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The Minister and The General
Former Civil War Foes Meet Again in Turn of the Century Corvallis
By Randy Fletcher
The general passed away on a summer’s day in Corvallis, Oregon in 1915. The old soldier’s end had come some fifty years and three thousand miles from where his gallantry had earned honor and promotion on the fields of the American Civil War. A local minister with whom the general was well acquainted would deliver his eulogy. Both the general and the minister were known and respected residents of Corvallis, but the two men shared a common bond from a Virginia battlefield a half century earlier: The minister had once been a prisoner of the general.
The General was Thomas Jones Thorp, the once handsome and dashing cavalry commander of the 1st New York Dragoons. The minister was the distinguished Rev. Dr. J.R.N. Bell of the Corvallis Presbyterian Church, Regent of Oregon Agricultural College, and former Confederate soldier.
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