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Civil War Veterans

Writer: Lawrence Lore
Lawrence Lore
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Reunion of the Fifteenth Mustering District, Sumner, 1902

25 Civil War Veterans and 1 Son of a Civil War Veteran

 

Front Row, left to right:  John C. Carey, William H. Travis, Jordan Parker Pickering, Charles Henry Gordon, Thomas Flanders Hoopes (Son of Caleb Hoopes), John W. Adams

Second Row: Daniel A. Westall, Bainbridge L. Cunningham, Thomas H. Seed, Early Beadle, Daniel G. Burnside

Third Row: Lewis Mushrush, (Not Known), Ira H. Bunn, (Not Known), James H. Lett, Benjamin F. Wheeler, Thomas R. Scaggs, Eugene Webb, James A. Fyffe

Back Row:  (Not Known), Henry H. Baltzell, David McKelfresh, (Not Known), (Not Known)

 

Names of four of the five veterans, not known: Charles Clark, Daniel W. Petty, Pleasant Umfleet, Theophilus Smith


Identifications made possible from Sumner Press, 7/1/1954, pg 3; letter to Sumner Press from Thomas H. Seed, Sumner Press, 2/20/1919, page 10; & roster of 1902 Soldier Reunion at Sumner, Lawrence Co News, 8/21/1902


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