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Excerpt from Reception to the Members of the Ninety-Sixth Regiment, Illinois Infantry Volunteers: At the Residence of Their Old Commander, General John C. Smith, on the Twenty-Ninth Anniversary of the Battle of Peach Tree Creek, Georgia; July 20, 1893
On that occasion thev will have the pleasure of meeting their old Commander. Colonel George Hicks, of Jamaica, who is now in Chi cago. A guest at General Smith's home, having arrived there Satur dav. Prior to the war Colonel Hicks was associate editor of the GA lena He enlisted in Co. A of the Ninety-sixth, and when General Smith was made Brigadier - General he became com mander of the regiment. After the war he went to the West Indies and he is now Inspector of Schools of the Island of Jamaica, a gov ernment position with life tenure. While Colonel Hicks hopes to meet 1 his old comrades in Chicago, he will visit Galena while in the country. His sister, Mrs. Marie A. Oughton, who left Galena forty years ago to go to the Indies as a missionary, is also now in the United States, accompanied by her husband. They are making a stay of two weeks at the sanitarium at Dansville, N. Y., after which they will visit General and Mrs. Smith in chicago-galena Gazette.
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