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    1. [PAWASHIN] Co. D., 149th Pennsylvania Infantry Reunion Oct. 10, 1913 McDonald PA Record
    2. Victoria Hospodar Valentine
    3. The Annual Reunion of Company D The survivors of Co. D., 149th Pennsylvania Infantry, will meet in annual reunion on Wednesday, October 15, in Memorial Hall, Pittsburgh. Notices have been sent to all the surviving members and the relatives of deceased members. The meeting will be called to order at 10 a.m. A short business session will then be held. The lunch will be a basket affair, and will be served by a committee of ladies--wives and relatives of the members. The afternoon will be occupied in the nature of a campfire. Short addresses will be made by those selected. This company is the only one of the regiment recruited from the vicinity of Pittsburgh. Of the eighty-four men enlisted and sworn in on August 22, 1862, twenty-four survive: The Rev. John A. SNODGRASS, Carnegie W. T. EASTON, Pittsburgh G. K. BIBER, Bellvue F. C. DORRINGTON, Pittsburgh W. R. JOHNSTON, Bellvue George A. ALLISON, Erie Charles BRICELAND, Zephyrs Hills, Fla. John D. NEAL, Beaver Falls R. D. NICHOLLS, Seattle, Wash. John N. NESBIT, Oakdale A. W. CROOKS, Albany, Ore. Samuel DOBSON, Rochester, Pa. W. R JOHNSTON, Canonsburg R. D. Chris W. LAMPE, Mt. Washington James A. MORGAN, Canonsburg Joseph A. PETTITT, Alliance, Ohio Henry RECTANUS, Pittsburgh W. S. ROBB, Oakdale W. H. SIMPSON, Salem, Ore. R. J. STODDARD, Coraopolis W. H. MEANS, Sandusky, Ohio James TEMPLETON, Needles, Cal. Ustick ROTHROCK, Harrisburg John B. HOLLAND, Cecil township The originally commissioned officers have crossed the divide. Comrade SNODGRASS, promoted from orderly sergeant to lieutenant, only remains. Of the sixteen commissioned and non-commissioned officers, thirteen have answered the final roll call. One death has occurred since the company celebrated the fiftieth anniversary at Robinson's Run cemetery on August 22, 1912, that of Comrade David PHILLIPS, late of Wilkinsburg, Pa. The sear and the yellow leaf betoken autumn, in nature; as well as the whitening hair, the furrowed cheek, the wrinkled brow, the bent form and the measured tread betoken the autumn life of man. So with the members of Co. D., they--the beardless boys of '62--are now living in the autumnal age of their life. Ere long the annual reunion will be an occasion of the past, the living roll will annually grow shorter, the last flickering light will have gone out, the last taps will have been sounded, and only in bronze on Gettysburg's famous field will remain the names of those who once were borne of the rolls of Co. D. Uncle Banks

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