Reunion of the Ninety-Seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers
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Excerpt from Reunion of the Ninety-Seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers: October 29th, 1884, "on the Old Camp Ground, " at Camp Wayne, West Chester, Pa, , An Account of the Proceedings With a Roster of the Comrades PresentOn motion it was resolved to call a preliminary meeting of the survivors, to be held in Cabinet Hall, West Chester, at 2 P. M., May 3d, 1884.To assist the secretary in procuring the names and addresses of surviving comrades, the following named were appointed: Samuel A. March, David Jones, Geo. L. Smith and Evan Pharaoh.A subscription amounting to $5.50 was raised to defray the expenses of correspondence.On motion adjourned.The preliminary meeting for the furtherance of the proposed Reunion of the old Ninety-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, held in West Chester, Saturday afternoon, May 3d, 1884, was attended by sixty-nine survivors of that well-known military body, which went forth from here in the cause of the Union more than a score of years ago. The meeting was an enthusiastic one in every respect, its deliberations being characterized by the best of good feeling, giving evidence that hereafter the bonds of brotherhood are to be more strongly united among the remaining comrades. At 2.30 o'clock I. A. Cleaver rapped the assemblage to order, and stated what had been done in order to gather the boys together once more. The temporary secretary read the minutes of the previous meeting, held in the Green Tree Hotel, a full account of which has been published. Suffice it to say that at that gathering there were seventeen of the comrades, who elected as temporary officers I. A. Cleaver, president, L. R. Thomas, secretary, and O. B. Channell, treasurer, "that the secretary was authorized to communicate with all the old members of the regiment whose post-office addresses he could secure, in reference to the proposed Reunion, and also to call a meeting of the same for that purpose, to be held on May 3d in the Cabinet Hall, West Chester." The minutes were approved as read.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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