Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1910 — The Reunion of the Eighty- Seventh Indiana Volunteers. [ARTICLE]

The Reunion of the EightySeventh Indiana Volunteers.

Company A, 87th Indiana Volunteers will hold a regimental reUnion at Rensselaer on September 22nd and 23rd. The people in the city and vicinity will give it a cordial support. The hoys that are living here want to make it a memorable occasion. Co. A, with Col. E. P. Hammond as captain, left here fully one hundred strong of the young men raised here with the recruits from this county that joined the company and swelled the number to more than one hundred and forty. Today there are only fifteen of those boys left and they are boys no longer.’ They are bent with, age, impaired sight and their once dark hair is dark no longer, neither are they young and vigorous, but old and gray, yet within their hearts there is still a youthful impulse. They want to show the people that gather here at this reunion that they still live and remember the comrades of ’62 to '65. Also they want those that come to greet them to know that, the same patriotic spirit pervades the people of our city and county that imbued them in the dark and distant past when they shook the hands of the boys when they departed for the war in 1862. The survivors of Co. A ask all to join them in making this a happy occasion. On the evening of September 22nd the company and regiment will hold a camp-fire at the Armory. At the same time they want to give an old-fashioned basket dinner. The dinner will precede the campfire. Supper will be given from 6 to 7:30 on Thurs-’ day evening. All are invited to attend both supper and camp-fire.