far in the advance with his regiment, and when almost upon the works of the enemy he was picked of bya sharpshooter and fell within thirty feet of ihe trenches, From that day to the present time he has been one of the groatest sufferers left by the war of the rebellion—he never draws a breath free from intenge pain—forced to wear a steel support for his badly wounded body and to use two canes or crutches to walk. Col. Anderson passed from the ranks of a private eoldier to the captaincy of his company and then to the command, at ‘various times, of his regiment before he was twenty-four yeors old. At the close of the war, in 1865, Gen. Geo. H. Thomns twice offered him a commission in the regular army, but because of precarious health from severe wounds he was forced to decline the honor. He has been active in the Grand Army for many years, as well as in the Prisoners’ of War Association. Tie has filled many positions in the G. A. R., was twice elected commander of Lincoln Post, the largest in. this department, has been twice an A.D. C. on the staff of tho commander-in-chief, B ut the present on Gen. Palmer's stail; has been on the’staif of the department commander, and was Inst year the assistant quartermaster general of this depart- ment. He has represenied this department in the councils of the national encampment; is a member of the Loyal Legion of Washington. THE CHAPLAIN. Ferguson, chaplain of the na- tion, was born October 15, 1820, in Pa, At the age of cight years companied his father to the state of In- ting in Ripley county. After afew years’ moved to Decatur, and here lost his m her: then moving to Ohio county, At the ighteen the family went to the far west, t Museatine, Iowa, His father being & binckemiih, he learned In ths year 1861 he eniered the M. I 3 junior preacher wi reviding at We At the breaki ministerial work and commenced recruiting for the army, sending many to the front. In August, 1862. feeling it his duty to go tothe three children fare- well, was appointed fifth sergeant, company twenty-cighth Iowa. Soon after, by the una mous request of the company, he was promoted to first sergeant; was with the company in all the battles, skirmishes and ma: up to July, 1863. At the surrender of Vicksburg he ro- ceived a sick furlough, at the expiration of fd lough joining his regiment at Now Orleans in September, and remaining with his command up to the Sth day of April, 18c4. After his re- turn the company most of the time was under bis command, as the commissioned officers had | died and others were absent recruiting. He was in nine hard-fought battles, beside many tkirmishes. At Fort Gibson, May, 1863, he received a slight scalp wound. On the 8th day of April, 1864, at the battle of Sabine Cross Roads, La., he’ was wonnded by the bursting of a schrapnel shell, receiving ten wounds, besides the loss of hia right arm at elbow. Wounded | and bleeding on tho field, be was taken prisoner d held at Mansfield, La. After weeks and months of starvation, suffering and torture by the vermin ina prison hell, he was paroled, Rebel hospitality had reduced his weight one- half. When taken he weighed 200 pounds, When paroled health was gone and he weighed | 104. In Augus', 1865, he was discharged at Keo- | kuk, Iowa. 'Ie-entering the ministry he trav- eled fourteen years. Health failiv to take a supernumerary relation. All the years since the war he has beena constant sufferer from his many woundsand is cerrying a piece of shell in his body. In the year 1883 he received the »pointment of superintendent National ceme- tery at Jefferson City, Mo. During the six | sears at that station he organized many G. A. | rR. posts. served three years as me commander and four years as department chaplain. In the year 1865 he did good work in raising funds for the Soldiers’ Orphan Home in Iowa. In the fall of 1883 he was transferred to the jonal cemetery at Keokuk, Iowa. In the 1 of 1887 he was instrumental in organizing the the Prisoners of War Association of Miseourl, and was elected its first president and remains £0 up till the present. ‘Tho organization is in a flourishing condition. At the annual meeting of the National Association, Prisoners of War, held at Milwaukee he was elected “chaplain of the association, declining the presidency. ‘MAJ, L. P, WILLIAMS. Maj. Leander P. Williams is the secretary and treasurer