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Mr. Storm, amongst other children, has one daughter --Margaret, now Sr. Michaeletta, of the Black Cap Order of Charity (there being four branches of that Order), now a teacher at Seton Hill College, Penn'a, who also made her first Holy Communion at St. Augustine.
Mr. Storm is a veteran of the Civil war. He enlisted at Chest Springs in Co. A, Fifty-fifth Reg't, P. V., Col. Richard White. He served 16 months in this regiment without getting into a battle, when an apportunity [sic] was afforded a limited number of men from that regiment to join the regular army and, availing himself of this opportunity, he served under Gen. B. F. Butler until September 17, 1864, when he was discharged, having participated in fourteen battles without having received any more serious wounds than scratches.
"Wasn't Gen. Butler much slandered, he never stole any spoons?" was asked him.
"No, he didn't," was the emphatic reply.
"You know he did the government great service by declaring the negro slaves `contraband of war.' He also, at one time went to law with the governor of Massachusetts for having disbanded the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment for refusing to parade in honor of the Prince of Wales," the writer remarked.
"Yes; and he was the first to establish a home for soldiers at Old Point Comfort. He remarked at the time that it would be a paradise for the officers, but a hell for the soldiers," was the response.
Mr. Storm being now an inmate of the "Soldiers' Home for Veterans of the Regular Army," near Washington, D. C., gave a history of the founding and the conducting of that institution, now conducted by a board of managers, which history, in these days of corruption of officials of government institutions will be quite a revelation; but this is not a government institution. Following is an outline of the history as related by Mr. Storm:
"When General Scott conquered Santa Snna [sic], he demand an indemnity of $150,000. This was paid in Mexican silver money and neither the president nor the treasurer would receive it. General Scott kept it for two years and then bought a piece of land above New Orleans for a home for indigent, wounded and sick soldiers of the regular army.
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