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ARMY REUNION

REPORTS OF TFIE MEETINGS

OF THE SOCIETIES OK

THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND;
THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE; THE ARMY OF THE OHIO;

AND
THE ARMY OF GEORGIA.

Chica^'^c\ ^December ij and i[\ i

i;3uh!tsiji;ig Committee :
F. T. Sherman, 11. W, Smith,
Wai. E. Strong, A. C McClukg.

CHICAGO :
S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY
1869.

CHICAGO:
CiiuRtT-i, Goodman & Donnelley, Printers and S tereotyi-ers,
1 08 a7id no Dearborn Street.

The Chicago Executive Committee, to whom wa.'
entrusted the local preparation for the Army Reunion in this
city in December of last year, have the pleasure of presenting
this memorial volume to the members of the various societies
represented in that Reunion. It was intended that it should
be issued much earlier in the year, but the labor of collecting
the material from the various secretaries, and from the many
speakers at the Opera House Meeting and the Banquet, and
the necessity of submitting the proof, for correction, to various
persons interested, have rendered delay unavoidable. While
it is hoped that this del.ay has been favorable to its complete
ness and correctness, it would be presumption to hope that a
volume of this kind, hastily prepared, and by so many hands.
could entirely escape errors.
The sub-committee, to whom its publication was intrusted,
are indebted to the Rev. Edward C. Towne, for valuable
assistance ; and to his taste and judgment must be credited
whatever of merit there may be in the introductions and
general editorial arrangement of the material.
It is proper to add, that a small portion of the expense of the
publication is borne by the treasuries of the diflerent societies.

INTRODUCTION.

The proposal of a Grand Reunion of all the Western Armies
oi'iginated with General W. T. Sherman, whose position as the
common commander of all suggested an equal interest in all, and
excited a desire to gather, on one grand occasion, representatives
of the whole host, undivided and indivisible in spirit and labors,
which had been employed in the West in prosecuting the struggle
of the Nation against rebellion. Four separate organizations,
composed of these Armies respectively, the Army of the Tennes
see, the Army of the Cumberland, the Army of the Ohio, and the
Army of Georgia, had been formed, or were contemplated, with
a common view to perpetuate the memories and help to preserve
the record of camp, and march, and battle ; and two of these
were about being called to meet for the annual celebration of
1868. The Society of the Army of the Tennessee was expected
to convene in Chicago in September, and that of the Army of
the Cumberland was anticipating a reunion, also in Chicago, on
the 15th of December. So early as March (186S), General
Sherman had given a good deal of thought to a scheme of
reunion of all the soldiers of the Western Armies, and had written
to distinguished officers in regard to it. From Generals Thomas,
Schofield, and Slocum, representing the Cumberland, Ohio, and
Georgia Armies, he had received highly satisfactory assurances
of cordial concurrence with his proposal for a Grand Reunion ;
and on the 24th of March he wrote from the headquarters of

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the Military Division of the Mississippi, at St. Louis, to the Pres
ident of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, General John
A. Rawlins, to propose the postponement of their meeting from
the autumn to the winter, and their acceptance of the plan of
reunion. The prompt and hearty concurrence of General Raw
lins and his coinrades at once reinoved every obstacle to the
consummation of General Sherman's desires, and enabled the
distinguished commander, who so often had summoned the
armies of the West to the labors and dangers of battle, to send
out his call to all to meet, once at least, amid the securities of
established peace, for a common celebration of the deathless
memories of the war. Accepting the day which a brother com
mander — a soldier always to be named in history with the great
captains under whom he was ever modestly content to serve,
General George H. Thomas — had fixed for the assembling ofthe
Society of the Army of the Cumberland, General Sherman des
ignated the 15th and l6th of December, "the days that we gained
Savannah and Thomas fought at Nashville," for a common meet
ing of all the Western Armies, in the city of Chicago. None who
know how thoughtfully and cordially General Sherman has inva
riably promoted good feeling in those attached to the service with
him, and how generously and zealously he has cared for the good
name of those who have earned the highest distinction under his
command, will fail to reflect that he must have named with
extreme satisfaction, for the grandest occasion of military reunion
yet known to American histoiy, the day already selected, by the
man who "fought at Nashville," for the assembling of the, gallant
and fiimous Army of the Cumberland.
The scheme of the celebration itself, as well as the conception
and proposal of it, was matured and brought forward by General
Sherman. In his letter to General Rawlins of the 24th of
March, he proposed that while the several Army Societies should
meet separately during the days ofthe 15th and i6th, the evenings

Introduction. 7
should be devoted, in grand reunion, the first to commemorative
orations from representatives of the respective armies, and the
second to a reunion banquet, which should be as complete a
festival of social communion as the wisdom of a joint local
committee could devise.
The necessity for early action in the matter of orators from the
respective Army Societies was met at once by the selection, on
the part of these Societies, of the following distinguislied gentle
men ; — General W. W. Belknap, of the Army of the Tennessee ;
General Charles Cruft, of the Army of the Cumberland ; General
J. D. Cox, of the Army of the Ohio ; and General William
Cogswell, of the Army of Georgia. And for the further execu
tion of the plans thus inatured. General Sherman issued the
following notice and invitation; Washington, D. C, April 20, 1868.
Notice is hereby given, that the Societies representing the Armies of
the Tennessee, Cumberland, Oliio, and Georgia, will meet on the 15th
and i6th days of December, 1S6S, at Chicago, Illinois. The object is
purely social, and designed to preserve the memories of the war, and to
cherish the friendships formed during that period of our national history.
All are cheerfully invited to be present and participate.
An orator has been appointed for each Army, and addresses will be
delivered on the night of the 15th of December, and a. grand banquet will
be held on the night of the i6th.
Letters of inquiry may be addressed to General William E. Strong,
Chicago, Illinois, who will attend to all preliminary business, until a
joint committee of arrangements has been appointed to carry into effect
the above plan.
W. T. Sherman,
jLieutena7it- General U. S. A.
The joint committee alluded to in General Sherman's call, to
which was committed the work of preparing for the Grand
Reunion, was composed of the following committees, named by

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the several Army Societies: — Army of the Tennessee; —
General John ]\[cArthur, Chairman ; General John M. Corse ;
General Joseph Stockton ; General William E. Strong ; Colonel
John Mason Loomis ; Major D. H. Gile. Army of the Cum
berland ; — General F. T. Sherman, Chairman ; General A. C.
McClurg; Major A. H. Boyden. Army of the Ohio; —
General R. W. Smith, Chairman ; General W. Scott Stewart ;
General Julius White ; General Thomas J. Henderson ; Colonel
W. W. Wheeler. Army of Georgia ; • — ¦ General A. C.
McClurg, Chairman ; General E. S. Salomon ; General J. D.
Morgan ; General William Coggswell ; General H. A. Barnum ;
Major H. W. Buck.
These committees, representing the several Army Societies,
were organized as the Executive Committee of the Reunion, at
a joint meeting held in Chicago, October 24. The following
were chosen officers of the Committee ; — General F. T. Sherman,
Chairman ; General William E. Strong, Secretary. For a short
time after the organization of the Committee, the engrossing
engagements of the Presidential campaign required the postpone
ment of active preparations for the Reunion, but immediately
upon coming together, on the 8th of November, when the political
contest had been settled by the election of General Grant, the
Executive Committee called to its aid a large number of brother
officers resident in Chicago and the vicinity, and designated the
following sub-committees:* — Finance, Colonel John Mason
Loomis, Chairman ; Banquet, General William E. Strong,
Chairman ; Railroads and Transportation, General I. N. Stiles,
Chairman ; Invitations, General John McArthur, Chairman ;
Reception, General J. D. Webster, Chairman ; Halls, General
A. C. McClurg, Chairman ; Decorations and Flags, Major W.
L. B. Jenney, Chairman ; Printing and Badges, Major S. S.
Hart, Chairman ; Music, Captain L. B. Church, Chairman.
* A full list of the members of these committees is given at p. 202.

Introduction. 9
The labors of these committees were entered upon as soon as
the Presidential election was over, and preparations pressed
forward as vigorously as possible. The Secretary of the General
Committee, General William E. Strong, was instructed to send
a dispatch through the Associated Press, requesting officers
throughout the country to at once advise the Committee if they
intended being present at the Reunion, in order that timely notice
might be had of the number for whom provision should be made.
An early invitation was extended to General Sherman to deliver
an Address of Welcome on the evening of the 15th, and his
acceptance secured ; the Committee feeling that such words
would come most properly from the common commander who
had suggested and summoned the gathering, and around whom,
with the President elect, and their honored comrades, the other
great captains of the war, the soldiers of the Western Armies
would most cordially rally.
Another important feature of the preparation undertaken by
the joint Executive Committee was the obtaining of colors and
battle-flags, which had been carried by troops sent by different
States into the Armies of the West, and had finally been laid
away, at the capitals of these States, as sacred memorials of the
march and the battle, and almost holy emblems of patriotic devo
tion to country. Urgent and repeated applications were made, in
the hope of obtaining a complete collection of these endeared and
venerated relics, and with a highly gratifying result. The natural
hesitation of those in charge of these priceless memorials pre
vailed in some instances, but the Committee had every occasion
to return most cordial thanks to those who cheerfully assisted
them to reproduce the most hallowed and powerful associations
of the old war days.
Special invitations, amounting to considerably more than one
hundred, were issued by the Committee, requesting the presence,
as honored guests, of the President and Heads of Departments at

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Washington ; the General, Lieutenant-General, Major-Generals
and Brigadier-Generals of the regular army ; Corps Commanders
of Armies in the war not included in the Reunion ; Governors of
States which furnished troops for any of the Western Armies, and
ex-Governors of these States, who were in office during the war.
The more strictly local arrangements for the grand festival were
also prosecuted with gratifying success. By the generosity of
citizens of Chicago, who had given honorable distinction to the
metropolis of the North-west in the dark days of the war, when
labors, sacrifices and suffering were more in order than festive
celebrations, ample means were placed in the hands of the
Finance Committee for all the necessary expenses of the Reunion.
The Opera House was secured for the evening of the 15th, and
for the banquet of the i6th the commodious Chamber of Com
merce was freely tendered by the Chicago Board of Trade, and
was thankfully accepted. The decor.ation of these places of
assembling, and every other feature of the preparations required
for the proposed nights of high festival, engaged the careful
attention of the Committee. The feast was generously s|3read ;
music and song were enlisted ; banners, battle-flags and colors,
and other accessories of a tasteful and brilliant di-splay, were
arranged ; and nothing left undone to prepare a scene worthy, as
near as might be, of the noble company to be convened. Facili
ties for coming from all parts of the country, at a moderate
expense, were solicited, and obtained, from the railroads ; head
quarters for the various Army Societies were designated ; the
ample resources of private hospitality were put in requisition ;
and the entire community was stirred with patriotic ardor to give
a fitting welcome to the representatives of those armies whose
deeds had been our redemption, and whose fame had become a
household word in every corner of our land.
In placing on record the proceedings of the Army Reunion for
which these preparations had been made, we are obliged to

Introduction.

II

remember that the grand occasion embraced at once distinct
meetings of separate Army Societies, held during the days of the
15th and i6th, and Reunion meetings, for which the evenings
were set apart.
The Society of the Army of the Tennessee was organized at
Raleigh, North Carolina, in the spring of the last year of the
war, before its members had turned their backs on the scenes of
their last campaign — the brilliant march of Sherman through
the heart of the Confederacy. It met for the first time, after the
coming of peace in the land, in Chicago, in the fall of 1865. A
second meeting was held the following year in Cincinnati, and a
third in St. Louis in 1867. The meeting of December 15th and
l6th, in Chicago, in connection with the great festival of Reunion,
\vas the fourth in order from the founding of the Society. Orig
inally appointed to be held in September, it was considerately
postponed to the date ofthe Grand Reunion, a generous concession
from the oldest of the Army Societies, in order that the common
meeting might take place after the engagements and excitements
of the presidential campaign should be over. The official report
of the proceedings of this meeting shows that the Society of the
Army of the Tennessee emphatically and decisively determined
to continue its separate organization. The committee appointed
by it to consider propositions for the consolidation of the several
Army Societies, were strictly instructed not to accept any such
proposition. The Society of the Army of the Cumberland ^vas organized in
February, 1S6S, at a general meeting of the Army in Cincinnati.
The meeting reported in this volume is thus the second which the
Society has held. The third reunion was appointed, it will be
noticed, to be held at Indianapolis, in the present year, and the
idea of a united society of all the Western Armies was only so far
entertained, that a committee was appointed for the purpose of
conferring with such committees as might be appointed by the

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other Societies in reference to a joint meeting at the same time
and place.
The members of the Army of the Ohio, who came with their
comrades of other armies to attend the general reunion summoned
by the common commander, improved the occasion to organize a
Society, for purposes similar to those which had called into exist
ence the older Army Societies. Similar action was taken by the
members of the Army of Georgia, which had met the preceding
year with the Army of the Cuinberland, to which a large propor
tion of them had belonged until the organization of the Army of
Georgia, at Atlanta, in the last year of the war. Henceforth,
therefore, the Society of the Army of the Ohio, and the Society
of the Army of Georgia, will do their part, with sister societies
of soldiers who served in Western Armies, to preserve the mem
ories, and perfect the records, of that portion of the great conflict
which was waged by forces mainly organized, or employed, in
some part of the western half of the country.
But the portion of this reunion record which takes precedence,
by common consent, is the report of the two general meetings,
the imposing assemblage of gallant soldiers in the Opera House,
on tlie evening of the isth, to listen to commemorative orations
from representatives of the several Army Societies, after fit words
of noble welcome from the almost incomparable Captain of the
March to the Sea, and while the stoutest and stanchest of patriot
Generals sat in the chair of peaceful command ; and again, the
festival throng of the following evening, in the great hall of the
Board of Trade, when a feast of good things, with song and
speech, and numberless varied demonstrations of fellowship,
brought back to brave men the recollection of camp and battle
days, and melted a thousand hearts with one glowing and enno
bling sense of the joy and honor it had been to have part in the
grand undoing of wicked rebellion. The simplest record of these
scenes will amply preserve, for those who took part in them, the
memory of a great occasion.

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None of the great soldiers of the war had aroused in the Armies
of the West a more worshipful enthusiasm than he who sat first
among the leaders assembled on the ample platform of the Opera
House, on the evening ofthe 15th — General George H. Thomas.
The events of his career, and the qualities of his character, had
equally wrought in all observers the conviction that history rarely
shows the world a man more compact of all the abilities and
manners of a great soldier, and rarely affords to greatness a finer
opportunity than was his on the memorable field of Chicka
mauga, and when the last desperate advance of the Rebellion was
crushed before Nashville. An incident of this evening of com
memoration, the unexampled burst of irrepressible emotion which
greeted a reference to General Thomas in the oration of General
Belknap, strikingly confirmed the judgment of those who selected
this modest hero and admirable soldier to sit between Grant and
Sherman at the head of the great Reunion assemblage. With
gallant courtesy the orator of the Army of the Tennessee had
spoken of " the determined soldier" and "beloved commander''
of the Army of the Cumberland, " Thomas, the rock of Chicka
mauga," wlien with instant accord every heart in the vast
assembly, soldiers of every army and all ranks, leaped beyond all
bounds of usual excitement, into such a storm of applause as
hardly once in a century falls upon human ears. It was a fit
recognition of one who is justly thought to have shown himself,
by the side of his great equals, an ideal soldier.
The Presidential election of November 7th had set the seal of
accomplished history to the nation's appreciation of our most
eminent commander, when the Reunion of the Western Armies
was held. Fitly, on every ground, therefore, the guest of the
hour, in the seat of honor on the right of General Thomas, was
the General of the Arm}' of the United States, the President elect
of the nation. Inflexibly silent, a doer of deeds and not a man
of speech, his part played always in the simplest and most

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practical fashion, the quiet presence of General Grant, first in
honor as in rank, sufficiently indicated the exceptional dignity of
the occasion.
At the left hand of the president of the evening eveiy eye in
the vast assemblage marked the third of these equal masters of
war, a soldier who uses his pen as happily as he handles 'he
sword, and to whom had been assigned the task of speaking the
welcome of the leaders to all who had met them in reunion.
The form which had moved so often through the ranks of battle,
like victory's own standard, bent as gently as a woman's for the
courtesies of the hour, and eyes which had flashed the great rage
of war were kindly as a mother^s looking into the devotion of
that sea of martial faces. No soldier there needed to be told that
General Sherman keeps the aspect of severity for the uses of war,
and that as man to man he bears always a countenance of kind
liest courtesy.
We have mentioned only the first names of the long list of
leaders of the Armies of the West who had gathered to the grand
Reunion. Grant, and Sherman, and Thomas, were the centre of
a company such as no previous American occasion, of war or af
peace, had gathered. So many distinguished military men had
never before, in all the history of the country, been brought into a
single scene. Besides distinguished guests from other armies,
here were a large proportion of the army, corps, and division
commanders who had led into battle the Armies of the West. To
even call the roll of their honored names, and make the briefest
fit mention of each, would far exceed the limits we are bound to
keep. And it is all the more necessary not to enter upon particular
mention of the large number who sat rank behind rank around
Grant and Sherman and Thomas, because in front of them,
densely crowding the great audience-.space of the Opera House,
were hundreds upon hundreds who had won, in their places, a

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name in the war, and who brought now the dignity of heroism
and the honor of noble deeds to enhance the significance of this
splendid occasion. And with these, in such parts ofthe house as
could be set apart for them, sat others, not less than they soldiers
ofthe great conflict and heroes ofthe great battles, those true and
tried women of mercy and sisters of compassion, those wives and
daughters and sisters who had buckled on courage, and carried
the tenderness of love and the sweetness of home wherever the
soldier's path had led, under the cloud and through the sea, until
the days of wandering and suffering, of painful toil and painful
endurance, were all ended. No hearts of all that great reunion
company throbbed in quicker, finer, holier sympathy with the
sacred commemoration of the hour.
When General Thomas rose before this assemblage, and called
for the reveille by the drum corps, an outbreak of enthusiasm
from reunited comrades followed, which, for the moment, made
all other demonstration insignificant. The call which the drums
gave was that which had, through all the war, roused the soldier
from his hurried rest, to preparation for his long days of labor
and peril. Its notes were familiar as the ticking of the home
clock over the domestic hearth, while their associations were of
scenes and events, incidents and deeds, - at the remembrance of
which the coolest blood became on fire, and the least ardent souls
were kindled with inspiration. It had not been expected that
this reveille would be sounded, and when the martial tones of
the drums were heard, a passion of ardor swept through the
throng of soldiers, and a storm of great emotions rose and broke,
rose and broke again, as if a hundred score of gallant men had
said. Let our country but call again, and we are still ready. So,
nobly, as heroes should, did those who participated in the grand
reunion, listen to the orations to which it is now time to turn.

THE ORATIONS.

The assemblage of the evening of December 15th, to listen to
Orations from representatives of the several Army Societies, was
called to order by General George H. Thomas, who said ;¦ — ¦
Comrades of the Armies of the Tennessee, Cumberland,
Ohio, and Georgia : Having been selected to preside over this
interesting meeting, I take this occasion to express to you my
most heartfelt thanks for the honor conferred upon me. As a
good deal of time has already been spent in arranging your seats,
we will now proceed to the business before the meeting in its
regular order. The first thing will be the reveille by the drum
corps. After the outbreak of enthusiasm which greeted the reveille
ordered by General Thomas, the following address of welcome
was made by Lieutenant-General Sherman :
GENERAL SHERMAN'S ADDRESS.
Fellow-Soldiers : It is made my pleasant duty to address to
you this evening words of welcome to the feast that is to be spread
before you. From the city and the country, from the town and
village, you have come together, the representatives of four of
those grand volunteer armies, which responded to our country's
call in her hour of danger, fought her battles — sometimes, side
by side ; sometimes far apart ; yet always in unison — and then,
at her bidding, returned to your homes as farmers or mechanics,
as artizans and citizens.
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After a short rest you have again assembled to stand, as it
were, on a high pinnacle, to look back across that wide valley
wherein you struggled so long, to point out to each other the
spots of greatest interest, and to live o'er again the hours and
days and months of deepest anguish or of joy.
I know that you have laid aside forever the feelings of ani
mosity and anger, then so natural and proper, and that you have
dropped into oblivion the little jealousies and rivalries of the
hour, and now stand here with hand extended in fraternal
friendship to every soldier in the land, whether he belonged to
your regiment or in your division, whether in your army or any
other, whether upon the land or the sea, provided only he fought
for the Union of our fathers, and the flag of our whole country.
No mere feeling of self-glorification now animates you, but a just
pride in your own actions, and a deep and intense love for the
comrade who stood by your side in the day of battle, and shouted
with you in the hour of victory. Happily, my friends, you did
not belong to that class of our people in whose very youth was
planted the pernicious doctrine, that the highest allegiance was
due to the place of birth or of residence, and that a citizen should
love a part of his country better than the whole. You were
reared in a better school, and taught to revere the Constitution
of your whole country, and to believe that under its wise and
genial influence, man would here attain the largest measure of
security and happiness consistent with the general safety. We
believed that, by the law of majorities and a frequent resort to
the ballot box, we had discovered a panacea for the ills that
had from earliest history afflicted the human family, and that
we should escape the conflicts and ravages which war had caused
in all preceding ages. But we were doomed to realize that we
formed no exception to the general rule, that minorities would
not always submit to so peaceful a decree, and that we, too, must
fight to maintain the privileges of our birthright.

Address of Welcome. iq
You may search history in vain for a more flagrant violation
of faith, a more causeless breach of a national compact than
that which resulted in our civil war. Never before was an
unwilling people so ruthlessly, so needlessly, dragged into a long
and bloody conflict, and never before was a Government so
utterly unprepared for it. All attempts to avoid its outbreak
were charged to cowardice, and the whole civilized world was
made to believe that that " bright particular star," which had for
a time shone so clear in the Western firmament, had sunk for
ever, and that the fair fabric which had been dedicated to liberty,
had vanished as a dream before the first storm of passion which
had assailed it.
Here at home reason was unseated ; the laws were derided
and scorned ; the public property was seized or appropriated as
though it were a waif upon the ocean. Good men every where
begged and implored for a little forbearance, offering Rebellion
the blank sheet whereon to write its own terms of compromise,
and were answered back with insult. The orator wasted his elo
quence in vain ; the statesman exhausted his last peaceful remedy ;
and then, and not till then, did war, the last arbiter of kings and
peoples, assume absolute dominion over this great land of free
dom. The volunteer soldier stepped upon the arena, and offered his
life and his services to defend and maintain the Government
against all its enemies and opposers whomsoever. He swore the
oath that rebellion and anarchy should not rule this land of ours,
but that liberty, justice and law should be restored to their right
ful throne. He has kept his oath, and we now behold again the
good ship of State, full-rigged, once more on her course, destined
toward that future which is hidden from all mortal eyes ; and the
flag is still there unchanged — "not a star obliterated, not a stripe
dimmed" ; that same old flag that we have followed so often in
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the light of the lurid, blazing pine-torch. Shall I not, tlien, claim
for you, who represent this volunteer soldier, the higher honor —
3'ea, the highest honor that is conceded to mortal upon earth.
You can easily recall how long the war seemed to us in its
progress, and how short now looking back upon it after a period
of little more than three years. How inconceivably short, then,
will it appear to those who a hundred years hence will grope
through the pages of history to learn of the events and causes
that led five millions of people to rebel, when no single act of
oppression or tyranny was even alleged .'' We owe it to them,
while still in the vigor of life and health, to record the parts we
played in this grand drama of life, with the motives and feelings
that actuated us through its various stages.
Many a time and oft you have lain upon the bare ground, with
no canopy above but that of heaven, with its hosts of glittering
stars, and I know you have dreamed of a time to come like this,
when, seated together in security and peace, surrounded by
admiring friends, you would be crowned with a tiara of light
which now hangs over your heads. Accept this, then, as the
fruition of your dream, and enjoy the hour !
Four of your comrades, one from each of the armies specially
represented here, will address you and tell you of the deeds you
have done. Give them a willing and attentive ear, and when
you go back to your homes tell them all that these armies, though
dispersed in the flesh, yet live in the spirit as strong and enthu
siastic as they were four years ago, when in the very death
grapple with the enemies of our country and of civilization.
And now, in the name of the committee that has made these
preparations, I extend to you all a cordial greeting— to the
veteran of '6i, to the recruit of '6$, yea, to the convert of the
very last hour of grace.
In the name of the people of Chicago, who have provided the
means, I bid you welcome, and assure you that a seat awaits you

Address of Welcome. 21
at every fireside. And in the name of every patriot of the land
I give you welcome, and tell you that the lightning's flash is not
swift enough to satisfy the yearning of their hearts to know what
is done here this night.
The presence of the men about me, their high office, and the
duties they have left to be with you here, all attest the interest
and grandeur of the occasion, and in their names, too, comrades
all, I bid you thrice welcome.

The several Army Society Orations were delivered, following
the address of General Sherman, in the following order; — The
Oration of General W. W. Belknap, on the part of the Society
of the Army of the Tennessee ; the Oration of General Charles
Cruft, of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland ; the Ora
tion of General J. D. Cox, of the Army of the Ohio ; and the
Oration of General William Cogswell, of the Army of Georgia.

General Belknap spoke as follows, after the singing of
'America" by the Glee Club.

GENERAL BELKNAP'S ORATION.
Soldiers of the Armies of the Cumberland, the Ohio,
and Georgia ; Comrades of the Army of the Tennessee :
It all seems like a dream, — the insult to the flag; the Presi
dent's call for troops ; the great uprising of the people ; the
unfurling to the breeze, from every mast and staff and spire of
the North, of the nation's emblem ; the enthusiastic meetings of
men of all classes to devise means in that solemn hour to strike a
blow for union and save the nation ; the prompt response of the
young men of the land ; the muster-in of armed hosts ; the
waving of handkerchiefs, and the hand-shakings at parting, and
the last kisses of the loved ; the flrst battles in the West ; the eager
demand for news ; the victory at Donelson, where began the
public life of a new leader of the Nation ; the field of Shiloh,
with its bloody victory seized from defeat ; the gradual opening
of the Father of Floods ; Vicksburg with its memorable siege ;
the return home as veterans of those who but a short time before
had left as untried youth ; the proud consciousness of the youthful
soldier, as he told of his deeds afar off in the wars ; the return to
the field ; the flankings and fightings of our great Captain about
Atlanta, until it was " ours and fairly won ; " the sudden departure,
as, turning their backs on home, the men of this Army made their
march to the sea ; Savannah and its pleasant holidays of rest ;
the seemingly unceasing swamps of Carolina ; the toilsome march
to Raleigh ; the welcome words of the announcement which told
of the surrender of the flower of the Armies of the South ; the
joy of that happy hour turned to gloom, as the hushed intelli
gence of the death of the nation's Chief was broken in low

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words to the men ; the final march to Washington ; the grand
review at the nation's Capital ; the last order, and the welcome
muster out; — all these memories seem not like memories, but
like the faint glimpses of an imagined picture, as, panorama like,
it passes before the eye, and leaves here and there an impress,
and is gone ; — like the half-fiided recollection of something that
we have seen, and yet at times can scarce believe that we have
witnessed. And as, day after day, in the quiet walks of civil life,
he who was a soldier pursues those duties which are so different
from the routine of military life, the meeting with a comrade, the
sound of a voice which he has heard on distant fields, reminds
him of the days when, by the camp-fire and with his comrades of
the bivouac, care was banished in anticipation of a future of
victory and peace. And then the vision vanishes, and breaking
upon him the realized truth thrills his heart with the treasured
memory that he was once a volunteer soldier of the Army of the
Tennessee. And yet again, as he turns the pages of his little
journal, and reads the hasty jottings of his army notes, he
can scarce believe that of those scenes his eyes were witnesses,
that of those sounds of artillery his ears were hearers, that on the
march his step gave its part to the universal tramp, and that in
all of which he writes he was an actor. It all seems like a
dream !
As the exile from home and friends, after years of separation,
feels his heart bound with joy, as his eyes once more rest on the
familiar faces of honored friends, and the cherished scenes of
earlier days, so are we, my comrades, conscious that to-night our
glistening eyes tell ofthe happiness of this meeting, our bounding
hearts beat high in remembrance of the proud deeds achieved by
the Armies of the Union. Our hands are clasped with that
earnestness of soldierly friendship, which only intercourse among
scenes of peril and hardship can insure, and our words tell of
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where death was a constant companion, and where his presence
lurked in the gleam of every gun ; where the realities of hardship
scarce made an impression, so like a luxury did every favor seem
where a blanket was a sumptuous bed ; where the repose of the
soldier at night was made none the less refreshing by the reflec
tion that perhaps by reveille, he might " sleep a sleep which
knows no waking" here.
And as we revive these memories, and recall these scenes, there
cluster around us the recollections of those days, then unapprecia
ted but now dear by the associations which gather around them,
as our armies fought for the national life, and put forth their
energies to preserve its liberties. And as the trials and hardships
• endured are recalled, how can we fail to be lost in wonder at the
fortitude and faithful bravery, the energy and unflagging devotion,
the perseverance and untiring zeal, which prompted the move
ments, and nei'ved the arms, of that remarkable body of men who
formed the volunteer soldiery of the Armies of the United States .''
Doubts had entered the minds of many as to the possibility of
procuring the men in numbers sufficient to form an army of the
power and efficiency desired, even were the means at hand to
equip and arm it, but that doubt dissolved, when from every
hamlet and village and city ; from every farm and fireside, flocked
the noble hearts to do their country's bidding. The mechanic
left his bench, the farmer's boy forsook his field, the student threw
aside his books, the briefs of the lawyer were forgotten, the phy
sician left the bedside of the sick, the merchant closed his
accounts, and the ease of quiet life was abandoned by the man of
leisure. All with one will fell into line at the call of the country.
From all these occupations and pursuits, from all these habits of
thought and practices of life, was to be moulded an army, the
power of which no man had conceived, the mighty influence of
which no man had measured, the combined achievements of
which no prophet had predicted ; for it was left for the Armies

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of the West to write their own histories, to carve their deeds in
letters of life on the unbroken columns of their country's union,
and to send down to the future, forever to be unforgotten, the
names of those men, who, as the leaders of that mighty host, had
made themselves immortal.
As the drums beat they gathered ; here one and there another,
and there a company of two or three. Beneath the protecting
banner of their fathers, as its consecrated folds floated in the
breeze, with hearts beating with the earnestness of youthful
patriotism, and with hands ready for the task, they fastened in
the faith those who had once been doubtful, and the flag of the
land, touched by the breath of heaven, seemed now to give token
more signally than ever, that, while with its blended colors it was
the flag of the union, it was also the flag ofthe free.
Back to those flresides many of them never marched again.
There are times when the hearts of men are more easily touched
than at others ; when the feelings of our better natures tire of the
burdens of active life, and, turning to more quiet duties and more
peaceful scenes, yield to the quiet influences of home. Thus it
was in the solemn moment of the soldier's departure. Family
and friends and fireside were to be left, and thoughts of them
coming between him and his duty made the strong man weak.
The tear of affection's farewell dropped down the cheeks of those
whom he loved so tenderly, but it was not the tear of regret.
The arms of woman's love were twined around those manly
forms, but they pressed them not to stay. The sincere expression
which marked the last benediction of those endeared to the soldier
by all the ties of kindred and of family, only assured him of the
intensity of that devotion which gave him up that the land might
live, and when this was all over and he had gone, his form erect
and strong, his step firm and soldierly, but ill concealed the grief
which truly attests the sorrow of the parting. Though that
fireside may now be desolate and lonely, and that form be always

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missed, those whom he left will remember that he fell manfully
where heroes love to die, and though that parting was the last,
with their's the tears of thousands mingle.
On us who daily witnessed their efforts, and under whose eye
their labors came, the uncomplaining patience and the untiring
energy of the Western soldier, are impressed with an ineffaceable
stamp. Though often guided by ambition, yet often forsaken by
hope ; though solicitous for advancement, and desirous of position,
yet in the inidst of disappointment he was ever dutiful. In the
weary watches of the night, he did his work on the picket post
faithfully and well. On the tiresome march, on roads soft with
mud for miles, and deep with water, he strode along. Losing
sleep when nature was well-nigh exhausted, after a weary day's
march, he was contented with the meal which a haversack
afforded him, and among all the trials and perplexing mishaps of
his soldier-life, was unforgetful of his duty to his country, though
to him she seemed sometimes thankless and ungrateful. The
winter's cold was to him as nothing, for his frame had become
inured to it under the pitiless storms of his Northern home.
The severe heats of a Southern sun beat upon him, but they
seemed only to renew his fainting energies and to render his step
more firm. Though the army's road lay through woods which
before were pathless, the spirit and will of Its leader clove a way,
through which this army marched, and its track through the
South was followed, where the axes of the hardy pioneers of the
corps of Dodge and of Logan and of Blair, blazed the way of
the Army of the Tennessee to victory. Through those dark
swamps where the rank growth of tangled briars and thorns
formed a barrier to his progress, he moved, regardless of their
presence ; across large tracts where the treacherous earth yielded
to the moving mass, he wearily labored, as the lengthened trains
of the advancing columns were lifted from the quicksand, and
sent on their way.

