27 August 1907 - Grand Rapids Herald, p. 8

DUTCH VETERANS’ REUNION

Company 1 of Twenty-fifth Michigan at Macatawa Today.

Holland, Mich., Aug. 26.-Company I,. Twenty-fifth Michigan Infantry, will hold its annual reunion at Macatawa park tomorrow. Dinner will be served in the grove. Congressman Dickema and the Rev. J.T. Bergen of Dubuque, Iowa, will address the veterans.

The company was organized in 1862 with Dr. Doud as captain, M. De Boe and J.O. Doesburg as Lieutenants. Doud died after three months, after which De Boe became captain and John Kramer lieutenant. The company was strong and the men were all of Dutch descent, enlisting from Holland and Zeeland. They embarked in wagons for Kalamazoo and thence by rail to the southern battlefields.

There are today 39 survivors and it is expected that most of them will attend the reunion. Although the company was the smallest which enlisted during the civil war, its valiant service won for its members the distinction of being the banner company when they returned three years later.

The Twenty-Fifth Infantry
(from the Military History of Ottawa and Muskegon Counties, Pg. 130-131

It was organized at Kalamazoo under H. G. Wells, and left Sept. 29, 1862, under Col. Orlando Moore, for Louisville, KY., with a muster of 896 men and officers.
June 10, 1863, five companies proceeded to Lebanon, and thence to Green River Bridge, near Columbia.  On the 4th of July afterwards this regiment was selected by Gen. Canby as his escort on receiving the surrender of Gen. Dick Taylor.  It was finally stationed at San Antonio, Texas, for protection of the Rio Grande frontier, being in the First Brigade of First Cavalry Division, Military Division of the Gulf.  The Twenty-fifth Infantry was disbanded at Jackson, March 10, 1866.