Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1887 — GRAM ARMY BOYS. [ARTICLE]

GRAM ARMY BOYS.

Ohio has over *OO subordinate relicorps. Jeff Davis wm wounded at Buena Vista in saving Bragg's Battery from capture. ' Baird Post, Pataskala, Ohio, though only a month old. has a membership «f 108. • Indiana has seventy-seven camps of Sons of Veterans, with a membership of 1,651. « The number of men in the Soldiers' Home at Chelsea, Mass., is 132; in tfc* hospital, 45. General Bragg’s headquarters in the battle of Missionary Ridge recently sol® for $21,484. Tyler County, West Virginia, has lit pensioners; Wood County, in the saa« State, has 416. It id rumored that General N.P.Banka will soon be commandant of the Soldiers' Home at Togus, Me. Mrs. Jeff Davis has a fine picture of John Brown, of Harper’s Ferry fame, in her photograph album. There are over 40,000 pensioners in Ohio, receiving annually nearly $1,225,000, or a trifle over S3O each. Commander-in-Chief John P. Rea was a fellow student with Governor Foraksr t the Ohio Wesleyan University. The second annual meeting of ths National Association of Naval Veterans will be held in Philadelphia next January. Lieutenant Zdinski, the inventor of the famous dynamite gun, is a member of Lafayette Post, No. 140, New Yorik City. A monument erected at West Chester, Pa ,in memory of the departed heroes of the Ninety-seventh Pennsylvania,was unveiled Oct. 29. General Alferd Pleasanton, of cavalry fame, has been mentioned as likely to be the new commandant of the Soldiers' Home at Hampton, Va. The Fifteenth Massachusetts Infantry had from first to last over 1,700 members. Its actual losses exceeded thoss of any other of the Massachusetts regiments. Emma Stark Hampton, National President of the Woman’s Corp, is a lined descendant of General John and “Moilie” Stark, and is a native of Monro* County, N. Y. The Twelfth Indiana Battery has not had a reunion since the war. A meeting will be held at the Bates House, Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 20, to arrange for a general reunion in 1888. The • Veteran’s Home at Waupaca, Wis., established by the Grand Army, is now ready for the reception of dependent veterans, their wives or widows. The State gives $3 per week for the maintenance of each inmate. In ail the changes coming to this Republic Bince June 4, 1777, there is one thing that has undergone no material change, and that is our flag. The addition of the stars tell of progress and prosperity, and the freedom of the States forming the Union of States none can sever.