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What the private soldiers of the Army endured, the world will
never know. We recall that skirmish-line advancing from point
to point, until the sharp cracking of occasional rifles Is lost in the
opening crash of the conflict. We remember those rifle-pits, so
closely under the fire of the enemy, that the snapping of a twig,
or the rustling of a leaf, would be the signal of death ; those lines
of battle in tlie face of the foe ; those embrasures from which the
thundering artillery sent its messengers screaming to the front,
and those frequent cannonadings, which, with bursting shell,
covered the Divisions ; and we seem to hear the shouts and yells
of the men, as, in the heat of the action, rallying by the side of
the flag, which to the fighting soldier among such scenes shines
with renewed lustre, the faint-hearted grew strong and the falter
ing were nerved amid the havoc of the battle. We recall this at
Shiloh, when, on the first day, the national lines wavered before
the advancing attacks of that well-appointed army; when, on the
second day, under the eye and cool leadership of their first com
mander, they swept to defeat those who had been defiant victors ;
and at Corinth, where the brightness of the deeds of valor per
formed by the enemy was dimmed by the mistaken cause for
which they fought ; and again at Vicksburg, where in charge
after charge the men marched like men at the blazing mouths of
the guns ; and still again at Atlanta, where, again and again, on
July 22, 1864, flanked and turned, they fought from either side,
and both sides, and all sides of the works, and won the victory in
a manner peculiarly Western.
And when the contests were over, when the sounds of strife
were stilled, and only the low moans of the wounded, or the
breathings of the dying, touched the ear, we remember that
among those scenes of suffering our wounded comrades lay with
scarce a murmur. Among all our visits to the hospitals we can
remember the resigned and patient conduct of those who had
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smooth the soldier's pillow ; the tender caresses of the loved ones
at home were missed from the field hospital. The hands that
nursed them, though prompted by kindly hearts, were rough ;
but from the lips ofthe dying heroes came no words of complaint,
and no repining, save at times the manly regret that they could
do no more for the country and Its cause. The blood of many of
the best and bravest of the Army of the Tennessee moistened the
soil of the South ; the bones of many of our comrades whitened
the battle-fields of the war. On field and hill and plain their
graves were made, by the banks of the Tennessee, beneath the
cllfls of Lookout Mountain, under the frowning heights of Kene
saw, and here and there along the line of march, until, for some,
the sea sounds forth a requiem. Peace to their ashes ! Remem
bered be their lives and deeds, while we willingly pause in our
pleasure to drop a soldier's tear on the honored graves of the
early dead. They lie there in companies, battalions, and divis
ions, and side by side with the private soldier, the true and tried
leader fell in death.
" Their swords are rust —
Their good steeds, dust —
Their souls are with the saints, we trust."
Wherever man could go, they went ; whatever man could do,
they did, and as a body of energetic, enterprising and resistless
men, achieved for themselves and their army a name which will
live as long as the land lasts for whose liberties they fought ; for
they commanded the prompt approbation of their leaders, and
challenged the admiration of the people, while the astonished
military leaders of other nations, wrapped up in theories of their
own as to the formation of armies, paused in their perusal of the
history of the rebellion, surprised by the reality. And after it
was announced that the cause of the South was a lost cause, and
the shell of the Confederacy was crushed ; after the Army of

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Northern Virginia had surrendered to our first Commander, and'
the Rebel Army of Tennessee to our second ; after the head of
the Rebellion, followed by the quick eye, and pursued by the
Cavalry of the untiring Wilson, had yielded to capture, baffled,
discomfited and lost, what a sight it was for the contemplation of
the world, as the Armies of the Union, passing in review before
their leader, and before the Nation's Executive, filed off to their
homes, and calmly, peacefully, and gladly returned to the quiet
walks of civil life ! In no other land could such a scene be wit
nessed. Years before, the citizens of the Republic had become
her soldiers ; her youth had become her men, and the smoke of
the marches of military life had hidden from their view the green
fields of other days, but, as the cloud lifted, it revealed the men
of the Army who had survived the shock of War, dropping the
weapons of the conflict, and the button of rank, and effacing all
traces of the contest in the industrious avocations of life. As
quickly as arms were taken up, as promptly were they laid aside,
and almost imperceptibly, with the last roll of the drums of the
rebellion, an army of strength and power and numbers, was
dissolved without commotion. As they were mustered out,
hearts which throbbed heavily with anguish during their absence,
bounded with joy at their approach ; the faces of the aged,
marked by the anxiety of separation, as well as by the touch of
time, kindled with the old smile as the hour of reunion came ;
and, clasped in the close embrace of those around whom the best
affections of his heart clustered, — mothers, wives, sisters and
lovers, — the soldier of the Army, exultant in his well-earned
fame, received the rich reward he had won so worthily. What
though his marches had been long and weary, his rations some
times scant and poor, his battles bloody, and his hardships at
times unheeded ; not a page would he take from the history of
the campaigns in which he bore a part, not a word would he
blot from th^ orders which told the congratulations of his chief,

30 Army Reunion.
and not a leaf would he pluck from the wreath of renown In
which these very struggles and trials were woven. In the hearts
of the people his reputation was fadeless, for while to the nation
he was the defender of its liberties, the character and conduct of
the American volunteer were the wonder of the world. Wher
ever we go, these men are found now. In all the labors that
industry invites, and as they were good soldiers, so now they
honor the paths they tread. In the presence of the dissolved
army, the public men of other nations stand in astonishment.
That hundreds of thousands of men, untaught in war, should so
suddenly become a skillful army, and as suddenly return again to
the work-shop, and the office, and the farm, surpassed even the
expectations of the well-wishers of the land ; for the occurrence
stood without a parallel. As the young Republic emerged from
these trials, her leaders sent to nations far beyond the Atlantic
lessons in the art of war.
There was a feature of the Western Armies which has been
remarked, and which, though personal to every soldier of the
corps and divisions represented here to-night. Is yet an honest
cause of proud satisfaction to us all ; that the unity of their
actions, the harmony of their counsels, and their combined efforts
to conquer, were not impaired or weakened by internal feuds,
nor tarnished by unsoldierly jealousy. In the personal valor, in
the soldierly honor and persistent energies of their comrades of
the armies of the Cumberland, the Ohio, and of Georgia, the
Army of the Tennessee ever had firm reliance. Shoulder to
shoulder with them they passed through the perils of the Atlanta
Campaign, and with joyful ears listened to the salute of exploding
magazines, which told that the Twentieth Corps were entering the
city ; and on the great march from the " Gate City " of Georgia to
the coast, the soldier of the West knew that when trouble came,
the soldier of the East, adopted into this Western host, would find
no word like fail written in his orders. The leader of one of

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these armies has been chosen to represent his constituents in
the National Congress ; another, with the ability which has ever
characterized him, presides over the Department of War, and
the other Is always faithful to duty, true to his trust wherever
found, whether controlling the management of a complicated
command, or, as when the fate of the Western army quivered In
the balance, coolly stemming the tide of battle, he beat back the
rebel host, crushed and conquered, stamping himself as the
determined soldier, whom the pride of state could not allure ;
whose name, soldiers of the Army of the Cumberland, is told to
the youth of the land as the synonym of purest patriotism, your
own beloved commander, Thomas, the Rock of Chickamauga !
And this characteristic was not confined to the armies, as armies,
but between corps, divisions of corps, and brigades of the
divisions, extending to smaller organizations, the feeling existed,
and, attached together on the badge of our Coinmander, may be
seen the acorn of the Fourteenth, the cartridge-box of the
Fifteenth, the arrow of the Seventeenth, the star of the
Twentieth, and the shield of the Twenty-third Corps, sug
gestive emblems of the complete organization, united like
the commands they represented. Between the Corps of the
Army of the Tennessee, existed that perfect unity of feeling
which showed them to be self-reliant, and still dependent each on
the other ; for each knew that neither would take an advance
which the other would not willingly follow. Between them
generous rivalry promoted military union. Their perfect faith in
the army's chief never wavered, and when, as the enemy w^as
developed, the commencing skirmish grew into actual battle ;
McClernand's and Ord's Thirteenth Corps opened a way
through the enemy in its front ; Hurlbut's and Dodge's Sixteenth
was a wall of fire ; the arrow of Blair's Seventeenth went
surely to its mark ; while the cartridges of Logan's Fifteenth
dealt death with the inevitable forty rounds. It was this

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patriotic faith which. made the engagements of these armies so
prominent among the successes of the war, and gave them a fame
as unspotted as it is enduring.
And now. Comrades of the Army of the Tennessee, we
willingly weave the cypress with the laurel that enshrines the
memories of the thousands of our own command whose valor in
action, ever conspicuous, remains remembered, though their last
fight has been fought, and their camp is with a command higher
than any they ever served with here. We do not number them,
nor can we tell of all ; but drums will cease to beat and bugles to
blow ere their examples be lost. Their military life is written.
The records of the Rebellion have closed their pages for them.
But while there survives a man of his division, he will recall the
form and features of Iowa's Crocker, as in the heat of action,
chivalric and inspired by the excitement, he gave his
whole soul to the cause. The people of his State protect his
memory, and in every house and home upon its prairies his
honored name is a household word. The sons of Illinois fail to
find at their gatherings the form of their loved Ransom. With a
heart as gentle as a woman's, he was yet full of that old Roman
fire which, gathering its Inspiration from famous martial scenes,
kindled in his mild eye unwonted light, and gave to the noble
gentleman the mien, and attitude, and aspect of the born soldier,
Both of them survived many hard fought fields, to die the death
so unwelcome to a soldier, — one surrounded by friends of
home; — the other away from Its comforts and attentions with
his last hours soothed by those who, on his staff, had learned to
love him ; but to the last, both remembered the companions of
their campaigns, and with the flnal beatings of their hearts, sent
to us all, the soldier's last farewell.
Since our last meeting, another has gone, who, but twelve
months ago with us, listened to the address of our chief at our
Annual Meeting, — an officer of our Society, one of its Vice-

Oration of General Belknap. 33
Presidents, who gave its interest attention, and was a prompt
attendant at its meetings. His wound received at Shiloh, while
apparently yielding to treatment, was yet gradually sapping the
foundations of his life, and with the sons of his State, we lament
the absence of Wisconsin'sFairchild.. And while we can not tell
of all, we remember that there Is yet another. Near his boy
hood's home at Clyde, Ohio, rests all that is mortal of McPherson,
our third commander. From the front of the action, in full sight
of the foe, booted and spurred, he went into the presence of the
God of Battles. Of magnetic influence, of courtly presence, and
of extraordinary military ability, he was a knightly soldier.
Near him, as he fell in the battle near Atlanta, July 22, 1864,
was a wounded private, George D. Reynolds, of Company D,
Fifteenth Iowa. Though pressed closely by the enemy, this
gallant boy refused to forsake his fallen general. From his own
canteen he gave water to those trembling lips ; with his shattered
arm he supported the dying hero's head ; from those eyes, ere
they became lustreless forever, he received that glance of thankful
recognition, which, beyond all pay or promotion was his full
reward ; and as that great heart ceased to beat, he felt the
last faint, grateful pressure of his commander's hand. For
McPhersonNsdeath came just as it should, amidst the crash of
musketry, and the booming of heavy guns ; and his comrades
of the Army of the Tennessee loving him in his heroic life, and
honoring him in his early death, bound upon his youthful brow
a laurel crown, and sent his fame to history. The numbers
of the enemy's dead upon that field were silent but sure witnesses
that his army, under the command and dashing leadership
of Logan, avenged the death of their honored chief. His
successor in the command has an empty sleeve as the unimpeach
able badge of his heroism, and by the oppressed every where
honor is done to that Howard whose well-earned reputation
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34 Army Reunion.
during the war shines as brightly as do his philanthropic
endeavors among scenes of peace.
What must have been the feelings of our second commander,
when, four years ago last month, severing the telegraphic wires
as they sent oft' his and our last message — "all's well" — he
broke the last bar of iron which bound this Army to their North
ern home. The measure of his fame was nearly full. The
admiration of the age had crowned the accomplishment of his
successes at Atlanta with generous praise, and high up, on the
column of the world's great captains, was inscribed the name of
Sherman. Reliant upon the confidence of his Army, and grasp
ing with his genius the future of the rebellion, as it was mapped
out before him, he commenced that march which to all time will
be told as " Sherman's March to the Sea." And, as he turned
his face toward the ocean, a long line of departing locomotives,
as, with their living freight of weak and wounded, they moved
to the North, whistled and shrieked out to him their last
farewelk " There tracks of blood
Even to the forest's depth, and scatter'd arms,
And lifeless warriors, whose hard lineaments
Death's self could change not, mark the dreadful path
Of the out-sallying victors ; far behind,
Black ashes note where their proud city stood."
Marching to the sea, he added to the Nation's Christmas Gifts,
four years ago this month, the city of Savannah ; a little later he
captured the capital of Secession, and compelled the surrender of
Johnston's baffled army ; every where, and always stamping on
his plans the mark of genius, on their execution the signet of a
determined will, and wherever he may be, finding a welcome
home in the hearts of his command.
Above us we see the name of another, whose boundless repu-

Oration of General Belknap. 35
tation the Army of the Tennessee claims as its own, for Grant
was its first Commander, and has said that " with that Army he
felt himself Identified to the end of its service." Overcoming the
assaults of his enemies at home by his modest manner, and, con
quering his foes in the field by his military ability, he achieved
for himself a name which is matchless, and has marked him as
the leader of leaders, and the General of the Age.
" Patient in toil; serene amidst alarms —
Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms" —
Proud are we of him, who at Donelson, and Vicksburg,
announced "unconditional surrender" as his terms; who at
Chattanooga told his army, " no enemy can withstand you, and
no defences, however formidable, can check your onward
march" ; who, with Sheridan, effaced from military lexicons the
word " can't," and placed there, instead, the memorable phrase,
"go in'' ; who in his last order told you "your marches, sieges
and battles dimmed the lustre of the world's past military
achievements, and will be the patriot's precedent, in defence of
liberty and right, for all time to come; "and who received from
President Lincoln the acknowledgment, " you were right, and I
was wrong." From us he needs no laurels, for those he wears
will be forever green. The Nation which trusted him In war,
confides in him in peace, and has placed the soldier-statesman in
the line of Presidents which began with Washington. His, and
his army's friend, we miss to-night ; that noble soldier who from
first to last, in depression and in victory, stood by his honored
chief; and from the lips of every one of us, as we find he is not
here, comes the earnest expression which tells the sentiment of
all the soldier hearts throughout the land— "Long live John A.
Rawlins!" Comrades ! we stand at a commanding point in the life of the
land, in the progressive march of the people, which places the

36 Army Reunion.
Nation foremost among the Governments of the world ; we can
not be found absent when the assembly sounds. The star of the
future is bright with hope. This Union, rendered dearer by the
blood spilled to Insure its life, must remain unbroken by rebellion,
and strong against attack. Throughout the land, from Maine to
Florida, and from sea to sea, the American citizen must be free
to go, unmolested and at home. The bands of iron binding the
Continent from ocean to ocean, can not be stronger than the cords
of patriotic aflection tying heart to heart. And, while from the
lips of the President elect comes that noble sentiment, which
finds no readier response than from ourselves, " Let us have
Peace," back from the past, and from amidst occurrences which
presaged the future, comes that prophetic utterance of our second
commander, " We must have peace, not only at Atlanta, but in
all America." Made stronger In heart than ever by this reunion,
striking hands to-night with a fervor that shows that the memories
of the past trials and triumphs of these Armies will live and
bear fruit, should the country's call ever again be sounded, you
feel that, while with honest pride you sustained the honor of the
flag, as citizens you will never tarnish the records of the Nation
whose standards were borne to triumph by the Armies of the
Union, and whose assembled thousands, as they greeted your
grand review, on the avenues of the Capital, and strewed your
march with flowers, sent to you the grateful acclaim of the people
of America :
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ORATION OF GENERAL CRUFT.

Comrades of the Army of the Cumberland : The Society
which you have formed, and the meeting of which has called us
together, on this occasion, has among its chief objects " the per
petuation of the memory of the fortunes and achievements of the
Army of the Cumberland," and the preservation of " that
unanimity of loyal sentiment, and that kind and cordial feeling
which has been an eminent characteristic of the army, and the
main element of the power and success of its efforts in behalf of
the cause of the Union." Other, and equally worthy objects, are
also interwoven with those stated, but assume lesser importance
in the general plan of organization. In furtherance of the grand
purpose of the association you have come up hither, from all
parts of our broad land, to reawaken, in memory, the valorous
deeds of the old Army, and to kindle anew in your hearts that
steadfast loyalty and wondrous cordiality which ever distin
guished it. Your reunion to-day is one of the glorious rewards
which await the gallant soldier. It is one of those privileges for
which he has patiently tolled in camp, endured long and dreary
marches, and risked his life ofttimes in battle. It is a great and
glorious privilege. God grant you all, my comrades, long years
to enjoy the like occasions.
In pronouncing an anniversary discourse to you, on matters
connected with your Association, the hasty thoughts which I
have been enabled to devote to them, resolve themselves into a
consideration of the following topics :

38 Army Reunion.
1st. The prominent characteristics of the Rebellion.
¦2nd. The origin of the ^'^ Army of the Cumberland" and its
exploits in the great struggle for the life of the Republic.
yd. Its peculiarities as a distinct army in the Jield.
ifth. The teachings of the war.
Of these in their order :
characteristics of the rebellion.
No elaborate discussion of the origin of the sectional differ
ences which caused the late war of the Rebellion, from a political
stand-point, is expected, nor would it be in good taste on the
present occasion. It is sufficient now to say that a long chain
of causes, stretching back through more than a generation, had
estranged the people of the North and South. Differences of
climate, soil, productions, character of labor, customs, pursuits,
and political teachings, all had to do with this. It was not any
single cause which brought about the war, but a combination
of many. The most note-worthy of these causes was the
persistent effort made by the South, so to shape Federal legisla
tion as to foster and extend the institution of African slavery,
and to establish the political dogma known as the doctrine of
" State rights.'' Ambitious and cunning politicians fanned these
smouldering embers into the flame of civil war. In i86x the
country became the theatre of an armed rebellion, more won
derful in origin — more surprising in extent — more magnificent
in resources and 'combinations than any of which the history of
the world gives account. The Rebellion — stripped of all poet
ical and other surroundings — was an effort, on the part of eleven
States of the Union, by force of arms, to throw off the Federal
Government, and establish a confederation which should per
petuate the barbarisms of African slavery, and preserve the

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political heresy of " State rights." To accomjalish these pur
poses, the rebellious States organized a strong civil government,
and appealed to the arbitrament of arms. Abandoning diplo
macy, they resorted to the musket and cannon — ^'¦ultima ratio
regum."
The war, which followed, was marvelous, in many respects,
and was wholly unlike any in which the armies of the Republic
had ever before engaged. No parallel exists, at any point,
between the late Rebellion and the war of the Revolution, that
of 181 3, or the Mexican war. All these contests were with
foreign enemies, and were made by our nation as a unit. It was
not so, however, with the Rebellion, which was peculiar In
many ways.
It was a fratricidal war — a contest of arms between sections
of a common country and government. The hand of brother
was arrayed against brother, and father against son. All ties
of kindred, marriage, friendship and affection were forgotten.
Every citizen was forced to decide between loyalty and rebellion,
and, in some form, espouse the cause of his choice. Like all
civil wars, the Rebellion evoked more bitterness, hate, destruct-
iveness and passion, than attends warfare between different
nations , in the same measure that family quarrels are more
intense than others.
The Rebellion was a war of sentiment. The South was
fighting for a cherished set of social and political ideas, which
had been instilled into the generation of the men who inaugurated
the war, from the cradle upwards. The North, originally, was
contending for the integrity of the Government, and against the
supremacy of the States ; but, as the contest deepened, the
freedom of the negro and other matters assumed various propor
tions as war measures. Personal manhood and prowess finally
became infused into the strife, and, before the war ended, it
became also a question of sentiment with the North, though not
especially so at the beginning.

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Viewed from the stand-point of the government, the Rebellion
was peculiar in the character of the enemy. The troops of the
Republic were hastily summoned to face an enemy of greater
intelligence and courage than they had ever before encountered ;
and, by the same rule, an enemy of greater ability, resources and
malignity. So far as the United States were concerned, the
Rebellion was, to a great extent, necessarily an invasive war
within its own borders, and that into the country of an enemy
more creative in warlike expedients, more wary and better
skilled in military matters, than any people in the world. The
populace at the South had been more or less bred to warlike
practices and traditions, and had apparently been long provoking
and courting the Incursion of their Northern neighbors. They
were fighting for their homes and firesides, and to establish, upon
sure foundations, their boasted chivalry and individual superiority.
The physical conformation of their country was fitted to a
prolonged struggle, and guerrilla warfare. It was crossed by
craggy ridges and mountains, difficult to be passed by soldiers,
and impracticable for effective operations of cavalry and artillery.
A few troops knowing the topography of the country, could hold
important fastnesses, for a long time, against large bodies of well
equipped soldiery advancing upon them by ordinary military
approaches. The war was, therefore, mostly offensive, on the part
of the Government, and was, of necessity, prosecuted upon a
theatre where all the movements of the enemy were aided by an
accurate knowledge of the country.
The Government met with no partlzan aid in the South. The
favor of the citizens was toward the cause of the Rebellion. A
few isolated instances of towns, districts and individuals, who were
loyal to the Union, were encountered, but these were rare and not
to be trusted. The aid of a plausible and Ingeniously constructed
civil government was constantly given to the rebel cause ; and it
was powerful enough, by early and systematic proscriptions, lo

Oration of General Cruft. 41
drive all tlie men capable of bearing arms to the ranks of the
insurgents. Not only the men, but the women of the South,
strongly engaged in the Rebellion. Of course, they did not
take the field, as the Amazons of old are said to have done,
but they were a tremendous power in the Southern Confederacy.
From the very commencement of the war, they were willing to
forego al] domestic ties to prosper their side, and so continued
until they were forced to admit their " cause was lost,'' only by
witnessing the returning fragments of the armies of the Con
federacy after Lee's surrender.
Never was more devotion shown to any cause, from com
mencement to ending, than was exhibited by the women of the
rebellious States toward that in which their fathers, husbands,
sons and brothers were engaged. Every officer and soldier of
the Armies of the Union saw and felt the power which the rebel
women of the South exercised during the war. There was no
hardship or suffering which they were not willing to undergo — ¦
no deceit or falsehood they would not practice — no desperate
venture they would not make for their
" Bonnie blue flag, with but a single star."
History furnishes no example of greater zeal and abandon to
the fortunes of their cause ; not even the women of ancient
Sparta excelled them in their fidelity to their flag and kindred.
While the Government had no party in the South, there was a
large element in the North in sympathy with the rebellion. This
force was dormant, to all appearances, but it was a strong and
powerful undertow, and tended to clog the efforts of the Govern
ment in every direction — to break down its financial expedients
when "gold, which turneth the wheels of war, was wanting" —
to prevent enlistment — to encourage desertion — to spread dis
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42 Army Reunion.
rejoice over their reverses. This hidden and unseen opposition
was practiced by thousands who had not the manliness to array
themselves in arms on the side of the Rebellion — even by those
whose roofs were kept over them, and firesides protected by the
strong arm of the Government, and who held honors and office
by its gift.
Another characteristic of the Rebellion was the singular spec
tacle of four millions of negro slaves standing passive, and
making no effort to wrest their liberty by insurrection. They
^vere left at home, in abject servitude, and still kept laboring on
for their mistresses and the children of their masters, while their
owners had gone to the field. The producing ability of the
slaves, and their faithfulness to their masters, really enabled the
Southern people to commence the war, and certainly enabled
them to prolong It very materially. It was a power In war
which had not before been encountered by our nation, and there
was no mode of computing or measuring its sti'ength. It had no
parallel any where in military history, and no similitude except a
faint one In the conduct of the serfs of Russia during the Crimean
war ; but even here the resemblance fails, for the serfs were
serving their Czar under promise of freedom, while the Southern
negro had nothing to look forward to but perpetual slavery.
While the Rebellion was a war without nominal allies on
either side, yet the rebels had a strong and powerful moral
alliance with England, France, Austria, and other European
kingdoms. The monarchs and citizens of these countries were
in deep sympathy with the cause of the South. They furnished
much of the money, arms and material with which to prosecute
the war. Their merchantmen were constantly running the
blockade of our Southern seaboard, freighted with rich cargoes
contraband of war. The small Confederate navy came from
England, and to her may be traced all the disasters to American
commerce occasioned by the war. The Emperors of France and

