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Show AGED VETERAN AT A itEii 1 Hj Thomas Lundy, aged 7S years, has H j returned from Oakdale. III., where, ho HL 'j attended a re-union of Company F of . H i ; tho 10th Missouri regiment of Civil 1 ) i War veterans. Only fourteen of tho H aged warriors arc still auvc and all H of them Tvero gathered at the company H i The fourteen soldiers who gathered H t at Oakdalo camo from sK different H i ' .spates and the handshaking of tho old B j j comrades was acornpanled in some H J instances with tears as the reportB H flf J of deaths having occurred during the Ht H , F years were recounted. H m J Mr. Lundy in a joking manner says H JH ; that despite, his advanced ago, few if B 11 any of the soldiers which he met were H I , as well preserved as he and that he B Li would not be surprised if he proved H m to be the last survivor of the war of H H the rebellion. H B j During Mr. 'Lundy's stay in tho east B- H ) be visited two other reunions of clvfl H Hj war veterans. Ho also spent two HB days in St. Louis and twelve days at HHH his old home in Denver.. -lie was ac- 1 companied on his return west by Mrs. HL II. Griffin, who had been visiting H friends in northern Wisconsin. |