STORY COUNTY VETERANS.
EIGHTH ANNUAL REUNION OF THE FEDERAL SOLDIERS IN STORY
COUNTY. HELD AUGUST 12 AND 13, 1886.
A LARGE AND ENTHUSIASTIC GATHERING OF VETERANS AND
OTHER CITIZENS.
ELOQUENT ADDRESSES BY MAJOR CONGER AND
GENERAL GEDDES.
NEVADA SELECTED AS THE PLACE FOR HOLDING
THE NEXT ANNUAL REUNION.
One hundred and eighty-six veteran soldiers of the late war registered at the Eighth Annual Reunion of the Story County Association on Thursday and Friday of last week. And in addition to those who registered their names with the Adjutant of the Regiment, there were present quite a number who did not report to that officer. It is therefore safe to say that there were in camp at Nevada over two hundred soldiers, representing all arms of the service, and at least one-fourth that number in regiments and batteries that were in active service during the rebellion. Here were assembled representatives of the greatest conflict of arms that history records; men who stood face to face with death at Donelson and Shiloh; who hurled back Price and Van Dorn at Corinth and Iuka; who routed Pemberton at Champion Hills, and stormed the heights of Vicksburg; who smashed Bragg at Murfreesboro and touched elbows at Chickamauga; who scaled Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge; who pulverized Hood at Franklin. and Nashville, and marched with Billy Sherman "from Atlanta to the sea;" who fought under McDowell at Bull Run and stood shoulder to shoulder through the long Peninsular campaign and shouted `Victory' under Little Mac at Antietam; men who fought under Burnside at Fredericksburg and under Hooker at Chancellorsville; who crossed the Rapidan with Grant and followed the Great Captain from the Wilderness to Appomattox; men who lingered for months and years in the prison pens of Andersonville, Belle Isle and Libby. What history we have in these war-worn veterans! heroes of a hundred battle-fields. It fairly thunders in the old flag as its silken folds are spread to the free winds of the Northland! These men are the Nation's heroes. With an intelligent loyalty that is the offspring of the free schools of this blessed land of ours, the armies of the north marshaled by companies and regiments for