FAREWELL BALL. - The members of Empire Engine Company No. IV will give a Farewell Ball to the members of Co. B Fourth Onondaga Regiment, at Pfohl’s Hall on Monday evening next, the proceeds to be added to the Relief Fund for the benefit of the families of volunteers. Samsel’s full Band will furnish music. Tickets 50 cents. (SYRACUSE DAILY COURIER AND UNION 9/6/62)

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I have been given kind permission to post the above, which appears, along with many more Civil War-era newspaper reports, on Dan Houde's excellent website on the 149th Regiment, New York State Volunteers (The Salt Point Rangers; "The Fourth Onondaga Regiment"), a Civil War regimental history/re-enactors' site at:
http://home.earthlink.net/~dahoude/
See the "From the Archives" page, Steve Houde, Archivist

For more info on the Germans, see my website,
German Immigrant Ancestors in Syracuse & Onondaga Co., NY:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mstone/