Oration of General Cruft. ' 43
Austria, calculating upon the strength of the Rebellion, and the
crippled condition of our Government, attempted to strike at our
" Monroe doctrine," and establish an empire in the bordering
Republic of Mexico. Thus the Confederate Government, while
apparently fighting single-handed, had this quasi-alliance — anom
alous in the records of war, and difficult to oppose on account of
the professed amity existing between these powers and the United
States. The Rebellion was chiefly a contest between land forces.
Owing to this fact, and the necessity of maintaining a close
blockade in front of the entire Southern sea-coast, our gallant
navy had not the usual opportunity to distinguish Itself. Wher
ever occasion offered, however, It added to its former renown.
The grand victories at New Orleans, Fort Fisher, Mobile and
elsewhere — the splendid action of the Kearsarge in the English
channel, in sight of the French cannon at Cherbourg, and of the
monitors along the Atlantic coast, the invaluable service of the
gunboat marine in the Western waters, all shed imperishable
lustre upon our navy.
Another peculiarity of the war of the Rebellion, compared
with any in which the Government had before engaged, is to be
found in the vast changes and Improvements which had been
made, during the last few years, in all arms, and also, to some
extent. In strategy, logistics, engineering, grand and minor tactics.
The rebels had kept pace with all these improvements, and
thereby presented themselves as a more formidable enemy than
any previous one. The war was found to be a school, in which
not only soldiers, but officers of every grade, were pupils. Many
of the military theories of past ages were modified or overturned.
Gunnery had to be learned anew, with the constant improve
ment in rifled cannon, and the whole science of projectiles
restudied. The masses of soldiery used were so increased as to
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44 Army Reunion.
Railroads and telegraphs had been brought into requisition as
aids in warfare, and changed all the past ideas and practice
connected with it.
These were some of the most striking characteristics of the
War of the Rebellion, as compared with any former one in which
the Federal Government had before engaged. The novel features
were all against the United States, and In favor of the insurgents.
They contributed to make the war ten-fold harder, in all respects,
than any other before undertaken, and greatly to diminish tlie
chances of conquering a peace. He who went to the war, in the
outset, with the belief that victory over the Rebels was an easy
thing, soon changed his mind, and found that It was no holiday
affair. The preparations of the Government, both in men and
material, were, in the commencement, totally inadequate. It
required at least two years to educate the Cabinet at Washington
up to a conception ofthe power and proportions ofthe Rebellion.
Thousands of Federal soldiers had been wounded and slain, and
millions of treasure had been expended, before even the people
of the great North awakened to the magnitude of the war, and
realized the sacrifices that yet had to be made to save the life of
the nation.
The result of the Presidential election of i860, demonstrated
the fact that a rebellion, on the part of the Cotton States, was
imminent ; yet neither the people of the North, nor the Govern
ment appeared to realize it. The seizure of the forts and
arsenals, public property, and materials of war of the United
States, speedily followed ; then came the formal acts of secession
of the various States, and the inauguration of the Confederate
government. Then occurred the bombardment and reduction of
Sumter. This overt act of war ended the temporizing policy of
the Government, and aroused the anger of the nation. The last
shot fired from the devoted fort in Charleston Harbor, in defence
of the nation's starry flag " quickened the beat of millions of

Oration of General Ci'ufl. 45
r
loyal hearts," and fixed in them the firm resolve that the Rebel
lion should be suppressed by arms. The excitement which
followed the capture of Sumter has not been surpassed by any
that has hitherto swept over the land. The telegraph had
scarcely announced the fact when the shrill tones of the fife and
the roll of the drum were heard in every city and hamlet of the
North, and citizens, leaving their homes and employments,
hastened to form themselves into military organizations and
tender their services to the Government. The President called
for seventy-five three months regiments, which act, viewed in the
light of subsequent events, proved to have been a sad error as to
numbers. The war was now actively commenced. Its history is too
deeply engraved and scarred into the hearts of our people ever to
be forgotten. The Rebels soon concentrated at Manassas, threat
ening the national Capital. The first great battle was fought and
resulted disastrously to the Union arms. That battle and victory
ultimately sealed the fate of the Rebellion. It woke the real
martial spirit of the North. It first developed the enormous
strength of the Rebellion, and deepened and riveted the purpose,
on the part of the Government and people, to put it down.
Camp-fires forthwith blazed from every hill-top of the North,
like the flaming beacons of the Persian fire-worshipers, and
every valley echoed the cry, '¦'•to arms!" In such a war, out of
such times, and to aid in saving the life of the Republic, sprang
the " Army ofthe Cumberland," and the other kindred armies of
tlie United States. They did not leap forth into existence, like
Minerva, of Grecian fable, in full strength and panoply, but gre-w
slowly, and from feeble beginnings. At first, all the national
armies were small and ineffective. The commanders had but
little experimental knowledge of war. The rank and file was
composed of new recruits. The staff and commissariat were
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quartermaster's department had few baggage and draft animals.
There were scarce any ordinance or hospital conveniences. The
cavalry were few and poorly mounted. Experience, which goes
to Insure celerity of movement, and certainty of success in
military matters, was wholly wanting.
With this view of the general characteristics of the Rebellion,
I pass to the origin of the Army of the Cumberland, and a brief
statement of Its exploits as an independent army In the field, and
a slight tracing of its efforts in behalf of the union of the States.
origin and services of the army of the CUMBERLAND.
The germ of the Army of the Cumberland consisted of that
portion of Federal soldiery first organized, at Louisville, Ken
tucky, in the summer of iS6i, by General Robert Anderson.
The bulk of these original troops were Western volunteers, and
chiefly from the States of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. These
men had rushed to arms, at the call of the Governinent, from the
fields, work-shops, stores and offices of the West, in the excite
ment following the disastrous result of the first great battle of the
war, and were willing patriots, but undisciplined and untried
soldiers. That faithful officer — -the hero of Fort Sumter — organ
ized and placed them in the field, but was soon called to another
post of duty. He was succeeded by General William T. Sher
man, who, during a brief stay, expanded the embryo army into
more commanding proportions, and laid the ground-work for its
discipline and instruction. General Sherman wisely desired to
make his little force somewhat larger, if It was expected to do
much towards conquering the newly-fledged Confederacy. His
arithmetical ideas, however, clashed with those of the Govern
ment, which had already determined that seventy-fve thousand
men were sufficient for the entire undertaking, and he was
relieved of his command. Time has signally vindicated General
Sherman's view of " the situation'' as then expressed.

Oration of General Cruft. 47
General D. C. Buell succeeded our present Lieutenant-General.
Being an excellent disciplinarian, he at once commenced perfect-
, ing the organization of the troops and the Instruction of their
officers. He bestowed upon his new command Its flrst distinctive
name, the '¦'¦Army of the Ohio" — and by a few months of
patient and well-directed labor, developed it to the real propor
tions of an army in the field. The newly-created army laid in
training, for a few weeks, with its right along lower Green River,
its centre higher up, near Mumfordsville, and its left upon the
upper waters of the Cumberland, thus protecting Louisville and
northern Kentucky, and holding at bay the rebel forces under
Buckner. The young army was, however, soon called to active
service, and a short and sharp campaign was made in eastern
Kentucky. Then, in January, ,1862, the battle of Mill Springs
was fought, in which General George H. Thomas gained a signal
victory over the rebel forces under Zolllcoffer, and which ivas the
first decided success in the West I The year iS6i had closed
without any complete victories to the Federal arms in the few
conflicts which had then taken place, and the new year brought
with it a feeling of great despondency throughout the North.
The dashing encounter of the young "Army of the Ohio" with
the enemy, at Mill Springs, did much to show the metal of
which it was composed, as well as to restore public confidence in
the prowess of our volunteer soldiery.
The close of the winter of 1861-2 found the newly-formed
army on the march towards Nashville, parallel with the move
ments of the twin-army of the Tennessee, under General Grant,
upon Forts Henry and iDonelson. One brigade ofthe "Army of
the Ohio " was spared to the Tennessee column, and bore its part
in the glories and losses of that brilliant campaign — participating
in both the trying days at Shiloh — before returning to its place.
The Confederate forces withdrew from before the steady advance
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column of Grant. Forts Henry and Donelson fell before the
victorious assaults of the "Army of the Tennessee," and Nash
ville was occupied by the "Army of the Ohio." Here the latter
rested for a while from marching, but worked on, daily and
hourly, at drill and instruction. No pains were spared by com
mander, or subordinates, to reach the highest point of discipline
that could be attained. The surviving officers and soldiers of the
Army of the Cumberland will remember the toils and studies of
that period, and the alacrity with which they all addressed them
selves to the business of learning the art of war. Their chieftain
was indefatigable and exacting, and every one seemed to catch
his systematic and laborious spirit, and share with him in the
determination that they should be soldiers in fact as well as
name. The older regiments that moved from before Louisville
to Nashville, under General Buell, never forgot the lessons
learned upon that march, and always remembered them with
profit. In the course of events, General Grant soon moved up the
Tennessee and massed his army at Pittsburg Landing. The
" Army of the Ohio" was on the march to join him when It heard
the opening guns of the battle of Shiloh. The advance was
pushed forward with wonderful rapidity and the whole army made
Herculean eflbrts to reach the field and mingle in the desperate
fray. The leading division came in time to participate somewhat
in the first day's battle, and the bulk of the army to engage
bravely in the operations of the second day.
It Is not my purpose to dwell upon battles, or to attempt minute
details or descriptions of them. It requires great genius in poet,
painter, or historian to depict battle-scenes properly and intel
ligibly. Few, who attempt such description with pen or colors,
succeed. While every soldier, who has witnessed the prepara
tions for a pitched battle between contending armies, knows how

Oi'ation of General Cruft. 49
utterly impossible it is to portray the scene by words or picture,
yet he fully realizes the feeling described by the Scottish bard,
" 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life
One glance at their array."
The selge of Corinth followed the battle of Shiloh. Here
the discomfited enemy placed himself behind strong entrench
ments and awaited regular approaches. In all the toils and
labors of this period the " Army of the Ohio" nobly bore Its part,
and, when the enemy refused the wager of battle and retreated,
made its full share of pursuit.
Here the services of the " twin armies" divided, and they never
again served together until the memorable seige of Chattanooga.
The "Army ofthe Tennessee" turned westward to the Mississippi
river, and followed the course of its majestic current southward,
carving an undying name in history for its magnificent victories.
The "Army of the Ohio" faced toward the east — made the cele
brated campaign of Northern Alabama, threatened Chattanooga,
and finally concentrated in the eastern side of middle Tenneesee.
These operations consumed the summer of 1863. In the latter
part of August it became apparent that the enemy was passing
the left flank of our army, on the eastward of the Cumberland
range, and was determined on carrying the war to the Ohio river.
The "Army of the Ohio" was now rapidly marched westward to
Nashville, and the safety of that city being provided for, it was
stripped of baggage and all Impediments to light marching, and
Its course turned northward In haste to reach the Ohio before the
enemy could possibly do so. All who participated in that rapid
march will remember It as one of the most arduous and trying,
as well as one of the best conducted marches of the war.
The enemy was beaten to Louisville. Here the army was
remodeled, and largely increased in numbers, by the infusion
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50 Army Reunion.
of the new levies made in the West In the fiill of 1862. The
"Army of Kentucky," just organized by General Nelson, was
disbanded, and its regiments scattered throughout the brigades
of the "Army of the Ohio," adding largely to its numerical
strength. In the early days of that bright autumn the march towards the
enemy was commenced, the bloody battle of Perrysville was
fought, and the Confederate army started in full retreat southward
through the mountain gaps of Kentucky. Pursuit was vigorously
made as far as the waters of the Cumberland.
At this stage of affairs, a new commander was sent to the
army, in the person of General William S. Rosecrans. He
straightway concentrated the army in the vicinity of Nashville,
arriving there about the first of November. A few weeks of camp
life here were spent in constant drill and instruction. A complete
reorganization and refitment was had, and every thing possible
was done to make ready for an active winter campaign. The
old name "Army of the Ohio" was dropped by General Rosecrans,
and it was thenceforth known as the "Army of the Cumberland."
A thorough corps organization was adopted, and many reforms
and improvements introduced.
On the day after Christmas the army took march to encounter
its old enemy, behind his rifle-pits and entrenchments at Mur-
freesboro. The battle of Stone River was one of the raost
closely contested of the great engagements of the war. It
christened the newly-named "Army of the Cumberland " with a
baptism of fire. Few pitched battles have been fought of equal
duration and equal destruction. The cedar thickets and clearings
of that memorable field were reddened with the blood of the
slain. Right nobly did the "Army of the Cumberland" bear
Itself throughout that terrible and exhausting fight ; and although
victory was for a while doubtful. It finally settled upon the old
flag.

Oration of General Cruft. 51
Halting before Murfreesboro until mid-summer, the army
again started southward to accept battle at Tullahoma. Wisely
enough, however, the enemy withdrew from before its advance,
and passed beyond the Tennessee. Pursuit was shortly made,
and Chattanooga, the objective point of the campaign, was
occupied. This much, however, did not satisfy the impetuous
and brave leader of the army. He hurried onward to fight the
enemy when and where he could overtake him. After arduous
marches and counter-marches, it so fell out that the "Army of the
Cumberland " became interlaced with the enemy, in a singular
manner, and was assaulted by the reinforced army of the rebels,
in the valley of the Chickamauga—" river of death," as its name
signifies in the fanciful etymology of the Indian. The furious
battle of those two bright September days, fought In the thickets
along the Chickamauga, was one of the deadliest and most stub
born of the entire war. It was the last general engagement
fought by the "Army of the Cumberland" as an independent
army. Although not decisive as a pitched battle, yet it accom
plished the purpose of preventing the rebel occupancy of Chatta
nooga, and forced him to undertake to reduce the place by
regular siege.
The toils and sufferings ofthe faithful army, while beleaguered
within the defences at Chattanooga, have become historic. After
a time, the "Army of the Tennessee," under General Sherman,
and two corps of the Army of the Potomac, under General
Hooker, came to the relief of the Army of the Cumberland,
and to open the communications with its base of supplies.
Now occurred another and final change of commanders.
General Rosecrans was relieved, and the command devolved
upon General George H. Thomas, who entered upon his duties
under the most unfavorable auspices, and found himself, without
warning, at the head of the besieged and half-starved garrison.
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pluck and determination of the troops to hold the position at all
hazards, despite the enemy without, and starvation, disease and
death within. This indomitable spirit was subsequently placed
in terse and soldierly words by General Thomas in his famous
declaration, in behalf of his army, " to hold the place till we
starved!" General Grant, then in command of the Military Division of
the Mississippi, removed his field headquarters to Chattanooga,
and gave personal supervision to the future operations in that
vicinity. In two months the valley of the Tennessee was cleared
of the enemy. Lookout was stormed. Mission Ridge was carried
by assault, the siege of Knoxville was raised, and the enemy
driven southward within the mountains of Georgia. In tho
achievement of all these glorious successes, the Army of the
Cumberland took conspicuous part, and the names of all the
battles which produced them are Inscribed on its standards.
At the opening of the next spring, the grand campaign of
Atlanta was undertaken by General Sherman. The three corps
comprising the Army of the Cumberland were actively engaged
in all the battles and marches of this eventful campaign. They
made part of the lines of battle and assaulting columns during all
the well-known operations against the renowned "Gate City,"
and, after its capture, the old army divided, never again to meet.
Two of the corps, the Fourteenth and Tvi'entleth, subsequently
donstltuting the Army of Georgia, under General H. W. Slocum,
marched with Sherman, in his modern anabasis, down to the sea ;
the other, the " Old Fourth," retraced its steps to assist, with the
Army of the Ohio, under General J. M. Schofield, In fighting
Hood at Franklin and Nashville, and to be " In at the death" of
the Rebellion In the West. Perhaps no severer tests of manhood
and personal bravery were tried during the war, than those at
Franklin and Nashville, and surely no cleaner victory was won
than at the latter place. It broke the power of the Rebellion in

Oration of General Cruft. 53
the Mississippi Valley, and cut off all hope of success in the
West. After the battle at Nashville the remnant of the Army of
the Cumberland went to Texas, there to assist in wiping out the
last relics, of armed rebellion on the sunny plains of the South.
With the end of 1865, the last of the Army ofthe Cumberland
was mustered out, after an existence of more than four years as a
military organization in the field.
The faint sketch of the campaigns and battles just given,
conveys but a feeble idea of Its services and toils. It affords no
conception of the noble and heroic actions of the distinct regi
ments, brigades, divisions and corps which comprised the army,
nor of the brave and chivalric deeds of Individual officers and
men, which cast a halo of brilliancy always about its pathway.
The exploits of the old army were great in themselves, and great
in their consequences, and abounded with brilliant examples of
high courage and devoted zeal. They should "neither be disfig
ured nor forgotten," but are worthy of enduring fame, and a
conspicuous place in history. Says Napier, in reviewing the
Peninsular war, " much Injustice has been done, and much justice
left undone, by those authors who have hitherto written concern
ing this war." The same may be said in respect to the war of
the Rebellion. Its history has not yet been fully or truthfully
written, and perhaps never may be ; but whenever It is, great
credit and high renown must be allotted to the Army of the
Cumberland, as one of the Grand Armies of the Republic, for Its
gigantic strokes toward the suppression of the Rebellion. The
graves ofthe dead lie thick along its southern pathway, mute, yet
solemn and convincing testimony of its prowess and devotion to
the cause of the LTnion. It will be held, in after times, as no
small honor to have fought for the Government, in the war of the
Rebellion, and not the least to have followed the fortunes of the
Army of the Cumberland.

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PECULIARITIES AS A DISTINCT ARMY.
No sketch of the Army of the Cumberland would be complete,
however hastily drawn, which merely traced its campaigns,
marches and battles, but omitted to allude to the special characteris
tics which marked it. Your Society, in stating the objects of its
formation, has given prominence to two of these characteristics,
" unanimity of loyal sentiment ; and kind atid cordial feeling."
The Army of the Cumberland was loyal to the Government,
not only in the act of bearing arms In its defence, but in every
thought, feeling, word, and action. There were no under-currents
of doubt, complaint, disrespect or treachery toward the constituted
authorities of the nation. There was no hesitation or misgiving
about the justness of the war in which the army was engaged.
Officers and men alike were inspired with an unswerving spirit
of devotion to the national cause. A broad and Intelligent
patriotism nerved the hearts and steeled the swords of those who
followed the banners of that army. This feeling, prominent
from the first, grew with the growth and strengthened with the
strength of the army, until it became a live, deep and abiding
sentiment. It leavened the whole army as a mass, and gave sur
prising unanimity to its purposes and acts. No toil, hardship or
suffering could overcome this sentiment ; no enemy in the field,
nor rebel sympathizers in the rear could shake it. When the
enemy hurled his heavy columns on the front, he was repulsed by
steady lines of bayonets, the sharp rattle of musketry, and the roar
of well-manned artillery. When treason ran riot at home, brave
words and glorious deeds came thundering back from the army
in the field. This steadfast purpose was of great worth to the
Government, and stood in lieu of thousands of armed men, in
the North-west, who would otherwise have been required to
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The least faltering on the part ofthe "Army of the Cumberland,"
in loyalty to its flag, at one period, might have precipitated a
civil war northward of the Ohio. It is a matter of history that
a secret, treasonable association existed In certain of the North
western States during the war, which numbered among Its
members many names of distinction, the object of which was to
sow seeds of discord in the armies of the Government, to release
rebel prisoners, kidnap or kill loyal officers, and promote the
cause of the Confederacy by a counter-revolution in the North.
It is known that systematic and artful plots were attempted to
procure desertions from the " Army of the Cumberland," and to
thin its numbers in every possible way. To the credit of the
men who composed that army, it may be said that, so far as they
were concerned, all these treasonable schemes perished. They
scorned the approaches of treacherous northern sympathizers, and
treated them with less regard than the open foemen, who met
them in arms, fighting for the rebel flag.
The Army of the Cumberland was renowned for the kindness
and cordiality of feeling which prevailed throughout all Its
organizations, and existed between its individual members.
Harmony there always was, but more than this, there grew
up that true friendship and real brotherhood in arms, which
is bred only among brave men in the field, by common dangers
and exposures. This kindly feeling, commendable in all armies,
must be remembered by you as a prominent trait in the Army of
the Cumberland. It existed to a great degree in all our Western
armies, and is one ofthe pleasant memories of the war. Friend
ships and attachments were there formed between officers and
men, and Individuals of both classes, which nothing but death
can sever. Every one who served in the old army can recall the
respectful bearing, and unselfish attentions, which were the-
general rule of intercourse. There was, too, a real cordiality
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ments of military authority or etiquette, which sprang from the
spontaneous instincts of true men embarked in a common under
taking of peril and adventure. Jealousies, bickerings, or im
proper rivalries among officers, were almost wholly unknown ;
disagreements between difierent organizations never occurred.
There was a faithfulness between subordinate and superior
officers unusual in the experience of armies. Military law and
usage ordinarily prevent open and Improper comment, by subor
dinate officers or men, on the motives or acts of their superiors,
but there are a thousand ways by which unfaithful service may
be rendered and, for the time being, pass for true. Bad men
infest every army, to a certain extent, and not unfrequently creep
into official positions, where they can, for a while, find scope for
arrogance or brutality. Happily, such examples were very rare
in the "Army of the Cumberland." Its oiBcers, as a class, were
courteous gentlemen, and despised alike the brute, the " carpet
knight," and the martinet. The rank and file of the army was
composed largely of Intelligent and energetic men, who becarae
soldiers from the promptings of patriotism. They did not seek
the army as a make-shift, or an occupation, and brought to it the
earnest convictions and correct habits of successful and respect
able citizens. Hence, there was less rancor towards the Inhabit
ants of hostile territory, less plunder and pillage, less lawlessness,
straggling and crime than Is common in armies otherwise
constituted. The kindliness of the Army of the Cumberland
was not confined alone to its internal associations. It exhibited
itself constantly towards an unprotected enemy. Moderation
and justice marked its relations towards the helpless and Innocent
victims of the war encountered in its numerous campaigns.
Now that the rougher passions, engendered by the war, are
passing aw.ay, and the counsels of peace are to prevail, every
soldier must feel gratified that such humane conduct marked the
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to the unavoidable horrors of a civil strife, that the severities
inflicted by any army fell far short of what the harsher laws of
war justified.
Another feature of the Army of the Cumberland was the high
military and moral discipline. This quality naturally followed,
from the others alluded to, as well as from the character and
labors of Its diflerent commanders. A high and stern code of
discipline would be expected from such commanders as Anderson,
Sherman, Buell, Rosecrans and Thomas ; all of whom were
educated to arms, and had made the business of war the study of
a lifetime. They well understood the truth of the maxim, " War
is not a conjectural art" and constantly labored to promote that
thorough discipline which alone can render armies powerful or
effective. It is true discipline and constant duty that makes the
soldier, and this Is worth far more than exceptional acts of
bravery. It Is discipline which begets endurance, confidence,
courage, and power, in an army, and without it numbers become
ponderous and useless. Every soldier and officer of intelligence
understands the advantage of discipline, and however hard its
exact requirements may have seemed to raw volunteers, at first
enlistment, they soon knew that, in war, it was but another name
for safety and strength. It economizes life, insures success, gives
rapidity, certainty and vigor to soldiery ; without It, an army is
little else than an armed mob, dangerous only to itself, and
becomes a ready prey to stampede and defeat. The Army of
the Cumberland attained an enviable proficiency in all the tactical
knowledge, and other acquirements requisite for good service, but
In addition to this, it cultivated and enforced a high order of
discipline. Offences against good order became rare, and, when
discovered, were promptly and severely punished. The officers
were sustained and upheld by the men in the enforcement of all
the rules of war. This sentiment, prevailing throughout the
army, served to keep the men firm to their colors, and yet to
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Another quality of the Army of the Cumberland was a great
degree of military enthusiasm. The morale of the army was
uniformly good. As a body, it always had zeal, spirit, hope and
confidence. These qualities gave It not only endurance, but
superadded enthusiasm. No reverses broke its spirit or dirain
ished its zeal. Its tenacity and ability to endure reverses were
sorely tried at Stone River. Its spirit and enthusiasm were
brilliantly displayed, in contending against heavy odds, at Chick
amauga. The officers and men, as a class, were always enthusi
astic In asserting the justness of their cause, and in their steady
belief of its ultimate triumph. This confidence gave the army
great power In the conflict of battle, and rendered examples of
bad conduct in the face of the enemy, either on the part of indi
viduals or organizations, an exception to the general rule. A
direct effect of this feeling was to prevent disquiet, home
sickness — that bane of the volunteer soldier — desertion, and all
the train of evil consequences which flow therefrom.
Another quality which was constantly observable In the Array
of the Cumberland, was its esprit de corps. Pride in array
organization Is always a most desirable trait In military life. The
officer or private who can sink all Individuality in the name and
success of his company, regiment, division, or army, is, by the
same degree In which he does this, so much the better soldier.
This pride of the soldier In the army to which he belongs, gives
It force and vigor — ennobles the men, and operates as a strong
incentive to individual valor. This animating spirit of the
collective body was a conspicuous trait in the Army of the
Cuinberland. There were none of its regiments or batteries
who were not chary of the good name of their army, and proud
of the victories and services achieved by it.
These were some of the features of the "Army of the Cumber
land" which were ordinarily to be remarked. They, however,
by no means constitute all. They were qualities possessed in

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common by all our armies in the field, and it may be by others to
a degree equal or suiserlor to that of the one to which allusion
is made. It is true that they existed in it, and by referring to this
fact no invidious comparisons are intended.

TEACHINGS OF THE WAR.
The war of the Rebellion, like all sectional outbreaks, is not
without its instructions. Results which follow a civil war are
seldom apparent at its Immediate close. Its teachings are not
always impressed on the generation which has lived through the
eventful scenes which spring from it. Time is required to soften
the tone and passions of the contending parties, to heal up the
wounds of the nation, and to show the permanent consequences
which are produced. The late Rebellion is no exception to the
rule. It brought about changes in our country and Government,
and among our people, which will be as lasting as the Republic
itself. It is impossible now to allude, in the most cursory
manner, to all the revolutions in business, finance, political views,
personal life and habits, which came from the war. They are
many, and are full of instruction, regret, or foreboding, according
to the temperament in which they are read, and spirit in which
they are studied. Vast changes have, already, followed the war,
and its teachings are grand, solemn and wonderful. It over
turned many ofthe accepted ideas of our people — not a few
fundamental axioms in politics, and numerous preconceived
notions In business and commerce.
One of the grandest effects which flowed from the Rebellion
was the establishment of universal personal liberty in our country.
The theory of our Government has always been that of complete
individual freedom and protection, but yet, since its foundation,
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At the commencement of the war, notwithstanding the boasted
freedom of the United States, four millions of persons were held
in bondage, used and traded as chattels, and subjected to cruelties
such as were tolerated in no other civilized country. The war
burst the shackles from these millions of poor creatures, and bade
them look up, assert the intelligence the great Creator had given
them, and strive to become worthy and useful citizens. It made
our country not only free in name, but absolutely so. Henceforth
the world may truly look to the United States as
"  the land of the free,
And the horae of the brave!"
With the war has gone the great curse of slavery, and with
this are passing away those deep-rooted prejudices of caste and
color which have been peculiar only to our country.
The war exploded the great Southern maxim of commerce,
" Cotton is King ! " This staple, hitherto, held high place. It is true,
in all our great commercial relations, domestic and foreign, and
gave to our Gulf States a certain power which was asserted to be
supreme. Cotton, and its surroundings, and the ideas which
cluster around Its production, had much to do with bringing
about the war ; but, before it was fought through, the world
learned that cotton was not all there was of the United States.
Cotton, though a great power, as formerly used, was not
'¦^ King" — the maxim, asserting it to be so, was a fallacy, but it
i"equired the war to teach us this fact !
Another truth, established by the Rebellion, was that all the
chivalry and manhood of the nation was not compressed into that
part southward of " Mason and Dixon's line." It taught us that
there were valor, patriotism, and vitality elsewhere, and that
too sufficient to preserve the Government, and to overturn the
most powerful rebellion which has ever existed.

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Another fact settled by the war was the mastery of the Federal
Government. The claim of the supremacy of the State over the
General Government in matters of conflict, and the doctrine of
paramount allegiance owed by the citizens to the latter, were
fully overturned. The falsity of such assumption is now under
stood. The right of secession is also abandoned, and will
nevermore be asserted, at the point of the sword. The war
determined the Federal Government as the great central controll
ing power which shall, for all time to come, regulate, within the
limits of the written Constitution, the various States of the Union.
Before the Rebellion, the great mass of citizens scarcely realized
the existence of the Federal Government, or had any daily
evidence of its being. It levied no personal taxes ujion them,
restrained their liberties in no way, nor exacted any thing from
them. They knew that Congress held annual sessions, that a
President was elected every four years, the Cabinet changed, that
the Government transported their letters, and that it held a court
in their State. The only officer with whom they came in contact
was the postmaster. Comparatively few, away from the sea
board or the larger cities, had ever seen a custom-house,
light-house, navy-yard, man-of-war, file of soldiers, or any thing
else, except the national flag, which represented the physical
being of the General Government. It laid its burdens so lightly
on the citizen that they were hardly known. The war, however,
taught our people the existence of a federal power, and its ability
for self-protection, and the general defence.
These, and other similar lessons, were taught to our coun
trymen by the grim and horrid experience of the war. The
soldiers also, who were engaged in it, survived its battles, and
were honorably discharged, received an experimental tuition
which they will not soon forget. They stood nobly to their
colors in the tide of battle, and did not desert them in camp or
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from their standards while there was a single armed foe in the
field. Now that the war is over they do not propose to desert
the cause for which they fought, for they still owe their Govern
ment allegiance and fealty. While they may no longer measure
arms with an enemy, in battle array, they must still, as citizens,
render homage and support to the constituted authorities. They
naturally look for the results of their victory. As honorable
soldiers they desire the return of peace, and the restoration of
order as one of the first fruits. If this is not attained, then the
war has been fought in vain, and all its carnage and cost have been
made for nought. The survivors of the Union armies, with one
accord, join their late Commander-in-Chief in his magnanimous
and soldierly demand, " Let us have Peace ! " The people of the
nation have re-echoed this demand, and have strongly emphasized
It, by the recent election of our grand Chieftain to the Presidency
of the United States. This great tribute to the soldier element
of the country proclaims, in thunder tones, the determln.ation
of all classes to have that peace which is demanded by those
who fought the war ; as well as their intention to honor those
who were engaged in it.
A further duty impressed on returned soldiers, by the education
of the war, comes in the shape of an obligation to stand by one
another. All other things being equal, there can be no wrong to
the public in the soldier giving preference to his comrade, when
his interests come in competition with the citizen who did not go
to the war. He would be false to the acknowledged, though
unpledged, ties which bind him to those with whom he has
suffered and fought — false to the memory of his fallen com
panions — false to the associations which gather around and
hallow his life as a soldier, if he did not do so. As soldiers,
you kept the touch of the elbow when in line, so stand together
now as citizens ! The living public will honor you for such
conduct, and posterity will not fail to praise your faithfulness.

