Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1920 — ATTENDS DISTRICT REUNION [ARTICLE]

ATTENDS DISTRICT REUNION

Capt. J. L. Hagin* 'Meet* Old Comrades of Civil War. Capt. J. L. Haglns returned home last Sunday from Seymour, Ind., his old home town, where he attended a reunion of the survivors of the 1 civil war of the 4th Indiana district, which was held there on Oct. 7. Captain Haglns was a member of Co. K, 39th Ind., Bth Cavalry, which was made up at Seymour, and enlisted when but 16 years of age. The captain states that Gen. Thos. Wood, military officer in charge, when passing down the line, eyed him very closely and said: “Young man, you step out; you are too ' young; go to your home, your mother wants you.” But before doing so the lieutenant-colonel, F. A. Jones, said: “John, you go with the company into Kentucky; there I will muster you in,” and John went. | Department Commander Mcßride gave an address at the reunion in the afternoon, as did also Rev. W. H. Hikman of Greencastle, who was an officer in Capt. Hagins’s company. Mr. Hagins’s father was a physii clan and located in Seymour in 1854, when the town was first founded.