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    1. [OHHARRIS] Reunion of the 12th O.V.C. (June 1909)
    2. Laurence E. Dickerson
    3. Someone may find this article interesting. It appeared in the July 8, 1909 edition of the Cadiz Republican. “12th Ohio Cavalry, A Happy Reunion at the Home of Comrade T.C. Mills. Tuesday, June 22d, 1909, is another day to be long remembered by some of the boys of Company H, 12th O.V.C. These boys were once young and gay, though now old, and bald, and gray. Nine of our comrades by invitation met at the home of T.C. Mills and wife, three miles from Gnaddenhutten, Ohio, and spent the day with him and family. We were met with outstretched hands and made welcome to their beautiful home. Part of the forenoon was spent in the strawberry patch eating fruit and relating stories of the by-gone days. At noon the dinner call was sounded and the old boys stepped forward to the music as they did in the sixties, and surrounded the table spread with all the substantials and luxuries which the country could afford. All the boys did ample justice; (except the writer of this, who could not get around it all; he had to call a halt, being crowded by John King.) After dinner all met under a beautiful shade tree, where the meeting was called to order by chairman Isaac Campbell, and business for the coming year was considered. It was moved and carried that the next reunion be held in June, 1910, at the home of John Dillehay, Cambridge, Ohio. The boys present at this reunion were the following: James Begg, Cambridge, Ohio John Dillehay, Cambridge Isaac Campbell, Moorefield T.N. Mills, Uhrichsville John P. King, Scio Jas. P. Quigley, Cadiz John Lewis, Dennison T.C. Mills, Gnaddenhutten L.D. McFadden, Bethany, W. Va. Letters were read by Mr. Mills’s daughter from three absent comrades, unable to be with us, expressing their sorrow because of their inability to share with us the joys of this reunion. The first was from Mahlon Bonam, of Cameron, Missouri, the second from Sam Dundon, of Missouri, and the third from Lieutenant Caldwell, of Chicago. The ladies present at this reunion were Mrs. Mills, Mrs. Dillehay, and Mrs. Campbell and her grand-daughter, Fla. Cramblett. We were all grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Mills for the splendid manner in which they entertained us all, and after tendering to them a vote of thanks, we parted with hearty handshakes and sad hearts, yet hoping that all these and many more will meet next year at Comrade Dillehay’s. Before separating for our several homes we all visited the beautiful monument in the cemetery at Gnaddenhutten, erected in memory of the Indian massacre of more than a hundred years ago. L.D. Mc.”

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