of the association. He was born in | Wayne county, Ind., where he received a com" mon school education. At the age of fifteen ho entered ‘office and soon after | Gro td Seatac in Cass county, 2 1 Sad year wer by fire. He removed to Newville, Tena, ond cmne- menced the publication of what scom became a | state of Ilisiois, was born in Ohio in 1835. very successful weekly agricultural and family newspaper. In 1858 he wns elected secretary of the agricultnral burean of Tennessee, which ofhce he held in connection*with his printing business until the commencement of the re- bollicn, when he returned to Indiana, and, in company with three brothers, enlisted as a pri- vate in company K, seventy-third Indiana; was romoted second lieutenant in the winter of 1962-3: was with his ent in all its marches and engagements until it was captured, with the rest of Col. Streight’s brigade, in its noted raid into Alabama and Georgia in the spring of Usibbey prison was reached May 16, 1863, and he was confined there until the 9th of February, 1861, when he made his escape through the celebrated tunnel, and after much hardship and suffering, lasting six days and nights, reashed the Union lines at-Willismsburg, Va. Again joined his regiment in the Army of the Cumberland, ahd served with it’ until the ond of the war. ‘Soon after joining his command was promoted to first licutenant, and was dosignated for captaincy, but failed to receive commission, on account of expiration of serv- ice, but was brevetted major by the President for gallant services, Soon after leaving the service he received an appointment in the treasury at Washington, from which he resigned in a faq months to 20. cepta clerkship in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in which he continued until 1877, when he was appointed chief deputy United States marehal of the District, serving therein six years. Upon retiring from that office he was appointed to a responsible posttion in the National Savings Bank of Washington, whore he remained until again tendered a posi- tion as assistant clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, which porition he still holds. Upon Marshal Ransdel! appointment as marshal he was again tendered tho chiof deputyahip, but declined. Maj. Williams has always taken much tn- terest in the cause of soldiers and Union ex- prisoners of war, having filled all the various Positions in the local associa‘ions of ex-Prison- ors of War of the District of Columbia, and served in the National Association, and is now serving his fifth term as secretary and treas- ufer of the National Association, and has done much to bring that organization into a practical working shape. Ho also takes much interest in G. A. 2. matters, und was ono of the first members in the first post organized in Washington, and is now a member of Lincoln Post, } He bo- longs to the commandery of the Loyal Legion of the District of Columbia, the Society of the Army of the Cumberland and of the society of his regiment, the seventy-third Indiana. committee National Association, is from To- He was born in Crawford county, @a., and was attending school when the war broke out, and he irumediately enlisted as private in the Allegheny College company I, 10th P.1i,V.C, He was taken prisoner at the first battle of Fredericksburg, Va., and exchanged in time to ran voltntect with the majority After he was mustered out, nitched his tent in Toledo and commenced as clerk in the freight department of the Wabash railway. He filled various posi- tions and was subsequently appointed general freight agent of the New York, Rutland and Montreal railway, which position he resigned to accept a position with the W. T. E railway, Camrade Wilson is an active member in the E: PrNoners of War, John W, Fuller, Union V erans’ Union, No.'49, and Forsyth Post, No. 15, G. A. K, Toledo. of his éompany, July 3, 1565, CHARLES PAVEY. Gen. Charles W. Pavey, a member of the executive committee of the National Associa- tion ex-Priouers of War and auditor of the He enlisted in the eightieth regiment of Illinois infantry in 1862, was wounded and captured at the buitle of and mountain, Aln., May 1, 1863, on the memorable Streight raid, while in | command of artiliery; was confined in Libby and other southern’ prisons twenty-three montha, veven of which were in a dungeon aa a hostage. After his