Five years after the war closed, on the 4th of July 1870, there was a celebration and a reunion of the soldiers of the Union army, but having been long proclaimed, and fraternal union having taken the place of strife, this reunion was joined in by the Confederates, they having been invited to the feast. Hands were shaken across the bloody chasm, and the gospel of hate died in Daviess county upon the anniversary of our national independence. May it never be resurrected.