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HISTORICAL RECORD OP THE GRAND ARMY of the REPUBLIC, DEPARTMENT OF KANSAS. J. G. BLUNT POST. No.

31. LINN, WASHING TON COUNTY. This Post was organized through the exertions of Comrades S. D. F.

Guerney and N. M. Harmer (formerly of Sedgewick Post, No. 24.) The Post was mustered November 28th. 1881 by comrades Maunder and Cox, of Kearney Post No.

5. and their meetings are held in a fine new Hall, which is decorated with the different Corps flags and handsomely framed engravings of some of our old Commanders. The Post is named after old blunt Jim Blunt, Brigadier General, commanding Kansas troops. ROSTER. N.

M. Harmer, Yeoman, U. Sloop of War, Post Commander. Pinola. N.

N. Matthews Pr. 7th. Iowa Inf. S.

V. Comm'r. George C. Penwell 9th. Kans.

Cav. J. V. Comm'r. 8.

D. F. Guerney, Surg'n, U. S. Vol.

Med. Surgeon. Corps. Ira R. Gilbert, Serg't.

169 Ohio Inf. Quartermaster. Alfred T. Reiley Pr. 12 Indiana Chaplain.

John A. Stayton 64 14 Kans. Cav. Officer of the Day. John S.

Leuszler Corp. 5th. Ind. Ohio S. Officer of Guard, James H.

Mosher Pr. 40 Iowa Inf. Adjutant. E. J.

Weakley 66 115 Illinois Serg't, Major, Tabez Landers 2 Art. 0. M. Serg't, Albert Orren 6 A. 89 Indiana Inf.

John Q. Adams 123 Ohio Francis O. Cutler Serg't. 104 Y. Wm.

McCall Pr, 30 Ohio Elenry Bellows Corp. 33 N. Y. Peter L. Leuszler Pr.

HI, 29 Ohio Freeman K. Fisk 1st. L't. 6 Iowa Cav. M.

J. Holloway Pr. 11 Indiana Inf. 0. M.

Osbon 2 Illinois Art. Danford M. Joncs Sgt. 153 Inf. Cohn Bougher Pr.

40 Iowa Charles Richter Sgt. D. 5 Ohio Car. John M. Griffs Pr.

7 Iowa Inf. Jesse D. E. Banks 47 Austin J. Wyatt Mus'n.

28 Illinois John Cooney Pr. E. 28 Iowa Inf. Dennis McKenzie Sgt. G.

2 Maryland George Woodcock Tmsr. 103 Illinois James E. Doud Pr. 40 Iowa George W. Kennedy 38 Ohio Isaac N.

Shatto 129 Maryland, Wm. N. Cobb 39 Af 15 Kansas Car. John Collins 11 33 Iowa Inf. Leander Frager $, 182 Ohie Orlando Sawyer, Sgt Maj.

19 Kansas A. H. Morgason Pr. 8 Kentucky Car. Wm.

L. Stribling 40 Iowa Inf. B. F. Rousch 51 Penn.

I. T. Barnett 29 Iowa Charles F. Griffith, Sgt. 27 Ohio Wm.

E. Campbell, Mus'n. 118 Illinois Samuel Manor Pr. 33 Iowa Dietrick Borger E. 55 Illinois Thomas Marlett 14 Kentucky W.

H. Riggs, Hosp. St'd. 11 Iowa John T. Fox Pr.

25 Illinois Lewis Latham K. 10hio Car. J. J. Hutchinson 190 Penn.

Inf. Comrades who have been lost to each other since the close of the war, who, having been members of the same regiment, from a distant State, and having passed through the dangers of battle; the toilsome march, the duties of camp and the varied changes of life in intervening years, have drifted westward and now find that they are living within fifty miles of each other. The whereabouts of four comrades has thus been made known to each other, and this was brought about by the publication in the CAMP FIRE, of the Rosters of two Posts of the Grand Army, Veterans will see the advantage to them, of this feature in the Camp Fire, as, besides reuniting them for social intercourse, they may need the assistance of a former comrade as witness to pension or bounty applications. "They are coming from the wars, They are bringing home their scars, They are bringing back the old flag, too, in.