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on from Illinois and helped him home. found that during their three years' He remained at home until Sept., '64, serv.ce they had lost as follows:
when he re-enlisted in his old Co. B, Total killed on battlefield .53
73rd Ill, and joined them at Nashville. Total died of wounds 45
The regiment had all this time been in Total died of disease 102
the main army under Sheridan in Genl. Total died in prisou, starvation tte, 16
Schaeffer's Brigade of the 20th Corps. Discharged before end of war by
October 20, 1863, after the battle of the Cumberland Army, Newton com- manded the Div. and Steadman the Brigade, but when Buckman joined his regiment at Nashville Genl. Op- dycke commanded the 1st Brig. and Genl. W. L. Elliott the Division, being the 2nd of the 4th Corps, Genl. T. J. Deserted, Wood being the Corps commander to the end of the war.
reason of wounds 36
Chickamauga, in the reorganization of Discharged before end of war by
reason of disability 146
Transferred and promoted to oth- er branches of service 129
Resigned service.
29
Dismissed
1
Dishonoraby discharged 1
31
Unaccounted for
6
Missing and supposed killed.
4
Mustered out at close of war 373
The regiment had gone through all the battles and needed recruits bad enough. Buckman had been in their Total 972 ranks before, but there were lots of The muster out at Nashville in May and discharge of the 73rd Ill. Inft., June 3, 1865 at Camp Butler, Ill , made J. H. Buckman a free man once more and not yet 21 years old. others who had not, and the battle of Nashville gave them all a chance to distinguish themselves. This was Dec. 15th and 16th, and at its close the union troops pursued the defeated rebels He farmed there in Illinois at home down to the Harpeth Shoals on the Ten- until March, 1870, when he came to nessea river, where Hood escaped to Burlingame, Kansas and accepted a the south, and Buckman's Division en- position as clerk in Wm. Smith's store. camped at the beautiful city of Hunts- ville, along with other parts of Genl. Thomas' army. Early in February most of the 4th corps were transported on the cars up into East Tennessee, above Knoxville, where they were ready to head Genl. Lee off if he should at- tempt to flee that way from Richmond. elected to the office of county clerk in Here the end of the war found them.
The total number of men, including change in the politics of many of his officers and recruits, mustered in the friends in 1892 caused the office to go 73rd Regt. of Ill. Vol. Inft. from the to the Populist party afterwards.
beginning to the end of its service, was 972.
At the close of the war the regiment
Oct. 9, 1872 he was married to Lida R. Richardson, at Burlingame. In 1874 he went back with his wife to Illinois on a visit, but settled down there and remained until 1885, when he returned to Kansas, settling down at Lyndon, where he has lived ever since. He was 1889, filling it the term of 1890-91, but a
Mr. Buckman has one child, Roy C. Buckman, born October 4, 1880.
Comrade Buckman has always been
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a well posted man in the G. A. R. rit- being officers of the post that year, and ual and has frequently filled offices in in front took splendid pictures. Wm. the Grand Army. Haas held the colors. The firing
Being a good singer, his services squad, consisting of John M. Barnes, have always been in demand in the Clark E. Henderson, James Wells, Eli- Glee Clubs of Lyndon on all times and jah Wiliams, John Leffler, John Hoop- occasions. Ever since his advent here er and George Thomas in the front he has been active in the Presbyterian rank and Amos Morris, S. L. McWhin- church work, and acted as the superin- ney, Archibald Neff, N. Y. Buck, Basel tendent of the Sunday school about ten years at one stretch.
Albaugh, George McMillen and Phillip Leffler all show up well. Grouped at the left of the colors were R. R. Glass,
With this brief synopsis of Comrade Buckman's life history, the historian Fred Super, Patrick Daugherty Elijah leaves him to future historians to write Hedges, Dr. E. B. Fenn, Milton Whin- up more fully. rey, Dr. R. H. Chittenden, C. R. Green, - .- David F. Coon, Daniel Dodge, a visit- A PICTURE Of Historic Interest to the People of Lyndon. Some of the G. A. R. boys of 1884. ing comrade from over on the Dragoon and squarely behind Fred Downs stood Abel Primmer, known only by we who have preserved the tradition. Two or three others were also screened from a good view, so that no one now knows who they were. Several of the bystand- ers' faces in the rear show up good not- ably W. P. Bailey.
Several months after Harry Ford first established his photograph gallery in Lyndon, on Decoration Day, 1884 he took several pictures out doors of va- rious gatherings. The one I propose to speak about now is a picture of about 33 old soldiers belonging to the Post, taken in front of the post office, then in ten of them to other states.