exchange he served on Ge! Rousseau's #taff, Army of the Cumber until mustered oat at the end of the wai Gen. Pavey i a8 well and favorably known in tho west as any comrade can be. He is sought far and near at campfires and reunio: of soldiers, as his earnost and cloquent a courses on such occasions never fail to captival the sympathies and applanse of his comradi and ali others who hear him. Four yeara ago Gen. Pavoy was elected auditor general of the state of Illinois, nnd he is now a candidate for re-életion to that office, having been nom- inated therefor py the republican party of that state, LIRUT. GRANT Lieut. George W. Grant of tho executive committee resides at Minneapolis, Minn, He was born in Reading, Pq., March 16, 1842, and therefore is fifty years of/age. At the outbreak of the rebellion he was ga apprentice boy at the machine trade, but atAbe firing on Fort Sum- ree months’ service as a ter he entered the private in the Ritles, which became company @ of the seventh Pennsylvania ment,and served under Gen. Patterson. "At tee vania volunteers, and was soon made first ts was to second lieutenant jovember 1, ‘and first licutenant April 10, 1868. He varticipated in ments: (@’ar moun Brees. D. C.. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER allowing time for the Army of the Potémac to occupy the heights, making victory on this his- toric field possible. About 4 p- m., both flanks being tugned, he with the other officers of the company and o number of men were Prisoners. He was confined in Libby, Danville, Macon, Charleston (Ender arp), Camp Sorghum and Asylum Camp, lumbia and Charlotte. He escaped twice, once from a train en route to Macon, and from Camph Sorgrum at Columbia, but was re- captured. {ter an imprisonment twent; months "he was paroled March “R 1868, éntering the Union lines near Wilmington, C. He has been an active member of the }. A. R. since its inception, Joining MoLean Post, No. 16, Department of’ Fenusylvania, G. A. R., ag a charter member December 16, 1866. He became its commander, held various, posi- tions in the department, and also assisted in the or(anization of Keim Post, No. 76, of the same department. For some years he was en- gesea in business, and served a8 postmaster of Reading, Pa., under Grant and Hayes. Taking au active interest in the National Guard ho was appointed on the staff of Gov. Jno.F. Hartranft, aud was efficient during the labor riots of 1877. In 1883 he removed to Minnesota aud became @ member of Morgan Post, No. 4, of Minneapolis, was made A. A. G. of ho department, servi with credit. eee aay The organization of Minnesota Association Union ex-Prisoners of War is due largely to his efforts, but, while taking an active in the local association, he has been useful in the national as well, serving as state vice president for several years upon the pension committee, and at preseut as. member of the executive board. COL. J. N. WALKER. The vico president of the association for Indiana is Col. J. N. Walker, late commander of the Department of Indiana, G.A.R. He was born in that state about 1842, and has been identified with the National Association of ex- Prisoners of War from its organization. The colonel is a painstaking, hard-working, efficient man, in whatever position he may be pl When his regiment, the seventy-third ana volunteers, was at Louisville in the fall 2 he was then a young man commanding A company and possessed the fullest cont of the colonel of his regiment (Col. Gil Hathaway), and as soon as the castaltic ant tho majorehip Col. Hathaway recommended the promotion of Capt. Walker to be major of the regiment. The resignation the lieutenant coloucl left that position vacant and Maj. Waiker was commissioned to the second porition of the regiment, “These promotions had taken place between October, and February, 1863, and in the meantime wed through the battles of je and Stone der the eyes of Col. Walker had Perryvi Col. Wal s assigned to the position of lientenant colonel of his regiment during the battle ver. During this ti a was ably assisted by, Col. Walker, and in due time was commissioned by jov. Morton to be. lieutenant colonel of the iment. At the battle of Blount’s Planta- tion, near Gadesden, Ala., Col. Hathaway was ‘The regiment was compelled to surrender. The officers (about 100 ct them) were separated from the men and sent