The Livonia Gazette Livonia, Livingston County, New York. Friday, September 2, 1887.

THE OLD SOLDIERS.

REUNION OF THE I30TH N. Y. VOLS., OR FIRST N. Y. DRAGOONS.

The eighteenth annual reunion of this famous old regiment was held at Portage Bridge on Thursday, the 25th ult. This regiment was made up of some of the best young men of Western New York, and left Portage for the seat of war early in September of 1862. Three companies were recruited in Wyoming county, three in Alleganv, and four in Livingston. It served with Gen. Peck at Suffolk, Va., with Dix on the Peninsula, with Meade, Hocker. Burnside and Grant, and finally with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley and in the final campaign from Petersburg to the Appomattox. The regiment took part in about forty battles and skirmishes; which commenced January 30, 1863, at Deserted House, Va. During three months previous to this battle it was almost continuallv at work on the fortifications of Suffolk, building forts and earth-works, which enabled the Union forces there to defend the place successfully against the attacks of the Rebel Gen. Longstreet in the following spring. The battles included Suffolk, Manassas Plains, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Winchester, Mount Jackson, Strasburg, Cedar Creek. Five Forks, Sailors' Creek, and many others. It captured 1533 prisoners, sixteen cannon, twenty one caissons, 240 artillery horses, forty army wagons, 160 animals of draught, and four Rebel battle flags. The regiment lost in killed four officers and 155 enlisted men; in wounded, twenty-four officers and 204 enlisted men; and one officer and eighty men died of disease. About 150 of the survivors rallied at the reunion in Murphy Park, and 5.000 people were on the grounds. Many were the war reminiscences related and hand shakes indulged in between the old veterans under the folds of the old tattered battle flag, which floated proudly to the breeze At 2 p. m., after the secretary had road his report, the association proceeded to elect new officers for the ensuing year, which were as follows: President, Col. H. M. Smith; vice president, Lieut. H. Gale; secretary and treasurer, Lieut. C. J. Gardner; committees on roster, reunion, history, etc., were appointed, and then followed the literary and musical program of the day. The members of the regiment now living in this town are as follows: William Sliker, Charles M. Ray, A. B. Moftitt, Levi Rouse (1825-1887), Dr. J. C. Patterson, G.R. Blake, William Acker and M. W. Lindsley. The honorary members of regiment, are Mrs, John P. Robinson of Warsaw, Miss C. Anna Williams of Olean, and Judge E. W. Hatch of Buffalo.