Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1902 — Company A., 87th Indiana’s 40th Anniversary. [ARTICLE]

Company A., 87th Indiana’s 40th Anniversary.

The surviving members of Co. A., 87th Indiana Vol., residing in this vicinity will hold a little reunion and keep “open house” at Rensselaer on August 11, day and night. It is proposed to erect a tent and put in the time telling yarns, renewing old acquaintances etc, and, at night have a camp-fire session. Forty years ago, one week from Monday, Co. A., with E. P. Hammond as captain, left Rensselaer to help Uncle Sam in his war in the south, and the members of that company now residing about this city think it would be a good idea to remember the fortieth anniversary of their departure in the manner mentioned. Everybody will be made welcome at “headquarters” and will no doubt be highly entertained by the old vets’ stories.