Whitman County Gazette - Serving Whitman County since 1877

125 Years Ago

From the Colfax Gazette, Friday, July 2, 1897

Grand Veteran Reunion

The recently organized Whitman County Union Veterans association will hold its first annual encampment on July 15 and 16, under the jurisdiction and direction of Nathaniel Lyons Post No 19, G. A. R. This organization is intended to band together socially and fraternally all of the old soldiers of the war of the rebellion, whether members of the Grand Army or not, and the coming camp-fire is intended to fill the place of the encampments of the grand army. The program of exercises has not yet been made out, but...