Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1914 — BROTHERS’ RARE REUNION. [ARTICLE]

BROTHERS’ RARE REUNION.

Shipwrecked, Fought on OpgoafaS Sides In W«A Fairmount, N. J. Ohartoi and Th—dore Glazer met at th* totter** horn* here for the first time in 46 y**c* and what they had to tell o**h other and a third brother wa* enough to keep them going a week, only tfMT had to sleep and eat a tittle. Th* brothers were among th* tew sons rescued from the rtrig New Era, which in 1854 foundered on th* New Jersey coast at a point near where Asbury Park visitors now «*s*y surfbathing, and 3W p»e* lingers were drowned. It was their fate, too, to fight «* opposing sides in the war of th* States. They had migrated from Germany. Theodore had gon* to Virginia to live and be imbibed th* spirit of the Confederacy, whfi* Charles, settling down to farm life in Jersey, was among the volunteers who went oat on Lincoln’s call Theodor* went to the front as a member of Branch’s Petersburg Battery, an integral part of the Army of Northern Virginia, which was commanded by General Robert E. Lee. It took part in a majority of th* fanportaat engagements, including Antietam and Gettysburg. With the same spirit of patriotism, Charles enlisted with the First New Jersey Cavalry, which wa* a part of the Army of the Potomac. The carslry, by a coincidence, participated in aTI ot the struggles in wfcloh. Branch’s Battery was engaged. It was not long after the start of the rebel lion that the brothers, by accident, learned they were fighting against each other. Then after each engage merit they made it a part of their duty to search tor each other in th* field of the dead and wounded.