Show I 1 F 4 N ia J jmj ait by ELMO SCOTT WATSON i niss dispatches front from chicago re recen centi tl curried carried a story about A t famous civil war regiment of which there me are now only three sun survivors ivors out of an original total of 1184 the I 1 he story reads as follows three are ar sill nil left to form a co colip dinv inv what they hey tailed 11 1 them in the old lays lass even lit in theopi the caa valry but you vou cant have much lunch of it reunion of the U ight illinois cavalry cm nil j with only three to answer roll call even in memorial lull hall at randolph street and michigan in venue since face comrade george 11 perr erry ninety years lears old died last summer at ills home lit in sycamore there going to be any sixty fifth annual reunion wot not tint that the glorious old eighth Is actually disbanded hilt but the gaping rows of vacant iliakis ant and the too generous spaces of the hall tint that now toss back at them the quavering echoes of their odd voices lifted in the songs that once roared lustily up to the rafters waken too many memo rles irles too many gentle ghosts walk there so the faded old flags have been bulled U ailed for the in last s t time the records will remain closed flails finis is 19 being written to the gallant regiment tint that on oil october IS bach in rode up pennsylvania avenue tn in washington past the white house where the troops baited to give three rousing cheers for abraham Abia hain lincoln the regiment that tile president watching w them dubbed in ills his own quaint phraseology Farn farnsw orllis big abolition regiment they were eleven hundred bundled and eighty four strong that lay div mounted but without carbines cai bines or mahers john r F farnsworth who recruited them largely from chicago and evanston Kv anston at camp kane st charles ill was elected tei farst colonel of the rp ent t Ini ite ile had reason to look upon I 1 them bent pridefully chofe who remain of tile regiment that was mustered out of service it I 1 lianton barracks Fann ks st louls in lune june of ISO nud and returned to chicago chac is 0 o for final in il payment and discharge nio are 7 it II juff of dundee glenry 1 of MIll ant and 0 W or if chlcagno hl ngn comrade durf duft was capt a in f the lie vanished post sud a story could bi be written vilt ten about nl oit ait every ent which marched way tway t i i to war TO 70 years 31 ears a ago 0 o for of more linn ilian three who wore orp the nine blue cr file he gray gny in ili ISM to only it i landfill remain last summer in still water minn there took place a dra dm antic scene which symbolized still bigly tile the passing of the rear guard of the alip civil war it was tile list last meeting of the now famous last alast mans club a meeting attended by only one cae mas man lie ile wits was charles lockwood eighty seven years paia old now a resident of chamberlain S n D but once a member of a group of young men who responded to president alln coins first call for volunteers it was aa on sunday morning april 21 isoa that a company of gay young voting men mil md relied fi bioni otin stillwater after it a night of dancing at the sawyer house they went to fort snelling where they were ivere formed into company 13 first AlInne minnesota rota volunteer hi fantry then came kill bull atun hittle brittle of fair oaks antietam and fredericksburg they built the grapevine bridge sil sal ration of keyes ke corps tit nt seven SPY en pines in 02 after PIc kelts charge at dot t disburg only a few of the gallant coin out party 11 remained ut fit for duty in 18 15 several of the ali veterans le de elded to form art an organization of their cot trades they riet met on oil september IT 17 the ranks of the company had bad declined from SO to xa 1 S IIo Ilo spes father of bt al flo flosses spes known as the baby of the company gave the organization a bottle of burgundy wine and it was decided to 0 o form a lost last mans club and tile the last man main was to open the nine and drInk a final toast to his departed comrades kadi ach took a pledge to do did tills this tile the purpose of the organization was to keep beep naive the memory of the fallen comrades com 1 I think the boys got the idea of 04 ha ta I bt t unas cw club from reading Zoe AWOOD some settle story of 1 french lencki soldiers sold leis say 1 s I 1 I 1 lockwood ock they used to line have li ne those thos wine hw suppers every year par it v as 6 dc 1 dried to hot hold the chinn renn long ions on oil july 21 the anniversary of tile tho battle of bull nun ilan each year ear on that day tile the veterans would assemble sit nt tile sawyer house after it a group of them tin had rone gone to the first national hink bank and taken from its vault the alie of old bottle of wine vine which was kept in a cise case along with a poem by the late 11 II H E I 1 hayden in ili 1887 the 1 lie poem vaa ns entitled the llie last survivor to ills dead comrades the t caknip imp flie fire sni smolders ashes fill fall the llie clouds are aie black again against t the sli ky no taps of drums no bugle rill call MS aly comrades coi ninde all al goodby by B aw I 1 there were only three of the lie 14 34 left lock Locki john S goff of st paul and peter ieter naji of adwa tei for minn within atlin lt lIn the next net year ear both oo 00 con and hill 1111 11 11 had find died to so when tuly july 21 1930 came around it tell to the lot 0 of f lockwood to hot hold the last meeting 0 of f the last man allans s club so fco ho he r tood alone nations the 33 emita c chills black draped set about it table in the lowell loell inn which stands on the site of the lie old oil sawyer house a tire tiled old man winner of a hice nice ng last deith death press dis patches of tile alie time described him bilm raise i alsed ills lil glass gass in salute to my corn com took a slit sip of what amt had biad once been sparkling espail alln burg undy nine wane hut hilt w aich tin had by tills this time turned to virie lne gai ar and repeated abed the words of the 1 lie last I 1 ast survivor to ills dead dmd com coin kadets then with th ills promise fit fill filled it lie turned tinned amii ind and tile ailt L list blons club hid had reached its destiny of dissolution when lien the liand grand army arin of the ne ile public