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“Civil War Veterans marching to the Troy Depot to take the train for Gettysburg, Pa. where they attended a reunion of The Veterans of The Civil War, about 1913”. “in the lower left, the third man with the little x at his left elbow is Papa” (Papa, of course, is Horace Johns)
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The older residents recalled when Troy was a recruiting station during the war and squads of soldiers were leaving almost daily, some of them never to return.
Headed by the Troy Engine & Machine band, the grizzled soldiers marched to the station, some erect and strong but many leaning heavily on their canes. DeWitt LAMPMAN was the sole representative of the famous "Bucktail Regiment" and E. F. LILLEY and James VanBUSKIRK were the last survivors of Capt. B. B. MITCHELL’s Company. At the station many comrades joined the marchers. Two sections went through before the train for the Troy veterans came and as they passed the station the windows were lined with grizzled faces. Hats were waved and greetings called back and forth, much as it must have been in wartime. The section for Gustin Post, G.A.R. came at 1:10 p.m., and cheered by the crowd of friends and relatives, about fifty three veterans left for the great reunion.
Among those who went were:
Maj. J. CL ROBINSON, L. J. BALLARD, E. C. BRINK, P.A. DARROW, G. L. GATES, L. J. BRADFORD, J. N. LAKE, E. F. LILLEY, O.C. HILFIGER, E.T. BUFFUM, John CANEDY, E. C. ELY, D. C. NEWELL, A. A. PIERCE, James HOLFORD, Charles McCABE, Lyman MC CLURE, U. A. SOPER, Daniel CHASE, Horace JOHNS, J. B. RAYMOND, Ira FANNING, J. M. BERRY, T. A. GAMBLE, Albert NEWELL, C. B. HULSLANDER, Smith PALMER, George VAN NESS, F. W. BULLOCK, W. W. BROOKS, W. S. HOLLAND, U. N. VERBECK, D. C. LAMPMAN, D. W. CASE, W. B. REYNOLDS, J. H. OWEN, James VAN BUSKIRK, E. L. LEWIS, R. A. McMAHAN, Newton HICKOK and William WORDEN. TGR July 4,1913
Note from Don Stanton February 2006:
Joyce - I have found a newspaper clipping with this same photo (the top one
on your above site). The article is undated, but it is the Troy Gazette-Register when C. Dixon Avery was editor.The caption under the picture reads: "Waldo Brooks (first), Liston Bliss (second), on the left. Horace Johns (third), Charles Hulslander (fourth), George Van Ness (fifth), Wesley Reynolds (sixth) in the line of marchers at the right."
The article is titled - "Civil War veterans off on a march?"
"This picture of the Civil War Veterans who were on a march in Troy, Pa.,
'all of 25 years ago' came to light at the office of the Troy
Gazette-Register the other day. It was unidentified. Consulting some of
the 'old timers' around the borough such as George McKean, Percy King and
Clyde Dewey, only a few of the names could be connected with the many men
shown in the photograph. Mr. Dewey remembers taking the picture, but he could
identify only a few of the marchers. He snapped the photo from the
second floor of the building now occupied by the Gazette-Register, and
where his office as Justice of the Peace is located.
Perhaps, some of the readers of The Gazette-Register can shed some light on
the occasion of the parade and even give the names of all the marchers.
Your information will be gladly welcomed."
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| This is an excellent view of the Oliver Block.
This space is now occupied by the Bank on the left and a parking lot. |