1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

26oTHE SCROLL.tion, which provided for a more centralized government than that which hadbefore existed.A stirring chapter is that which takes up the honorablepart the members of Phi Delta Theta played in the civil warA roll has been compiled by Bro. Palmer, from records ofthe fraternity, the colleges, the states and the nation, of 281men who wrote their lines in this the bloodiest chapter mthe book of time." Two hundred and thirty-one of thesewere in the United States army and navy, and fifty m theConfederate service. Bro. Palmer shows that the total numberof living members of the fraternity on July i, 1865, was429, ofwhich 281 was 65.S per cent. The records of no otherfraternity show anything to equal this.One of these enhstedmen, A. C. White, Buchtel, '80,who was not initiated until severalyears after the war, was probablythe youngest soldier whose nameever appeared on the pay roll ofthe United States army. He wassworn in as a drummer boy, onNovember 14, 1861, the day beforehe was nine years old. Inhis enlistment papers, in order tocomply with the law, he was enrolledas eighteen years of age.His father was lieutenantof thecompany in which he served andfrom which, when invalided home,he received an honorable discharge. Several stirring incidentsare recounted in which Phis and the badge of Phi Delta Thetaplayed a part, incidents of the battle field, the prison camp,and the march. The roster of our soldiers is a roll that stirsthe blood.A fitting counterpart to the record of Phi Delta Theta duringthe civil war is a chapter which recounts in the same way,the part the fraternity played in the war with Spain and theFilipinos. The list of soldiers includes 286 names, which isa much larger number than is claimed by any other fraternity.A number of interesting cuts of scenes in the career of GeneralFrederick Funston, Kansas, '92, the captor of Aguinaldo, arereproduced, and romantic incidents in which members of thefraternity figured are detailed. There is also a list and cutsof our famous war correspondents, of whom, Edwin Emer-* From "The History of Phi Delta Theta."