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Akin to this is another duty learned by the soldiers of the
Republic, — to support none but loyal men for official stations.
The man who took his life in his hand, and fought rebels in open
arms, can not be expected, by the most charitable, to use his
ballot to undo the work which his musket wrought. It is an
insult to the soldier who has returned from the war, with an
honorable record, and who has brains, to ask him to contribute to
install unregenerate and unrepentant traitors, or their sympa
thizers, in place and power.
The war of the Rebellion was fought by volunteer soldiery.
The policy of our Government has always been opposed to
a large standing army. As a result of such course, the entire
land force of the nation, at the commencement of the war, did
not exceed fifteen thousand effective men — barely sufficient for
light frontier service. Our navy, too, was small, and scattered
over distant oceans. The Government was, therefore, necessarily
compelled to call for volunteers, and to rely ujDon them for Its
support in the great contest before it. The army, small as It
was, was divided in loyalty, and about one-fourth of the old
officers went to the cause of the Rebellion ; those remaining
steadfast afforded material from which to officer the volunteer
troops and largely to contribute to their education. The small
force of regular troops, engaged in the war, proved themselves
brave soldiers. All that martial science, endurance and valor
could achieve, belongs to their history. It is the business,
however, of the regular soldier to be brave and resolute — to
fight gallantly. He Is fitted by long preparation and exercise, by
the study of the school and training of the camp. Such is not
the case with our inexperienced volunteers. The nation is justly
proud of the regular army, and of Its valiant achievements.
Another, and a peculiar pride, possesses our people as they
turn to their volunteer soldiers. They are part of themselves,
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They are the Immediate representatives of the state, county
and neighborhood. They are "the Republic itself in arms!"
They came, at the blast of the bugle, and roll of the drum,
and ran, on willing feet, to their country's banner. They
left their farms, work-shops, professions, homes and kindred, to
fight back the foes of their common Government. They knew
nothing of arms as a profession. Theirs was no mercenary
service. Listening only to promptings of patriotism, they
went forth to fight for their country, and then returned quietly
to their homes, laid aside the garb of the warrior, put on
the habiliments of peace, and resumed their former avocations.
The war has demonstrated the fact that we now have a great
and powerful Government, where every citizen can suddenly
spring into a full-armed, eflective soldier, and can as suddenly
be transformed into a peaceful citizen.
You, of the Army of the Cumberland, and the volunteer
soldiers of our other Grand Armies, have revealed the secret
of the physical strength of the Republic. Our people now
know the " mighty muscular power of our nation, and the
nerves, tendons and fibres of our Government." We can now,
as if by the wand of an enchanter, evoke great and magnificent
armies. During the late war the calls of President Lincoln
flashed, with electric speed, over the land, and, as at the blast
from the wild horn of Clan Alpine's Chief, every " bracken,
bush and stone " gave forth its
" — Warrior armed for strife."
But our volunteers have not only taught the lesson how easy
it is to raise vast and powerful armies, but, also, the further
and more important lesson, how easy It is to disperse them
without violence or bloodshed. Your example, in quietly return
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full of meaning and Instruction. The lesson to be learned from
such conduct was not lost on the world. To-day the monarchs
of Europe wonder how this is done. All civilization Is aston
ished to know how one million of volunteer soldiers, who
have fought to successful issue the most malignant civil war
which time has yet recorded, have quietly stacked their
arms and betaken themselves to civil pursuits. It is an irref
ragable fact that this has been done, and that you, and your
comrades in arms, have done it. The loyal volunteers of the
United States have proven to the world the ease with which
our Government can raise armies^ from her citizen soldiery,
and then suddenly transform them to peaceful life. This
element of strength is now as apparent as it is wonderful,
and constitutes a grand bulwark of freedom among us. This
ability suddenly to raise and disperse citizen soldiery, stands
in place of immense armies and navies. It Is like the fan of
Paribanou, the fairy, in Oriental mythology — spread It, and
the armies of powerful Sultans could repose beneath its
shade — fold it, and it became a toy In the hand of a lady.
This host of veterans which has just disappeared from camp
and field, Is ready to spring up again at the sound of the
trumpet. Now that peace Is spreading her healing wings
over the country, the vast military strength of the Rebellion
has become added to that of the Government. If war with
a foreign power should make occasion again to summon our
countrymen to arms, we can now rally, in a common cause,
from the survivors of the two late contending armies, two
millions of such tried and trusty soldiers as fought the terri
ble battles of the Rebellion. This subtle but wondrous power
is now with us. The nation feels it— the world knows it!
While the war cost many lives, and millions of' treasure, it
educated the nation to arms, and developed the martial taste
of our people to such extent as to leave no apprehensions for the
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future. Every loyal soldier laid down his arms at the termin
ation of the Rebellion with the solemn, though unuttered
pledge, that he would seize them again on the first call of his
country, and again wield them in its defence.
With all the horrors, destruction, and expense of the war, it
was not without some good. In our point of view it operated as
a great field of improvement to those who passed through
its dangers and turmoils, and survived. Many of the rough,
boisterous, and untrained men of the country were disciplined by
the service. Many were there taught their first lesson of sub
ordination, thoughtfulness, cleanliness, and systematic personal
habits. The lessons of the camps sometimes savored of vice,
but yet more frequently of virtues, and the conduct of the
thousands of soldiers who have quietly returned from the war,
and have since become honored and reputable citizens, shows
that their training in the field was not harmful, but Improving.

CONCLUSION.
Gentlemen of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland !
Since first entering the service of your country you have seen
all the vicissitudes and hardships of a soldier's life — the camp,
the march, the battle, and the victory. You have borne
yourselves bravely and successfully, and have exceeded the
expectations of your countrymen. You endured the trials
of your new life without murmur. Hunger and thirst, exposure,
sickness, fatigue, have not daunted you. You encountered your
country's enemy around the church at Shiloh ; you toiled nobly as
one of the besieging armies at Corinth ; you rolled back the
advancing tide of battle at Perrysville ; you wrested victory frora
the enemy amidst the tangled cedars at Stone River ; you held at
bay his compact hosts in the dark and bloody valley ofthe Chicka-

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mauga ; yon endured the memorable siege at Chattanooga ; you
contributed part of the heroic column that stormed Lookout
Mountain ; you formed the centre in the memorable assault
on Mission Ridge ; your dead lay thick on every battle-field from
Dalton to Atlanta. Many of you stood in solid ranks at the
murderous battle at Franklin, and moved upon the enemy at the
crowning victory at Nashville. Part of you " marched down to
the sea" with our great leader, Sherman, while part made that
other and terrible winter march in pursuit of a flying enemy,
without which "the march to sea'' would not have been so fully
vindicated as one of the grandest exploits in war. Your record
has been a glorious one. You can point to numerous pitched-
battles in which your army was engaged singly w^^ith the enemy,
and many others in which it bore a conspicuous part. Your ser
vices have been no trifling matter, no mere "fun mustering," but
constant and deadly grappling with "foemen worthy of your
steel." The long and toilsome marches you have made, the moun
tains and rivers you have crossed, the various routes you h.ive
traversed, the weary miles you have made, the fortifications you
have built, all these I have not attempted to relate. The world
knows these facts, for they have already passed Into history,
and have become great and startling truths. While you have
been toiling on, and risking your lives in battle, you have not
only been exalting yourselves, but unconsciously carving an
undying fame. It is to be spoken to your credit, noble soldiers,
that your army has not sullied its reputation by any base or
unmanly actions. It wears no dishonorable scars. It has not
recoiled in battle, nor faltered when the charge was sounded.
In this respect you have a common repute with your fellow-
soldiers of all the other grand armies of the Union — a glorious
national heritage, which has been wrought out by gallant
soldiery, and to which you have contributed.
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became veterans in the volunteer service. The stripes of honor,
added to the uniform worn by them, indicated that they were not
only United States volunteers, but, further and higher than this,
veteran vohtnteersl The additional title was no meaningless
thing. It proclaimed to the world that those who enjoyed it
had trod the wine-press of affiictlon, had been tried in the
furnace of battle, and that three years of experience and faithful
•labor had been consumed before they gained that honorable
distinction. The day that your veterans, having fulfilled their
first enlistment, again entered the service, was the crowning day
of their glory. Less patriotic or determined men would have
shrunk from this second trial. To their noble purpose, to the
re-enlistment of thousands in all the great armies of the Union,
our country owes its safety and integrity.
The pleasure of every greeting among soldiers is commingled
with sadness. In looking over the representation here of those
who once composed the Army of the Cumberland, in vain we
seek inany well-known and familiar faces. Why came they
not from the dangers of the battle to mingle with us to-day.?
Too well we know. The great record of battles furnishes
the sad response, and points us to the heroic dead. It recalls
to memory those who fell gloriously in battle, and rendered up
their lives to their country — -their souls to their God. We
may deplore them, we may grieve for them, but our lamentations
will not avail. Others there were who fell by the wayside in
Weary marches, or whose eyes grew dim and spirits fled from
camp or hospital, and whose names adorn no battle-roll.
Disease, the great destroyer made sad havoc in your lines.
His victims far exceeded those who fell in battle. Many a
comrade who escaped the perils of the field, driven from his place
in line, came home " to die amid his friends and kindred —
ending life where it began." Honor, then, to our patriotic
dead !

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Others, too, there were, not numbered with the dead, who,
stricken by disease, or bullets of the enemy, have returned
to drag out a life of disability and suffering. Honor, also,
to them ! Strong and manly soldiers once, their wounded
limbs and shattered bodies are to be revered and held doubly
precious. But our sorrows to-day may not be wholly for the dead.
Their names are — "Freedom's now, and Fame's."
Our sympathies rather go out for the living. The nation
mourns her warriors slain, and weeps over the rivers of
blood which have reddened its Southern plains, but our per
sonal and effective sympathy must be for the friends and
relatives of the fallen braves — most of all, for the widow
and orphan of the slain. While we can not but lament the
dead, who manfully fought their last battle, it is the living
that should call out our active condolence and future care.
Let the nation and the state, while, out of their abundance,
they labor to perpetuate the memory of the dead, also make
haste to provide for the needs of the living. Let it be a
matter of individual duty with us all to care for the wants
of the soldier's family. As God has given to each of us, so
let him give of his substance to the widows and orphans of
our gallant dead.
The stalwart returned soldier should have place, employ
ment, and honors. The wounded and helpless should have
home and comforts. The widow of the soldier, and his
fatherless children, should not beg bread. His orphan should
have education, and the state and kind friends should hover
around him, like ministering angels, to nurture, instruct and
guard him.

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I leave to linger witli you these parting injunctions which
are caught from the spirit and purpose of your Association ;
and, again wishing you the return of many such joyous
reunions, I bid you
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ORATION OF MAJOR-GENERAL J. D. COX.

My Old Comrades: I feel, very sensibly, the difficulty of
expressing fltly the feelings which must fill the heart of every
member of the Grand Army of the West at such a reunion
as this. We have met our old comrades of the corps and
subordinate army organizations, since we parted at Raleigh
after our last review as a separate army in the presence of
Grant and Sherman (names that need no titles) ; but to-day
the Army of the West meets, by its representatives, for the
first time in the garb of peace. To-day, in the presence of
the same commanders, for whom our love and admiration
have not grown cold in the interval, we meet to renew our
pledges of comradeship and brotherhood, to mingle our regrets
for the honored dead, and our congratulations with those who
have survived.
The years which have passed since that memorable April,
1865, by carrying us further away from the great and exciting
events, then just ending, enable us to take a juster and more
comprehensive view of the war Itself, and of our own share
In it ; and though no true soldier need apologize for the
honest pride with which he may have Imitated the ancient
hero In exclaiming, '¦'•quorum pars magna fui," all will
frankly admit that a distance of three years reduces somewhat
the proportions, and tones down the coloring one used to give
to the achievements of his own command as compared with
other portions of the army. The soldier in the ranks naturally
believes that his own regiment is the flower of the army, and
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a condition of success, that he would be an unwise com
mander who would discourage it. The emulation which grows
out of the same elements of pride and self-confidence, shows
itself in the division, the corps, or the army organization as
well. In the larger unit it has much of the same value as in
the smaller, and contains the same fallacy. We have all felt
its influence, and know that there was none of us who did not
feel a deeper thrill of pride and pleasure when he saw the flag
bearing his own corps emblem moving to the front, than in
looking upon any other banner that floated over the advancing
host. I said that time has modified these feelings somewhat. God
forbid that either our interest In the cause for which we fought,
or our personal satisfaction and pride in our own share of the
work, should diminish ! But I think that year by year, as the
past recedes into the distance, the feeling will grow more and
more general, and less individual ; more an army feeling, and
less that of a corps or division ; more a national feeling, and
less a local or sectional one. Looking back at our fathers'
deeds in the old War of Independence, we hardly care now
to inquire whether they served with Gates or Green, with
Lafayette or wltli Schuyler. We are are satisfied with their
glory in being members of the old Continental Army which
established the Republic. In like manner our sympathies have
been growing wider, and our appreciation of our comrades'
work has been enlarging ; the attraction has been extending
the circle of its influence until we who have had our regimental
reunions, our corps and subordinate army reunions, have felt
the Impulse to assemble, not as the Army of the Cumberland,
of the Tennessee, of Ohio, or of Georgia, but as the Grand
A.rmy of the West, with which our posterity will be proud
that we were identified, when our subordinate divisions shall
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And if our brothers of the Grand Army of the East could
be with us, our welcome would prove that we have no jealousy
of their splendid career, and hold it the dearest and most
precious of all our honors, that we were a part of the great
patriotic host — a unit in sentiment, peers in courage, and
rivals only In honorable deeds — -the army that saved the
nation ! Therefore, although I am here as the deputed repre
sentative of the Army of the Ohio, I shall not detain you
long with any thing which may be peculiar to that organization,
but shall hasten to the inquiry, how an army society may
be made to produce some durable results, by throwing light
on the history of the war, or by thorough and scientific criticism
of its events.
The Army of the Ohio, which last bore that name, was
organized in the summer of 1863, prior to General Burnside's
occupation of East Tennessee, and consisted at that time of
the Ninth and Twenty-Third Corps, and a cavalry corps,
besides detached garrisons and troops in various posts of the
Department of the same name. After the terrible winter
of 1863-64, following the memorable siege of Knoxville, the
Ninth Army Corps returned to the East and resumed its old
position in the Army of Virginia, leaving the Twenty-Third
Corps, with the cavalry and detached troops, to continue the
army name. The regiments of which it was composed had
nearly all been newly organized in the spring of 1S63, but were
made up, In considerable part, of officers and men who had
seen much service in the earlier part of the war. Its regiments
came from Ohio, Indiana, Ifllnols, Kentucky, and East Ten
nessee ; and during the first year of the new organization had
had the benefit of the systematic discipline and firm command
of General Hartsuff^ Thence, after a brief- Interval, it passed
into the hands of General Stoneman, and, finally, just t>efore
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commander, General Schofield, whose presence here to-day
prevents me from speaking of him in the terms of admiration
and deep-rooted confidence which every member of the Array
of the Ohio had learned to feel, long before the Government
had done justice to his services in the field, or recognized the
administrative sagacity which Is now so fitly employed at the
head of the War Department.
The winter which ushered in the year 1864, and the carap
at Strawberry Plains, in East Tennessee, was the '' Valley
Forge " of the Twenty-third Corps. The raising of the siege
of Knoxville was after the wagon roads to the Ohio river, two
hundred miles away, had become Impassable from the fall
rains. No railroad communication existed ; neither food nor
clothing could be procured from the distant depots of supply ;
the surrounding country was exhausted, and our men were left
to shiver in their rags, their frames debilitated by rations so
reduced in quantity and quality that we shrunk from estimating
the small proportion they bore to the regulation allowance.
The minute account of that winter campaign, and a just
tribute to the patriotic heroism of the men who, in the midst
of all their sufferings, re-enlisted by whole regiments for a new
terms of "three years, or during the war,'' — Is a tribute the
Army of the Ohio owes to Its heroes of the rank and file,
and would be a military memoir which would give the pro
ceedings of an Army Society real value to the future historian.
The 1st of May, 1864, found the Army of the Ohio taking
Its place as the left wing of the Grand Army, and prepar
ing to cross the Georgia line as the campaign of Atlanta
opened. Our first union with the combined army was in front
of Dalton, where we made the demonstration on the enemy's
works east of the ridge, whilst Thomas attacked Buzzard's
Roost and Rocky Face, and McPherson was moving through
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nessee had completed its movements, and we were ordered to
withdraw from the menacing but exposed and Isolated position
on the extreme left, retiring in line of battle, over ridges,
where the quartz rock seemed never to have lost its original
sharpness of angles, and through ravines, tangled, and almost
impassable, the enemy's skirmishers following closely our steps,
the officers and men of the Cumberland Army, from the
crags above, watched the movement, and their applause of Its
steadiness and precision was grateful to our hearts as a proof
that our efforts to cultivate discipline and aplomb had not been
in vain, and that we were received as equals by the men who
had fought at Stone River and Chickamauga. Other compli
ments, subsequently received, may have sounded better in
general orders, but none were ever more satisfactory to the
recipients than when we were told, with hearty voice, in rough
camp phrase, that our comrades of the other armies were
convinced we " would do to tie to."
Our initiation was complete, and the bloody conflict at
Resaca followed quickly, where we left many a brave fellow
by the banks of Camp Creek. Then came the crossing of the
Oostenaula, the new concentration about Kingston and Cass-
vllle, with the accompanying combats, the crossing of the
Etowah, and the advance on Kenesaw and Marietta. Some
times on the right wing, sometimes on the left, constantly on
a flank, we shared with the Army of the Tennessee the rapid
work of the campaign, the solid masses of the Cumberland
usually occupying the centre, and giving momentum to the
whole. At the crossing of the Chattahoochle the Army of the Ohio
had the post of honor, and the brilliant strategy of our General-
in-Chief was not balked by any lack of skill or dash in the
execution. It would be hard to select a more stimulating
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one in which all the details of dramatic eflect were more
complete. Beneath the cloudless skies of a warm and lazy
summer day, the Twenty-third Corps marched silently under
the cover of the ridges skirting the river, till Soap Creek
was reached, where Colonel Buel's canvas pontoons were
quickly framed and launched, the overhanging woods and
tortuous course of the brook hiding the work from the enemy's
outpost on the opposite shore of the river, behind whose
precipitous hills Johnston lay, his attention fixed upon the
masses of the great army encamped at the railroad-crossing
several miles below. So unsuspicious of danger were the
enemy's outpost, opposite, that a Georgia soldier of the detach
ment was writing a cheering letter to his wife at home, teUIng
her to have no anxiety for him, as there were no Yankees
within miles of them, when his writing was rudely interrupted,
not to be resumed, and the half-finished letter was left to tell
at once its pathetic story of household anxieties and troubles,
and the completeness of the enemy's surprise. As if by magic,
a long line of blue-coated skirmishers Issued from the wooded
hills into the bottom land ; a regiment dashed into a difficult
ford above ; another, in the white pontoons, shot from the
mouth of the creek, rowed by stout arms, that worked with
a will ; a few shots from the single cannon on the hill, upon
the southern side ; a rattling musketry fire from the covering
skirmishers ; the boats are over ; the men are formed, and
go up the slope on the run with bayonets fixed ; capturing
the gun, and meeting on the crest their comrades who had
crossed by the ford ; whilst the panic stricken outpost fly
to Johnston's camp with the portentous news that the line
of the Chattahoochle was broken. An hour's work of the
nimble pontoonlers puts down the bridge, and, before the
enemy can move to resist the crossing, the whole corps is
impregnably entrenched on the heights, and a tete de pont
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Then came the closing in upon Atlanta, and Hood's well-
conceived effort to crush our left, after making a ruse of
withdrawing all his forces into the works of Atlanta ; an eflbrt
which was foiled, though the loss of the noble McPherson
made it a costly day to us. Sherman's headquarters were
that day at the "Howard House" with the Army of the
Ohio, and we love to remember how his usual nervous rest
lessness changed to quiet, smoothly moving work, and suavity
of manner as the affair became serious.
My time will not permit even a hasty sketch of the operations
about Atlanta ; of the change to an aggressive policy on the
part of the enemy, after Hood relieved Johnston ; of the
manner in which their forces were hurled against our earth
works, till, in the chaffing between pickets, the rebels began
to say, with bitter humor, that they had about enough men
left for " another killing." Still less can I follow up the
interesting episode of the October movements, and the daring
strategy of Hood in his march toward Tennessee, which might
have succeeded with another opponent, and have brought our
whole army north of the river, but which was met by a still
more daring move, the inarch to the sea, for which English
critics find no other parallel than Marlborough's famous
march from the Low Countries to Blenheim on the Danube.
At Rome, in Georgia, the Army of the Cumberland was
divided ; our Army of the Ohio going back with the Fourth
Corps to operate against Hood, and the Army of Georgia was
organized from the remainder of General Thomas' command.
When we parted with Sherman at Rome, he expressed his
faith that the march to the sea would be unimpeded, and
that we who were remanded to Tennessee would find the
fighting, if there was to be any. We found it, at Franklin
and Nashville, and we will only say of it, that we did not
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of us. Sherman knew into whose hands he had committed
the important task of foiling Hood ; and Thomas and Schofield
were fully equal to their work : more than this, they would
not thank me for saying.
The nation was slow in gaining full knowledge of that
Tennessee campaign, and there is room for doubt whether
it is yet fully understood. The motives for the delay In
making the attack upon Hood, at Nashville, are perhaps pretty
well comprehended, and the result so brilliantly vindicated
the Fabian policy and the inflexible adherence of our com
mander, in that important battle, to what he knew to be right,
that words are not now needed on that point. I believe,
however, that the strategy of the enemy will, as a matter
of military science, be approved by the final verdict of com
petent critics, and it will be more and more clearly seen that
Hood's movements upon Nashville was not the random blow
of a madman, but a move in the military game which, though
of a desperate character, was wisely and boldly pushed. In
view of the desperate circumstances in which the Confederacy
was placed by Sherman's march upon Savannah. The garae
was played of necessity for the whole or none, and we won
it, thanks to the God of battles, and to the courage and skill
of Thomas and Schofield, who had no child's play to deal
with. Hood's original movement against our line of communi
cations, when we were at Atlanta, was a daring atterapt to
transfer the theatre of operations out of Georgia and Into
Tennessee again. Our chase of him to Galesvllle, in Alabama,
seemed to warrant him in believing he would be successful,
and he kept on through that state, always in reach of comrauni
cation with the South, manifestly expecting us to foflow him.
A mediocre commander would have done It ; a timid one
would have put the whole army upon the railroad, and have
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ville. Either policy would have been a substantial success
for the Rebellion. Hood was, however, pitted against a
boldness and originality more than equal to his own. When
it became evident that the enemy could not be overtaken and
forced into a decisive engagement, the march to the sea, a true
stroke of military genius, was instantly determined upon, and
the Fourth and Twenty-third Corps alone were detached and
sent to Nashville to make head against Hood, until General
A. J. Smith's command, coming from the West, might restore
something like equality to Thomas' army, and enable him
to take the aggressive, whilst Sherman went into the very heart
of the Confederacy to take its life, and make Its two arms
at Richmond and Nashville useless, if not powerless.
Hood's first daring conception failed, because it was met by
a more audacious and able one. When, then, he learned that
Sherman was back at Atlanta, It was too late to regain his
lost position, and the only possible means of bringing his
adversary back was by a coup d'etat against Thomas before
he could concentrate force enough to oppose him. Here our
game in Middle Tennessee became the dilatory one, and Scho-
field's work was to hold Hood back till Thomas had prepared
at Nashville to meet him. Hence our delay at Pulaski till
Hood had left Lawrenceburg, and the race to Columbia to
secure the crossing of Duck River, our infantry advance reach
ing the place just in time to save our cavalry from being
driven out of it. Hence, also, our delay at Columbia till the
last moment — even till one of the enemy's corps was In our
rear at Spring Hill, where, however, by some inconceivable
fatuity, Cheatham allowed us to make an unmolested flank
march, by night, within musket shot of his camp-fires. These
hair-breadth escapes were not rashly Incurred, for General
Schofield had calculated the minutes, and knew that his veterans
could out-mancEuver by night marches all the enemy's move-

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ments in the short winter days ; and, whether by day or night,
we were ready for an attack. Every hour we stayed was
gained for the concentration at Nashville, and the skill of
our commander was turning our perils to the great advantage
of the purposes of the campaign.
At Franklin we were obliged to offer battle, to give our
trains time to ford the Harpeth, and Hood very rightly judged
that If he could drive us Into the river, nothing could stop his
march to the Ohio. He delivered, therefore, a series of attacks,
more pertinaciously obstinate and determined than any we
had before experienced. The field was without obstrucfions,
our defensive works were only a hastily constructed breast
work of earth, and it was the fairest possible test of the problera
whether courage and numbers could, by a direct attack in front,
take such a line from men of equal courage and discipline,
armed with Springfield rifles. The result seemed to prove
that the fire may be made too withering for any troops to
preserve their organization under It. Breech-loading weapons
would leave still less doubt of it. An event not Included in
the plan of our defence, seemed, for the first hour, to give the
enemy reasonable hope of success, but though their repeated
assaults obliged us to renew our fire at intervals till late in the
night, at midnight we were unmolested in obeying our orders to
withdraw, and complete our concentration at Nashville the
following day, December i, 1864.
LTp to this point Hood's conduct of the campaign seems to me
to have been on true military principles, and the risks he took to
have been warranted by an ordinary calculation of the chances
of war. Taking into account his great losses at Franklin, par
ticularly the extraordinary fact of the death or disabling of thir
teen general officers (a conclusive proof of the desperation with
which the assaults were made), his policy in continuing the
advance to Nashville may well be questioned. We must not

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forget, however, that he was ignorant whether our losses were
not almost as great as his, and of the extent of the reinforcements
Thomas might receive. The cause of the Confederacy was at
such a pass that even a halt, whilst Sherman was in the heart of
Georgia, would be ruin, and he was under a kind of necessity to
keep up the appearance of aggressive action That his doing so
imposed upon the country a false opinion of his strength, was
plainly manifest in the nervousness every where felt and expressed
at the delay in delivering the return blow at Nashville. Even
the most competent judges at a distance began to question
whether Hood were not master of the situation, and we may,
therefore, fairly concede that he seemed to have ground for
reasonable hope. Fortunately our commander at Nashville was
a man of Washlngtoniaii character and will, and knowing that his
country's cause depended upon his being right and not upon his
merely seeming so, he waited with Immoveable firmness for the
right hour to come. It came, and with It a justification of both
his military skill and his own self-forgetful patriotism, so com
plete and glorious that it would be a mere waste of words for
me to talk about It. Our choice ' of the anniversary of that
memorable event for our reunion Is itself a proof of our estimate
of Its importance. I have enlarged upon the events which led
to It, because I think they have not been fully understood, and
because the Army of the Ohio and its commander had a larger
responsibility and a more personal interest in them. At Nash
ville we were relatively a smaller fraction of the national
forces, and a description of its incidents comes more properly
from our brothers of the Cumberland Army.
During our operations about Nashville, the cavalry corps of
the Army of the Ohio was not idle. Under the command and
leadership of General Stoneman, an expedition into South
western Virginia was made, which, for rapidity of movement,
and completeness of execution, considering the inciemency of the
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season, was not surpassed by any expedition of the kind during
the war. With the two divisions under his command, General
Stoneman penetrated the enemy's country to Saltville, destroyed
the important salt works there, together with much material
of war ; captured twenty-two pieces of artillery, and so routed
and destroyed the enemy's forces under Breckinridge, that
East Tennessee was never again troubled by a hostile presence.
Again, in March, 1865, whilst we of the main body of the
Army of the Ohio were engaged in operations, to which I shall
presently allude. General Stoneman made another important
expedition out of East Tennessee into South-western Virginia,
destroying the railroads by which escape from Richmond was
possible for Lee's army, and performing brilliant and valuable
services which, but for the fact that it occurred during the
general crash of the Rebellion, would have attracted uni
versal attention. A little later, the same commander, with
his dashing horsemen, had almost succeeded in capturing the
person of Jefferson Davis, whose escort surrendered, but who
himself, by changing his direction of flight toward the Atlanfic
coast, escaped for the moment, but only to fall quickly into
the hands of General Wilson and his gallant troopers.
I have thus sketched the outline of the exploits of our cavalry
corps to the end of the war for the sake of a closer connection
of the narrative, and will now ask you to return for a moment
to the operations of the Ohio army in Middle Tennessee.
No one who was there will be likely to forget the drenching
winter rain-storm in which the Battle of Nashville epded ; nor
the chase after the routed enemy to the Tennessee river, by
roads which were one deep and continuous mire, and through
chilling alternations of rain and snow. Hardly was the river
reached, when the Army of the Ohio received orders, at Clifton,
not far above Pittsburg Landing, to proceed by river and rail to
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in North Carolina. From a winter campaign in the valley of the
Tennessee, we proceeded without delay to another winter cam
paign on the Atlantic coast, some two thousand miles distant, by
our route of travel ; and our Western troops had to add
to their experience the pleasure of being cooped up in trans
ports at sea, during a storm, off Cape Hatteras. February and
March were occupied with the capture of Wilmington, the
advance from Newberne, the battle of Kingston, and In the
construction of railways from the coast to Goldsboro, where we
again met our old comrades of the armies of Tennessee and
Georgia, coming up through South Carolina to complete their
tour through the Confederacy. Again under our old chief,
we marched against our old adversary, Joe Johnston, and, at
Greensboro, on the eastern slope of the same mountain chain
whose western face had been so familiar to us a year before,
we had the honor of receiving the arms and issuing the paroles
of the only remaining army of the Rebellion. In these opera
tions in North Carolina, we received into our organization of
the Army of the Ohio, the Tenth Corps, which had recently
done memorable service in the capture of Fort Fisher, and
that gallant body of men, under the command of General Terry,
was made free of the brotherhood of the Western army, though
they were Eastern men all, and had never served west of the
Alleghanies. It would be pleasant to linger longer over these scenes,
and to touch upon some of the peculiar points of interest
in a campaign among the swamps of the Carolina coast, for
all who are represented here did not march through the Salk-
ehatchie. My time, however, is too nearly exhausted to permit
me to do this, or even to attempt to portray the enthusiastic
joy of the meeting at Goldsboro, and the still wilder tumult
of rejoicing when, on the march to Raleigh, we got the news
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surrendered. The two great brothers-In-arms, who were almost
brothers In blood by virtue of the singularly unselfish friend
ship which has honored them scarcely, less than their great
deeds, met at Raleigh and congratulated each other that, by
God's good providence, the work begun at Donelson and
Henry was accomplished, and that now they would be able
to say, in tones of authority, to the men who had made war
upon the nation's existence, "Cease your Rebellion!" The
recent recognition by that nation of the fact that the remainder
of the road to the permanent and enduring peace we long for,
can be best marked out by him whose modest sagacity and
heroism, whose unfaltering faith in his country's destiny, was
our guide through the gloom of our great struggle, is proof to
the world that Republics are not altogether ungrateful, nor
do they require great trumpet-blowing of one's own merits
to make them know a true leader when they see him. With
the Administration of the country in such hands, and the
Generalship of the Army committed to his twin-brother in
renown and In patriotism, who will dare doubt that we
" shall have peace } " The Republic longs most earnestly for
unity of sentiment as well as for unity of government, — for
unity of hearts as well as unity of territory, and we may
rightfully hope that an administration in which the even
justice of the civil ruler Is meted out with the honorable
courtesy which always marks the true soldier, will win back
all American hearts to true allegiance to the nation.
I fear that my time Is too nearly spent to permit me to say
many things I desire to speak of. It has been impossible for
me even to notice the many brilliant acts which characterized
the career of the subordinate commands of our Army of the
Ohio, much less to give the well-earned meed of praise to the
individual officers and men who deserved it. I have tried to
do no more than give a meagre sketch of what may be pro-

