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Show (J.A.R. YET TO MARCH AT GETTYSBURG WITH 'GRAYS' i John V. Wlildoes, one of three surviving meinlH'is of the Utah department, de-partment, O. A. H., has accepted the Invitation of the United States Government and the Slate of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania to participate In a nationwide nation-wide reunion of Civil War veterans on the Gettysburg battlefield the week of June 29 to July 6. Hale and hearty with the .same spirit that he entered the Union Army, Mr. Wlddoes, 91-year-old veteran. vet-eran. Is looking forward to the trip. The invitation, extended some time ago, offers an all-exponse-pald trip for each grand army man and his escort. Mr. Wlddoes will be accompanied accom-panied by Lewis Steggell. The invitation from the federal , commission for the commemoration follows: "The Government of the United States extends a cordial invitation in-vitation to John W. Wlddoes. a Veteran Vet-eran of the War of 11101-1805 to attend at-tend the Commemoration of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, June twenty-ninth twenty-ninth to July (i, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania." Date of departure has not yet been determined, Mr. Wlddoes said, but necessary application blanks and other details have been taken care of. The occasion, on which Union and Confederate veterans will be brought together, recalls Mr. Wlddoes' Wld-does' service during the war. He enlisted en-listed on two different occasions. The first was in 18(12 with the 8j11i Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for three months, during which he participated participat-ed in the campaign against the Confederate Con-federate leader, Morgan, in Kentucky. Ken-tucky. The second was with the 145th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, for 100 days. During his second enlistment, in 1SG4. Mr. Widdoes participated in the Sherman campaign, and saw service in several states. Although enlisting for 100 days, he remained for 120. Fifty-six years afterward, in 1920. he received a government pay check for the additional twenty days. o |