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Only Four Yanks, By RB. K. SHULL ~, § A ho se ONLY 11 tired old men re- a | main of what was once two :

proud armies of more than 2.5

million. Now, they fight for survival as once they fought each other in the Civil War. ‘Four men of President Lincoln’'s vast Union Army still are § living. There are seven veterans of the Confederate cause. Although insurance statistics indicate there will be no survivors §& of the armies by 1953, still their battles and the cause for which they fought will be held in Amer-§5 ican hearts each May 30. In 1869, at the 4th annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic here in Indianapolis, the Commander, Gen. John Logan, resolved that May 30 would - be set aside as a day for Honoring the dead. & 0

na 8» old working in a sawmill when tanesvi BNE v ’ i { . sville, Minn., » GEN: LOGAN'S resolution forthe war broke out. Immediately, 1gg2 BY nn Memorial Day has been kept BY he enlisted in the 37 :

the people. Another resolution | vofunteer Infantry. he made at the same time-—that| Arter the battle of Bull Run,|settlement. the GAR would continue to meet where his father was dropped by| Mr.. Woolson each year as long as one man sur-ia Confederate ball, Mr. vived—was lost in 1949, when six |fought in forces against members of the once 409,000 wall g . strong organization met here andjand Chancellorsville, and again decided to call off. future meet- Gen. Lee at Antietam, ings. ) | The biggest thrill of his life, Oldest of the Unien men is/he contends, was when he met! James Albert Hard of Rochester,/Abraham Lincoln at a White N.Y. He'll-be 111 years old July House reception shortly after the 15. He and Albert Woolson of|8tart of the war. Duluth, Minn., who's only 105; are| A rabid Republican, Mr. Hard

JAMES A. HARD—Going

on III,

{drum corps and

through Georgia to the sea.

home, smoking all the eigars his

1649 final encampment here. permit.

Elsewhere, Willlam Allen Ma- Purse -will and for the State.

Two years

ALBERT WOOLSON-—Only 105. ‘ 2

in the spring of At the time, Sioux Indians th New York were ‘terrorizing the area. Theirs jwas one of 15 families in the

volunteered in Hard 1863 and was assigned to Com-Stone-.pany C of the 1st Minnesota Jackson at Fredericksburg Heavy Artillery. He was -made 8t drum major of the regimental served under |Gen., Sherman in the campaign

After his discharge, Mr. Woolson returned to Minnesota where {he worked in a furniture factory

16 years in St, Peter. Later, he the two surviving members of the "OW takes it easy at a nursingly 3" “Vib Offices fn Windom

Seven Rebs Remain

months later in the regular Army and sérved 37 years.

Was ordered to protect a field!

Now a resident of Duluth, Mr.|

Gee, 105, of Van Nuys, Cal., who ago, doctors predicted his death|.. son was one of the 15001 stayed in the Army until after the|" cn he Was bedfast with pneu-| ‘Bp "1 hol" inate in|

Spanish - American War, a n q/™onia and a temperature of 105.

Israel Broadsword, 105, of Samuels, Ida., are the other two remaining Boys in Blue. n=» - MR. HARD has the most in ’ . a day. pressive war record of the four. | THE OTHER survi 8 5 » He fought from the first battle 1049 encampment. here Aiton of Bull Run right on through toWaoolson, also was : | - the battle at Antietam, York state, Mr. Hard was born near Victor,| His father, a

Just like he's doing to the insur- Gettysburg in 1938.

ance actuaries, when two weeks!

circus band- when he was 13 years old.

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But he crossed up the doctors,|the Blue and Gray reunion at|

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Like Mr. Hard, he loves cigars, |

later he was back in his wheel Put In recent years his house- | chair, merrily rolling along. | keeper has cut him down” to one

BY STRETCHING his -age to born in New the recruiter, Willlam Allen Ma|Gee joined the 12th Ohio Cavalry

N. Y. He was a strapping 19-year- master, moved his family to New| At the end of thé war he was

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Wars in the west, married and !WO other living children. raised six children, all at Army outposts.

fornia after duty in the SpanishAmerican War. He now lives in Van Nuys, Cal. {

A. Broadsword, is a pative of Putnam County, O.

break of the war when he was 14./leaders who n= 1922 expressed | The recruiter turned him down, so|fear all he signed up with the home guard five years. | for two years until he was 186, then joined the 51st Missouri Vol- certain enough to brag, but when unteer Infantry,

Lexington, Mo., but sharpest in|statistice had better be prepared

Confederate, force made a raid!

gun at all hazards.”

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

Mr. Broadsword now lives with a son in Samuels, Ida. a small; He participated in the Indian lakeshoré “resort town. He has Since he cast his first ballot for Lincoln in 1864, he never has| He retired and, went to. Cali-\ra 164 to vote, with the exception! of the 1950 election when he be{came {ll and applied too late for The other Civil War vet, Israel'an absentee ballot. Although all. these men are! . plagued with their infirmities, He tried to enlist at the out-(still they can laugh at the GAR

would be dead within None of the Boys in Blue feel

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into the part of Missouri where| ’ he. was stationed. His tommy Shell Guards Eggs

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