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perly regarded the distinguishing features of the Army as a
whole. Before closing my remarks, however, I would like to
suggest a few queries regarding the use which may be made
of an Army Society to Illustrate and perpetuate the details
of many events which will otherwise be in danger of being
forgotten and lost.
Social gatherings have a great charm of their own, yet
there may be danger that we shall be reproached hereafter
with having neglected to preserve for our posterity the facts
and reminiscences which will be invaluable material for the
ultimate history of the war , but which will be lost forever,
unless put into permanent form within the lifetime of those
who are here present. The late Rebellion was the first great
war in which rifled ordnance was used on a large scale for
general purposes of the field as well as of the siege. It was
also significant for the unprecedented use of Intrenchments and
earthworks as a feature of modern campaigning. It came in
one of the revolutionary epochs in scientific invention, when
the intelligent discussion of the questions which arose, carried
on by those who were the eye-witnesses of the events which
suggest the problems in the art of war, can not fail to be pro
ductive of increased knowledge of the art itself. Our nation
may. be so happy as never again to be involved in a warlike
conflict, but the probabilities of peace will not be diminished
by the spread of intelligence on the subject of military affairs.
The points In which a campaign in this country must neces
sarily differ from an European one, are extremely numerous.
The features which marked this as a strife different from any
other, either here or elsewhere, were scarcely less numerous.
Afl of these deserve to be carefully and critically examined,
and could we, in some permanent organization like those of
the better historical societies of the country, meet for real busi
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large meetings, have an executive committee calling out and
publishing communications throwing light upon either the
theories or the facts, the transactions of such an association
could not fail to have lasting value to the world. Take only
a few of the many questions which would crowd upon us, as
examples of what I have referred to. To what extent is the
face of the country in the states where our most active cam
paigning was carried on, one which would be regarded
as impracticable for military operations in Europe .'
Whether you consider the almost impenetrable thickets of
pine which we constantly met in Georgia, where it was fre
quently impossible for a horse to make his way between the
saplings, and where it was unsafe to neglect constant reference
to the compass to keep one's course and direction ; or Ihe
immense swamps of the Carolinas, where deployment of a line
was often a physical impossibility ; would not the ordinary
rules of military science need a totally new construction and
application.? Again, look at the almost total absence of any
roads better than a mere wagon track through a wilderness,
and the consequent dependence upon long and exposed lines
of railways for supplies, the country roads, even where only a
few miles of them were used, soon becoming mere quag
mires ; and was not this a new feature in war between
immense armies, calling for entirely new combinations and
expedients to surmount the difficulties.' When you add to
these things the fact that the theatre of war was of such
enormous extent, and the movements of the later campaigns
on so vast a scale, In distance as well as in armament, as
to produce a combination of obstacles to be overcome, perhaps
quite unprecedented, must there not of necessity be room for
Investigations abounding in interest, and details of the expe
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be of immense value if they could only be preserved in some
tangible and permanent form.''
There are practical questions, also, with regard to arms and
equipment, which are not yet settled. Were we right in
adhering to the extent we did to the brass twelves, known as
file Napoleon gun .' Were not the three-inch rifled pieces proven
to be equally valuable for throwing canister at short range as
they were for throwing shell at long distances.'' and did not
our experience prove that we ought to have rejected all but
rifled artillery, even for light field work.'' With regard to small
arms, also, have "sve had any satisfactory summing up of our
experience as bearing upon the question of the balance between
waste of ammunition and useless firing when breech-loaders
were used, and the lack of rapidity in a pinch when Spring
field or Enfield rifles were relied upon.-" We know that a
wide divergence of opinion existed among us on this point,
and the facts and theories ought to be brought face to face.
When we turn to the problems which were peculiar to the
circumstances under which this war arose, we find queries
arising of even greater interest than those I have referred to.
What shall we say of the manner in which our great army
was raised "i Were we right or wrong in depending so long
upon volunteering.? Was the single battalion regiment the
proper unit of organization .? Was it wisdom or folly to try
to preserve the old regular army organization, instead of scat
tering It at once to be used in leavening and instructing the whole
volunteer force.? What was the effect of allowing the regimental
officers to be commissioned by the several states, and the pro
motion of the officers of the line to depend upon the state
executives.? How much more did the war cost us in lives
and money, by reason of our system of constantly organizing
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that were already doing duty in the field.? The questions that
troop up before us, when we reflect upon the subject, are legion,
and I doubt whether we can say we have done our full duty by
our generation, if we do not make some systematic effort to
answer them.
In 1863, as Burnside was preparing his movement into East
Tennessee, a friend put into my hands Kinglake's first volume
on the Crimean war, then just published. Like many of you,
probably, I was then pondering the problem whether the standing
armies of Europe would not have been saved by their traditionary
knowledge from many of the blunders through which we all had
to learn our duty, when our vast army was so suddenly called into
existence. I had been inclined to think that perhaps we were
feeling our way bungllngly toward skill in arms, and paying
dearly for our experience, hy reason of lack of special education
for our work. I think scarce any thing else could have so
greatly Increased my confidence and hope as the perusal of that
single volume. It was not such a military history as a soldier
would have written, and, as every body knows, the author
seemed often to tell as If It were praisewo^'thy the very things
a military man would have chosen to keep in the background.
Perhaps that very thing constituted the value of the work. It
showed that the traditions of standing armies do not and can not
save the soldier from the necessity of learning his business by
experience in the field, and that systems of administration based
upon wars In Flanders will not do for an army landed upon the
desert shores of the Crimea. It was a photograph of the daily
life of the camp, in which our experience would enable us to
discern at once that we had been at least as free from glaring
blunders of administration, of strategy, or of tactics, as the com
bined army under Lord Raglan. I admit this Is not saying
much, and no one will mistake it for bragging; but it was to

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me a great comfort and ground of hope to find, by good
testimony, that the inevitable imperfections and shortcomings
of new troops, put suddenly in the field for the first time in
their lives, were incident to all the armies of the great military
powers of Europe, and were not peculiar to our own condition
or system of organization.
The difficulties we had at the outset, and our modes of
overcoming them, will, if fairly and faithfully told, benefit
all who may come after us. It may save our posterity,
some day, from paying quite so dearly for the lessons of
experience as we were forced to pay. A near view dimin
ishes something, it is true, of the general glitter which gilds a
great campaign as it Is narrated in ordinary history, but what
is added in real human sympatliy and Interest more than
makes up for the proverbial belittling effect of familiarity.
We ought to be willing to be known and estimated for
exactly what we were, and to be the first to criticise,
calmly, our own part in a great event. We may thus render
it a truly intelligible thing, instead of a marvelous romance,
in which the general outline may be filled up according to
each reader's fancy.
A full knowledge of all the circumstances of war will only
make a civilized nation strive more wisely for peace : and as
the improvements in the efficiency of arms make nations more
careful how they Invoke the judgment of the God of battles,
so an acquaintance with all the cost and all the horrors which
follow In the train of great military expeditions, may make a
people more and more averse to strife, unless the cause be
one as holy as that which called upon us in 1861 — the preser
vation of the Nation itself! With all our sad experience of
comrades fallen, of a country desolated, of homes destroyed,
of labors and sufferings of all kinds endured, and of unexam-

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pled burdens to be borne, I believe there is no one here who
would hesitate one Instant to draw the sword again to avert
a like peril from our land. And should any emergency arise,
(which God forbid,) that would call us again to enter upon
a great conflict for national existence, I believe I speak the
sentiments of all when I say that we would wish no better
leaders, and could find no stauncher comrades, than we had
in our old organization of the Grand Army of the West.

ORATION OF GENERAL COGSWELL.

Fellow-Soldiers : Four years ago, last Thursday, many
of us here present, after a delightful and unmolested trip
across the country from Atlanta, reached the rice swamps of
Southern Georgia, and the outer gates of the city of Savannah,
and there, dieting upon rice, after the luxurious chickens and
sweet potatoes of Middle Georgia, we awaited the order to
advance and take that city. But when, three days afterward,
Hazen had foreshadowed, at McAlIster, what would be the
fate of Savannah, If Hardee should wait, that rebel com
mander, either not believing that this was the " last ditch "
of the Confederacy, or else too much of a gentleman to wel
come us to those " hospitable graves " we used to hear of,
soon left our front, and Savannah gave up to us its keys.
The Atlantic coast was reached at last, Sherman's great
march to the sea was accomplished, and to military history
was added a brilliant and most famous page. The begin
ning of the end of a wicked Rebellion had come, and the
bright morning of peace was breaking in upon us.
More than three years and a half have now passed since we
laid down our arms and were finally disbanded ; since
turning from , the arts of war, we took up the better arts
of peace. And although now " neither wars nor rumors of
wai's" disturb us, but peace, rather, is every where assured,
and the old flag, more than ever now, the emblem of true
nationality, liberty and valor, floats under every sky, respected
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armies, once more assembled at the call of our commanders.
But it is to meet as citizens, quietly, and In peace, in a loyal
city, with no clank of the sabre, no sound of the musket, no
rumbling of the artillery, no wagons blocking up the roads,
and with neither war nor panoply of war. We meet not
because we are soldiers, but because we have been soldiers,
and because here, and at this time, we want to revive tlie
associations of our past ; to recall to memory the experiences
of the camp, the bivouac, and the field ; to strengthen those
friendships which are friendships only known to those who
have fought by each other's sides, and which are not broken
by every breeze that blows. We meet to refresh our meraory
of those deeds which go to make up the brilliant record of
our countrymen in arms on so many fields of battle — In fine,
we meet to bring again to mind that communion of exposure,
of hardship, of daring, of pleasure and of pain, of glory and
of victory, which has already made us, present and absent,
brothers forever more. And as one of that fortunate and
" goodly company," I am asked to speak for the Army of
Georgia, for the left wing of Sherman's army, in its march
through Georgia and the Carolinas.
My friends, it would be difficult for the ablest and most gifted
to do justice to the merits of any army, or corps, or even organi
zation of the great Union army of our country. Much more
difficult, then, will It be for me, unused to such labors, to speak
in fitting and satisfactory terms of that army, one part of which
dates its record of service back to the glories of "Mill Spring,"
and the other to those "seven days" of heroic fighting on the
peninsula. Each of the two corps of that army, having a record
complete and independent of Its own — both contemplated with
pride and pleasure, both pregnant with glorious memories, both
illumined by Its Illustrious and heroic dead, and both blended only
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achievement ofthe age — Sherman's march — I feel as if mine
was a double duty, and, for that reason, that I should be entitled
to your charity and forbearance. If I should slmjjly say, for
the Army of Georgia, that it had tried to do its duty, wherever
put, and that it was more properly for others to say how well
that duty had been performed, perhaps I should then have
said all that would become a member of that army in its behalf.
Should I point you to its deeds, which are written in the war
records of both the East and West of our country, it would be
sufficient, and there its fame could rest, I think, safely and
forever. But if I should conclude by saying that this organiza
tion had the honor to form the left wing of Sherman's army,
and with Its gallant comrade, the Army of the Tennessee, as
the right wing, to march to the sea, and through the Carolinas ;
that at Raleigh It witnessed and stood ready to help enforce the
surrender of the last army of the enemy this side of the
Mississippi, that it marched thence to Washington, and was
soon after disbanded only because there were no "new worlds to
conquer" — it would seem as though then I should have said
enough in Its glory and in its praise. But when to this is added
that the names of Thomas, Rosecrans and Buell, of Hooker, of
Slocum and Howard, of Palmer and Williams, and Davis, and
Mower adorn the rolls of that army, and that under such leaders,
no troops could be but brave and serviceable, surely then I
might stop, my task completed.
After the campaign of Atlanta, it became necessary for
General Sherman to divide his army, sending one part back
to Nashville, under General Thomas, to take care of Hood,
and taking the rest with him to the sea, when the Fourteenth
Corps, under Davis, and the Twentieth Corps, under Wifllams,
in all about thirty-two thousand men, became known as the
left wing of the Army of Georgia, and afterwards, at Goldsboro,
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Twentieth Corps, which had served from the beginning witli
the Army of the Potomac, where it had shared in all the varied
experience of that noble army, from Bull Run to Gettysburg,
came west to Chattanooga in the fall of 1S63, and joined the
Army of the Cumberland. The Fourteenth Corps was at
Chattanooga, forming a part of this army, to which it had
belonged since the army organization, and, indeed, was the
nucleus from which the Army of the Cumberland was reorgan
ized in the early part of 1863. This corps had participated In
all the battles of its army, from Stone River to Chickamauga,
at which latter place, under a leader who never yet gave up
a fight until he had thoroughly finished It, it had added to Its
record its brightest page. It had also shared largely in the
victories of the West, aided in the pursuit to Corinth after
Shiloh, and, in Kentucky, taking part in the battle of Perrys
ville, or Chaplin Hills. After the Fourteenth Corps at
Chickamauga, after "Joe Hooker's fight above the clouds,"
after the efforts of both corps at Mission Ridge and Ringgold,
after Resaca and Peach Tree Creek, after Jonesboro and the
capture of Atlanta, it is needless to say that the "Acorn"
and the "Star" became readily united In mutual sympathy
and respect. If one could point to its Mill Spring, and Stone
River, the other could point to its Antietam and Gettysburg.
If one could mention its Thomas making his determined and
successful stand at Chickamauga, the other «ould mention
Its Slocum performing the same good service at Chancellors
ville. The Fourteenth and Twentieth Corps were prepared to be
friends, when they were united In November, 1S64, and then,
on the left, with the Army of the Tennessee on the right,
and Kilpatrick's cavalry, they commenced to march towards
the sea ; the left wing moving in two columns from Atlanta,
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Decatur, Covington and Shady Dale, and to Milledgevllle via
Eatonton ; thence across the Oconee to Sandersville ; to Louis
ville by the Georgia Central, as far as the Ogcechee, and by
Farris' Bridge ; thence to the works of Savannah itself, via
BIrdsville, Milieu, Springfield, and also by way of Jackson-
boro, Waynesboro, and the Augusta and Savannali railroad,
capturing two of the enemy's gunboats on the Savannah river,
destroying, as it marched, every railroad as It came across
or along Its path (In all, over one hundred and nineteen
miles), burning all the cotton (about fourteen thousand bales),
all the bridges, and all the hay, grain and fodder that were
not consumed or carried w.Ith it, and taking from the country
subsistence enough for an army twice Its size. I have here
a statement, made up at the time, of subsistence taken on
the Carolina campaign, by a single brigade of this army,
which may be interesting to you, and perhaps may refresh
your memory as to the contents of our larder at that time.
It is as follows, estimated in pounds: 21,200 flour, 40,388
corn meal, 52,426 salt meat, 15,900 bacon, 1,750 ham, 2,325
lard, 300 dried fruit, i,ioS sugar, 155 tobacco, 4,720 beans,
1,225 s^'t) 3i7!9^o corn, 4 barrels of sorghum, 2,540 head of
fowl, 531 head of cattle, 260 horses and mules, 3,409 bales
of cotton destroyed, and 3 tons of fodder. I tell our friends
at home that when they consider that this was but the col
lection of one brigade out of thirty-flve other brigades in the
whole army, they then can form some estimate of what was
taken from the country on those two marches, as well as
some estimate of ivhat was left.
The left wing reached the defences of the city of Savannah
on the loth of December, where, with the Twentieth Corps
resting its left upon the Savannah river, and the Fourteenth
Corps on its right, it commenced its part of the investment
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army collected its share of subsistence (though it had not the
experience in this line of the right wing), that It did its share
of railroad and cotton destinictlon. Its assigned part of march
ing and skirmishing, and at the end was ready for its part of
the capture of Savannah. The Second Division of the Twen
tieth Corps occupied and guarded the captured city, and In
regard to that occupation, and also in regard to the effect of
this march upon the morale of the armies. General Sherman
speaks as follows : " The behavior of our troops in Savannah
has been so manly, so quiet, so perfect, that I take it as the
best evidence of discipline and true courage. Never was a
hostile city, filled with women and children, occupied by a
large army with less disorder, or more system, order and good
government." And 'twas here In Savannah that we learned
of that victory, one of the most thorough and complete of the
war, of which this day is the fourth anniversary — the great
battle of Nashville — won by that indomitable soldier, who
never yet lost a battle — that perfect master of his profes
sion — George H. Thomas, together with the brave Armies
of the Cumberland and Ohio. And we of the Army of
Georgia were glad to see that the organization from which we
had been taken — the Army of the Cumberland — was able to
meet and cope with the great responsibilities devolved upon
it, and add new lustre to its name. On the 15th and i(jth
of January, 1865, the left wing pushed over Jackson and
Ward, to the South Carolina shores, opposite Savannah, and
afterwards, at Sister's Ferry, crossed the remainder of Its
army, and commenced its part of the campaign of the Car
olinas, moving to Pureysburg, Robertsville, Lawtonville and
Allandale — and by Beaufort's bridge to Graham's Station, on
the South Carolina railroad, which it destroyed as far as
Johnston's Station ; thence across the North and South Edisto ;
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northward, crossing the Saluda at Mount ZIon's Church, and
the Broad river, at Wateree Creek, to Winsboro, which it
reached on the 3oth of February, and here destroying the
Charlotte and South Carolina railroad to Cornwall. We
inoved over the Catawba river at Rocky Mountain Ferry, and
after a tedious march by way of Chesterfield, reached Sneeds-
boro ; thence crossing the Great Pedee, this army inoved to
Fayettevllle by way of Love's and McFarland's bridges, over
the Lumber river. This Lumber river, as I remember it,
was a stream, seeming, at the time, the widest and most
vexatious we had ever crossed. Owing to heavy rains, it
was impossible to tell where It began, and before we had
reached the other shore we had about made up our minds
that we had struck it length-wise instead of cross-wise — but,
finally, the rains abated and the waters subsided, and landing
at last on the other side of this Jordan, we reached Fay
ettevllle, March nth. On the i3tli we crossed Cape Fear
river, and on the i6th met the enemy in the battle of Ave
rasboro, in which action the Twentieth Corps was particularly
engaged. It is, perhaps, sufficient to say of this fight that
we did not turn from our course, and that the enemy did.
Our loss was twelve officers and sixty-five men killed, and
four hundred and seventy-seven wounded — none missing ;
while one hundred and twenty-eight of the enemy's dead were
burled by us ; and one hundred and seventy-five prisoners,
three pieces of artillery, one caisson, and several ambulances
were captured. And now, crossing South river, on the
Goldsboro road, the whole of the enemy's force, once more
under their ablest General, Joe Johnston, was encountered by
the left wing, three days later, in the battle of Bentonvllle,
in which the hardest fighting fell upon the Fourteenth Corps,
the loss being nine officers and one hundred and forty-five
men killed ; fifty-one officers and eight hundred and sixteen
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men wounded ; three officers and two hundred and twenty-
three men missing ; rebel dead" burled, one hundred and sixty-
seven, and three hundred and thirty-eight prisoners captured.
It may be said of this engagement, that the enemy, though
considerably outnumbering us, was handsomely repulsed and
severely punished, and that a well-conceived plan of the enemy
to crush the left wing of the army was completely defeated,
and when, next day, the Army of the Tennessee, always sure
to turn up when It was wanted, swung in upon his left and
rear, that the last obstacle between us all and the final sur
render was overcome.
From here, crossing the Neuse at Cox's bridge, this army
moved to Goldsboro, where it rested a few days, meeting its
old friends of the Army of the Ohio — with its well-earned
laurels of the battle of Franklin — hearing of the good news
of Richmond's fall, and then moving to Smithfield to learn of
of the still better tidings of Lee's surrender, and the complete
success of all military operations under General Grant ; and
thence to Raleigh, where came, on the 36th of April, that
surrender of our enemy, which had been so fairly won, and
the end of the war, which was so justly due. Starting on
the 1st of May, tlie Army of Georgia marched up, by way
of Richmond, to Washington, for the grand review, and then
It disappeared to appear no more again, except in its appro
priate place In history ; living no more, save as it lives in the
hearts and memories of those of whom It was composed ; who
will, while life shall last, hold dear its associations, and ever
cling fondly to its name, and fame, and record. And If, during
this period, from Atlanta to Savannah, Raleigh, and Wash
ington, the two corps of this army achieved any thing that
was glorious or victorious ; if they performed any deeds which
they now remember with gladness, and with pride ; if they
added to their fame or record ; if they did their full measure

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of duty, wherever put ; if, at Averasboro or Bentonvllle, they
performed their part with gallantry and satisfaction ; or did any
thing worthy of brave soldiers, and true American soldiers. It
was because they were united in purpose, sympathy, and
l-espect, under a well chosen leader, brave and cool, faltliful and
Impartial, Plenry W. Slocum, and because they felt that they
would be bravely supported on every hand by their associates
and comrades of the armies of the Cumberland, the Ohio, and
the Tennessee ; conscious that each of these armies would
perform its full share, and more ; and because they felt and knew
that they were a part of a well-regulated and "one stupendous
whole,'' and that " whole " under the commanding eye of that
great military genius of his day and generation, William
Tecumseh Sherman.
When I call to mind the Georgia and Carolina inarches,
starting out that bright November morning, Atlanta In black
ruins behind us, with its " pillar of cloud by day," and " its
pillar of fire by night ; " when I remember the foragers, with
their useful, if not ornamental, teams and accompaniments;
the pioneers, building the bridges and corduroying the roads
almost as fast as we could march ; the terrified gaze of the
" chivalry " along our line of march ; the friendly negro ;
the sweet potatoes, and corn, and sorghum, and chickens ;
the deep swamps ; the occasional news and gossip from
some neighboring column ; the well-timed concentration of the
columns ; the different opinions we used to have as to om- final
destination, all of them doubtful enough to make us anxious
to learn all we could, to study well the maps, and keep on
guessing, and just about certain enough to make us feel every
night that, at least, we were one day nearer our journey's end —
a day's inarch just sufficing for a day's subsistence — -the
bummers always hungry, and, therefore, always efficient ; how,
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place before the day was over ; the strange and ludicrous
contrabands, tumbling into our line of march, just in time to
keep a joke or a laugh always passing down the line ; the
regular reveille an hour before morn, the low lands and
causeways at the approaches of Savannah ; not forgetting those
railroads, nor the cotton destroyed, nor the houses vacated by
their occupants, and how, after that, sometimes, the ground
would seem to be vacated by the houses themselves ; nor the
stores buried In the earth, and unearthed by the foragers ; wlien
I remember all these, and the many, many other incidents
of those two marches, grand and ludicrous, grave and gay,
sad and joyous, the bitter and the sweet, the sunshine and the
rain, the labor and the pleasure, the novelty and the complete
success, and the great place In history which these two campaigns
already take as wonderful and useful military achievements, and
they all pass in review before my mind, as they do to-night, I
stand In wondering admiration at the view, and, for one, I thank
God that I was permitted to take a part in such great events.
But I look back to the waste and destruction which Inevitably
followed the track of our armies, and to the desolation which
we caused with no feelings of e.xultatlon or boasting. Look at
It as we will, It is no pleasant thing to see a people and a fair
country visited with such heavy and severe punishments ; to
see a people, old and young, driven from their homes, as at
Atlanta ; burned from their shelter, but not by us, as at
Columbia ; stripped of their stores, their implements of husbandry
and all their means of support ; It was a sad sight to behold ;
it Is a sad thought to dwell upon ; but I solemnly believe that
all the acts done by orders on those two marches were just and
necessary, and that by reason of them, full as much as by any
thing else, tlie war was ended, the shedding of fraternal blood
was stopped, and the deluded people of the South made readier
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when peace came, it was no where welcomed more gladly,
or earnestly, or sincerely, than by the people whose lot It was
to fall In the track of Sherman's army, in its march from the
mountains to the sea, and through the Carolinas. So, too,
is sad the recollection of prison pens, and their starving
victims — starved, too, in the heart of a country in which we
found the richest supplies. So, too, is sad the sight of Union
graves all over the land, of youth no generation could afford
to lose, fallen in defence of their Government and their flag,
which the bad passions of bad men had determined should be
overthrown by a civil war, as unjustifiable and witliout cause
as it was cruel, bloody, and unholy.
And here, my friends and comrades, I bring to a close my
assigned part of this evening's entertainment — It is for the
historian, in after years, to give our armies their just places
in history. It was not expected of me that I should more
than glance here and there, within the brief limit of my time,
and I have but referred hastily and most generally to that
army which was, for a time, the left wing of that command
which, under Sherman, commencing at Chattanooga, marched
over one thousand miles, fought ovjer fifteen battles, besieged
and captured two great cities from the enemy, took three
State capitals, forced the evacuation of Charleston, destroyed ,
more than two hundred miles of the enemy's railroads, over
coming large mountains and difficult rivers almost without
number, smashing the shell of the Rebellion, and compelling
the surrender of its old and hard-fought enemy — Johnston's
army — and thus closing the last campaign of our great civil
war; a war which called forth resources unknown to our
selves and surprising to the world. It came upon us when
our Government was unfamiliar with large armies, and was
not realizing the necessities of the hour ; when our people
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honest and loyal, and a people brave and patriotic, soon 'made
themselves equal to the occasion, and before the war was
over, we saw a million and a half of men, armed and In the
field, fighting for the country they loved, and defending the
flag which they adored ; with supplies In quantity and quality
unequaled by any government, or in any war ; while the
noble women of the land, to every sick and wounded soldier,
provided the sweet comforts of kind nursing, together with
the choicest delicacies, in abundance, their hands could make.
No defeats dampening the ardor of the people ; no disasters
weakening their faitli ; bearing the losses of their sons without
a murmur and without a waver in their purpose ; each new
sacrifice but adding new zeal and vigor to their deterraina
tion ; suffering the blunders of their Government, and the
incompetency and inexperience of their officers without dis
couragement, ever and always strong and inflexible In their
determination tliat their Governinent should live — "a Gov
ernment of the people, by the people, and for the people.''
And when the contest was over, we beheld the nation com
ing out of the civil war, unimpaired, and in all its former
majesty and beauty, " with not a star erased," and bearing in
its arms the lives and freedom of four millions of a new-born
people. Its sacrifices had been great, but its credit had been
strengthened, while the results of the war had proved that a
republican form of government could outlive the greatest peril ;
commanding the respect of all the nations of the earth, and
proving, at last, that America was In fact, as well as In song,
"the land of the free, and the home of the brave" — with its
large armies disbanding, and pursuing the avocations of Indus
try and peace at their homes ; loving peace better than war, ^
and only loving war as a means of peace. Who can look
for a moment upon the teachings of that war without having
his faith strengthened, and his hopes brightened in the future

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of our country.? The nation is strong enough to be mag
nanimous to Its conquered foe, while our people are earnest
and sincere enough, as they have so recently shown, to be
just to the demands of the future, and true to the lessons of
the past. And let us hope that by the experience of war we
have all learned to value the great blessings of peace. Though
the lesson has been stern, yet It has taught us to be pure
and high-minded as a nation, honorable and chaste as citizens.
Let us never forget those who fell fighting bravely at our
sides, nor those they left to mourn and feel their loss. And
let us all, •' with malice towards none, with charity for all
(but), with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the
right," so act in the present, and teach our children to act
In the future, that never again shall a free and enlightened
American people be found divided against itself.

