The Medicine Lodge Cresset,October 23, 1879

Soldier's Reunion

When the call was issued, a few weeks ago, through the Columns of the Cresset, for a Soldier's Reunion, at Medicine Lodge we had but little idea that so large and enthusiastic a Company of veterans could be gathered away out on the frontier, as met in the Stolp Hall on Saturday. All day Friday, they kept Coming in by little squads of twos and threes, and at night part of them lit their camp fires on the grove after the fashion of war days and as the importunate mosquito put in his bill for rent of his territory, we suppose they visited again, in dreams, the fields of battle, and imagined they were suddenly charged by the enemy with fixed bayonets. We say part; for all that gallant band did not sleep the sleep of innocence, nor dream of gory fields, for we saw some of those battle scarred heroes threading the mazes of the dance, and snaking their lily white hoofs in breakdowns that would have done credit to professionals.

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The entire article, courtesy of Kim Fowles, which includes a list of veterans who attended the reunion, is online here...

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ksbarber/vet_cw_reunion_23oct1879.h...