· Thirteen years have elapsed. Of the 30 whose faces or forms we know in that picture, eleven only are present here; five are dead, 14 have removed,
the west end of Lew Sargeant's old bank building, the site of which is now occupied by the Journal Block. Here all who happened to be present, which was not half the old soldiers of Lyn- don, fell into line, firing squad to the right. and with a background of the Richadson Hotel, the Averill Hall and Steele's harness shop to shoot against, removed to other states, 20 to other Harry Ford got a splendid picture of at least 28 faces.
In looking over the roll of the Post members of two years later-1886, I see that out of a membership then of 88 in good standing in the G. A. R., to-day, only eleven years later, only 40 remain in the vicinity of Lyndon, one half, or possibly a few over half being now members of the G. A. R. Sixteen have places in Kansas, and 12, so far as we know, of that number are dead.
Dr. E. B. Fenn and I being tall, got Their average age then was 47 years, put over behind, so that only the upper Silas Tower being 70 and Tom Demp- part of the Doctor's face shows in the ster 35. Adding ten years to their ages picture. In the foreground John H. then would make an estimated average Howe, D. H. Hanbauer, Josiah R. age now of old soldiers of 57 years. Drew, Fred Downs and Oscar Keenan, C. R. GREEN.
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TIIE TRIALS OF ANARMY RECRUIT. Who would not be a Soldier Boy, To seek adventures like Rob Roy! And as o'er countries I would roam, I'd never think of going back home. Refrain. A soldier's life for me, So glorious and so free.
Thus mused a farmer's boy one day As by himself he turned the hay;
And he thought if he was only in some Then that haversack hung by his side, battle
How he would make his musket rat- tie. A soldier boy I would be So happy and so free.
Away to the war I'll strike a bee line, And on the rolls my name I'll sign. My old clothes I'll give to you
And in their place don soldier blue. For a soldier I'm bound to be, So to all, a good bye for me.
In my soldier suit how nice I can march. It is no citizen's suit stiff with starch. No more my feet shall I abuse,
A soldier boy, O write to me! Now Old Dixie I'm bound to see.
Away down south in Dixie Land He found there his own chosen band, And as he took his place in the ranks Ile thought not of old soldiers' pranks. For a soldier ha was going to be.
And the rebels he was going to see. You'd have laughed to see him warm afternoons
As he had been riding many a day
Soon on his blanket he slumbered But he learned soon that boiling in the away;
And so very sound was his sleep That the bovs stole his blanket from under his feet.
A soldier boy was he,
And old soldiers tricks didn't see.
For roll call, loudly the drums did beat, And wildly our soldier started from his sleep.
The Rebs! The Rebs! Give me a gun! And I'll go out and make them run, A brave soldier I want to be,
So the first Reb, show him to me.
Go back to bed and remember that the drum and life
Hlelp old soldiers to enjoy camp life. A wise soldier you will never be If old soldiers tricks you don't see.
It Was here he first saw a hard-tack,
And mauy a one did he try to crack. And his canteen had such a queer spout It bothered him to make the water run out.
With such rations to delight a sol- dier's pride;
And his great big knap-sack-
Which to carry almost broke his back.
Ilis cartridge box and straps seemed so heavy,
As'round they girted him for battle ready; And with that heavy musket on his arm
He almost felt sorry he had ever left the farm.
Thus our new recruit, you see,
Was learning fast a soldier to be.
That happens to soldiers in every sta- tion.
As over him the greybacks began to crawl
He much preferred to face the ene- my's ball.
Out scanning his shirt and pantaloons
camp kettle
His clothes, soon the lice and nits would settle.
It almost makes me blush gentlemen To think of what we endured then.
The many weary days of fatigue work and drill,
It seems as if a recruit's patriotism it would kill.
But life in the "Sunny South" on the picket line
Or writing home from camp all be- guiled away the time.
It is only roll call the sergeant replied. One day orders were quickly issued to As turning round the boys' fun he did chide.
the camp For all able-bodied soldiers to get
L. of C.
Said he as he put on the army shoes. He also experienced that delightful sensation
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ready for a tramp.
And our recruit buckled on his armour for a fight;
Was it fear made him tremble when out of sight?
A few miles they marched double-quick Then formed in batt e line along a creek ;
After the taking of Savannah they And as the shells and bullets did rattle, Began the new recruit's first battle. soon started out on the campaign of the Carolinas and he had a hand in the Our recruit turned out to be a brave Bentonville, Goldsboro and Raleigh en- lad, gagements. They were at Raleigh when news of Lee's surrender came.
And beside the old soldiers didn't act bad.
Soon the boys welcomed him into their mess,
For he's an old soldier along with the racing march to see which should get rest.
DAVID F. COON,
Eleventh Commander of Lyndon Post.
D. F. Coon was born January 3, 1847 in Allen county, Ohio. He was raised there and was too young to go into the war at first, being only 14 years old when it commenced.
He enlisted February 29, 1864 as a re- cruit in the old 78th Ohio Vol. Inft., which had gone out to the war.
