Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1914 — All Old Soldiers Invited To Reunion of Co. A,87th. [ARTICLE]

All Old Soldiers Invited To Reunion of Co. A,87th.

Shelby Grant, Company A, 87th Indiana Volunteers, is to have the annqal reunion of his company at his home on Aug. IJth, the anniversary of the day when the company marched out of Rensselaer to join other companies and enter the great civil war. , All other old soldiers are invited and also other old citizens who were living in Rensselaer or nearby country during the civil war. There are still a of survivors of Company A, 87th, including Thos. A. Crockett, David H. Yeoman, Shelby Grant, William H. Hoover, John L. Nichols, John E. Alter, C. P. Wright and George Morgan. • The occasion will be a basket dinner, the wives of the soldiers and the old citizens being invited, all to bring baskets filled with picnic provender. There will be some speaking and it is possible than Hon. E. P. Hammond, of Lafayette, who was the first captain of Company A, will -accept an invitation sent to him by the survivors of his old company.