went nt to portland alaine for fin its annual il grand encampment ta in 1929 10 0 two to veterans el attracted much attention fly by the insignia which they wore oie on it their latits the ornament oin ament was has tile till tn 11 of if ti deer tor for these two men 11 ilam him A of baand liar ilar ley drips of derby pa ia both of the saintel 11 I 1 town limn post posit of the lie G A it I 1 in fit atre are among the few survivors of the famous regiments legi ments of pennsylvania there were two tuo regiments of ill in civil war ills days the first pennsyl vanla fiffles riffles lilt and later the one hun dred died Firt I 1 ift lelli leli pennsylvania wiles so si far its as Is known the last survivor bunor of the jorj oran nal il Buck buckhall tall re regiment ament the first Ionn salla rifles lied died in ill 1927 an issue of the potter county journal lit at fondici apoi t ila ia during that ye year ir contained tills this news nes story the alc remit recent death of charles IV dickenson aged eighty eight in the passing of the last member of the original fluck tall regiment famous for its record during tile alie civil war ar the lw regiment organized tn in 1801 through tile influence of oen gen thomas L kane founder of the city of kane ins ns made up tip large lare jy of hardy mountaineers of tills this section of the country on april 18 8 ISM representatives from mi ale kenn falk and cameron counties met tit nt the smethport Smet liport port courthouse tn in answer to summons seni sen out by general flen eia kane three oliree com coin alie count the lilt county ickles an and the cameron county count avid ald cats were mere orb organized idled and the HH of what ant later became the buckhall Buck tall regiment it aus as tit lit port tint that the lu in sinla ly by which tle the regiment imp came to be known w as adopted the rhe lay day the recruits item assembled bled lit april 23 25 1801 lames landregan member of the it to mckean connie lille hilss ing a meat barkei where it n leers cm enis cass ws on in display cut off the ani ninis s fail sunk stuck it in ills ant it ud land pro ceded to headquarters thomas I 1 L kane who vilio later intel been DIP 11 31 general observed orid tile the buck back s fail nl and seizing upon tile llon blea announced that tile the force he was ailing should lie le known its fis file lh mm hull within a short time lime the dens was dl di asted of its hide which was as cut into ship sito to resemble ri back tails and attached to their cups caps after marching over the moun haills tile mckean and elk I 1 ak county troops those of cameron county count lit at 1 emporium and continued their march to driftwood on the S I 1 it neina boning a branch of the susquehanna river starts hilt biad been contacted of dunber for their alit it journey down the susquehanna i to look lock illigen Il liven and anc on alrh pil 27 the lip forces num bering men embarked tin and at lock boarded a train for liepp they alit were eie mus tend into sc to the state calif calixtol tol at alar rn pa can see in tile caos which hold hob the lie tattered ensigns of the keystone state that of the one hundred I 1 fiftieth icons minin rifles it flag lai which holcli ins has nn an in ili te restIng history during tile bittle battle of f gettysburg the 1 were 0 forced to abandon their position on oil seminar S cm inary ridge and fill fallback buck into the town during tills this retreat the wound ed color boarer became separated tod from ills his comrades coni rado and the flis flag fell into the hands of tile coll fedel lites later it wits presented ted to president jefferson 1 vi fill and wits was found among its effects wheat helas lie mas captured in ISO 1805 and in ISM it ft was v is restored stored le to the ante of 0 pennsylvania in the city alt of alexandria ya va lives tile the sole survivor MII surN hoi ivor now of the wo tr TOO ales andria who fought wl 1 li il filet alip Coli federates lie ile Is edgar a 11 member of company 11 II vir inin regiment known ns as hi alil i old oil dominion allks list last year eai ajo saw sn lie passing of nn an even ein diore famous list s U of the lost loht cause for I 1 ir when ilij ca 1111 les 11 Ste dillan in died did on september 23 1 DO the congress of tile the united ui etcil states lust lost its sole lole survivor uiN lor 0 of f me civil war tt ir serving sei ln out oui rational il legislature up until recent ye sens irs there were mire a number nuin ler ol of civil vot eells both those who wole MOIO tile ielne bill e and those who lio wore voie the cray ciny in both housos of but the last s saw itt the number cut ut down steadily until 1021 when there were ue only on ly three left in ili ebat year oon isanc asalle sherwood of ohio refilled to tire life tit nt the nga age of nill ninety e ty and lift his departure i artmire marked tile passing pa trig of ait last union veteran froin the house of representatives in 1129 11 0 senator I 1 francis i mela warron of yot ning died and lust last union veteran ins gone from the and nd list last year the death of major stedman of north carolina removed not only the last confederate veteran cheun but ano tic the I 1 I 1 lat ast civil wor ai veteran et erin on eather aldi ahle from both houses malor stedman was nas horn january 20 29 1811 in N C and on en the university of if north ciro caro linn nt at ff alip inge afif E of sixteen ile he was MIS graduated gondu itce from tit tin university in ISM and received niel cd ills his diploma but before the commencement perses exercises coal lit lie held lie he had responded to ii n call for volunteers and as n a private in the rnett eUlle light I 1 eslit infantry company which was has n pint of tl first north ali Carof lna or bettler Bett lel pitt upon the disbanding of tills flits ent lie joined it comp aini il y from county oiin tv rose to alie 11 e of lieutenant then captain and finally major lie ile bervol in tile lie of gen stobert n E lee ice I ce throughout tit war and was ait the pisto rit surrender nt at was ais wounded three time during tile the war M but su sll rIed allried lilt wound sto to become a luer lawyer and to b IK elected front from the rn distria dis triv of north carolina to tit ohp alt y congress 20 years yea is ago M 3 by bv N ual union I 1 |