E 462 .1 .M48 D4D 1896 Copy 1 tlillllllllliiilllllllllllll'll)'" 000 614 796 3 E462 .1 .M48 D4 D 1896 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DDDDbl47Tt33 \.-x .0^. •^IlHw?«* .4.O. -ii^^Rlra' *0 40 '-» Detroit Post St. Paul, 1896 FIRST CORPS. A SECOND CORPS. MICHIGAN CENTRAL STATION. DETROIT, MICH. ♦ THIRD CORPS. Detroit Post No. 384 a. A. R. A FOURTH CORPS. OFFICERS OF DETROIT POST NO. 384, G. A. R. 1896 Commander, - - - - Charles Dupont. Senior Vice-Commander. Charles E. Foote. Junior Vice-Commander, William H. Baxter. ^^j^ta***' James T. Beadle. Quartermaster, - - - . Jacob Bristol. Surgeon, - - - . William H. H. Hutton. Chaplain, ----- Jqhn W. Andrews. Officer of the Day, - Charles G. Hampton. Officer of the Guard, - - Thomas P. Jones. Sergeant Major, - - - - Nicholas Woods. Quartermaster Sergeant, Charles C. Snedeker. PIFTH CORPS. %^' + ITINERARY OF SPECIAL TRAIN SIXTH CORPS. DETROIT to ST. PAUL VIA Michigan ( Tenth al Lv Detroit, August 30, 1896 i .00 pm Lv Ypsilanti i . 50 pm Lv Ann Arbor 2.05 pm Lv Jackson 2 . 50 pm Lv Albion 3-37 pm Lv Marshall 3-58 pm Lv Battle Creek 4.24 pm Lv Kalamazoo 5 -02 pm Ar Niles (Supper)... 6.33 pm Lv Niles 7 ■ 10 pm Ar Chicago 10.30 pm VIA CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN. Lv Chicago, August 31 12.05 am Ar Merrillan (Breakfast) 9.00 am Ar St. Paul 1.05 pm HEADQUARTERS AT ST. PAUL RYAN HOUSE ^ SKVBNTH CORPS. Past officers. Commander, S. V. Commander, J. V. Commander, Commander, S. V. Commander, J. V. Commander, Commander, - - S. V. Commander, J. V. Commander. issr - Henry M. Duffield. - - George H. Hopkins. - - Hazen S. Pingreb. 1888 - Henry M. Duffield. - - George H. Hopkins. - - William S. Green. 1889 - - George H. Hopkins. - - William S. Green. - - Leverette N. Case. 1890-1891 Commander, ; - - - William S. Green. J. V. Commander, - - Leverette N. Case J. V. Commander, - - - James T. Sterling. 1892 - Lewis H. Chamberlin. - - - ZiBA B. Graham. - - Oscar R. Looker. 1893 - Everard B. Welton. - - Thomas S. McGraw. - Frank C. Trowbridge. 1894 Thomas A. Wadsworth. Charles C. Chadwick, - - - George T. Jack. 1895 - - Leverftte N. Case. - - James T. Sterling. - - Albert E. Bigelow. Commander, - S. V. Commander, J. V. Commander, Commander, S. V. Commander, J. V. Commander, Commander, S. V. Commander, J. V. Commander, Commander, - ■ S. V. Commander, J. V. Commander, PGHTK CORP5. Detroit Post No. 384. Department of Michigan, G. A. R. The organization of the Post was perfected May 26, 1887, pursuant to a preliminary meeting May 5th, when application for a charter was made, and on the following evening, May 27th, at the parlors of the Light Guard in the Firemen's Hall building, the offi- cers where installed by Department Commander Rutherford. On this oc- casion there where sixty-two charter members present, forty-nine of whom were already members of the Grand Army, with thirteen recruits. The Post now enjoys very desirable quarters in conjunction with the Michigan Com- mandery of the Loyal Legion at Nos. 58 and 60 West Congress Street, which are handsomely fitted up with all the & NINTH CORPS. conveniences for such an organization, with the added features of a military club. The membership is limited to 150, which number is usually fully borne on the muster rolls, vacancies being usually quickly filled as they occur. All of its members served as volunteers during the War of the Rebellion, a few serv- ing also in the regular army and navy. United by their patriotic devo- tion to the Republic and its flag, its members were born in twelve different states and eight foreign countries, the larger number, forty-three, being na- tives of Michigan, and thirty -eight natives of New York. They represent eighty -eight different regiments or organizations, without counting the ad- ditional ones represented by fifteen members who served in more than one command. The infantry is represented by ninety-two members; cavalry, twenty- eight; artillery, fifteen; engineers, three; TENTH CORPS. sharpshooters, two; and the navy, seven. All ranks are represented, sixty -six having served as non-commissioned officers and fifty as privates and sea- men. The average at enlistment was about twenty-one years. Col. Fox in his "Regimental Losses" devotes especial attention to " 300 fight- ing regiments," embracing every regi- ment in the Union Armies that sus- tained a loss of over 130 killed and died of wounds during the war. The membership of the Detroit Post No. 384 represents thirty-two of these regiments. The Post paraded with forty men at the National Encampment of i8qo in Boston, and in 1891 played the part of host at the Detroit Encampment, leading the parade of August 5th with over 100 members in line as escort to the Commander-in-Chief. At the Na- tional Encampment of 1892, it took a prominent part as escort to the Depart- ment Commander in the parade of ELEVr.NTK COP PS. September 20th, with four platoons, color guard and full complement of officers, headed by a first -class band of music. The following year it par- ticipated with a band of the United States Infantry in the parade of the National Encampment at Indianapolis, receiving many encomiums as the best disciplined and most attractively uni- formed post in the parade. In 1894 it attended the Pittsburg National Encampment and entered the parade with upwards of fifty members and its own band, which accompanied it from Detroit. In 1895 it paraded in Louisville with five platoons and attracted universal attention, receiving one continuous ap- plause from start to finish. One distin- guished member of the G. A. R., seated on the grand stand with the Commander- in-Chief, enthusiastically exclaimed, "I would rather be Commander of Detroit than Commander-in-Chief of the G. A. R." TWK1.FTH CORPS. It called in a body on that distinguished rebel, General Buckner, and paid its respects to him, an act which did much to heal any feelings of enmity still exist- ing in the minds of the southern people of that locality. The Post was hand- somely entertained at several private residences, and received from the