Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1882 — RE-UNION NOTES. [ARTICLE]

RE-UNION NOTES.

At the time we went to press with our last ssue, Friday morning, Sept, 29th. Camp Milroy had the appearance of a genuine Military encampment, a few years ago, just before some important more of th# army, or on the eve of an eventful engagement, there might be seen many a mysterious look on the anxious face of the commanding general. Aids and orderlies were dispatched in haste to distant points with sealed orders, while the boys in camp were getting their rations and arms ready foi whatever fate might await them. Even the elements sympathized with the military movements, and often the gathering clouds, the flash of the viv.-i lightning, mingled with the re venerations or the distant artillery of heaven, added grandeur to the scene. Such was camp Milroy on Frio ay morning, making preparations for the grand Finale, the sham battle, to taae place in the afternoon. Everything seemed to move along in mysterious quiet until dinner was over, and then the bugle sounded for the hoys to form in line of battle. “Then and there was mounting in hot haste,” and what was a sad reality twenty years ago, was here enacted on a mimic scale, just for fun. The sham battle was a success, "with all the pride, and pomp, and circumstances of glorious war." A few casualties occurred by the careless handling of the guns and small arms, but nothing of a serious nature, aud we are glad to report that our re*»union was, on the whole, as satisfactory to all concerned as such gatherings generally prove to be. As year after y«ar passes away, and the surviving comrades grow fewer and fewer, it is

but natural that they wish to keep the burning, and to renew friendships formed on tho tented field where so many of them “drank from the same canteen.” ,