to Libby prison, where, among other unfortunate Union officers, th loft to endure the semi-starving process, V d from Libby through the tunnel in February, 1864, but was recaptured four days later ang returned to that place, where he remained #ill the following May, when he was specially exchgnged and retarned to his regiment, and continued in the service until, xposure, hard service and long suffering in Libby was unable longer to endure camp life, aud unwilling to be a burden to the govern- ment he resigned and returned to civil pur- suits; but even after that he became a volunteer aid on the staff of Gen. Wilson during the battle of Nashvilic. He remained in Nashville several years after the war, and finally moved to indianapolis on account of ill health. For near ten years Col. Walker was first deputy in the ty, and . ef- were subjects of common remarks by those who transacted business in thut office. DAVID Ty DAVIES. David T. Davies, president of the Philadel- Plia Association of Union Ex-Prisoners of War, isa native of Wales. During the late war he ted for the term of three years and joined v Ivania cavalry with the e and Georgia. At tho battla of Lovejoy station on August 20, 1864, the cavalry (which was then under command of Gen. Kilpatrick) was completely surrounded. ©na charge being made in order to cut through the rebel lines Mr. Davies’ horse wax killed under him and he was Jeft on tbe field dis- mounted, slightly wounded. Tate in the after- noon of the same day while pressing forward on foot to overtake the command he was captared by four rebel cavalry, taken to Lovejoy station, where he found Capt: Thompson of his com- pany and other officers and comrades, who were also in the hands of the rebels as prisoners. Two days afterward was taken to Andersonville prison, where ho re- mained for a time.when he was tranrferred with many others to Camp Millen, and then to Sa- vannah, thence to Iblackshear and back again to Andersonville; remained at Andersonville until April, 1865, when he was transferred to camp (on neutra} ground) near Vicksburg, Miss., where he received medical treatment at the hos- pital and afterward paroled. Mr. Davies has been an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic since 1869, and has held the position of aid-de-camp on the staff of the late Gen. John F. Hartranft, com- mander-in-chief, fortwo terms. assistant quarter- master general on the staff of Gen, Given, De- tment of Pennsylvania, secretary of the iational Association of Union Ex-Prisoners of War and several other positions of trust and re- sponsibility. . HAZEN 8. PINGREE. The vice president of the association for Michigan is Hazen 8. Pingree, who was born at Denmark, Me., August 30, 1842. His father was a rnny and resided at Denmark from the resided with his paronts until four- {gon Years of nae, when ho went to Hopkinton, ‘Masa., and seca employment a shoe fac- tory, Here he learned tho trade of cutter, at wi he worked until Augast 1, 1862, when ho | enlisted as a private in company’ F, first Massa | chusetts regiment of heavy artillery. This temy corps, snd. tts hast oarvios tee sone army ani dered in defense nation's d where he now holds membership. In 1888 he/ Killed and Col, Walker ‘assumed command. | 892. which was then assigned to the a brigade, | third division, second corps of the Army of the | Potomac, and took part in the battlés of Fred- | erickeburg Hoad, Harris Farm and Spottsylva- nia Court House, Cold Harbor, North Anna and | South Anna. At the batile ‘of Spotsylvania | Court House his regiment opened the © ment and lost 500 men killed and wounded. CAPTURED BY OUERILLAS. { On May 25, 1864, Mr. Pingree and a nuinber of his comrades, while reconnoitering were captured by a squad of men commanded by | Col. Mosby: As prisoners of war they were | brought before that rebel Sfficer, who excha his ontire suit of clothes with Mr. Pingree, but afterward gavo back the coat,remarking that his men might shoot him for a “Yank,” the result he certainly did not desire. After his capture Mr. Pingree was confined for nearly five months at Andersonville, and for short periods was con- fined at Gordonsville, Va.; Salisbury, N. C., and Millen, Ga At the latter place, in No-| vember, 1864, he was exchanged, rejoined his t in front of Petersburg and soon after rt in the expedition to Weldon railroad and