The Laramie Republican

WILL REORGANIZE
SONS OF VETERANS
IF PLAN MATURES

E. E. Fitch, the adjutant of Custer post, Grand Army of the Republic, and himself a Son of Veteran, today received a letter from C. Randall Bubb of Tacoma, Wash., junior vice commander in chief of the Sons of Veterans, asking the co-operation of Mr. Fitch in the reorganization of a camp of Sons of Veterans here, to include both the sons and grandsons of veterans of the Civil War, and the sons and grandsons of the wives of veterans, the scope of the membership having been broadened to take in the third generation of both veterans and their wives. The matter will be discussed among the sons of veterans here, and if it is deemed advisable, Commander Bubb will be advised of the status of the matter, and may visit this city with that end in view.

Twice camps have been formed here, but each time they were allowed to disintegrate.

Commander Bubb, in the course of his note to Adjutant Fitch, refers to the fact that he was born at Fort Sanders, a few miles south of this city, by the side of the Union Pacific track. He did not give his age, but George J. Morgan, a member of the Fourth cavalry, who was stationed at Fort Sanders, readily recalls his father, Colonel John W. Bubb, who was the post sergeant and the regimental quartermaster at Fort Sanders, afterwards going to Fort Douglas as colonel of the Twelfth cavalry, having been promoted to brigadier general and passed to his reward. Mr. Morgan was stationed at the post and remembered Colonel Bubb very well. He says the young man may have been born there around 1878 or 1879, when the father was at that post. Colonel Bubb, Mr. Morgan says, was held in the highest esteem, and he is delighted to know that the son is being so greatly honored in the organization of Sons of Veterans. No one would welcome his coming to this city with greater earnestness than Mr. Morgan, who knew and liked his late father.

Colonel Bubb was a native of Pennsylvania, born April 26, 1843. He enlisted as a private in Company E, Fourteenth Pennsylvania infantry, afterwards rose a second lieutenant and first lieutenant, having been transferred to the Thirtieth infantry in successively ranking as captain, major, lieutenant colonel and colonel in the Twenty-fourth infantry, to the Twelfth Infantry and a brigadier general, U. S. A., and retired on April 26, 1907.