" Let it be our bounded duty and work, to bind up the wounds and build up the waste of war. God has softened the hearts of those who here on both sides fought with heroic valor."
Bvt. Brig. Gen. William Noble
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - July 1, 1884
Contents
Introduction
17th Annual Reunion - 1883
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Gettysburg Reunion - 1884
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Gettysburg Reunion - 1889
Title
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Reunion Photographs
Shell Island, CT reunion
1889 Reunion Cover
updated February 25, 2003
1889 Reunion (continued from part two)
GRAPE SHOT
Don't.
Jones paid the freight.
Everybody "fell in rapidly."
Isaac is a singer, and don't you forget it.
Selah introduced the party, but his wife was along.
The lost has been found, and is now in New London.
Captain Gray was there but he did not bring the turtle.
The agent for the "Gin-Sling" house did not get many patrons.
It was a "slobbering bib" and Mrs. Wade took it home with her.
The party who were photographed at Devil's Den, look well on paper.
We appreciate the gift of Pennsylvania coal from 4.30, although it was a short ton.
The New London ship chandler had enough left to pay his fare across the ferry.
We wonder how comrade McGee of Bethlehem found his relics when he arrived home.
Little Hettie Huss looked fine with her soldier cap on, as she pulled the flag from off the monument.
He said it was a first rate crowd, but they hadn't spent two dollars at the bar since they were here.
An account of the trip, together with the exercises and orations, are to be printed in pamphlet form.
Corporal George Hale visited the house in which he was held as a prisoner after the first day's fight.
Blakeman did not have a brick in his hat, but he brought home a brick from the renowned "Bliss" house.
That was a jolly part at the residence of comrade Warner, Wednesday evening, and the grandchild of the old vet was remembered.
The location of the Seventeenth Monument is on the identical spot where our own Captain Burr captured the Louisiana "Tiger" color bearer.
Bailey, of the Danbury News, was there and he says the roadways are paved with cobble stones, and from their appearance he should judge the street commissioner was killed during the battle of '63.
When any of our friends visit Gettysburg, we would refer them to George A. Warner, the well-known battle-field Guide and Driver. He is an old veteran, has a fine team, and his charges are uncommonly low.
The badges worn by the entire party-including the ladies-were of silk on which were inscribed in gold characters the corps insignia and the names of the two regiments, the name of Gettysburg, and the date, Oct. 21-24, 1889.
In the body of a large cherry tree, within a few feet of the house of John L. Sherfy, is still to be seen a solid twelve pound shot. The house was also riddled with rebel bullets, and during the battle the father and mother remained in the cellar of the building.
When General Hancock made his last visit to Gettysburg, he cut a cane on "Little Round Top" and presented it to a young man of Gettysburg. That identical cane, together with a gun barrel picked up in the rock crevices at Devil's Den, were presented to a committee of the Seventeenth who brought them to New York. They were presented to Hancock Post, G.A.R., November 26th, a very pleasant evening being spent.
NAMES OF THE EXCURSIONISTS.
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The following are the names of the excursionists to Gettysburg:
P. Wade, Jr. and Wife - Bridgeport
George C. Waldo "
Charles Sturll "
L. S. Catlin "
George Gregory "
Rev. Beverly E. Warner and Wife "
Mathew Ward "
Patrick Otis "
John H. Porter "
Major Wm. L. Hubbell "
Gen. Wm. H. Noble and Daughter "
S. R. Tomlinson "
Henry M. Lyon "
L. N. Middlebrook "
Major Thomas Boudren "
R. T. Whiting and Wife "
C. B. Curtis and Wife Birmingham
S. G. Blakeman and Wife "
E. S. Rounds "
C. B. Brooks and Wife "
Almon Ruggles Shelton
M. B. Perry "
Sylvester Rounds and Wife "
