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Show DAY TO KEEP IN MEMORY Particular Reason Why Civil War Veteran Recalls Incident of His Military Career. An laterestlnR story was told hjr the veteran Mnl. George Haven puinuin iliirlim his visit In ih. cltj hist week. :is i lir N.u York Times, Ma.. Putnam served In the civil wnr, rose to he ml jut ant of the iTCili Regt. , New York volunteers. wi captured at Cedar Mountain and confined in l.ihhy prison. "I was a very small factor In the army f the North, anyway," smi Mnj. Putnam, "and my absence from the ranks created no panic ami was of very little moment to anyone except ex-cept myself." The major went on to say I hut i afternoon while he WStf rimter.il, C. long a dusty Virginia highway be paeeed a bodj of Union troops at the wayside tad their major saluted him. lie was only 111 mi the time mid these attentions naturally pleated him. A ' little farther along he encountered another an-other group of troops and this time an oftlcer of considerably higher rank did the sHlutlng. Later on the young ad.lutnnt dls-eovered dls-eovered 1I1..1 the major wiih William MeKlnley and the oftlcer of higher rank was Hrtg Gen. Itutherford R. Hayes. It whs m good deal later, however. before he found out that he had been sainted twice In the siiine afternoon by men who were to become presidents presi-dents of the nation, |
