Mansfield News, Mansfield, Ohio, Thursday Evening, August 24, 1911.
Rochester, N. Y. — A conspicuous delegation attending the Grand Army encampment is the old Los Angeles Veteran Fife and Drum corps. There are fifteen of these veterans, and each saw active service during the war. All of them have battle scars. The ages of the fifteen veterans average seventy, while the total adds up to 1,024 years. The “vets” are; Drummer Robert Bain, Fifth Iowa infantry, seventy years; Drummer Philo L. Case, Second Iowa infantry, seventy-three years; Drummer S.H. Hazledine, Company I, Thirty-eighth Iowa infantry, sixty-seven years; Drummer W. H. Powelson, Company B, Twenty-third Michigan infantry, sixty-six years; Drummer M. S. Spotswood, Company B, One Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania infantry, sixty-seven years; Drummer N. D. Daniels, Company D, Forty-eighth Iowa infantry, sixty-two years; Drummer Ben F. Hilliker, Company A, Eighth Wisconsin infantry, sixty-eight years; Fifer John S. Vennum, Company I, Twentieth Illinois infantry, sixty-nine years; Fifer George W. Wolfe, Company L, Fourteenth Illinois cavalry, sixty-eight years; Fifer I. Culbertson, Company E, Sixty-eighth Ohio infantry, seventy-one years; Fifer S. B. Gregory, United States navy, sixty-five years; Fifer C. E. Townsend, One Hundred and Fifty-third Illinois infantry, sixty-six years; Fifer J. A. Stansbury, Company A, One Hundred and Eighty-fifth New York Infantry, seventy-one years; Fifer George W. Seitz, Company F, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Ohio infantry, sixty-nine years; Bass Drummer A. M. Thornburg, chief bugler, Ninth Indiana cavalry, seventy-two years. The Pacific delegation began early to make a vigorous campaign to get the next national G. A. R. encampment at Los Angeles.
