Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1912 — Fiftieth Anniversary of Battle Of Iuka to be Celebrated. [ARTICLE]

Fiftieth Anniversary of Battle Of Iuka to be Celebrated.

B. L. Sayler and other members of the 48th Indiana volunteers have received postcards announcing that the annual reunion will be held this year at Goshen and urging all to be in attendance. The dates selected are September 18th and 19th, in order to be on the 50th anniversary of the battle of luka, Miss., which was the first and Worst battle experience the 48th regiment ever had. The card announced that Colonel Rugg has promised to be in attendance. The card says: “But in of. the 1,000 boys who so gaily marched out of Goshen fifty and a half years ago to take their part in the great Civil War, there wifi be but a few dozen seventy-year-old veterans to greet with clasp of hands. Let every survivor of luka refresh his memory and tell us what he knows and how he felt fifty years ago.” B. L. Sayler, Joseph G. Galey and Dave Yeoman, who served in that regiment, called at The Republican office Saturday and discussed the casualties and wounds of the battle. Albert J. Gutbridge was then the colonel and was slightly wounded. Lewis Daugherty, William Wallen, J. A. May, Sam Babb and Tom Warren were injured, and Martin Zoborowski and Lewis Wilcox were killed. Jasper county figured for big losses in that battle and some of the survivors of the fight are still afflicted by Injuries received. Mr.'and Mrs. Sayler are planning to attend the reunion.