the battles of Fort Fisber, Boydton Road, Petersburg, Sailor's Creek, Farneville and Ap- pomattox Court House, He was mustered out of service on April 16, 1865, and shortly after | his disc become one of the foremost of that city’s busi- ness men. He has served the city as its mayor he went to Detroit and has since | PART TWO. He has always takon ati active interest tn ali ex-prisoncra, and for several years has been president of the local association: was presi- denjgef the state association and vice president 9) tional association. He was appointed Powell as one of the committee that binjzton and ureed the passage of psented by the national association efit of ex-prisoners before the pen- fommittees of the Fiftieth Congress. His had expired and the existing pension laws have impressed upon him the need of special legisla tion for all ex-prisonere, and to that end he has been an carnest worker. MAJOR OLIVER M'NART. Major Oliver R, McNary is the vice president of the association for Kansas and one of the most prominent members of the association. He enlisted as private in company E, twelfth Pennsylvania (ihree months), April 17, 151; April 27, 1861, was appointed orderly sergeant; August, 1861, 'was tendered appointment of captain and assistant quartermaster, but do- clined the appointment, However, at the re- | quest of the Secretary of War and quarter- master general he served a! t quartermaster until February, 1862. March 1, 186 Pointed quartermaster of one bundred and third Pennsylvania. On 27th of same month wus detailed as quartermaster of brigade on the staff of Brig. Gen. Keim; afterward served with great success. LOUIS WIESER. Another prominent member is Loufs Wieser, who entered the United States cavalry service in July, 1861, and was commisrioned in °62 it company C, first Maryland cavalry. He served | at Chancellorsville, Doncefries, Stoneman’s raid d was captured at Brandy station, June 9 63, in that severest of all the cavalry battles, 1 He was confined in Libby eleven months, four months at Mason, four months at Charleston and paroled at Savannah. He was exchanged in December, 1864. and was on provost duty in | the middle department, Annapolis, whence he |joined his regiment eight days beforo Appo- mattox and was mustered out August 5, ‘65, with his regiment. ABRAM W. SMITH. Another prominent member of the association ia Hon. Abram W. Smith of Kanras, who was | born in Oxford county, Me.,in the month of | October, 1813, where he resided until—October | 19, 1851-—he enlisted as private in the | teenth United Sta! autry and was made | was assigned to duty in the of the Ohio, and under Gen, Buell he par- | ticipated in the Bowling Green campaign. On the night of the first awfal day oh Sergt. Smith was one of the 15,000 men under | Buel! who came to support Grant's left in the | second day's fight, and hs was inst tho galas | when Corinth, the great rebel stronghold, capit- ulated almost’ without a struggle. At Chickamauga his regiment was nearly wiped out of the records and overy coul left | alive was captured in the last charge made by Longstreet on the evening of september 20. | After that he took up his enforced abode in rebel prisons. THe saw the inside of nearly all of them—Richmond, Danville and last, Ander- | sonville, where, through no desire of his own, | be was domiciled for nineteen months. He was | paroled at Vicksburg on the 19th of April, | 1865, and mustered out of the service June 2, | 1865, at Detroit, Mich. For months after being H mustered out he lingered in debatable land be- | tween this world and the one that seta it right, | There his powerful constitution, elean life and | iron wili won the day, though he will carry to | his grave ns souvenirs of that sojourn in rebel prisons disabilities that have downed many stronger men, In January, 1866, he started out to make a place for hituself in the world. On bis way westward he found work in the Cumbria iron | works, in Johnstown, Pa, as a common day |laborer. Step by step he was advanced, till at last ho became @ superintendent in the great institution. He remained there until 1872, ewhen he went to Kansas. In McPherson county, then almost on the verge of civilization, he took his “soldier claim” of 160 acres and turned tiller of the soil again, He still lives upon that farm, now one of the finest in Kansas, and for