THE BANQUET.

In preparing for the grand reunion banquet of the evening
of December i6th. It was Inevitable that the soldiers of the
Reunion Executive Committee should remember what the
scenes of soldier communion had been during the long service
of the Western armies in the field. How many times had the
hard crust been broken, the insufficient and unpalatable meal
been partaken, and wasted strength been but poorly replenished,
because of the stern necessities, the cruel cost of martial duty !
Of the two thousand men who might gather for festive
commemoration in the reunion banqueting hall, how large a
proportion had known the closest communion with hunger,
disease, destruction, and death ! Almost daily incidents of army
life, had been the depressing burial dirge, the harrowing
.spectacle of mangled corses, or of comrades emaciated under
burdens greater than flesh could bear, and the Incessant recur
rence of privations and hardships incident to all loss of the
precious comforts, and sacred consolations of home. Not that
there had been no cheer, and no festival In the camp, or on the
inarch, or under the heavy shadows of dreadful battle. These
men had kept the camp cheerful with an Ingenious and
persistent fortitude unknown before In the annals of military
service. They had made every weary march with hopeful
patience, from victory to reverse, as well as from reverse to
victory, always seeing before the advancing and behind the
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gayety almost of faith trusting that Divinity to shape the Issues
of conflict, while they rough-hewed them as they could. And
even in the hours of great darkness, when the fiery lines of
doubtful battle were joined, and the soldier only knew to do
his duty, if possibly the wide and varied struggle might conclude
in victory, there had been no lack of readiness to "put a
cheerful courage on." The banquets of the camp, of the dusty
or the muddy highway, and of fields that ran with blood, when
constant courage had to make the best of war rations, and a
brave spirit found high festival In what was really lean distress,
could not but be brought vividly to mind when the reunion
table was to be spread. It should be set, therefore, generously,
in token of a long sacrifice ended, and it should be expected
that the company to be gathered would be swayed by the
old feelings with which, as soldiers, they had snatched hilarity
on the hurried and toilsome march, and, for great courage's
sake, had made jovial the frequent bivouac with death.
The large hall in which the reunion banquet was held
was, in one or two respects, deficient In the requirements
of the occasion, — the speeches could not be heard, and, at
the supper, the available doors were found wholly Insufficient
for the Ingress and egress of the waiters, — but Its wide room,
decorated as It was with familiar and famous battle-flags,
admirably furnished what was most required — the space and
scenery of a festive camp. Though the large company could
not be served according to expectation, either with the rich
viands of the ample feast, or with the after feast of reason and
flow of soul, yet here were the associations of the never-to-
be-forgotten war days, memories of the march, the camp and
the battle wherever the eye turned, and these were men who
had long known how to turn eveiy occasion Into good cheer,
and to stir among themselves an enthusiasm of good fellow
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more successful as a grand good time, such as the actual
camps had witnessed often, and the old, sacred banners had
before looked down upon, than as an occasion of speech-
making. Cut off,, unavoidably, from hearing the responses to
the toasts of the evening, and thrown, to some extent, upon
their own resources, the great body of these men of our West
ern Armies made such high festival as they could. In the
fashion, somewhat, of the real days of the war. In other cir
cumstances it might have been otherwise, and some harsh,
and mainly unjust reflections upon the occasion might have
been saved. But no one who rightly considers this scene, and
how these men had so many times made merry amid the des
perate circumstances of war, compelling jollity to do service
with courage, will have any other reflection than that these
were our soldiers, over whom all the storms of the war had
swept, and In whose breasts had burned all the great passions
of the struggle against rebellion. Under such banners and
battle-flags as they had followed through the long course of the
war, hung now around these spacious walls, and amid tlie
thick-clustering memories of all the old days of heroism, let
the soldier have his brief hour of reunion enthusiasm. Elo
quent speeches will survive the hour, and none will turn to
them with more interest than those who failed to hear them
when delivered. The occasion was worthy of eloquence, and
the responses made to the sentiments of the evening, will be
preserved by the soldiers of the Army Societies gathered at
the Banquet as an invaluable memorial.

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Lieutenant-General William T. Sherman presiding, the
Banquet programme, after the feast, was as follows:

Poem : By Colonel Gilbert N. Pierce.

Halt the column, rest a moment.
Stack the guns, the fires light.
Here is foraging in plenty.
Let us bivouac here to-night.

We have marched In separate columns,
But have striven nerve and joint
That we all might meet torether
At this grand objective point.
III.
And we're truly grateful, thankful,
That detachments all appear
Anxious for the work before them,
Ready for the service here.

Georgia, Cumberland, Ohio,
And the grim old Tennessee,
Answer to the call of Sherman,
Father of the Family.

Poem. 109

So you keep youi reputation,
First in love, at feast or fray.
Siege of hearts or siege of fortress,
Both were carried gallantly. VI.
So said they, when at his bidding.
Through the South the army went,
Sweeping like a whirlwind onward,
Marching through the continent.

Oh ! 'twas glorious, grand, heroic !
Rushing over hill and plain ;
With its mighty recollections.
How the heart leaps up again,
VIII.
How they cheered, and how they rallied,
How they charged 'mid shot and shell.
How they bore aloft the banner.
How they conquered ! how they fell !
IX.
Fell ! Ah, who shall tell their story.
Those among the brave and best.
Who went down amidst the battle,
Lyon, Ransom, and the rest.

This the grateful pen hath written :
Nations in their homage bow.

no Artny Reunion.
Myrtle weeps the fallen heroes.
Laurel crowns the living brow.
XI.
Wreathed with immortelles forever,
Men shall In the future tell.
Standing where he nobly perished,
How tire brave McPherson fell.

Fell, amid the storm of battle ;
Fell, while millions mourned his name ;
Writing on a field historic
Epitaph of endless fame.

Fell, ah soldier and civilian.
All of us fell down that day.
Weeping prostrate round the coffin,
Where the martial figure lay.
XIV.
This the cost of human freedom.
Weary hearts that long and wait.
Shadows, on a thousand households.
Sanctified, but desolate. XV.
Ah ! sometimes the friends who've left us.
Joined the army gone before ;
Almost seem to bridge the river
' Twixt the near and further shore.

Poem. Ill
xvi.
But there came an end of fighting,
Then was your employment done ;
What became of those battalions
When the victory was won ?
XVII
Let me point you to a picture —
See a million soldiers there.
Flushed with triumph, and with weapons
Flashing keen, and bright, and bare.
XVIII.
Vanished ! Wondrous transformation !
Where Is now that mighty band .?
Do they roam a vast banditti,
Pillaging their native land .?

Ah ! we point to field and workshop ;
Let the world the moral see ;
There, beneath the dust of labor,
Toil our veteran soldiery.

Ye were mighty in the battle.
On the mountain and the plain ;
But you wrought your greatest triumph
When you sought your homes again.

Sought your homes In peace and quiet.
Grasping with your strong right hand

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Implements of honest labor.
Toiling to upbuild the land.
XXII.
He the noblest, ti-uest soldier.
Who, when sounds of battle cease,
Mounts from war's uncultured desert
Upward to the plains of peace.

Chieftains who have saved a nation
Gain the gratitude of men,
But the mightiest of warriors
Smiled ill Peace at Bethlehem.

Peace, you see, hath then her triumphs.
And, I hold, that we may reap
From the seed that we have scattered.
Thistles, tares, or golden wheat.
XXV.
We have still a work before us ;
Let each one his portion take ;
We must serve a while as sailors.
Standing on the Ship of State.

Not to fight, 'but more to brighten,
Polish smooth the good ship o'er,
Keeping taut and trim the rigging
Of our grand old seventy-four.

Poem. I JO

XXVII.
Veterans of a hundred battles
Clothed with honors, decked with scars,
Step aboard the good old vessel.
Spread the canvas, man the spars.

You have kept the ship from sinking,
Carried her past thundering fort ;
Take the helm, until you guide her
Surely, safely into port.
XXIX.
When our old commanders lead us
Who was there to say "I can't.?"
That expression left the service —
Mustered out, discharged by Grant
XXX
Let the silent man of Shiloh
Still the factions angry roar.
Till the mighty wave of Freedom
Rolls unvexed from shore to shore.
XXXI.
Till our brothers, though they wandei
North or South, can safely stand,
Writing, speaking, preaching, praying,
What they will throughout the land.
XXXII.
" Long live Liberty and Justice,"
Crush the fetters, break the chain !
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Let this watchword, if It need be.
Echo through the land again.
XXXIII.
Not in malice, but in mercy,
Not in anger, but In love,
Asking what we grant, and only
Granting what our hearts approve.
XXXIV.
Then the North and South, united
With the East and West, shall be
Friends, in peace or war together.
Children of one family.

Then "our country," God preserve it!
With its beauteous flag unfurled.
Reaching out, shall raise the helpless —
Be the Mecca of the world.
XXXVI.
Comrades ! Ye who In the battle
Stood together, firm and true,
At the shrine of this Reunion
Dedicate your loves anew.
XXXVII.
Ye are like the trees left standing
When the fierce tornado's past ;
Let the boughs of those remaining
Twine together firm and fast.

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XXXVIII.
Thus combined 'gainst wind and weather.
Ye will have the strength of all.
And united brave the tempest.
Or together nobly fall.

Grand old army ! Brave coramanders !
Grim survivors of the fight.
Warm your hearts at memory's altar.
Press each other's hands to-night.

And when sounds the last assembly.
When the guard has gone his round.
May you pitch your tents together.
On some happier camping ground.

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Song by the Glee Club; — " The Star Spangled Banner!'
First Toast ; — Our Country.
Speech of General A. H. Terry :
Comrades : To speak fitly on the theme of our country's
greatness would require the gift of tongues. Were the great
story of her progress fitly told, assembled nations should be
the audience, and Time himself should stay his course to Hsten
to the tale.
That in the lapse of but two and a half centuries, a few
feeble colonies, planted on the very verge of the continent,
struggling against privation and famine, and scarcely able to
maintain themselves against the attacks of hostile savages,
should have expanded Into a nation of forty millions of people ;
that the vast wilderness should have been subdued, and in its
midst stately cities, the home of commerce and the arts,
should have arisen ; that the untrodden primeval forest should
have yielded to fields white with harvests which feed the
hungry millions of the lands from which our forefathers came ;
that great highways, unparalleled in extent and In number,
linking together even the two oceans, should have been con
structed ; that broad rivers, thousands of miles from the sea,
then nameless and unbroken save by the solitary canoe of the
red man, should bear upon their bosoms countless fleets ; that
the great deep itself should have become white with sails
bringing to our ports the productions of every clime ; that tlie
whole land should have become dotted with institutions of
charity and learning, and with the temples of religion ; that
here should have been founded the first great empire, based
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more like the fabled work of the slaves of the lamp In the
Arabian tale, than a sober chapter In the history of mankind.
Well may the Old Wprld, cramped and fettered by the tra
ditions and institutions of the past, stand amazed at the
gigantic progress of the New. No where is this stupendous
progress more plainly visible than In the region in which we
are met together — the Illimitable West, a land of majestic
streams, of boundless prairies, bordering on vast inland seas,
blessed with a kindly climate and unsurpassed fertility of soil.
Here the energy of our people has produced its most aston
ishing results. Less than half a century ago, where now
stands this imperial city, stood a lonely frontier post, beyond
the outermost verge of civilization. Now look around —
churches, schools, costly mansions, huge warehouses and busy
factories arise on every hand. An hundred avenues of com
merce, stretching out on every side, bring us the harvests of
ten thousand fields to be exchanged for the products of Europe,
water-borne to this great mart. Soon the great national high
way, overleaping alike the desert and the mountain range,
promises to bring the riches of the oldest of the continents a
tribute to the feet of this young giant of the West. And yet
this city is but the type and the embodiment of the spirit of
that vast region of which it is the centre and the beating
heart. How shall I fitly characterize the people of the West, their
frankness, their generosity, their hospitality, and their kindly
warmth, — how describe their devotion to their duty and to
their country ! Let the thousands of nameless graves which
lie scattered from the Ohio to the Gulf, and from the Arkan
sas to the Potomac, answer the latter question. Do not think
that I intend to do injustice to other portions of our country,
or that I seek to exalt one section at the expense of others,
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those others have borne their part. They have sent forth
their best, their bravest, and their strongest, to these Western
plains, and it is they and their children who have done this
work. It Is the blood of the East that courses through West
ern veins, and here, in the two greatest and best who sit
among us, are the living proofs of what that blood, under
genial Western influences, can produce.
There is, alas ! one stain In the fair picture of our coun
try's prosperity and happiness. The South sits In sackcloth,
mourning and refusing to be comforted ; but, jDurlfied by her
suffering, and regenerated through sorrow, she will yet arise,
and, hand in hand with those whom she has deemed her
enemies, she will press forward with no unequal steps In the
great march of civilization.
But why should we speak of sections or of parts.? Hence
forward there shall be no sections and no parts, but, bound
together by ties which shall never be sundered, welded together
by the fierce heat of war's dreadful furnace, the nation starts
forward with renewed strength In her m.ijestic course — one
homogeneous whole. Hereafter no man will say, I am of the
West, or of the East, of the South, or of the North — all such
distinctions will be merged in the common title of American
citizen. Great name ! Greater than that of Roman citizen in
Rome's most triumphant days. In other lands men strive to
segregate themselves from the mass, and groping backward
among the dusty and worm-eaten records of the past, seek for
ancestral honors and dignities wdierewlth to deck themselves and
establish a fancied superiority over their fellow-men. Here,
standing on the broad platform of equality and fraternity, and
surveying the glittering record of the high achievements of our
race, each gathers to himself a share In them all, and proclaims
it his birthright in the single phrase, I, too, am an American
citizen.

speech of General Terry. 119
The idea of duty to our country Is not an unfamiliar one to
those who are assembled within these walls. All here have
proved their devotion to it in days of toil, of suffering, and of
danger. But it is not alone amid great convulsions that that
devotion should be manifested. The national life is made up of
the Individual lives of its people, and every man, however hum
ble his sphere of action may be, contributes his quota to the
nation's good or 111. Men of science tell us that, in the material
world, no force is ever lost. The beam of light, darting from its
source, flies onward in the depths of space through all eternity.
A word is spoken ; it Is but a breath, a little movement ofthe air,
and in a moment, to our dull senses, it Is gone forever ; but it is
still living ; the vibrant atmosphere still records it, feebly and
more feebly as time passes, but on the ear of the Omniscient it
is forever sounding. To that ear the quivering atoms still echo
the words of innocence spoken In the garden before the fall ; still
shudder at the sounds of " crucify him, crucify him," which were
uttered in the city of David more than eighteen hundred years
ago. So is it also in the world of action. Men can not, if they
would, live for the present alone. Ev(*ry action has Its conse
quences, and every consequence Its consequences. Every deed
is a link in the grciit chain of cause. When the places that
know us now shall know' us no more forever ; when even the
stones which the hands of affection shall raise to mark our last
resting-places shall have crumbled Into dust ; when our names
shall have perished from the memory of man, our undying
actions will still live, affecting for good or for evil the generations
yet to be. Our hands are upon chords which stretch far down
through the coming centuries, and as we shall touch them, so
will they resound. They might have resounded with the clank
of chains, and the despairing cries of an enslaved and a down
trodden people. Let us be glad in the belief that they will
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love of- country, by our sense of duty to our country, strengthened
by the recollections which we have here renewed of common
effort, when our country's peril was the greatest, and her need
was the sorest, resolve to so live that our every act shall be a
mite cast Into the treasury of our country's welfare, to do that
which in us may lie to rear here the altars of truth and of justice,
and to fix firm and deep, on the everlasting rocks, the foundations
of that great fabric of liberty which shall not only shelter us and
our posterity, but shall be the refuge of the oppressed of every
nation and of every clime.
Song by the Glee Club ; — " Unfurl the Glorious Banner I"
Second Toast ; — The President of the United States.
Speech of General R. P. Buckland :
Fellow Soldiers : General John M. Palmer, who was
to have responded to this toast, being unavoidably absent, I
am called upon, without due notice, to take his place. I wish
to say, by way of apology, that I have not willingly taken upon
myself the risk of undertaking to satisfy your expectations ; nor
do I expect to do so. But having received a peremptory order
from superior authority, without an opportunity of declining,
I am before you to respond, as best I may, to a toast which
was designed to call out, for the benefit of this great audience
of heroes, the well-known eloquence of the distinguished
Governor elect of this State.
The Constitution of the United States vests in the President
the executive power of the nation, and makes him the
Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy of the United
States. It is, therefore, peculiarly appropriate, on this occasion,
that we who formed a part of that great army which so recenfly

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saved the life of the nation by conquering its enemies on a
hundred bloody fields, should pay proper respect to the officer
to which belonged the responsibility of organizing that army,
and developing the resources which enabled it to win the
victory. We can not forget how nobly that great responsibility
was discharged by the lamented Lincoln. Unlike kings and
emperors, who elevate themselves to power by trampling upon
the rights and liberties of the people, the President of the
United States represents the executive power of a free people,
and is entrusted with that power by their free choice, to enforce,
not his, but their will ; to execute the laws which they make
through tl\eir representatives assembled in the Congress of the
United States. It Is a high and an honorable trust, to which it
is the right of every American citizen to aspire ; and it has
been said that every American, at some period of his life, has
entertained expectations of becoming President of the United
States. However that may be, we are honored to-night by the
presence of one distinguished gentleman who has not been
disappointed In that regard, and we are also honored by the
presence of several others whose great services in the field
entitle them to the highest place in the affections of the
American people. May they In due time receive their
reward. The American people, grateful to General Washington for
his successful services as the leader of their armies in the
war for American Independence, expressed their gratitude and
appreciation of his patriotism by electing him the first President
of the United States; and he, in return for their confidence,
rewarded the people, and honored himself, by a faithful execu
tion of the trust. And now the American people of to-day,
equally grateful to General Grant for his great services as the
leader of their armies, suddenly brought Into the field to defend
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of their fathers, have embraced the first opportunity to express
their gratitude to him, and their faith in his patriotism and
unerring judgment, by electing him to the exalted position
first occupied by Washington. It is the ardent hope of every
patriotic citizen that the administration of General Grant may
be as successful as that of General Washington in healing up the
national wounds, and laying the foundation of long years of
peace and prosperity.
The most eminent men of the nation are selected to fill the
Presidential office, but no man, however exalted for talent,
or however distinguished his services as a general, or as a
statesman, can add to the dignity of the office ; for the reason
that the office is the concentration of the sovereign executive
power of all the peojDle of the nation. A man may be elevated
to that office who is wanting in ability to perform its high and
arduous duties, or who may prove faithless to the trust, but such
a misfortune would only disgrace the man. It would not In the
least disparage the dignity of the office ; nor should It lessen
our respect for its legitimate authority. The prosperity of our
free Republican institutions depends upon the disposition of
the jjeople to enact only just laws, and then to resjDect and obey
them, whoever may be, for the time being, intrusted with their
execution. It is, therefore, a duty, on all occasions like this, to
pay proper respect to the President of the United States.
And now, my friends. In closing these remarks, I have only
to express my sorrowful regrets that among so many of you
who expect to be, and so many who deserve to be, so few ever
will be President of the United States !
Third Toast ; — The Artny and Navy of the United
States — While each is ever ready, by its own resources, to
sustain the national honor, may they always stand shoulder to
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preserving the union of our common country. — Sentiment
proposed by Admiral D. G. Farragut, U. S. N.
Speech of General John M. Schofield :
Fellow Soldiers : I regret my Inc-ibllity to fitly respond to
your toast, " The Army and the Navy." But I am more than
compensated by the presence of so many of those gallant soldiers
who, in war and peace, were and are always ready for the
discharge of every duty. I rejoice to see here, also, a goodly
number of the gallant officers of that volunteer navy which bore
so honorable a part In many of the memorable operations in
which you were engaged, and I regret that Farragut, Porter, and
other naval heroes are not also with us to-night. I may well
leave it for those gentlemen who are to respond severally for the
armies represented here, to make In the aggregate a fitting
response for the army at large, and the navy, for the gallant
armies of which they will speak are fair types of the whole ;
but while I leave It for others to recount, as well they may do
with honest pride, the events of the past, I may be permitted
to dwell for a moment upon the present, and indulge In hopes
of the future.
We see in the fraternal union which we now enjoy, an
exhibition of the peculiar character of the army and navy of the
United States, as distinguished from those of other great nations.
Drawn together by a patriotic sense of duty in our country's
hour of peril, and held together through long years of desperate
war by that bond of duty which alone is capable of thus binding
men to each other, we find engendered by our martial union,
ties of affection and respect, which have only been increased
during nearly four years of peace. Although scattered from the
mountains to the sea, and from the lakes to the gulf, at the call
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to pledge each other anew that, whether in war or peace, for
our country's honor and weal, we will stand shoulder to shoulder
until the great battle of life Is ended.
The Grand Army of the Union has not been disbanded —
it still lives in the true, stout hearts of Its soldiers, and even
when they have passed off the stage of life, its spirit will exist
in their sorts — -yea, and in their daughters. As with the
individual man, so it Is with the nation. When from the dictates
of an honest heart the nation puts forth its full strength to
accomplish a great good, the heart is thereby enlightened and
purified, the strength increased, and the life prolonged. In this
increase of strength and vitality, the nation feels that its grand
army and navy, whose deeds are the nation's pride, are not
things of the past, but that they still live.
Music by the Band; — ''Red, White, and Blue."
Fourth Toast; — The Artny of Georgia.
Speech of General H. W. Slocum :
Mr. Chairman and Fellow-Soldiers : On behalt of the
officers and soldiers of the Army of Georgia, both present and
absent, I thank you for the compliment paid to that organization.
I regret the absence of Generals Davis, Williams and Mower,
who, as corps commanders in that army, acquired the most envia
ble reputations as soldiers, and to whose gallantry and efliclency
the organization was. In a great measure, indebted for the good
name accorded to it at the close of the war. I am glad to see
that several of its division and brigade commanders are present.
On our campaigns these officers were frequently In a strife for
the honor of taking the head of the column, and, when brought
into action, they were always, of course, in advance of the com-

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mander. Now, It Is an old and established rule that " those
foremost in the fight should be first at the feast." Under this
rule, they are entitled, on this occasion, to speak for the Army of
Georgia, and that honor I shall cheerfully accord to them.
This is the first meeting of the officers and soldiers of the
Western Armies that I have had the pleasure of attending since
our final review in Washington ; and this reunion has been to
me one of the happiest events of my life. It is always a pleasure
to a soldier to meet a comrade who has borne with him the
dangers and hardships of a campaign — recalling to mind with
him the scenes of the past — -the two together again fighting their
battles over. It is true that the remembrance of nearly every
scene is tinged with sadness, for scarcely an event can be called
to mind which Is not associated with the loss of some gallant
comrade, whose bravery and devotion to his country we can but
feel should have been rewarded by his being permitted to enjoy
with us the present hour — -the pleasure of beholding a Union
restored — a country saved. But In this conviction who can say
that those of us who survive, reap in reality any more glorious
harvest than those who themselves fell beneath the sickle of
death .? A nation's tears are the tribute paid to their memory —
tears that perennially water the laurels they wore, and will keep
them fresh and green long after we have passed off' the stage.
To-day we have been permitted to meet — not a single com
rade, but thousands of them, from all parts of the country, most
of whom we have not met since the disbanding of our armies.
In addition to this, good tidings are brought us from absent com
rades, scattered over nearly every state — tidings proving that the
war has not Injured or demoralized the young men who carried
it to a successful close. We are told that the great mass of the
soldiers, having returned to civil life, are struggling with difficul
ties as successfully as they did while In the army. General
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Unas with these words : " In conclusion, I beg to express, In the
most emphatic manner, my entire satisfaction with the tone and
temper of the whole army. Nothing seems to dampen their
energy, zeal, or cheerfulness. It is impossible to conceive of a
march Involving more labor and exposure ; yet, I can not recall
an instance of bad temper by the way, or of hearing an expres
sion of doubt as to our perfect success in the end." In saying
this, the General did but justice to the officers and men of his
command, and I have never entertained a fear that men of whora
these words could be truthfully spoken, would fail of success on
returning to their homes and entering upon the peaceful avoca
tions of life.
To most of our soldiers the army was a good school. It
taught not only lessons of patriotism, but of perseverance and
energy. The man who has fought four years to save his country,
has had his love of country burned into his soul by the ordeal of
fire, and he who. In tlie dead hour of winter, has uncomplain
ingly forded wide rivers, and constructed roadways through
almost Impenetrable swamps, will not be apt, in civil life, to
succumb to ordinary difficulties. Speaking of war, Burke says
it suspends the rules of moral obligation, and what is long
suspended is in danger of being totally abrogated. Civil wars,
he declares, strike deepest Into the manners of the people. They
vitiate their politics ; they corrupt their morals ; they pervert
even the natural taste and relish of equity and justice. By
teaching us to consider our fellow-creatures in a hostile light, the
whole body of our nation becomes gradually less dear to us.
The very names of affection and kindred, which were the bond
of charity while we agreed, become new Incentives to hatred and
rage. In her hour of trial, when enemies at home and abroad
were predicting and desiring her utter destruction, our countiy
found defenders in her own sons. The patriotism of our people
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city and town came money as well as men, and the money came
at a time when the lender evinced patriotism as well as faith In
loaning to the Government. The final victory of our arms was a
triumph for the advocates of a republican form of government
throughout the world ; and now, to complete our triumph, to
gladden the hearts of our friends in every land, to make our
victory doubly dear and brilliant, we should struggle to avert the
evils which, we are told, always follow civil war. Let not the
war vitiate our politics, corrupt our morals, or j^ervert our taste
for equity and justice, and our victory will be more complete and
more grand than any in the world's history.
As to the best method of averting these evils, the most'patrlotic
men may at times differ. As on the great march to the sea, we
sometimes found corps diverging from each other, and occasion
ally a body of troops, either from a defect in our maps, or from
the ignorance of our guides, would be found on the wrong road,
yet having a common objective point, all would be concentrating ;
so, in the efforts of patriotic men to secure the nation's welfare,
however much their guides may temporarily differ, all who ear
nestly desire peace, , prosperity, and the preservation of their
country's honor, must ultimately be found marching In the same
direction. Our annual meetings serve to keep fresh in our
minds, and in the minds of our people, the events of the war,
and I would not have one page In the history of that struggle
obliterated, but I would use it to strengthen our devotion to the
country, and our determination to countenance nothing in politics,
nothing in business, nothing even in social intercourse, which
does not tend to the country's weal. The grand idea which ani
mated our armies during the strife was to place our national
character in the high niche to which Its illustrious ancestry enti
tled it, and to show the world that the descendants of Washing
ton, Gates, Green, Hamilton, and the fathers of the country, are
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inherited from them. Now that the war Is over, and the victory
won, let us continue to emulate the glorious example of the revo
lutionary patriots, and devote ourselves to achieving new renown
for our country by our devotion to the arts of peace. We have
learned in the rough school of war to discipline and master our
selves, and we shall, by the application of this knowledge to the
pursuits of civil life, gain bloodless victories, not less Important
than those achieved upon the tented field.
Fifth Toast ; — The Heroes of the Rank and File.
Speech of General S. A. Hurlbut :
Comrades : It is just and becoming, Mr. President, that an
assemblage like this should render honor to the Rank and File,
and I am glad that the pleasant duty of responding to this toast
has fallen upon me. No such body of men, in my judgment,
were ever assembled as the volunteer army of the late war.
History fails to give us such examples, for history has never yet
had to deal with suc-h a people as this. The mother was worthy
of her sons, and the sons of their mother, for the army was the
child and representative of the nation. No troops ever stood
for the honor of their flag, for the safety of their country, so
thoroughly identified with the sentiment of the people, as did
this Army of ours, which sprung into sudden and terrible life at
the cry of the imperiled nation, fought through the long war
with such singular tenacity, accepted, endured, aye, welcomed
severe discipline as a necessity of success, and, having acquired
the skill, steadiness, and unity of impulse of the veteran, yet at
the end disappeared without a ripple In the great current and
mass of the citizenship from which they sprang. To the eye
of the stranger, toward the close of the war, one million
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nation, pregnant with all evil and disquiet, as the Alpine
avalanche impends over some sleeping village. But when the
summer air of peace breathed softly over the land, this thing
of terror silently dissolved into its elements, — with no torrents,
no rush of waters — In many gentie streamlets, each of which
made glad again some long desolate home. No other people
could have produced such an army ; no other people could thus
have absorbed them when their task was done, without
perceptible shock to the commonwealth.
From all ranks, pursuits, and modes of life they came, these
heroes of the Rank and File. The sun-burned plowman, the
apt mechanic, the swart artisan, the pale student ; from all
trades, afl professions, all industries they came — many earnest,
thoughtful, devoted ; some moved by the wild spirit of adven
ture ; some for the mere excitement of the battle and the march ;
some of high culture and education ; some with but little of
either; a strange, wild gathering of apparently discordant
elements. Yet, under the fervent heat of love for an insulted
country, and with the strong current of military discipline, they
grew into the columns that swung with Grant round the
beleagured Vicksburg, and at Champion Hills and Jackson
made vain the boastings of tlie Gibraltar of the Mississippi ;
they pried Into that living rock which withstood Thomas at
Chickamauga ; they shattered Hood at Nashville ; and they
becarae that plow of God, which. In the hands of Sherman,
scarred the deep furrows of their march through the mountains,
from Atlanta to the sea. They also formed that barrier of fire
and steel on which Lee leaped to ruin at the heights of Gettys
burg ; they were that relentless giant hand that forced the Army
of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Petersburg and
the Appomattox, and shook the sheltered remnants of the Con
federate armies from the Iron fingers, the paroled prisoners of the
great Republic. Pittsburg Landing and Shiloh taught us early
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to respect the persona] manhood of the Rank and File. It was
somewhat awkward and unscientific fighting, but they struck
hard In that strange and deadly conflict.
It has always seemed to me, Mr. President, that the courage,
endurance and steadiness of our private soldiers had In it some
thing of the miraculous. With no rank to incite, with no
promotion probable, with no future ambition, no hope even
of special personal mention, they went forth to exhausting
marches, to dreary midnight watchings, to the trench and the rifle
pit, to the line of actual battle, to the storming column, to face
death in all forms, to endure disease, to suffer the slow agony of
the prison pen, ready to live when life was but endurance,
ready to die when to die was duty. For these great actions and
this great endurance, there must have been some efficient cause,
and, as I read it, that cause was the love of country and the
love of home. They could not come back dishonored, and tliey
all meant to come home, and bent all their powers and energies
to finish the work quickly and well and be again at home. No
man of us who has worn the insignia of rank and command, but
owes a free and hearty tribute to the Rank and File. Every
badge of authority, from the bar of the subaltern to the quadruple
star that worthily rests on the shoulder of the General of the
Army, is the representative and the creature of the heroism of the
Rank and File, mute but glorious witness to the self-denial of
their lives, and the gallantry of their deaths. As the engineer
uses and guides already existing forces, so this heroism of the
Rank and File was the vast living power which It was consum
mate generalship to mold, direct and control. All honor, then,
to our comrades, the living heroes of the Rank and File. All
credit to the dead who died for us and our country.
" On Fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And glory walks Iier solemn round
In the bivouac of the dead."