most prominent citizens of the city the highest encomiums. VOVRTBSNTH CORPi Notes on St. Paul. BY JULIAN RALPH. JN EIGHT YEARS St. Paul has made tremendous strides away from the habits and methods of civic childhood. Its officials say that more has been done to establish its character as a finished city than will ever need to be done in the future. Its expenditures of energy and money have been remarkable. It has leveled its hills, filled its marshes and modernized all its conveniences. The water-works, which were the prop- erty of individuals, now belong to the people, and serve two hundred miles of mains with pure, wholesome water brought from a group of lakes ten miles north of the city. A noted firm of water-works builders has declared that it would willingly assume the city debt in return for the profits of this branch of the public service. No city FIFTEENTH CORPS. in the country is better drained than it is by its new sewer system. It had a mile and a half of improved streets and three stone sidewalks eight years ago, and to-day it possesses forty-five miles of finished streets and fifty miles of stone sidewalks. Two costly bridges have been put across the Mississippi and an important bridge has been re- built. In no city in the West is the railroad grade-crossing bugaboo more nearly exorcised. Only one notable crossing of that sort endangers the peo- ple's lives and limbs. The public build- ings of the city are admirable, and were built at moderate cost and without six- pence worth of scandal. The restricted saloon system is enforced there and the residence districts are kept sacred to home influences and surroundings. The streets are thoroughly policed, and the fire department is practically new and appointed with the most modern appli- ances. The street-car service consists SIXTEENTH CORPS. of nearly one hundred miles of electric railway and fifteen miles of cable road. There are no horse-cars in use in the city; they would be too slow for such a town. St. Paul is rich in costly and great office buildings. There are a dozen such, any and all of which would ornament any city in the country. * * * * With uncalled-for modesty St. Paul's leading men apologize for the absence of a royal series of great parks and assert that they have now designed and begun work upon such a system. They admit that they possess thirty-two little squares for children and adult pleasure- seekers, and say that the city and its environs are so park-like that the need of great public lungs has not been pressing. The apology should be gra- ciously accepted. It reconciles us with what we know of ordinary humanity in our comparatively torpid Eastern cities to find them weak in one respect. But SBVBNTBBNTH CORPS. St. Paul does not lack all elegance and ornament of the highest and most mod- ern order. In one boulevard, called Summit Avenue, it possesses one of the noblest thoroughfares and the nucleus of one of the most impressive collec- tions of great mansions in the country. Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, has long ceased to lead the rich residence streets of the nation, for Chicago has more than one finer street of the same char- acter, and so has Buffalo, and so has New York since Riverside Avenue has begun to build up. None of these has the beauty which the Hudson River and its Palisades lend to Riverside Avenue, but a good second to it is Summit Avenue, St. Paul. From its mansions, rising upon a tall bluff, the panorama of a great and beautiful countryside is commanded. It may be necessary to say to the untraveled Eastern reader that the ap- pointments—and the tenants— of these miGMTBBNTH COBW. mansions reflect the best modern attain- ments of civilization as it has been studied in the capitals of the world. One, at least, among these houses has not its superior in New York, so far as its size, its beauty and the character of its surroundings are concerned. In its appointments it will be found that the elegances and art triumphs of far more than Christendom have been levied upon to testify to a taste that at no point oversteps the limits cultivation has es- tablished. On the walls a number of the masterpieces of the Barbizon school hang side by side with the best efforts of Munkacsy, Diaz, Tadema, Detaille, Meissonier and many other masters. Barye bronzes have their places in various rooms and the literature of two continents, freshened by the constant arrival of the best periodicals, is ready at hand and well marked by use. Despite its ornaments, it is maintained quite as a home, and solely for comfort. NINETEENTH CORPS. It is but one of the several mansions in these two far Western cities. They are as representative as the palaces of Fifth Avenue, evidencing nothing of taste that is not shared and reflected in the other homes of those communities. Once again we come to the heart of any such study of a city's capacity for growth in importance and wealth. St. Paul, in 1881, manufactured $15,466,000 worth of goods with which to trade with the Northwest; in 1890 the sum had grown to $61,270,000, an increase of three hundred per cent, in nine years. The city is the dairy center of the Northwest. It has made great invest- ments in the manufacture of clothing, boots and shoes, fine furniture, wagons, carriages, farm implements, lager beer, cigars, fur garments, portable houses for settlers, dressed stone, boilers, bridges, and the products of large stock-yards. To a less, yet considerable extent, it manufactures crackers, candy, flour, bed- TWENTIETH CORP*. ding, foundry work, sashes and blinds, harness, brass goods, barrels, brooms and r brushes. Its banks have a capital of| $10,000,000; its jobbing trade amounted ' to $122,000,000 in 1890; it did a business in cattle of every sort to the extent of a million head in the same year. It : has fine hotels and opera houses, a typi- cally elaborate Western school system,, and is in all respects a healthy, vigor- -^ ous, well-governed city. ! Harper s Magazine, March, i8q2. TWKHry-SECOWD COHF*. 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