years. | worked it alorie and unaided. "He now has a family of manly cons to assist him. He has served several terms in the state legislature, of which he has acted as @ a He is now the republican candidate for gov- ernor of the state of Kansas. JouN a. KLINE. John M. Kline isa past national vice presi- dent. He was born at Milroy, MiMlin county, | Pa., July 29, 1874. He received a common school education, and at the age of fifteen years entered the military service of hia native | volunteers. | battle of Stone River the as quartermaster and aid-de-catnp on tho staff of Gen. Wesselle: Prisoner April 20, 1864, at Plymouth, N.C., and taken to Andersonville; was confined at Macon, Ga.. Savannah, Charleston and Columbia; was exchanged in December, 1864, and when he ar- rived at Annapolis Hospital weighed seventy- four pounds; was afterward on duty at Mad- fson, Wis.. and Raleigh, N.C.; was mustered out October, 1865, as brevet major; was three times wounded in action. One of the prisoners clonely identified dur- ing his life with the Prisoners of War Associa- tion was Gen. A. D. Streight, who was born in Wheeler, Steuben county, New York, June 17, 1829. When reventeen years old he went to work at the carpenters’ trade with the same energy and determination that characterized his after life, and at the age entensive contractor. A year or #0 later he went west and entered the book publishing business, finally locating at Indianapolis, Ind. At the beginning of the war of the rebeliion he, at the request of Gov, Morton, recruited and orgunized the fifty-first regiment of Indiana He was commissioned colonel of said regiment and early in December, ‘6 ported to Gen. Buell at Louisvill The fifty-first was attached to the Army of the Ohio, afterward known as the Army of the Cumber- land. Gen. Sircight with his command par- ticipated in all of the marches and battles of that wing of the army. At the great and bloody fifty-tirst did good service. Streight was a rigid disciplin: endeavored to make his regiment best in the field. This he accomplished, and while exceedingly siriet, requiring a close ad- herance to duty, he won the love and respect of all of his men. He was a brave leader, and seemed to inspire his men wich the same fear- lesaness that was over hia, After the battle of Stone River Streight was placed in command of a provisional brigade and ordered far to the rear of Lrage’s army. This expedstion was doomed to be disastrous from the first, and after a running fight of five or six days and the ex- haustion of almost every round of ammunition the command was forced tg surrender to For- rest near ome, Ga., May 3, 1863. Streight and his oficers were taken to Libby prison and re- tained there, many of them untilabout the close of the war in 1865. One of Streight’s officera wax anong the firet to recain his liberty by making a daring escape. ‘This awakened in the colonel a great desire to break the bonds of privon life, and he made the attempt one dark night, but was betrayed and retaken, placed in ‘irons in a cell, there kept on read and water for long weeks. After being released from this dungeon he once more begen to make arrangements for escape. He with some of his oficers planned and principally dug the famous tunnel out of which se many men escaped, Col. S:rcight being one of the first to pass through. He with three com- panions remained in Richmond concealed by friends until all pursuit was abandoned, them with agood guide, plenty of provisions and well armed the four officers started out and safely reached the Union lines. Streight im mediately rejoined his regiment and was soon placed in command of a brigade. At the battle of Nashville his brigade was in the advance the firet day and his old regiment, of which he was particularly proud, led the brigade, At the close of the war Gen. Streizht once more entered into the active pursuits of a busi- ness life: also, soon thereafter entering the political arena. His posb his energy and untiring industry made him quite a fortune since the war, and when he answered tho last roil call but a few months ago be left his family a rich compe- ney. ne of the tate and afterward enlisted in the United States service as a privatein company A, forty- ninth Pennsylvania, and with that regiment took part in the bettles of the Wilderness, Spotteylvania and Cold Harbor, Va. At last