GETTYSBURG RELICS.

The only Crowe-ing heard in the party came from Company "A."

Now the question is, whose eggs were those that Calhoun was feasting off of?

Mrs. Captain Gray proposes to serve up Turtle soup at the re-union August 28^th, at Ridgefield.

Did Calhoun of Post 62, receive the welcome he expected upon his arrival home? It is a fact he wore the gloves as directed.

Sergeant Thorpe, Company "K," says, the next time they want to get up a euchre party some one else can hunt up the chairs.

There was a great deal said while at Gettysburg and since about Keeler. Which one was it? There were three in the party.

If it had not been for that small boy, Dick Calhoun would have always that it was a human bone instead of a rebel bone.

The appearance of Gen. Brown met with a hearty applause as he rode along the line, followed by Orderly Beck with the old headquarter flag.

Comrade Calhoun, of Post No. 62, Department of Connecticut, must have found a hen's nest somewhere. There were seven eggs, and boiled hard.

Lieut. John Harvey met with a hearty reception among his old comrades of the Seventeenth, many of them not having seen him since the war closed.

Messrs. Farmer and Markley, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, caused the thanks of the entire party by constant attention to the wants of the excursionists.

Stephen Smith of Post 23, Stamford, could not get enough to eat at the hotel spent a good share of his time chewing green corn stalks in the fields. Poor Steve!

It was noticed more money Treasurer Wade got the more bloated and aristocratic he became. Was seen riding in a Black Maria one day. No reflections of course.

The playing and singing in the parlors of the hotel on Wednesday evening, by Mrs. Col. Allen and her sister Mrs. Nichols, was received with well merited applause.

Lieutenant Hale of Company "E," visited the church in which he was just after being shot and taken prisoner by the rebels. His son, who was along, was quite interested.

Just because Wade was along, he, Wade, had an idea it was a Company "K" picnic, but upon calling the roll, and Kelly not answering, he came to the conclusion he was mistaken.

As the special train left Gettysburg for home, Ves Nichols of Post 3, Bridgeport, Ct., and his wife, were seen on a hand car, with a native guide, bound for a trip down through Virginia.

The way Calhoun got the colored ladies to sing for him was by subscribing to their church funds. Good thing he had an excursion ticket or the party would have had to take up a subscription.

Sergeant Selah G. Blakeman of "D" Company, made a most excellent leader.(?) Evening party were in search of locality where boys of the Fourteenth Connecticut were having their Camp Fire.

Secretary Keeler's corns are troubling him again. One more march after that band would have just used him up. He claims he never attended a dancing school before and took no part in the dance.

Col. Wooster of the Twentieth Connecticut, temporarily marked the position of his gallant regiment during the fight, and immediately upon his return home he at once began to enthuse his boys on the subject of a monument.

Many regrets were expressed at the absence of Gen. A. G. Brady and Maj. W. L. Hubbell, of the Seventeenth Regiment, both of whom were active participants in the battle, the former being wounded and the latter taken prisoner.

Comrade Coy of Post 39, Department of Connecticut, regretted that he ever stopped at the Bassett House, Birmingham, Conn., as it was the means of his not getting a room at the Eagle. Secretary Keeler says a man's reputation will sometimes go ahead of him.

On the way out a party composed of Company "D" men remarked at about noon time that a piece of Plumb Duff would go first rate, and later, toward night, it was hinted it was about time for Selah G. to fall in for his stockings.

Mrs. Capt. James E. Hubbell contributed a cabinet size photograph of Corporal "Rob" Perry, of Company F, with the colors of the Seventeenth, and it very appropriately adorns the album which was presented to Corporal Skelly Post, G.A.R.

Comrade J. Henry Blakeman called upon a young lady who, at the time of the battle, was a child of five or six years of age. She remembers well the party of which Blakeman was one, calling at her house and her mother giving them something to eat and drink.

At the gathering in Grand Army Hall, after Col. Allen had made a few remarks, comrade Keeler said "the Colonel is doing a great deal of blowing to-night because he has a Horne(e) with him." A citizen of Gettysburg seeing Keeler with his G. A. R. uniform on supposed he was the Governor of the State of Connecticut, and when the Colonel undeceived the party, "George" retaliated with this "bald headed pun."

A comrade tells of Jimmy Wright, of Co. I, and Chief Engineer of the steamer "Hattie Brock."

"Jimmy" was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Chancellorsville, May 2d, 1863. He was confined in Libby Prison, Richmond, and learned through one of the guards that an old friend of his, one John Bingley, was then living on "Oregon Hill." They were both born in Manchester, England, and came to this country together, but had not met for several years. "Jimmy" got word to his old friend that he was then in prison and he made an early call upon him. "Well, Wright, they have got you in a tight place," said Bingley. "Not so very bad," replied "Jimmy." Then came this offer from Bingley: "If you will take the oath of allegiance to the Southern Confederacy, I'll get you out of this, get you plenty to eat, and a good job in the Tradegar Iron Works."

This aroused "Jimmy," and he opened up on his old friend in something like this manner: "Look here, John Bingley, I've got a wife in Connecticut, and do you suppose I would have people point at her and say when her husband got in a tight place he turned traitor." "No, sir, I would stay here and rot, first."

BARLOW'S KNOLL.

The grove, consisting mostly of oak and hickory, has been entirely cut off. The oak tree crowning the knoll was a prominent landmark to all the members of the Seventeenth Connecticut Volunteers who were engaged in the fight. This oak was severely shattered by lightning some time after the battle. The stump of this tree was removed in fragments as memorials of the battle. The fences in the foreground were torn down by our men just before the engagement.