J. H. Blakeman and Daughter Stratford
A. H. Blakeman "
L. B. Wakeman Green's Fms.
John S. Jones and Wife Westport
Fred. Wakeman "
George Hale and Wife "
Rev. A. C. Hubbell Danbury
William T. Bronson "
John Benedict "
Capt. Henry Quien "
George Bradley "
Henry G. Smith "
Cyrus Raymond, Wife and Daughter "
George S. Purdy "
Horace Purdy "
James M. Bailey "
Mrs. J. B. Ridge "
Robert S. Dauchy Bethel
J. L. Johnson "
William W. Gilbert Norwalk
Sylvester Keeler "
Patrick Buckley and Wife "
Alonzo Wheeler "
Fred. Buttery and Wife "
R. L. Ells "
Floyd Ruscoe "
George Mills "
John Lockwood and Wife "
Chas. E. Seymour and Wife So. Norwalk
James A. Brown and Wife "
Chas. E. Doty and Wife "
R. M. Hoyt and Wife "
Chas. Smith and Daughter "
A. W. Lee Ridgefield
C. Burr Todd Redding
Rufus Buttery New Canaan
Solomon Close Stamford
Gen. Frank D. Sloat New Haven
Henry W. Clark and Wife "
George T. Dade "
Major R. P. Cowles "
John A. Munson and Wife "
C. E. Clinton and Wife "
Col. Simeon J. Fox and Wife "
Dwight W. Baldwin and Wife "
George W. Lewis and Wife "
G. R. Chamberlin and Wife "
W. A. Harris and Wife "
Mrs. George H. Bradley "
Milton Bradley "
Hon. Lynde Harrison and Wife "
George W. Elkins "
Charles Lane "
E. F. Baldwin and Wife "
E. W. Sperry "
N. H. Hoyt, Wife and Son "
M. L. Church and Daughter "
Joseph Bishop "
W. A. Parmelee and Daughter "
C. H. Merwin and Wife "
Jas. A. Church and Wife "
Mrs. J. C. Coe "
Mrs. A. H. Covert "
Wm. H. Warren and Wife "
Joseph Altholl "
Henry Hale "
H. H. Taintor and Wife "
John S. Cannon "
Col. George M. White "
William S. Wells "
L. B. Hinman and Wife "
George E. Dudley and Son "
Rich'd M. Russell and Wife "
William C. Scovil "
John G. Chapman and Wife "
A. F. Tilton "
Frederick Hipelius "
A. J. Puffer and Wife "
S. F. Munson and Wife "
J. D. Murray and Wife "
E. T. Payne "
H. C. Hastings "
Ernest H. Crawford "
F. H. Francis "
Frank M. Crawford "
E. T. Wilcox and Wife "
Charles E. Hart and Wife "
David Ford, Wife and Daughter "
Dr. R. B. Goodyear No. Haven
F. W. Tuttle Fair Haven
Henry A. Barnes "
E. B. Royce West Haven
Hon. E. H. Carrington Naugatuck
John W. Merwin Woodmont
F. S. Hitchcock "
Joseph R. Clark and Wife Milford
Eldridge L. Cornwall "
Henry Cornwall "
Edwin B. Baldwin and Wife "
John W. Buckingham "
Almon E. Clark "
J. Hutchinson Branford
Joseph T. Nettleton "
Edward E. Bishop "
H. Z. Nichols "
Richard McGee Bethlehem
Lewis Hitchcock and Wife Woodbridge
J. W. Rice and Wife "
Elton Warner "
J. C. Chapman Middletown
C. S. Darrow and Wife New London
Isaac B. Hyatt, Wife and Sister Meriden
Wallace A. Miles "
A. C. Harmon Suffield
F. E. Hastings "
W. Wilson, Jr. New York
Mrs. W. Wilson "
Carrie Wilson "
Master O. H. Wilson "
R. J. Draddy and Son Mt. Vernon
Henry Huss and Daughters "
E. W. Finch, M. D. New Roch'le.
Rev. Alexander R. Thompson and Son Brooklyn
Col. R. S. Bostwick and Wife "
G. H. Hodonpyt "
C. F. Betts "
T. Green "
Willis McDonald, Wife and Sister "
William J. Tait "
John Sackett L. I. City
Capt. Theodore Gray Newark
For extra copies of this pamphlet, send 25 cents to
P. WADE, Jr.,
STANDARD OFFICE,
BRIDGEPORT, CONN.