named battio, while with a reconnoitering ty, he was ‘taken prisoner, and during bis prisonment, extending over a period of eleven months, waa in Libby prison, Richmond, Va.; Andersonville, Millen, Savannah, Black” shear and Thomasville, Ga.; waa paroled April 21, 1965, at Vicksburg, Muss... and discharged from the service May 27, 1865, at Harrisburg, Pa. Comrade Eline is now employed in Waeh- ington, D. C., asa clerk in tho office of third auditor of the treasury and isa veteran member of Kit Carson Post, No. 2, Department of the Potomao, G. A. R., anda’ charter member of | the t of Columbia Association, Union ex-Prisonere of War, and bas served two years as prosident and one as secretary of that or- ganization, 2. B. WILLIAMs, A prominent member of the association and a past national president is E. H. Williams. He was born in 1889 in Milan, Ind. In 1860 he entered Moore's Hill College \and had fiii- ished his first year when the call for 75,000 men by President Lincoln to rally in defense of the oid flag was issued. He answered the fitst call and was active in organizing a company and was elected orderly sergennt. company led and he, with several others, went in Capt. Meyers’ company of V WARRES LER cose, The historian of the association, Warren Lee Goss, is one of the original promoters of the organization and has since been always promi- nent in farthering its interests. He enlisted in 186Lin B company, U. 8. engineers; re-onlisted in company H, second Massachusetts, in 1863, and was discharged therefrom as a scrgeant in 1865 on account of close of tho war. He was in several campaigns and battles and was a pris- oner of war at Libby, Belle Island, Charleston and Florence for over a year. After his dis- charge he wrote, in 1865, a book entitled “The Soldiers’ Story of His Captivity at Anderson- ville, Belle Island and Other Rebel Prisons.” It was illustrated by Thomus Nast and had an im- mense sale. Since the war he has followed the profession ofa Journalist and author. In 1885 he cous tributed to the Century Magazine of articles entitled “‘Recollectious of a which attracted great attention for their descriptive power, and received from military and literary men great praise. Notably among those who recognized their value was Lord Vis- count Wolseley. They have since been repub- He wes wounded and taken | PROGRAM OF EVENTS, Interesting Occasions That Will De- mand General Attention, ENTERTAINMENTS TONIGHT, ‘Tho detailed program of the events of eadh day is as follows: This Fvening. Reunion sixteenth Connecticut regiment, 1907 | Pennsylvania avenne, 4 to6, © Evening Fireworks, monument grounds, ? | to 8 o ok. Reception at Calumet Place, corner Cliftos and 19th streets northwest, Mrs. Joba A. to the Johm A. Logan posts of the United States, the departments of G. A. R. and | Logan, | loag imprisonment after hia term of service | W.K. C. of Ulinois and others, 8:90 to 11:80, | Reception. of the Department of the Poto mac, W. RC. toG. AR, WR. ©, and all Kindred organizations, 1927 P street, 8 to 11. National campfire, Judiciary Square. Fighth corps, armies of West Vinginia, Grant | tent; Shields’ division, Meade tent; eleventh | corpe, Sherman tent; sixteenth corps, Thomas tent; reurtion sixteenth Maine volunteer, St Paul's Lutheran Church, 11th and stroota, 7:30, | Reception by Potomac Corps, W.R. ©., te the ladies, W. R. C., and friends, Congrege- was ap-* tional Church, 8-11. Reception by Department of Massachusetts to ite friends, Ebbitt, 5 to 8. | WEDNESDAY, THE Qlst, Morning—Meeting of encampment at Al baugh’s, 10 o'clock, convention of W. RC. parade of the Union Veteran Union, escort, Sons of Veterans, followed by meeting of ne- | tiona! encampment at Harris’ Theater; conven | tlon army nurses, City lial; qonvention ¢ Prisoners of war, City Hall, 10r.m.; convention ladies of tho G. A. R., Elks’ Hall: convention | Women’s Relief Union, Luther Piace Churchy | Convention Ladies’ Aid to the Sons of Vi | EStrect Baptist Church; convention Daughters of Veterans, Foundry Church; convention C. |G Lemon building; 9to'11:30.m., fourth ‘ant tent; tenth corps, Thomas tent h corps, Sherman tent; twenty-thi ps, Meade tent; engineers, Sheridan tenty | reunion Veteran Signal Corps Association, Law School building. E street near 5th; reunion Sickles’ New York Veteran Cavalry Associstion, Fort Steyens, Brightwood, 