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Song by the Glee Club ; — " Sherman's March to the Sea."
Sixth Toast ; — The ArtJty of the Ohio.
Speech of General Milo S. Hascall :
Fellow-Citizens of the Army, and Gentlemen of the
Board of Trade of Chicago : Having recently been selected
to respond to the toast which you have just heard read — -" The
Army of the Ohio" — In place of the distinguished Secretary of
War, Its former commander, you will readily appreciate the diffi
dence I feel In undertaking to fill the jDlace of one at once so
illustrious, and so well calculated to do the subject justice. I
promise you, however, that my remai"ks shall possess at least one
merit, which, according to a distinguished authority, who has
done us the honor to be with us this evening, surpasses all others,
and that Is, they will be very brief.
That distinguished soldier and citizen, who was the orator for
the Army of the Ohio, last evening, at the Opera House, did the
subject such complete justice that little else need, or could be
said, If the occasion and the time rendered it proper to indulge in
extended remarks. After what he has so well said in regard to
the organization and campaigns of the Army of the Ohio, I will
only further add some allusions to some of the noble spirits that
offered up their lives during the different campaigns in which we
were engaged. First and most prominent on the list of our
departed heroes, stands the name of General William P. Saun
ders, who fell a short distance in front of the fort that now bears
his honored name, at Knoxville, Tennessee. Of him It can be
truly said, that he was the idol of our army. No one who was
present at the time Longstreet was closing in upon Knoxville,
will ever forget the almost reckless daring he manifested during
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the city. General Saunders had only two days before received
notice of his promotion to the rank of Brigadier-General, a pro
motion that General Burnside was obliged to have made, in order
to get a proper commander for the cavalry of his army. He was
immediately assigned to the command ofthe cavalry, and ordered
to detain the enemy as long as possible, to give the infantry time
to construct defensive works about the city, which was, at the
time, almost entirely destitute of any kind of defences. For two
days, on the south side of the Holston river. General Saunders
was engaged in this work, constantly at the head of his com
mand, and the works then being tenable on that side, his
command was transferred to the Knoxville side of the river, with
orders to make a stubborn resistance in the direction of London,
from whence Longstreet was rapidly advancing with the main
body of his army, preceded by cavalry. It was here that Saun
ders made some of those desperate charges, and engaged in hand-
to-hand conflicts, such as are rarely witnessed, and there. In plain
view of the fort that now bears his illustrious name, with fighting
in front of him, fighting to the right of him, fighting to the left of
him, fighting in the rear of him, and himself wielding his sword
with invincible bravery, there, I say, far in advance of any of his
command, and entirely unappalled by the danger and clangor
that surrounded him, the fatal bullet struck him which ushered
his spirit into the presence of God. Another desperate charge
recovered the dead body, and we had In our possession all that
was mortal of the gallant, heroic, and equally modest Saunders.
The enemy then Immediately closed in and completed the Invest
ment and seizure. The same night, at about midniglit, we
burled him quietly and privately. It being Impossible, on account
of the proximity of the enemy, and the arduous duties of the
hour, to have a formal funeral. I have seen many noble dead,
but never such heartfelt sorrow as pervaded that littie funeral
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rank, as not a man could be spared from the trenches. We
were all forcibly reminded of the circumstances of the burial of
Sir John Moore, and some of the verses of that beautiful poem
are so strictly and truthfully descriptive of this burial, that I can
not refrain from repeating them here :
" Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the ramparts we hurried;
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot
O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
We buried him darkly, at dead of night.
The sods with our bayonets turning;
By the struggling moonbeam's misty light,
And our lanterns dimly burning.
1 No useless coffin inclosed his breast,
Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him;
But he lay like a warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak around him.
Few and short were the prayers we said,
And we spoke not a word of sorrow;
But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead,
And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Slowly and sadly we laid him down,
From the field of his fame fresh and gory;
We carved not a line, we raised not a stone.
But we left him alone in his glory."
Numerous other brave spirits yielded up their lives during this
siege. Among the number, the gallant and accomplished
Colonel Comstock, of Michigan. But time admonishes me that
I must hasten on. Passing by the other numerous engagements
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serious engagement we had was at Resaca, where General
Schofield lost a distinguished member of his staff", and the
Second Division lost very seriously In officers and men, and
the Third fared not much better. From this time on until the
fall of Atlanta, the Army of the Ohio was almost constantly
engaged, being all the time on one or the other flanks of the
army, and constantly fighting Into new positions. The Array
of the Ohio can justly claim credit for making the flank move
ment on the 1st of July, 1S64, which caused the evacuation
of Kenesaw Mountain and iSIarlefta, and the Second Division
of that army was the first to drive the enemy Inside the fortifi
cations near the Howard House, at Atlanta, and the first to
establish its batteries and commence the shelling of the city.
I would fain follow the army in Atlanta, describe its desperate
engagements at Franklin and Nashville, and its memorable
achievements after being transferred to North Carolina, and fill
the close of the war, but tirae will not perrait. The glorious
achievements of the Army of the Ohio were not accoinpllshed
without serious losses. Our list of dead Include the naraes of
the gallant Saunders, Colonel Comstock, Colonel Lowry, of the
One Hundred and Seventh Illinois Volunteers, Captain on
General Schofield's staff, and Capt E. D. Saunders, A. A. G.,
on General Cox's staff", besides numerous other officers, and that
long list of less noted but not less gallant and honored dead,
who fill the unmarked graves all over the rebellious states. All
great achievements cost great sacrifices, and the peace we enjoy
to-day has been no exception to the rule. On the other hand,
we find, with our Army of the Ohio, that "peace hath her
victories no less renowned than war." The country has not
been slow to appreciate the exalted character of the sei-vlces
of the Army of the Ohio, or the splendid ability of its leading
men. The United States at large, with one voice, has appro
priated our Schofield and made him Secretary of War. The

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great State of Ohio, almost before he was out of the field, took up
our statesman, General Cox, and conferred upon him the highest
honors in her gift, and the little State of Rhode Island has
served our gallant Burnside in the same manner. The great
states of Ohio and Michigan have made our Generals Sherwood
and Spalding the keepers of their great seals, and my neighbors
In Indiana have this fall taken up our General Packard and
made him the successor of the Illustrious Colfax in Congress ;
while our inevitable General Jack Casement has spanned the
continent with railroad Iron, made his " everlasting fortune," and
been elected to Congress from Wyoming, though he declares that
he can not waste his time in small matters till he gets the Pacific
Railroad done. We have numerous other evidences of the
esteem in which our Army is held, but time forbids further
allusion to them this evening.
Seventh Toast;- — -To the Memory of the Heroic Dead.
In the absence of General John A. Garfield, who was to have
responded to this sentiment, and for whom the duty and the
honor of special commemoration of the heroic dead were
reserved until it was too late to make any other arrangement,
there was no speech in response to the seventh toast.
Music by the Glee Club; — '¦'¦ Pleyel's Hymn."
Eighth Toast; — The Army of the Tentiessee.
Speech of General John A. Logan :
Fellow Comrades : The toast, " The Army of the Tennes
see" — The Army of the Tennessee — ti>e child of patriotism,
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of youth, without a furrow upon his brow, or a scar upon its
manly form ; with the flag of the Union, the emblem of our
unity, our glory and our strength, In one hand, and the sword of
eternal liberty In the other, upon the bended knee, they swore
that this land should be made free. The Army ofthe Tennessee,
the first to win a victory, that went trembling o'er the wires, that
gladdened every heart In this land, and filled every soul with joy.
The Army of the Tennessee is without much written history —
yet it has a grand history. Its history was written from the tirae
it commenced Its march from Shiloh to the end of the war by the
swords of veterans and the blood of traitors. Its course was
onward, its course was upward. From Donelson to Shiloh,
from Shiloh to Corinth, from Corinth to Vicksburg, and around
it, were raany bloody battles fought, and there the haters of this
glorious fabric of ours had their blood drunk by the sands of
their soil, and at the sarae tirae raany, too, of our ovvn patriotic
brothers breathed their last and were remembered by the rela
tions of the dead. I remeraber well — -but I shall not attempt to
go into details — many ofthe incidents of this war. I do remem
ber one ill particular, at the battle of Baker's Creek, before
Vicksburg was invested. The Army of the Tennessee went into
battle against the combined hosts of treason, singing :
"John Brown's body lies mouldering in' the grave,
And his soul goes marching on."
On the march of the Army of the Tennessee, from Vicksburg,
after forty days investment of that proud stronghold (where
many, I am sorry to say, of the flower of this country were
mown down by the enemy), we separated, a portion taking their
march to Black river — a portion afterward to the Kenesaw —
assisting in relieving the army of our gallant Thomas when so
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From thence they marched with Sherman to the sea. As I
said, they gained the first great victory, and they were In the last
battle, where the last gun was fired, at Benton's Cross-Roads.
The Arinyof the Tennessee — no better than other armies, but
equally as good. The Army of the Tennessee — not more
valiant than others, but equally as valiant. The Army of the
Tennessee — with no more pride than others, but equally as
much. The Army of the Tennessee, with no more patriotism
than others, but equally as much. It was an army, it is to-day
an army composed of patriots left, who would to-raorrow
respond to the tocsin of war, on the call of our country, as freely
as It did at first.
The Army of the Tennessee had several commanders. Why,
my comrades, you know (and of course you do, for you were of
it,) that the President elect, of whom all men who are patriots
are proud, was the first commander of the Army of the Ten
nessee ! You know that the brave and gallant Thomas was once
a General In the Army of the Tennessee ! You know that it
was commanded by the gallant Sherman ! And you all know it
was commanded by the lamented McPherson. And of him,
permit me, my comrades, to speak. His tongue Is silent
in death ; his body is cold. He can not speak for hiraself.
McPherson, McPherson is dead ; but yet lives in the raemory
of every man that ever served under hira.
He was a gentieraan, by nature made. He was an educated
man, by his country's gift. He was a noble man, with his
bosom full of generosity. The milk of human kindness welled
up In that frame of his, a fountain wide and deep. His magna
nimity was as broad as the area of his whole country. His gen
erosity had no confine, and the gifts of his nature were as bright
and as gleaming as the sun's beams at noon-day. If you want to
know the correctness of the page left by that man ; if you want
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of AlcPherson ; there wait until the rainbow shows itself in the
sky ; then see the rays of the sun play across its variegated hues,
and fall upon the dew-drop of the velvet rose that there grows
upon his grave — emblems of the purity of his life. LTpon that
scene cast your eyes, and then remember that this is emblem
atical of the bright page and reputation of that gallant soul that
is gone.
Now, my fellow-comrades, I only speak of these men of the
Army of the Tennessee because they come to my mind. It had
other noble men. All who belonged to It were noble men, and I
love them all. I love that man now prostrated with disease con
tracted during its many fatigues and battles — the man you all
know, the man of integrity, the man Inspired with patriotism,
the man worthy to be at the head of the nation. I speak of John
A. Rawlins.
It was, too, afterward coramanded by Howard. He has a
history in this war going to prove him that noble man we all
know him to be.
Of myself, who commanded the Army of the Tennessee, I
shall not speak.
But, my fellow-citizens and comrades, there are others to be
mentioned besides those whom I have mentioned. I can not call
them all by name, but let me Scay this : Among all our heroes of
our compatriots and brothers in arms and officers who sleep,
to-day, the sleep that knows no waking, let their memories be
fresh at all times, and let them live and be ever green in the
recollections of us who survive them. But there are others still ;
who are they.? The poor but gallant soldiers who carried the
musket ! That man who carried the knapsack and the rifle, in
the Army of the Tennessee, to whom, to-day, we all owe tho
reputation we made.
He fought our batties ; many of them we left behind as we
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to see, as we marched along, dotting the place where the private
soldier sleeps for ever. There are none to speak for them
to-night. Those who are left we love and respect, and the mem
ories of those who are dead we revere. When they passed
away, though not having, in the din of battle, that opportunity of
meeting their God that others might have, yet. In my judgment,
their ascension robes were made doubly white on account of their
patriotic devotion, by that God who judges all.
There is a God, and whenever I hear any thing said (as I
often have,) by persons speaking of the merits of the army, and
of those who passed away without enjoying the privileges that
are accorded to men at home, I remember what was related by
that old German poet, once upon a time, and this is It.
When God conceived the majestic idea of making man. He
called the three ministers who constantly wait upon Liis throne
about him — Truth, Justice, and Mercy. He said, "Let us
make man." Truth said, " Oh, God, make not man ; he will
pollute Thy sanctuary." Justice said, "Oh, God, make not
man, he will trample Thy laws under foot." But Mercy, upon
her bended knee, with streaming eyes, said, " Oh, God, make
man, cast him from Thy plastic hand on earth, and I will guide
him through his life down the path of time ; I will care for hira
in all his trials, ill all his troubles, in all his vicissitudes ; and
when the final day shall come of rendering accounts, I will
return him to Thee, borne beneath the hollow of my hand, the
child of mercy as Thou didst give him to me." So it is with the
patriotic dead.
Now, my fellow-comrades, in conclusion, let me say this. In
speaking of the army, tiie short time that we are allowed here
to-night (and as you all know I never raake any preparation when
addressing you or any other body of men, never writing a
speech, but always saying that which comes to my fips),
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Army of Georgia, the Army of the Ohio, the Army of the
Cumberland, and others represented here — we can but remem
ber that we have been soldiers; and we are soldiers yet!
if our country needs our services. Let us meet together on all
occasions as soldiers, as countrymen. Let us come together in
a kindly spirit. Let us do away with all bickering and prejudice.
Let us meet as soldiers. We have fought for one comraon
cause, for one common country, for one common flag, for one
common Constitution. And when separating, let us separate in
the same way — with kindly feelings toward all — no matter
what our politics may be, or what our prejudices may be, or '
what we raay feel, or what we raay think. Let us, as we have
always done, renew our allegiance to the Government that gave
us birth, to the flag that protected us, and the Constitution that
preserved us. Let each and every one of us to-night register an
oath high up in heaven, that each and every star upon the old
flag, shining now as brightly as the stars that deck the plains
of heaven, shall always give the same light that they have
given — that never shall there be a particle of their brightness
or their glory and luster in any way dimmed, darkened or
obscured by the hand that treason may raise against this
Government. Our sires look down from heaven and say, we
freed a nation, ye have freed a world —
Above your deeds in the celestial glee.
The bells of Heaven ring out their jubilee,
Men of the Army of the Tennessee.
Now, my fellow-comrades, I have said more than I intended
to say, much more, and you will kindly pardon me.
I thank you most heartily for the kindly manner with which
you have listened to me, and ask of you the same consideration
of those who are to follow me.

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Ninth Toast ; — The Widows and Orphans of our
Fallen Comrades.
Speech of General T. J. Henderson :
Comrades : Of all the memories of the late rebellion, there
is none so full of sorrow and sadness as the memory of our
fallen comrades, and the Widows and Orphans left behind thera.
And yet it Is one of the pleasing recollections of the terrible
strife through which we have passed, that they have never been
forgotten. Here to-night, amid all these festivities, surrounded
by all the magnificence and splendor of this great occasion, and
In this august presence, I am proud that the loved ones, the
Widows and Orphans of those who nobly fought and bravely
fell, and whose graves were found all along th'e lines of our
many marches and battles, are not forgotten, but, on the con
trary, live In all our memories, and share In all our sympathies.
Comrades, it is one of the sacred duties we owe the gallant
dead, never to forget those who gave up their husbands
and fathers to help fight the battles and win the victories which
have made memorable not only our own deeds, but our country's
fame. What sacrifices they made ; what sorrows they patiently
bore ; what painful anxiety they endured while sitting at the
window, and watching for the coming back of those they loved,
but watched in vain, we may never know, but we can commend
them to the sympathy and support of a grateful and a patriotic
people. We can cherish their memory in all our associations,
and in all our lives. We can bear to thera the consideration that
their husbands and fathers nobly died while defending the old
flag — that they gave up their lives that the nation might live.
We can tell thera of their gallant deeds. We can point them to
their country's glory. Above all, we can preserve the great,
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and now made more precious by the blood of our fallen com
rades, as an asylum for them and their posterity forever. And
this is the richest reward we can ofler them for all their suffer
ings and sacriflces. As we strew the graves of our fallen
comrades with flowers, let us invoke our country's richest and
choicest blessings upon their Widows and Orphans, and may
their lives ever be lovely and pleasant.
Tenth Toast;- — The Army of the Cumberland.
Speech of General George H. Thomas :
Fellow-Comrades of the Army of the Tennessee, of
the Ohio, the Georgia, and the Cumberland : We have
assembled in this city where we have a grand reunion of the
four armies which had the good fortune to serve together In the
West, where we claim that we did some good duty. To wind
up these interesting proceedings, we have assembled here this
evening to unite together in a social banquet to testify towards
one another our fraternal love, begotten amid hours of danger,
and when we were attempting to discharge our whole duty
to our country. These sentiments, I know, are entertained by
the Army of the Cumberland and the three other armies. But
as their representative to-night I wish to express to you again the
fraternal feeling which we hold towards all of you. The cordial
manner in which we have been received by the citizens of
Chicago, should ever be remembered by us as a demonstration
of their patriotic feeling. Therefore, I wish to tender to them,
in behalf not only of the Army of the Cumberland, but of the
other army societies here, our heart-felt thanks. As our time is
limited, and there are several other speeches to make, you must
excuse me from saying any more. I bid you good-night.
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from me at the close of the regular toasts this evening. I give
you " The Citizens of Chicago. Their enterprise is proverbial,
and their liberality no less so. The latter will be long remem
bered by the united armies of the Tennessee, the Ohio, the
Cumberland, and the Georgia."
Eleventh Toast; — The Cavalry Corps of the Military
Division of the Alississippi.
Speech of General J. H. Wilson :
Comrades : In responding to the sentiment which you have
just received, and which revives in my mind so raany stirring
recollections. It Is not my Intention to detain you by a recital of
historic details ; but I should be fiilse to the hardy riders, who
never were false to me or to their colors, if I failed, in their
name, to return their grateful acknowledgments for the graceful
manner In which you have just complimented them.
It is said that a prominent general, in the early days of the
Rebellion, offered a reward for a dead cavalryman ; and we are
all familiar with the derisive cry : " Fight In front ! There goes
the cavalry to the rear ! " I remember hearing it upon one occa
sion which may have some significance among the potent but
unseen influences which gave character to the war. It was on
the night after the battle of Mission Ridge, while General Grant,
accompanied by his staff and orderlies, was riding toward Chat
tanooga. As the cavalcade dashed by, a division of infantry,
pushing to the front, raade the gloomy forests of the Chicka
mauga re-echo with the old shout of derision. The laugh was
on their side then, although the joke had become somewhat
threadbare. Whether or not this incident brought to the mind of
our chieftain a clearer perception of the necessity for cavalry
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can not say, but it is certain that the campaign about Chattanooo-a
led to the selection of a cavalry leader whose name will live
when that of Murat Is forgotten — -gallant Phil. Sheridan. Since
the days of Mago, who, with his Numldian horse, overthrew the
chivalry of Rome at Cannse, no more splendid reputation has
burst upon the world !
It was my good fortune to be selected for the work laid out
by Sherman for the cavalry of his military division, and hence I
feel It a sacred duty to allude briefly to Its principal features.
At Galesvllle, In October, 1864, General Sherman In that
frank and perspicuous manner so characteristic of the man,
unfolded his plans and told me his wishes ; turned over to my
command the entire mounted force belonging to the armies of
the Cumberland, the Tennessee, and the Ohio ; gave me unlimited
control of this splendid corps, and generously added : " Do
the best you can with it, and if you make any reputation out of
it, I will not undertake to divide it with you." At that time
the bulk of this force was dismounted, and parts of it were
scattered from South-western Missouri to West Virginia.
McCook, Long, and Kilpatrick commanded the three divisions
fi'om the Army of the Cumberland ; Upton and Hatch the two
frora the Army of the Tennessee ; R. W. Johnson that from
the Army of the Ohio ; and Knipe, the last, made up principally
of new troops from Tennessee and Indiana. Kilpatrick, with
five thousand men, and most of the horses, went down to the
sea with Sherman, while the rest of the force remained widi
Thomas to aid in the work of crushing Hood. The official
reports have told how Hatch and Croxton kept watch and
ward along the Tennessee for the six anxious weeks previous to
Hood's passage of the river in his northward march ; how they
were reinforced by Capron and Hammond, and struggled to
impede the hostile advance ; and how at last Hood and Forrest
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country was held In suspense lest the rebels should press north
ward and flank us out at Nashville ; while our imperturbable
commander, secure in his position of strength, was gathering his
force for a final and crushing blow. A cavalry officer hiraself,
he knew that cavalry without horses were like a sabre without a
hilt — powerless for offence, and dangerous only to him who
holds it. He therefore chose to wait while we gathered
horses. When the day of battle arrived we marched out with
twelve thousand men, nine thousand of whom were mounted,
and full of confidence ; besides three thousand more who had
been sent In pursuit of Lj'on.
I shall not detain you with the story of Nashville. Our com
rades of the Army of the Cumberland know how Hatch, Knipe,
Johnston and Cro.xton burst through the rebel works, wheeling
grandly to the left, enveloping the hostile line, and, In conjunc
tion with A. J. Smith's travel-stained veterans, supported by
those of Schofield's corps, swept the rebel troops from hill to hill,
capturing prisoners, guns and breastworks, till the darkness of a
wintry night checked their onward career. My comrades of the
cavalry have not forgotten how gracefully the gallant McArthur,
In admiration of their dashing assault, refused to contest with
them the honor of having been first to enter the rebel works, and
first to reach the rebel guns. That battle, with its splendid
rivalry between cavalry and infantry, was worth a lifetime of
ordinary service. No trooper went to the rear that day except
on a stretcher or in an ambulance. Pushing forward the next
morning, wheeling steadily toward Nashville, Hatch and Ham
mond pressed the goaded and desperate foe In flank and rear till
Hood, In the agony of despair, wrote to Chalmers : " For God's
sake, drive back the Yankee cavalry, or all Is lost ! " It was too
late. Step by step, up the deep slopes of the Brentwood Hills,
and through their tangled thickets, the dismounted troopers held
their way. Finally, when the infantry advanced to the assault of
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the rebel works in front, they met the cavalry entering them tri
umphantly from the left and rear. This was too much for the
rebel host. Broken and crushed, like grain between tlie upper
and nether millstones, it fled iiigloriously, under a pall of dark
ness, from the field. The many instances of personal daring that
characterized the night fighting which followed — Spaulding's
headlong charge In the dark, against rebel barricades ; Ham
mond's gallant conduct at Hollow Tree G.ap ; the stirring aflair
at the West Harpeth, where Hatch, Coon, Hammond and the
Fourth Regulars overwhelmed the rebel rear guard, and cap
tured their last battery ; the thousand cases of unrecognized and
unrewarded valor which marked the terrible fifteen days of
marching, bivouacking and skirmishing, without rations, and
without forage, through a country already desolated by the
march of contending armies ; the almost human suffering of the
starving, overworked horses, as they sank, by thousands, in the
half-frozen morasses which lined our route, would require a
Xenophon to depict them. We shall never forget the toil,
exposure, hunger and suflering of that terrible winter campaign.
But we were amply repaid for it all by the unstinted com
mendations bestowed upon us by our comrades of the infantry,
but, more than all, by the consciousness of our duty done, against
more than mortal odds. From that day forth, there was no word
of ridicule for the cavalry, in the Army of the Cumberland.
The new corps had bathed its guidons In blood, and was gener
ously hailed as full brother in the field of honor.
The next two weeks were spent in cantonments along the
banks of the Tennessee. Five divisions, in all twenty-seven
thousand men, were collected, seventeen thousand of whom were
mounted and ready for service. Knipe was sent to join Canby;
Johnston, with three brigades, was left to keep watch over the
rebels of Middle Tennessee ; Hatch was encamped at Eastport,
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a route marked out for him. The rest of the corps, nearly four
teen thousand strong, splendidly mounted and equipped, and
nearly all provided with the best fire-arms ever put into the
hands of a soldier — the Spencer carbine and rifle — -began their
wide-spread march through the desolate region of Northern
Alabama. Concentrating at Elyton, Croxton was detached to
move upon Tuscaloosa, while the main force, with the impetuous
Upton in advance, headed bohlly for Selma. Forrest, with
Roddy, Armstrong and Crossland, were encountered at Mon-
tevallo, again at Randolph and Ebenezer Church, but were swept
out of the way like chaff before the whirlwind. Marching
twenty-five and thirty miles a day, with constant fighting, was a
poor day's work. On the second day of April, Selma, the last
Southern stronghold, was carried by storm. Thirty-two field
guns, three thousand men and horses, and large quantities of
valuable military property, fell into our hands, while Forrest and
his generals succeeded In escaping under cover of night, by
leaving their followers to their fate. I can not do justice to the
knightly gallantry displayed upon that occasion by Long, MInty,
Miller, and their devoted troopers. The chivalry of Spain, in
their palmiest days, never excelled it. The field over whicli they
advanced was as level and unimpeded as this floor, and was
swept In all directions by the fii"e of sixteen guns. The works
which they carried were a strong bastloned line, covered by a
deep moat, and still farther out, by a stockade five and a half
feet high. The attacking force of one thousand five hundred
and fifty men and officers, in single line, faltered not, but, relying
upon their trusty Spencers, dashed forward without a waver,
scaled the stockade as boys play leap-frog ; poured into the ditch,
and clambered over the parapet defended by a force numerically
greater than their own. Long, Miller, McCormick, Biggs and
Dobbs, with over two hundred of their comrades, were stricken
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long enough to bridge the swollen Alabama, we pushed foi-ward
toward Montgomery, raising the starry flag over the first capital
ofthe Confederacy. Destroying the cotton, boating, and military
stores, we continued our hurrying march toward the Chattahoo
chee ; LaGrange capturing Fort Tyler at West Point, and Upton
the tete de po7it, at Columbus. It is not too much to say that
these actions were never surpassed for audacity and resolution.
The attack on Columbus was made after nine o'clock at night.
Upton, assisted by Winslow, Noble and Benteen, led his three
hundred chosen troops, dismounted, elbow to elbow, like " Gren
adiers of the Guard," straight against the breastwork that barred
his road, and although three thousand rebel Infantry, and fifty-
two guns, throwing all kinds of missiles, did all In their power to
hold thera at bay, he swept every thing before hira. Even the
bridges, and the very guns for their defence, were captured
before the bewildered rebels could retreat beyond them. The
assault upon Fort Tyler was scarcely less remarkable, although it
was made by daylight. When It is considered that the ditches
of this work were impassable, that three bridges, on three sides
of the work, were laid, and each of them used by columns which
crossed the rebel parapets almost simultaneously. It will be
acknowledged that both officers and men had passed by the days
-of half-measures in warfare, and were equal to any emergency.
Night fighting is the crucial test of discipline, and It is no raore
than justice to say that Cromwell's Ironsides could not have met
it better than did Upton's Division at Columbus. The cavalry
learned there, at Selma and Nashville, one of the greatest lessons
in warfare- — -that there is no cover so good as darkness, and no
protection so coraplete as resolute courage In times of great peril ;
that caution is the virtue of prosperity, but audacity that of great
emergencies !
We tarried at Columbus thirty-six hours, burning and
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Georgia. Next Macon, with its garrison of major-generals and
militia, fell an unresisting prize Into our hands. A few days
thereafter Croxton, who by a series of masterly marches had
outwitted Jackson, burned Tuscaloosa, and fought Adams
near Eutaw, making a wide sweep to the northward and east
ward, rejoined us In the heart of Georgia, where we were
stopped by something more difficult than rebel lines to break.
I refer to the armistice which preluded peace. I need not
explain to an assembly of soldiers, that there were sad hearts
araong us that day — sad and glad ones too — for while we
all rejoiced as good citizens that the war was ended, it must not
be forgotten that our columns were moving toward Virginia
at the rate of forty miles a day, ancl that we had hoped within
twenty days to unite our forces with those of Sheridan, and to
measure our metal with his in patriotic rivalry. But the last
battle had been fought, and there was nothing left for us but to
gather in the fruits of our victory. Learning from rebel sources
that Davis was a fugitive, and believing that he would be restrained
by neither armistice nor capitulation, we took possession of rail
roads and telegraph lines, sent scouts throughout Northern
Georgia, and detachments to all important points between
Marietta and St. Marks. With Upton at Augusta, Alexander
at Coosa, Winslow at Atlanta, Minty and Croxton at Macon
and along the line of the Ocraulgee, with detachments on the
Chattahoochee and the Flint, and McCook at Tallahassee, we
barred all doors and patrolled all roads leading to the South and
West. The first information of Davis' movements was obtained
from a rebel citizen who had seen him at Salisbury ; but this
was soon supplemented and confirmed by the untiring zeal of
Lieutenant George O. Yeoman, Acting Inspector General of
Alexander's brigade. This gallant young officer, with a detach
ment of twenty men, all disguised as rebels, joined Davis' escort
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commanding officers Informed of all the movements of the rebel
chieftain. It was upon this Information that Croxton and Minty
were directed to select their best regiments, the one to inarch
eastward to the Oconee, and the other to march southeastv\'.ard
along the Ocraulgee. The story of the pursuit and capture has
been told in detail. You have heard how Harnden, vvith the
First Wisconsin cavalry, struck the trail at Dublin — thanks
to the information given by a colored man — and how the
Colonel and his men followed without food or forage for three
days and nights, through swamps, morass, and forest, to the
neighborhood of Irwinville, all the time gaining upon the
fugitives, and all the time becoming more firmly convinced that he
was on the right track ; how Pritchard, with the Fourth
Michigan, crossed the trail at Abbeville, and after skirting the
Ocmulgee several miles further, turned also toward Irwinville ;
and how, in the gray of the dawn of the loth of May, his
troopers captured the President of the so-called Southern Con
federacy, not booted and spurred, with his visor down, but
struggling ungracefully in the encumbering garb of woman.
What an ignoble and pitiful end ! What more ignoble stain
could the gallows fix upon such a man .? How wisely Providence
ordered events ! In that hour the country was overwhelmed
with sorrow for the untimely death of the beloved Lincoln;
the colors of the nation were draped in black, and sadness had
driven the smile from every countenance — when lo ! the news
of Davis's capture. In disguise, flashed across the wires, and
spread with lightning speed. The effect was magical ; It was
the farce after the tragedy, and a laugh of derision followed the
wail of mourning.
During six months of almost constant marching' and
fighting between the Ohio river and the Gulf of Mexico, the
Mississippi and the Atlantic, these troopers never went
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claim that they never got within sight of a gun that they did not
take, whether posted in the open field, behind breastworks, or
beyond streams ; that they never made a charge which fiiiled,
and never lost a bridge of their own, nor permitted the enemy
to burn one over which he was retreating. They captured
nearly fifteen thousand prisoners, thirty-two stands of colors, five
fortified cities, and two hundred and eighty guns. They burned,
or helped the rebels to burn, two hundred and fifty thousand
bales of cotton ; destroyed railroads, bridges, cars, locomotives,
foundries, ship-yards, factories, and military stores, as long as
they could find them to destroy ; after the surrender, they
paroled fifty-nine thousand rebel soldiers belonging to the armies
of Lee, Johnson, and Beuregard, and arrested the Postmaster
General, Secretary of the Navy, Vice-President, and President
of the Confederacy.
When the war ended, the seven divisions numbered thirty-five
thousand men for duty ; the three divisions under my immediate
command, fourteen thousand, exclusive of three full regiments
of colored troops, recruited and organized, clothed with rebel
uniforms, and armed with rebel rifles, while on the march.
They had twenty-three thousand head of horses and mules, were
provided with three excellent batteries of horse artillery, among
which were Robinson's Chicago Board of Trade Battery, and
Battery "M" and "I" of the Fourth United States Artillery,
they were fully provided with arms and aniraunition, and in
every way justified the praise of General Sherman, when he said
" they were the largest and best equipped body of mounted
troops that ever fell under his command.'' They were equal to
any duty which could have been required of them, except that
of lying still in the enemy's country. Motion was the first law
of their existence, as well as the principal component in the
measure of their utility ; they required all the surplus product
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cavalry Is the best infantry mounted, and that mass or numbers,
into the square of the velocity with which either can go, Is the
true measure of its working capacity. Forrest came near the
secret of cavalry, and, In fact, of all warfare, if there is any
secret, when he said to one of my staff officers : " Tell General
Wilson that I don't know rauch about tactics, but I would give
more for fifteen minutes of the bugle on him than for three days
of tactics." I am glad to say that we never gave him fifteen,
nor five, nor one minute, but went for him all the time.
Neither the country nor the army appreciated the division,
brigade and regimental commanders of the cavalry corps at their
real worth. There were men araong them fit for any command
that could have been given them, and, as a class, they were as
gallant and capable as ever drew sabre or wore uniform. It
will always be regretted for their fame that the war did not
last six months longer. They were, with a few exceptions,
not yet turned of thirty. Upton, Alexander, Winslow, Crox
ton, LaGrange, Watkins, Murray, Palmer, KItchell, Noble,
Benteen, Young and Kelley, were of the younger set, while
McCook, Minty, Long, Kilpatrick, Hatch, Knipe, Coon, R.
W. Johnson, Hammond, Cooper, McCormick, G. M. L. John
son, Atkins, Spaulding, Pritchard, Miller, Harrison, Biggs,
Vail, Israel Garrard, and Frank White, were somewhat older,
though still possessing the sinews of youth. Our grey-beards,
and we had but few, were Harnden — as sturdy as Burley of
Balfour, and Eggleston — ^the type of those who rode with Crora
well in Marston Moor. The rank and file were veterans In
sei-vlce, but young In years, and I can aver with truthfulness that
I never saw their superiors for endurance, self-reliance and pluck.
After they were massed at Nashville they believed themselves
invincible. When armed with Spencers it was their boast that,
elbow to elbow, dismounted, and in single line, nothing could
withstand their charge. " Only cover our flanks," said Miller

