Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1897 — Old Veterans Rapidly Passing Away. [ARTICLE]

Old Veterans Rapidly Passing Away.

Gen. Jasper Packard, writing about the grand parade of the G. A. R. at Buffalo, says in one of his I letters to his paper, the New Ali bauy Tribune: I “The soldier can but notice now with I something of sadness the change in . the personnel of the men who attend now and of those who were the forI mer leaders of the army. Only a few years ago Grant and Sherman were to be seen at these great gatherings, and Sheridan and Hancock, the superb, and the gallant Logan, j a Diomed of war. These are all gone, gone over to the great majority; and others with them, beloved lof men and of the nation; Thomas and Slokum and Hovey and Custer I and still more, no longer with us but I whose tents are pitched, where they shall ever remain, “On fame’s eternal grounds.” Death has indeed I greatly decimated the ranks of the gallant men who saved the Union from destruction.