This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CLAPP, CLARK, ELLIS, GUNBY, HOGAN, SHEPHERD, WELLS, WIRE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xd.2ADE/1517 Message Board Post: “Columbus Guards Pic-Nic “At a meeting of the Columbus Guards last night, the following named gentlemen were appointed a committee of arrangements for the pic-nic: Captain W. S. SHEPHERD, Lieutenant J[ulius] J. CLAPP, Sergeant R. A. WIRE, Jr., Corporal P. J. CLARK, Privates D. P. ELLIS, Jr., F. GUNBY, John L. HOGAN, Louis WELLS.” [From the "Columbus, Georgia, Enquirer-Sun" newspaper, Wednesday, 31 MAR 1875. I am interested to learn where this picnic was held. - jml]