Vermont Daily Transcript, St. Albans, VT, January 15, 1869
We mentioned two or three days ago that Gen. Kilpatrick, at the close of his lecture in Hartford, was presented with an elegant testimonial in the shape of a set of sliver ware. We learn from the Courant of that city that the order for the purchase of the silver ware was made through Major W. Beeman, Jeweler, No., 6th State Street, formerly of St. Albans, and in selecting him there was a double object in view: First he is a competent man to discharge the duty, and secondly, was an officer of the First Vermont Cavalry in Gen. Kilpatrick’s command having made a splendid record, winning the praise of his general, and suffering for it too, by serving as a prisoner of war for fifteen months in rebel prisons.