MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1888
COLONEL RICHARD A. DONNELLY RECALLS A CIVIL WAR INCIDENT
Colonel R. A. Donnelly relates some incidents of his advent in the army as a soldier in the exciting times of 1861. At the time he was clerking in New York and living in Hoboken, where he was a member of a military company. The marching of the various regiments down Broadway at the call for three months' men, had given every military man the fever, and the company to which he was attached volunteered to a man and came down to Trenton to be sworn in. The first night there, they all slept like soldiers, on the floor, at Temperance Hall. Next day it was announced, when they reached Camp Olden, that the quota of 75,000 three months' men was filled, and that only those would be taken who would enlist for three years, unless sooner discharged. When they came to be sworn in for three years, but one man refused, and the patriotic feeling among the men was so great that they put a placard of "Deserter" on his back and drummed him out of camp.
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