Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1911 — Major Braden Only Surviving Field Officer of Old Ninth. [ARTICLE]

Major Braden Only Surviving Field Officer of Old Ninth.

The death of Col. I. C. B. Suman, at Valparaiso, leaves Major J. D. Braden of Elkhart, the only surviving field officer of the famous Ninthindiana volunteer regiment, which won such great renown for valor and achievement during the war for the preservation of the Union. . . - Col. Suman, who was commander of the regiment for the last year and a half of the struggle, was life president of the regimental survivors’ association at the time of his death, a position he had occupied for a number of years. The members of the regiment will hold their annual reunion at Laporte, October 1, 2 and 3. This reunion is to be specially observed, as being the fiftieth anniversary of the regiment’s mustering into service.