19. | _Convefition army ehaplaine, Congregational Church, Afternoon—12:30 to 8 p.m., second Grent tent; 3:90 to 6 pane sixth, corps, Greed tent; twouty-fourth corps, Thomas tent; sevens teonth corps, Sherman ‘tent; seventh corps, Meade tent. mncert. by consolidated bands, Monument ands, 5:30. rade of Venneylvania Reserves from 1338 reet and nat Tenlertown, Evening campfire. Judiciary Mire Department of the sl 5 Aid Association Auxiliary to Bons of Vet E Street Baptist Church, 8 to 11; esmp- gut Post.at Mra. Briggs’ place, 6th i Carolina avenue gout 30 irant tent; third corps, Meade tent, ith corps, Thomas tent, and Army | of Kanawha, Sherman tent, THURSDAT, THE 2p, Meeting of encampment, G. A. R | Nationalencampment Union Veteran Union, Morning, 9 a.m, to 12 m.—Reunion National | Ex-Priscners’ Association, Thomas tent; fifth corps, Granttent; cavalry Army of P% | Meade tent: car ry western ormion, coe tent; artillery, Sberidan tent,and prisoners of | war, Thomas tent, Reunion of army nurses, atternoon, 12:30 to 3 p.m.—Army of the James, | Grant tent; fifteend Sherman tents thirteenth corps, Meade tent: nineteenth | Thomas tent, and provisional corps, Army | Cumberland, Sheridan tent. | _ 5:80 to 6 p.m. —Army of the Tennessee, Grant | tent; United States colored troops, west of the | ‘Aiaginnien and cast of the Mississippi, Meade Evening Reception to encampment at pen- sion ofice by citizens’ committee. National camptire, Judiciary Square, Reception to Michigan people, Elks’ Hall, 7 te Reception at Red Cross headquarters, corner 17th and F strects northwost, at $:30,to the sur- vivors of the late war and the various organiza- tions of patriotic women. 7:30 p.mu.—Ninth corps, Grant tent, FRIDAY, Tax 23p. 9:30—Sons of Veterans, Grant tent. Excursion to members of the encampment down the river. _ Excursion of Union Veterans’ Union to River | Siew, where all-day camptire reunions will be vening Reception to the W. R. C.,Ladiesof the G. A.R., &e., by the ladies’ citizens’ com- mittee, Congregational Church, 8 o'clock. RECEPTIONS AND ENTERTAINMENTS. Tuesday, September 20, 7:30 p.m.—Eighth corps, armies of West Virginia, Grant tent; Shiclds’ division, Meade tent; Sherman tent, sixteenth corps, Thomas tent. Wednesday, September 21, 9to 11-90a.m.— Fourth corps. Grant tent; tenth corps, Thomas tent; eighteenth corps, Sherman tent; twenty- third corps, Meade tent; engineers, Sheridan tent. 12:30 to 3 p.m.—Second corps, Grand tent. $30 to 6 p.m.—Sixth corps, Grant tent, tweuty-fourth corps, Thomas tent; seventeenth, corps, Sherman tent; seventh corps, Monde nt 1. 7:30 p.m.—First corps, Grant tent; third corps, Meade tent; twenty-fifth corps, Thomas tent; Army of Kanawha, Sherman tent. Burnside Corps, No. 4, Department of Poto- mac, W. BE. C., reception, #10 Pennsylvania avenue, from 6 to 8 p.m. Reception to eighteenth United States troops by M. 4. Heuston, 2:22 M strest. peal edly Lincoln Post and corps reception 7th and L streots, orening: Reception Mrs. M. D, Lincoln, 1810 K street, to New York state veterans, evening. . Thursday, September 23, 9am. to 12 m.— Fifth corps, Grant tent; cavalry Army of the otomac, Meade tent; cavalry western rman tent; artillery, Sheridan tent, mers of war, Thomas tent. Woman's National Press Association, an out and banquet at Glen Echo Park, afternoon. *Reception Dr. Florenee Donohue to ninety- fourth and one hundred and fifth New York k voluntecrs, 1136 6th strect, 8 to Cm September 24, tion to W. $ kindred organiza’ tions by the W. C, hed Hotel Fredonia, H near 14th, 7:20 to Secretary and Mut. Noble and the the family will receive We from 5 407, and hope 90 soe Local members of the tertain at luncheon visi i eota lished, with additions of new matter, in form in England and in this country, Hews ‘the author of “Jed,” a boy's book of adventure, and other books; also articles in the North American and other magazines. The first gun fired upon Fort Sumter was from Stevens’ battery on Sullivan's Island, and the shot that echoed round the world and aroused @ somnolent nation was sent on its errand by tho hand of Edmund Ruffin of South Carolina, who was to the south what Joho Brown was to the north. and Navy Club, y street, from 2 to 9each day, CHURCH CAMPFIRE Campfires of a religious character will te beh daily from 8 to 9 am, visiting: chaplains and others, in the | Vermont Avenue or