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THE SECOND MAINE CAVALRY REUNION. 343
The Second Maine Cavalry Reunion.
SOME OF THE BOYS WHO WERE PRESENT AT ROLL CALL.
Wednesday, September nineteenth, the Second Maine Cavalry-
Association held its annual reunion at G. A. R. hall, Gardiner.
About one hundred and fifty survivors of those who went to
the front during the winter of '63 and '64 were present. Among
them Charles E. Wilson, attorney for the Central Pacific Rail-
D. Moore and wife, Philadel-
road, San Francisco, Cal. ; Henry
phia ; S. C. Small, furniture manufacturer in Boston; G. F.
Tyler and wife, G. R. Smith, register of deeds, and wife, of
Augusta ;
Capt.
C. S. Paine, New Sharon. Among the enlist-
ments from Gardiner and Pittston, who served with the regiment,
were John Edgecomb, M. S. Hutchinson, C. O. Knox, Frank
Gilbert, Joseph M. Fuller, Arthur B. Andrews, Daniel Black,
Calvin Brown, Gideon Bowley, Reuel M. Dunlap, Thomas Doug-
lass, J. H. Goodwin, F. E. Gowell, Rutus C. Geary, Chas. E.
Hutchinson, David Haines, Loring Mariner, J. H. Morang, John
F. Merrill, Amasa Meader, Luther Oliver, W. S. Peacock, W.
E. Stackpole, T. A. Brann, Ellis W. Ayer, S. W. Dana, G. W.
Cross, J. C. Dill, J. R. Dill, Augustus Dudley, Charles F. Gray,
Charles F. Lawrence, B. A. Newell, C. D. Meader, A. L. Meader,
Edward Peacock, Eugene Smith, Emerson Turner, Chester
Whitney, Thomas B. Whitney and James S. Jeck. The local
committee was composed of G. W. Cross, J. S. Jeck and Reuel
Dunlap. The hall was decorated with numerous flags, and over
the entrance was the word "Welcome." The meeting was
called to order by S. C. Small of Boston, president of the asso-
ciation, who, in a few short and pleasing remarks, introduced
Mayor Clason, who extended a warm greeting and welcomed
the comrades to the city, to which President Small responded
in an appropriate manner. The first business was the election
of officers, which resulted as follows : S. C. Small, Boston,