He joined his regiment at Chatta- nooga about a month later, in time to get some knowledge of military tac- tics before Genl. Sherman started out on his Atlanta campaign, May 4, 1864.
D. F. Coon belonged to the 3rd Brig- The next several years-eight at least ade, 1st Division, 14th Army Corps.
Comrade Coon was is all that 100- days' battling that was carried on by Sherman's army on that campaign.
If any one wants to know more let him take up some one of the complete war histories and read the details. The history of one regiment one week was in a great measure the history of an- other regiment the next week. Sooner or later all would have similar experi- ences.
rade Coon was in that part of the army that marched with Sherman "down to the sea." Part of the time at the front helping to build roads or engaged in skirmishe3; then again in the rear he'p- ing the wagon trains along.
In due time Johnson surrendered to Sherman, and the army started on that to Washington first. They went via Richmond and up across the battle- fields of the Potomac army. After taking part in the grand review they were transferred to Lonisville where they were mustered out; then back to camp near Dayton, Ohio, where they were discharged July 15, 1865, and Mr. Coon returned home to Albany, Ohio. As he was yet only a young man of 18 he put in the next three years getting a better education there in Ohio. Then May, 1869 he came to Baldwin, Kansas and attended the Baker Univers ty. His folks had moved to the northern part of Osage county in 1866, so that Kansas became Comrade Coon's home.
-after D. F. Coon's advent in Kansas was spent by him in teaching school in two or three different counties, tak- ing in the meanwhile a term or two at the state normal at Emporia. Finally in 1877 he ran for county office, and was elected surveyor.
His mother having died in 1878, he bought his father's property and be- came a real estate owner of the county wnere he has resided ever since, hold- ing the office of county surveyor by ap- pointment or election several times,
After the taking of Atlanta Com- which office he fills now.
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WILLIAM RAND,
12th Commander of Lyndon Post-1897.
Born March, 1837, Bloomfield, Jeffer- son county, Ohio.
I learned the carpenter trade when 18. I followed that 25 years beforeand after the war. I commenced for my- self when 21 years old.
June 6, 1858 I married Orinda L. every trip some one or more of our Chapman, of Letartsville, Meigs coun- ty, Ohio, and made my home there 28 years. We had two boys born to us guerrillas.
comrades in the company or regiment would be shot down from ambush by Little Sewell, Big Sewell before I went to the war. Harvey L. and Floyd mountains are familiar land marks to us.
Rand, who resides here in Lyndon, and is engaged in business with me, and At first we camped near Charleston, Charles M. Rand, dealer in stock at .W. Va., at Camp White, taking turns Kansas City, Missouri. in scouting and guarding trains.
Our Colonel, Robert Wilson, was a
I enlisted May 2, 1863 in Co. C, 140 O. V. I. I went at once into barracks man held in high regard by his boys.
at Gallipolis, Ohio, where we staid a week and then were sent to Charleston, W. Va.
the train could stop them.
This was the sort of a country that our 140th Ohio Inft. had to do their service in that season of 1863. Long marches of hundreds of miles up into these mountainous valleys, guarding trains of supplies to some of Genl. Crook's army at Meadow Bluffs, when
Later in the season we moved to camp at Meadow Bluffs in Greenbrier county, among the mountains, and had to draw supplies 200 miles. There were perhaps 3,000 to 5,000 of us and
Gallipolis is on the Ohio river oppo- site the mouth of the Kanawha river, and Charleston was perhaps 50 miles opposed to us were the rebel Generals up the river, and a large portion of Jenkins and old Ex-Gov. Henry A. West Virginia west of the Alleghany Wise. We had to work in conjunction mountains, and quite a portion of Vir- with the union army over in the She- ginia west of the Blue Ridge mountains nandoah Valley opposing the rebel was drained by the Kanawha river and Genl. Early.
Soon after entering the service a skir.
its tributaries, such as the Ganley, Greenbrier, Bluestone, Little and New mish had taken place, of two or three rivers. The latter taking head in North days' duration, at Fayetteville, about Carolina. All along these rivers be- May 18th to 20th.
tween these two large ranges of moun. Sometimes the rebel army would tains are smaller ranges and innumera- number 2,500 to 4,000 in West Va , and ble valleys settled with people, and be- then again they crossed over the Alle- fore the war scarcely any railroads, so ghany range into the Shenandoah Val- that as the union army penetrated ley, and we would have only bush- these back regions in the mountains whackers to fight, and our regiment would be scattered by companies for a hundred miles. their supplies had to be drawn in wag- ons to them over rough roads, along mountainous streams where the rebel I do not know our losses by means of bushwhackers could dash in without the bushwhackers. I do know that our warning and do their work and be off regiment would much rather have again before the officer at the head of been in one of the grand armies under
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Rosecrans or Sheridan. But we filled NAMES the place assigned us, and did our duty OF OLD SOLDIERS AND SAILORS and when our time was up went back Whose Graves are Decorated in the to Gallipolis, Ohio and were mustered Lyndon Cemetery. out of the U. S. service, Sept. 3, 1863.
