A large number of the comrades who have been members of the post have occupied positions in our municipal, county and state government. Among them are, Comrade Charles D. Long, who was mustered February 27, 1884, elected department commander for the year 1885; Comrade M. C. Barney, elected senior Vice-commander of the department for the 1901, Comrade O. R. Lockhead received the appointment of assistant adjutant general, and held that position in 1885 and 1886. Comrade George W. Buckingham occupied the chairmanship of the board of control for a number of years. Many of the comrades have risen to positions of honorable mention, all have honorably earned the respect of their fellow citizens and some of them are enjoying the fruits of their labors with great pleasure in the evening of life.

Nearly all of the comrades, living or bivouacked with the dead, rushed into the vortex of war in their teens, emerged therefrom to engage in the struggle of our rapid national progress, and, with but few exceptions, have conscientiously devoted themselves to the upbuilding of patriotic citizenship.

History can never do full justice to those who gave their life-blood as a sacrifice to the perpetuation of freedom and the principles of self-government, now can the people of our country too highly esteem those surviving comrades who are rapidly passing away.