Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1911 — STORIES OF CAMP AND WAR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STORIES OF CAMP AND WAR

COMRADE HICKOK STILL HERE, I .<t - One of Two Burvlvor» of Mexicai* ) War Regiment Lives at Norman, Okla-—Tells Story, c When a roll call waa made lately; of the men that had seen service with the Eleventh United States Volunteer, infantry in the war with . Mexico, newspapers recorded this answer: "Comrade Gaspe, Pulton County. Missouri, Eleventh United States Volunteer Infantry—the last survivor/’ This brought a reply from an energetic old man, A. D. K. Hickok of Norman, Okla., who wrote: "I wish, to say to Comrade Gaspe that T vis

a member of Company O of the same regiment and .that he is the only man in the Eleventh that I have heard of since we were discharged at Fort Hamilton, on Long Island, in 1848/” Mr. Hickok is one of the thin line of survivors of the Mexican war. He volunteered for the service in the winter of 1846-7, in Ohio. "When I returned home in 1848,” he said, “I waa so emaciated with disease that my mother did not know me.” Mr. Hickok had Settled down to the life of a merchant in Wisconsin, without further thought of war. One day? be read a current newspaper account: of the first battle of Bull Run. “E could not stay at home,” he said, “soI shut up my business, paid off my' men, went to La Crosse, Wit., and raised a volunteer company of 102: men. Only eight of them' are llvfng,. I was a captain in the Eighth Wisconsin infantry, the regiment that carried the live eagle, ‘Old Abe.’”

A. D. K. Hickok of the Thin Line of Mexican War Veteran.