Individual mention of the hundreds of Scotts Bluff county boys that each performed his duty so well would be impossible.

The ability of the local young men to handle horses put a number of them in line for that work: Dan Ingraham, Joe Sanford, the Hiersche boys and a number of others. No matter in what particular department they were assigned there was always the splendid fidelity to duty and service that marked Scotts Bluff county as one of the brightest stars in the story of the war.

Old Soldiers There is no dimming in the brilliance of the achievements of the men of old who almost sixty years ago shouldered their muskets for the land recently made more glorious by the recent war. Had they not been there with the usual purpose there would have been a divided America and perhaps no participation in the recent world conflict. There are not many of them left -- those old war horses of the past,

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

but the recent registration at a reunion at Gering showed twenty-nine. Fourteen of them were from outside the county but only three from a distance. That leaves but fifteen of the registrants as residents of Scotts Bluff county. True there may have been more in the county who were not able to attend the re-union. The list of the registrants were as follows :

John W. Morris, commander, George Sowerwine, Phineas B. Gurnsey, Isaac S. Barger, J. J. Boyer, Wendell Gross, A. H. Townsend, all of Gering, Joseph W. Smith, D. D. Martindale, W. M. Fo'sket, Otis A. Richardson, Luther Mattox. all of Scottsbluff; Newton Bowman and John W. Douglass of Mitchell; and W. T. Briggs of Morrill ; I. F. Meglemre, Richard Skinner, Frederick Weber, J. S. Hutchinson and S. L.