I returned to Letartsville and went to work at my trade again.
WEST SIDE.
James H. Rynerson, Kans., Lot No. 342
I moved to Eskridge, Kansas, May S. R. Shoemaker, Illinois, 313
20, 1882. I followed carpentry two Wm. Gibson, Iowa, 255
257 years; then bought a farm and went in- John Pettigrew, Illinois, to the stock business with my boys.
We had two girls born to us in Ohio E. A. Barrett, Kan. Militia, after the war: Mamie O. Rand in '66 Geo. W. Herold, N. H., and Daisy W. Rand in '77. Both are living.
Mamie is a stenographer with the Kansas Loan and Trust Co., of To- peka, where she has been for five years.
Daisy is studying music in Kansas City. Her home is here.
My wife Orinda died March 31, 1886 at Eskridge by reason of a lamp explo- sion which covered her with burning oil, and though I was near by and man- aged to smother the flames, it was not until she had received such injuries that she died some days later. The following October I was married to Mrs. Lorinda C. Buchanan, of Athens, Ohio. My wife had adopted a child there in Ohio-Miss Mabel-who be- came as one of our own children and has always lived with us.
February 13, 1895 I engaged in the lumber business at Lyndon, eventually buying the lumber yard and moving my family here and buying other Lyn- don property and settling down as one of her citizens. WM. RAND.
J. H. Crowe, Indiana, 66 201
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66
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Geo. W. Oard, Indiana, N. 12 Lot No. 61 E. B. Fenn, Iowa, S. 12 61
A, W. Newton, Ohio, S. 12 97 Frank Sloniker, Ind, N. 12 $6 210
Phillip Wingate, It dian», " 217
Wallace Green, Il diana, " 230
Robt. J. Wynne, Kansas, " 258
Delas Watson, Kan. Militia, " 260
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IN THE CIRCLE.
Elisba Olcott, Illinois,
Lot No. 579
Fred S. Sauers, Ohio,
66
66 590
John Courtney, W. Va., J. Wm. Brooks, Ilinois, T. E. Dempster, Navy, Simon Siples, Ohio,
66
590
66 594
66
614
Patrick Daugherty, Mo.
¥
615
Martin Bannon, Ohio,
66
603
Robert S. Fleming, Illinois,
66
66 636
Geo. W. Pryer, Illinois,
711
Fred S. Singletary, Tenn.,
66 712
D. H. Danhauer, Ohio,
686
Abram Primmer, Ohio,
66
687
Any one examining this list and de- siring to know more about the history and death of these comrades. will find it under their respective states, pages 102 to 111 of the Soldiers Roster and History.
Abel Primmer died after that part of the Roster was printed. He was in the 33rd O. V. I. at the end of the war, and removed to Kansas about 1878. He died February 28, 1897. His widow and two or three children live here, Mrs. Munroe Stivison being one.
In the Dane cemetery in this town- ship is buried Geo. Wesley Riggs, of 33rd Ill. Inft. who died May 20, 1882. His son, Lewis Riggs, lives near there with Andrew Peterson.
ON G. A. R. LOT BELOW THE CIRCLE. Lewis A. Reynolds, Mich., Lot No. 450
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Francis A. Courtney, Ill.,
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ADVERTISEMENT-ANNALS OF LYNDON.
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THE 60 pages of this pamphlet are drawn from a book-"Annals of Lyn- don"-that I have been working on for two years. A portion of it is printed. and I am working on it all the time, hoping that I may complete it in another year. 22 chapters of it were printed by the Current Remark during 1896.
Only a small edition, 200 copies more or less, will be printed. It is to be a book of 400 octavo, double column pages, just like this pamphlet. It will be bound in cloth and sold on subscription.
I have a vast amount of material, which I have been years in gathering, that enables me to give the early history of Lyndon and vicinity.
I have taken down the narratives of many old settlers, far and near, who have been instrumental in the making of the country adjacent to Lyndon.
I expect to interview many more of the old settlers.
The book will contain the history of everything that went to make up the city that had such a struggle to become the county seat of Osage county, and the pleasant home town with its railroads, its several schools, its six churches, its numerous orders and lodges, its old soldiers, its bands, and whatever is worthy of mention.
To the settlers for miles in every direction around Lyndon, who through 25 years have helped in her development, Lyndon is indebted, and mention will be made of every one so connected.
A list of the county officers from the beginning; lists of early settlers; the militia rolls; lists of present inhabitants, and many other things will be prom- inent features of this work-"Annals of Lyndon." C. R. GREEN.
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