http://www.mjcpl.org/historyrescue/records/the-soldiers-reunion recounts at the Third Indiana Cavalry Reunion in 1885, the military action of July 1, 1863 and mentions the death of Corporal Story:
"...enabling our infantry army which was rapidly arriving to form their new line on Cemetery Hill, and along the rocky ledges putting out from Little Round top, where the next day and the next Meade’s army held out against the magnificent valor of Lee and Longstreet’s veterans and won the decisive battle of the war.
We lost Major Lemon, Sergeant Ibill Park, Corporal Story and fifty-eight others of our little regiment there."
SIBLINGS:
Lydia (Story) Butler (1837-1918)
Sarah (Story) Miser (1843-1929)
Alice Story (1847-1929)
John Calvin Story (1850-1922)
James Mason Story (1853-1936)
Albert Smith Story (1855-1917)
Ralph Walter Story (1861-1917)
http://www.mjcpl.org/historyrescue/records/the-soldiers-reunion recounts at the Third Indiana Cavalry Reunion in 1885, the military action of July 1, 1863 and mentions the death of Corporal Story:
"...enabling our infantry army which was rapidly arriving to form their new line on Cemetery Hill, and along the rocky ledges putting out from Little Round top, where the next day and the next Meade’s army held out against the magnificent valor of Lee and Longstreet’s veterans and won the decisive battle of the war.
We lost Major Lemon, Sergeant Ibill Park, Corporal Story and fifty-eight others of our little regiment there."
SIBLINGS:
Lydia (Story) Butler (1837-1918)
Sarah (Story) Miser (1843-1929)
Alice Story (1847-1929)
John Calvin Story (1850-1922)
James Mason Story (1853-1936)
Albert Smith Story (1855-1917)
Ralph Walter Story (1861-1917)
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