MILITARY: Reunion of Company K, 77th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1890, Lancaster County, PA

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CO. K AT A REUNION
GALLANT VETERANS OF THE REBELLION AT THE FESTIVE BOARD
A Handsome Banquet Partaken of by the Soldiers at Ed. C. Hall's 
Delmonico House on Thursday Evening.  Who Were There and What They Did.

  The survivors of Company K, Seventy-seventh Regiment, P.V.V., which 
was largely recruited from Lancaster, held a reunion on Thursday night 
at Ed. C. Hall's Delmonico House.  The reunion was an exceedingly 
successful affair and the gallant boys, who wore the blue and 
shouldered a musket in Co. K, passed a very pleasant evening.
  The veterans met at the room of Post 405, G.A.R., and formed a 
procession.  Headed by the Iroquois Band they marched to Dr. S. T. 
Davis' residence on North Prince street.  Dr. Davis was then escorted 
to the Delmonico House, after the veterans had marched up Prince to 
Walnut street, thence to North Queen, down the latter to the place of 
the banquet.
  Each of the members of the company wore a red badge on which was the 
following inscription:

REUNION.
SURVIVORS
OF CO. K,
77TH REGIMENT,
JAN. 16,
1890.

Who Were There.

  A long, snowy-clothed table had been spread in the old Grand Army 
Hall, in the Delmonico House.  On the table was an array of viands 
which had a most tempting appearance and the veterans became 
reminiscent and contrasted army fare with the rich provender which was 
spread before them, ready for the assault.
  The following sat down to the festive board:
Dr. S. T. Davis,            George Pontz,
Jacob Pontz,                J. Val. Wise,
Henry M. Erisman,           J. J. Hartley,
Abram Doner,                Henry Ruth,
J. W. Isenberger,           Christian Herr,
Jacob F. Kautz,             Francis Doman,
Harrison Shirk,             Frederick Schaum,
Henry Fisher,               David Pontz,
George Breintnall,          Abram Killian,
Andrew Shay,                Charles Mackinson,
Joseph Huber,               Wm. Kissinger,
George F. Miller,           Samuel Watson,
J. Gust Zook,               Frank Doman, Jr.,
Jacob Lyons,                Wm. Prentess,
             George W. Smith.
....
  The sumptuous banquet was keenly enjoyed by all present.  When all 
the creature comforts had been disposed of Dr. S. T. Davis, who was 
adjutant of the Seventy-seventh, but not a member of Co. K, read the 
history of the regiment, which gave down to the minutest details their 
movements during their enlistment.
  The history was interesting and its reading brought back 
recollections and memories, some of them painful, of the troublous 
times through which the gallant regiment passed during the Rebellion.
  The hall in which the banquet was held contained no other decorations 
except a profusion of flags.
  Jacob Pontz exhibited several interesting relics to an Examiner 
reporter.  One was a fragment of an old flag, torn with the enemy's 
bullets.  The other was a badge of a reunion of the regiment, which was 
held in Fulton Hall, on November 15, 1872.  Mr. Pontz had also a 
fragment of a flag which the company carried in Philadelphia when they 
returned home from the war in 1866.  The gentleman had also a spangled 
star, which was from the original flag of the regiment.
  Mayer Edgerley, who was invited to attend the banquet, sent his 
regrets.  He was unable to attend owing to illness.
  Addresses were made by Mr. Prentice, J. Gust Zook, and others.
  The reunion came to an end at a reasonable hour, and all expressed 
great satisfaction over the affair.  The Committee of Arrangements was 
as follows: Henry M. Erisman, chairman; George Pontz, John Pontz, 
George F. Miller and Jacob Albright.

The Lancaster Daily Examiner, Friday, January, 17, 1890