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Show LAST RELY i OF ZOUAVES1 Nearly Depleted War Organization Holds Final Meet Chicago, Nov. 5. The last rally of the Chicago Zouaves, a war-time or ganization dating from 1&5S. that gave 100 officers to the Union armies, was hold hero last night Four men. not one of them less than 70 years of age, and a fifth white haired veteran, a member of the Lincoln Wideawakes, another war-time organization that Included In-cluded many of the Zouaves, met probably for the last time. The veterans of the oi:ce famous organization went in response to a call Issued by one of theh number, Dr. Charles S. Speer, 78 years old, who in an appeal sent out a few days ago begged his old comrades to meet him once more. There Is no permanent perma-nent organization of tho survivors, as rhey enlisted In different regiments in 18G0. The four who responded were- E. H. Hunt, Major Frank E. Yates, Truman Tru-man D. Cleveland and Dr. Speer. J B. Fergus was the Lincoln Widoawake who answered to thp call. The Chicago Zouaves, numbering about 100, enlisted to a man in tho civil war. Nearly all of them became ofTicprs. The few survivors not in Chicago are scattered in different cities. cit-ies. The names of about a dozen men are on the rolls. The four Chicago Zouaves who got together last night wore also members of tho Wideawakes. Wide-awakes. The best known member of the Chicago Chi-cago Zouaves was Colonel Ellsworth, head of the Ellsworth Zouaves, tho first Union offlccrd killed in the civil war. |