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before Selma, " and nothing can stop us ! " In conclusion. It is
my duty to add that I never saw one of thera skulk before battle,
or sneak to the rear after the action began. They seemed to
know by instinct when the enemy might be encountered, and the
only strife among them was to see who should be first in the
onset. With a corps of such men, the more the better, properly
mounted, armed and organized, nothing is impossible except
defeat. The clangor of war Is over, and quiet reigns throughout the
land ; our chargers are converted Into plow-horses, our guidons
are folded tenderly away, our carbines and sabres hang rusting
on the wall, our ranks are broken, and our troopers side by side
gathering the victories of peace. The fire of patriotism yet
burns brightly In their bosoms, and should, perchance, the bugles
sound "to arms," they will rally to their standards and charge
again for country, God and victory !
Music by the Band; — " When Johnny Comes Marching
Home." Twelfth Toast ; — The Army of the Mississippi.
Speech of General John Pope :
Mr. President and Gentlemen : As this Is a reunion of
officers belonging to organizations of Western troops, as they
stood at the close of the war, and as I have not the honor to be a
member of either, I had expected that I would be perraitted to
remain a silent guest, and avail myself of the privilege which your
kindness and courtesy have conferred, to listen to the addresses
of the distinguished officers who have spoken, and to renew with
many of you the pleasant social intercourse which separation has
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admonish me that more is expected, and I have not the privilege,
even had I the inclination, to refuse to respond.
Of all the armies here represented, the Army of the Tennessee
is the oldest In years and In organization. But two others had
birth at the same time, and stood side by side with that army at
the siege of Corinth. These two armies \vcre the Army of the
Ohio and the Army of the Mississippi. General Buell, the able
soldier who organized and commanded the Army of the Ohio,
during its whole existence (an array noted in its day for Its
organization, Its discipline, and Its efficiency) is not here present,
to speak in fitting terms In Its honor ; but General Thomas, the
most renowned of its soldiers, whose name and fame are insepar
ably connected with it and its successor (the Army of the Cum
berland), sits on ray right, and is, no doubt, both ready and
willing to respond in Its behalf.
Of the Army of the Mississippi, which It Is my highest honor
to have organized and coramanded. It seems appropriate that I
should say something, and I trust you will bear with nie if I
seem extravagant in the few remarks which I shall make. The
official life of the Array of the Mississippi was not long, but It
was long enough to inscribe on its banners " New Madrid,"
"Island No. lo," and "Corinth," " Second Corinth," and "luka;"
long enough to bear on Its rolls such names as Schuyler Ham
ilton, C. S. Hamilton, Plummer, and KIrby Smith ; long enough
to give to the iVrmles of the Tennessee and Cumberland such
renowned soldiers as Rosecrans, Sheridan, Stanley, Mower,
Granger, Corse, Palmer, Elliott, Noyes, Fuller, Sprague, Wager
Swayne, Morgan, and many others ; long enough to contribute
to these armies (mainly to the Army of the Tennessee), some of
their best and most distinguished regiments. An organization
which gave such deeds and such soldiers to the country, should
not be suffered to be forgotten amongst men, and I esteem it a
privilege that It has fallen to ray lot to recall to remembrance its

speech of Getieral Pope. 155
brlUIant record. Of the pain and reluctance with which I found
myself separated from that army in the midst of its successful
career, by orders which I could not resist, and of what afterward
befell, it perhaps does not become me to speak, except to say that
in time of trial and misconception, confronted by difficulties
which the country seems yet little to comprehend, I was strength
ened to endurance by the knowledge conveyed in a thousand
assurances that the syrapathy and confidence of that array went
with me through all. But a few months after the evacuation of
Corinth the organization of the Army of the Mississippi was
broken up, and its commanders and its regiments absorbed in the
Armies of the Tennessee and Curabei-land. From that d.ay their
fortunes weie identified with those armies. In the great cam
paigns which swiftly followed ; in their toils and perils ; In their
victories, and In their fame, the old regiments of the Army of the
Mississippi bore their full part, and have their full share ; but I
do not doubt, indeed I know, that even now, assembled here to
recall and to enjoy the remembrance of their later achievements,
and the fame of their latest army organizations, they look back
with affection to the old Army of the Mississippi, and remeraber
with pride and pleasure its brilliant history.
The War of the Rebellion, with all its brilliant deeds, and Its
heroic sacrifices, has been consigned to history, and its vivid
impressions are fast fading from the minds of men. It seems emi
nently proper, then, that the gallant soldiers who played their part
in this great war, and to whom the Governraent to-day stands
indebted for its life, should meet together from time to time to
keep alive the memories of the past achievements, and the
cordial brotherhood which binds them together. But let us hope
that the next reunion of the Western armies may embrace all
those who at any time served in the armies of the West. Let
us remember the many gallant officers wounded at Belmont,
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Corinth, and at Perryvllle, and, because of their wounds, never
able to rejoin their commands. Let us be mindful of the many
officers separated at an early day from the Western armies by
orders or other circumstances which they could not control.
Let us recollect the numerous and widely dispersed forces serving
in Missouri and Arkansas who played their part manfully In the
field to which they were assigned. None of these belong to the
army organizations here represented, and yet there Is not one of
them who did not feel an equal interest In the career of the
Western armies, and does not feel an equal pride in their
splendid achievements. Not as guests, but as members in full
brotherhood, these men should be welcomed at any future
reunion of the armies of the West.
The cordial harmony, and the earnest good feeling so plainly
manifested among the large number of officers who have taken
part in this reunion, sufficiently demonstrate that neither widely
separated homes, diversity of pursuits, nor differences of political
opinion, have sufficed to weaken the strong friendships formed
in stirring scenes of war, and cemented by so rauch glory and
so much grief. It Is to this feeling of personal regard among
the meinbers of the great armies which have so lately
been re-absorbed into the bosom of the people that we
are Indebted for much of our Iraraunity from personal and
political bitterness and distrust, and as these great arraies
once saved the life of this nation by the power of their arras,
it is by no means improbable that they may yet preserve it from
further civil strife and convulsion through the infiuence of tlie
personal attachment and confidence formed during the war, and
strengthened and perpetuated during these army reunions.

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Thirteenth Toast ; — Our Sister Ar?nies of the East,
the South, the Gulf, and the Frotztier.
Speech of General Thomas C. Fletcher, of Missouri :
Comrades : The fame of our sister arraies is enrolled in
the Capitol ; their deeds are preserved in the record of the events
of the time. The glory they shed upon American arms will
grow brighter and brighter as time shall reveal more fully all
the causes which contributed to our final victory. On the most
thrilling pages of the history of the great American War, there
will be found inscribed the deeds of the Army of the East.
Its fame can not be added to by any proceeding here on our
part. It first taught the vaunting Southerner to respect the valor
and the manhood of the men of the North. It exhibited first,
and perhaps In highest degree, the persistence and power of
endurance which distinguish the American soldier. Defeated,
crushed, hurled back ; broken and bleeding, they rallied again
and again, and were taken back by successive leaders to fight the
bravest and best of the troops of the South. Roman and
Grecian heroism will fail to claim the attention of the genera
tions of the future, when they shall read the story of the brave
and true men who were nerved by faith in God, and in the
justice of their cause to do the deeds of the Array of the East.
Their deeds are history. No eulogy frora rae can add to their
glory. No eloquence can add to the force of the plain facts
of that history.
And our Sister Army of the South ! Who would
attempt the useless task of weaving a wreath of rhetoric above
or about the chaplet of glory with which It crowned itself In the
contest with the strong, well organized, desperate and well
supplied enemy, on his own soil, and aided by the very climate,
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the stranger.? We can only leave for the history of the Array
of the South our testimony, as actors with It In the great general
struggle for liberty and law, to the noble part it bore.
What can be said of the Army of the Gulf that has not been
said of the Sibter Armies of the East and of the South?
When exultation gives place to the calmer enjoyment of
the results of great achievements, then all the means which
contributed to the final success are looked for and appreciated.
The history of a nation is usually but the story of Its wars; the
first version, what the armies say of themselves, the later one,
what they say of each other. We need not wait for the reason
ing and philosophical study of the coining time to trace out the
deeds of our Array of the Frontier, and to speculate as to Its
importance in the causes which contributed to the grand results of
the war for liberty and the Union. The Armies of the Tennessee,
Cumberland, Ohio, and Georgia lead It here by the hand as a
sister to the very presence of the future, and before witnesses
whose name and farae will outlive that of Caesar and Bonaparte,
and fade from freedom's scroll only with the name of Wash
ington — they proclaim our Army of the Frontier full sharer
of their glory. Though comparatively few In their nurabers,
they were strong In their faith, and with heroic hand wrote "the
fiery gospel In rows of burnished steel" all over the prairies,
and along the river shores where the hand of the savage wielded
the scalplng-knife In Confederate service for the cause of slavery
and rebellion. And where superior forces opposed, and lurking
foes did foul murder in the name of war, through the valley
dark with the terror and blood of neighborhood deadly strife,
they led the patriot citizen up to the Insj^Iring heights of new
hope. Tradition, story, and song will hand down to the
posterity of the brave and noble Union men of Southwest Mis
souri and Northern Arkansas the names and memory of our
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will smile their pictures brave and bright. They made historic
the hills, and prairies, and fords, where they met the enemy,
at Cane Hill, Prairie Grove, Bentonville ; and in numberless
engagements they bore the flag in triumph, kept over twenty-
five thousand of the enemy constantly employed, and made
continued marches, the rapidity and heroism of which were not
exceeded in the war. The gallant little army went in its greatest
proportions, like its distinguished leaders, Schofield, Llerron, and
Blunt, to win new glory on other fields, in other army organiza
tions, and to join the swelling tide that, under Providence, was
directed by Grant and Sherman in the course that swept away
tlie Confederacy.
Song by the Glee Club ; — "¦America."
Fourteenth Toast ; — The Loyal Citizens who sustained
us at Home while we fought the Enemy at the Front.
Speech of Governor Oglesby ;
Soldiers : " The loyal citizens who supported you at home
while you fought the eneray at the front," are listening with silent
but attentive ear to what shall be said here to-night. In the pres
ence of this august assemblage of our national patriotic brother
hood ; in the presence of the soldiers of the Republic, the loyal
people have no report to make, except to say, God bless the
noble soldiers who fought for and saved the nation. Outside of
these walls, to-night, tiiere Is peace. A cautious, patriotic, and
appreciative people know who to thank and to honor for this
priceless boon. Qiilet and dignified in the hour of victory, they
calmly survey the field, and place the laurel where only It
belongs, upon the brow of the brave. Ho.w proud the loyal
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offered their lives for their country. The tattered and battie-
worn flags hanging about this hall to-night, shield and protect
you now, and bear witness to your heroism and devotion in the
days of the fearful strife of battle. In the name of the loyal
people, who wish to be silent when the soldiers are about to
speak, I will say that one and all of you, from the honored
private to the commander-in-chief, are borne forever, and affec
tionately, in their hearts. Thus responding for the loyal masses ;
thus speaking for every man, woman and child in the grand old
Republic, I bid you welcome, and in their naraes, hail with
delight your presence here to-night."
Fifteenth Toast ; — The Loyal Women of the United
States. Speech of Colonel J. M. Brown ;
Mr. Chairman, and Comrades of the Grand Armies:
The toast just proposed deserves an abler respondent than I
can hope to be. It Is our recognition of the heroism, the
loyalty, and the self-sacrifice of the women of America, who
gave to the country all that they hold dearest. If absolute
loyalty is to be honored ; if the love of country and abne
gation of self Is to be approved and reverenced by us ; If
disinterested labor and sacrifice, that counted not the cost,
is worthy the gratitude of truly grateful hearts, then are the
women — the loyal mothers, wives and sisters of our common
country — those whom we, the soldiers of the RepubHc, in
our hour of reunion, should honor with the truest, the sin
cerest gratitude of soldiers' hearts.
What sacrifice on the country's altar was more dearly pur
chased than the life of the husband who left his widow
desolate .? What can comfort the heart of her, whose only boy

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died that the nation might live.? Who can count the tears of
her whose hope in the coming years poured out his blood that
the ti'ee of our liberties might be watered therewith.? If we who
survive feel the moistening eye and the thickening throat as we
recall the names and features of our comrades who have gone
before, how ever present the sorrow of those whose staff" and
hope have departed, whose joys and whose loves lie buried in a
bloody grave ! Sir, we made our sacrifices. We marched and
bivouacked. We fought. We triumphed. For us there Is the
consolation of victory gloriously earned. We who survive find
In these reunions, and in our country's approval, the reward of
our trials, our dangers, and of our hardships. But the loyal
women of the United States have no rewards that find their
expression in occasions like this. Theirs was for each an indi
vidual devotion ; the sorrow of each is her own burden of grief.
We who have fought this fight well know the power that
woman's aid lent to the fallen Confederacy. We have seen too
often how female resolution supported the failing spirit of the
disheartened Confederates. We have seen how woman's power
was potent against the right, and how men, in a wrong cause,
were nerved by it. But we have all of us seen, as well, the
power of the loyal woman's influence. All of us have felt the
animating spirit of the wives, and mothers, and sisters, who gave
their dear ones to the country, and whose zeal flagged not while
the country was imperiled. Who Is there here of all the great
armies, who does not recall with tenderest niemories the blessing
of her who sent him. forth to do battle for the right .? Have we
not abundant cause to thank " the loyal women of the United
States," that we entered the conflict strong in heart, and perse
vered to the glorious end.? But the loyal woman's mission did
not end with the gift of husband, or son, or brother, to the
Republic. Her care and prayer were constant and efficacious.
The whole world stood amazed at the prodigies of benevolence
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wrought, through woman's hands, by our unparalleled Sanitary
Commission. The blessings distributed by that benign charity
are only known to us, fellow-soldiers, who saw and shared, in the
hospital, the bounties which our loyal women, with laboring
hearts and open hands, so freely furnished. To the loyal women
of our country, then, let us give the praise which every soldier's
heart feels to be so justly their due. Their patriotism first sent
husbands, sons and brothers to the national armies — their love
and devotion followed us in our campaigns, and In battle ; their
care was ever vigilant for us when sick and wounded ; their
prayers ever ascended to heaven for our safety and for the right.
Music by the Band ; — " Home, Sweet Home."
Sixteenth Toast ; — The Armies of the Republic in War
and in Peace; — The Rebellion called them into existence — its
overthrow converted their swords into ploughshares, and their
spears into pruning hooks. By quietly disbanding and returning
to the avocations of peace, they have astonished the world no
less than by their prowess in the field.
Speech of General M. F. Force :
Comrades : " Peace hath her victories no less renowned than
those of war." Those tattered colors thickly clustered around these
walls speak to us with mute eloquence. They are whispering
from every fold the story of our four years' toil. Our pulses beat
fast as they recall these campaigns, battles, sieges. But the
proudest achievement they call to mind, is the army's quiet
muster out, and return to the pursuits of peace.
They who bore these colors were no army of mercenary troops,
or of subjects fighting only for their monarch's glory, or their own.
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homes to return to, taking up arms only from profoundest
Impulse of duty, and glad to lay them aside when the occasion
was over. Those citizens, independent men who looked the
world In the face, and acknowledged no man a superior, self-
rehant men who pushed through the world with their own wits
and their own strong arms, raen accustomed to have a voice
in the control of public affairs, seemed at first unruly material
out of which to make an army. Yet, In a few months, swarms
of such citizens were transformed into a vast, smoothly working
machine ; or rather one great living being, with one central
brain, and moving In every part responsive to the will of the
commander as the very muscles of his body.
The very trait which makes the American an independent
citizen, made him an obedient soldier. He yields respect to law,
not as a power which can enforce obedience, but as an authority
to which reverence Is due. So when he learned that military
discipline is a part of the law, that military command is a
function given by law, and military obedience is a duty prescribed
by law, that moment he became a soldier, yielding Iraplicit
and prompt compliance to orders, not with the mechanical
obedience of routine, but with an intelligent instinct which
often anticipated- orders.
So citizens learned the arts of war without forgetting the ways
of peace, and when the time for disbanding came, it was easy
to lay aside the musket and return to the plow. When that
time came, some even in the field doubted the results of sudden
emancipation from discipline. Many at home who had only
heard of the desolations of war, were apprehensive. When the
fields of war disgorged a million men, and the roads leading
north shook with the tread of discharged soldiers, some at home
seemed to see a cloud sweeping up to scatter disorder through
the land. The cloud came. It spread over the whole country,
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the land. A million soldiers disappeared. In their place
appeared a milUIon busy citizens, on every farm, in every work
shop, and office, as if they had never known war. These men,
keeping the promise many made at the muster out, "we will
now go home, and in our own lives give an example of that
obedience to law which we have enforced in others," present a
rarer spectacle than any shock of arms. Each one thus faith
fully doing the duty that he has before him, no raatter how humble
the sphere of his daily toil, no matter how secluded the hamlet In
which he lives, is, in his own place, as truly noble as Wash
ington at Valley Forge, or Grant at Appomattox.
Seventeenth Toast ; — The Loyal and Patriotic Press.
Speech of General Carl Schurz :
Soldiers : I think I shall confer a favor upon this assem
bly If I refrain from making a long speech. I can not, like
our Coraraander-in-Chlef, the President elect, plead that I am
entirely unaccustomed to public speaking, but I can hardly find
fault with you If, on an occasion like this, you can not accustom
yourselves, very easily, to quiet listening. The toast I have to
respond to is : " The Loyal and Patriotic Press ! " I think I
can improve upon the sentiment : The union of the men of the
jDen and the men of the sword ! The men of the sword have
valiantly and gloriously carried out and enforced the ideas
and principles for long years advocated by the loyal and
patriotic men of the pen. That is their highest glory. The
men of the pen will never become tired of sounding the
praise of the patriotic men of the sword. And now they
are battering, with the formidable artillery of printed letters,
the citadels of ignorance, prejudice and disloyalty which the
men of the sword have still left standing. The union, then,

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of the men of the sword and the men of the pen ; of the
men of action and the men of thought, of intelligence and
power. As long as that union lasts, the Republic of the
United States will be safe.
Eighteenth Toast ; — Our Invited Guests.
Speech of Governor Edward Salomon, of Wisconsin :
Mr. President, and Gentlemen of this Army Reunion :
With diffidence I rise before this assemblage of laurel-crowned
soldiers. I see before me the great and world-renowned com
mander of those armies, whose brave and distinguished officers
are united upon this festive occasion. Gracefully he wears upon
his brows his high, well-earned honors. Here, too. Is the old
brave commander of the Army of the Cumberland, all covered
with glory and renown, whose equestrian figure will grace the
National Lincoln Monument at Washington, if the voice of his
old command and that of the nation is heeded, but whose fame
will outlive all monuments of stone or metal. Then I behohl
that distinguished and energetic commander of the Army of the
Ohio, who now so ably wields the power of the War Office ; and
hosts of others of great distinction, whose names are well known
to fame, are here assembled. On all sides. Indeed, I find myself,
surrounded by men upon whose daring, valor and fortitude, a
few short years 'ago, depended the fate of this great American
Republic, and who, with their comrades in arms, on land and
water, saved it from destruction. It Is an impressive scene, and
one which crowds the memories of our great national struggle so
thick and fast upon me that language fai,ls me aptly to express
my feelings. And then, foremost among your invited guests
(for such I take him to be, although most emphatically one of
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of the American people, on whom rested the supreme command
of all the Lbiion armies during the last years of that fearful war,
so happily brought to a successful close by his indomitable
energy and great generalship, and who, chosen soon- to assume
the highest position in the gift of this free people, stands before
thera as their second Washington. You have assembled here,
Mr. President and gentlemen, to renew the memories of the past,
the recollection of your deeds, and of the scenes through which
you passed when battling for the preservation of the Union ; and
we, your invited guests, have gladly come here to enjoy with you
the pleasures of this reunion, and to do honor and homage to you
and to those bright deeds of valor indelibly written by you ujDon
the pages of American history. In one sense, the guests which
you have invited represent the people of this nation outside of
your organization. With pride and interest that people look
upon this reunion, and follow your proceedings here.
" Either tvith the shield or 2tpoti the shield return," was the
last word of the Spartan mother to her son when he went forth
to do battle for his country. You, gentlemen of the army,
returned " with the shield ; " returned victors, and )'Our mother-
country is proud of 3'ou, and glad to see you rejoice in your
deeds ! In behalf of your Invited guests, and of all the loyal
people of this land ; nay, in the name of all lovers of liberty
every where, I would fain take each one of you by the hand, and
in one warm pressure renew what my tongue fails to express —
the gratitude of this free people for all you did and suffered for
your country's cause. That Integral and substantive part of the
Union forces known as " Sherman's Array," has quite a history
of its own, a glorious record of brave deeds and able generalship,
which will be banded down from generation to generation.
" Sherman's March to the Sea," will be a phrase whose signifi
cance will be known to every American school-boy, and at the
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Christmas gift was made by General Sherman to President
Lincoln, in 1864. That march, and that Christmas gift, were
" the beginning of the end " of the war ! But, Mr. President, it
Is not for me, here, further to dilate upon the glories of Sherman's
army. They are better known to you than me, and have been
spoken of by eloquent lips. In the world's history there have
been many wars, but none more sacred, none whose purpose was
purer and holier than this great war for the preservation of the
Union ; and well may you, gentlemen of the army, be proud of
the memories of that war, and commemorate them on occasions
like this. You have also assembled here, however, to renew the
friendships formed in those trying struggles and scenes, when,
side by side, you suffered, and fought, and bled to uphold our
country's flag. Thomas Moore somewhere most truly says that
'The love born of sorrow,
Like sorrow, is true."
So It is with your friendships of the war. They were born In
the nation's greatest agony and trials, amid the carnage of battle
and the sorrows and deprivations of the field, and they have been
sealed by the death of three hundred thousand of our country's
youth and manhood. Such friendships must live ; they can not
die but with their possessors. Permit me, Mr. President, and
gentlemen of the army, in conclusion of these few remarks, to
express to you this sentiment •¦
" May friendship die,
And hatred live,
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Nineteenth Toast ; — The South — Let us have Peace.
Speech of General Durbin Ward :
Mr. President and Fellow-Citizens : We are here in
peace, recalling to mind the friendships and the glories of an era
of war. Around me are the heroes of a hundred fields. In the
bivouac, the march, and the battle we lived, struggled and
triumphed together. Many of our comrades in the long and
weary '•'¦tramp, tramp, tratnp" perished by the wayside;
many pined to death In the prison or the hospital, and many
went down gloriously on the gory field, while the din of batffe
chanted their requiem in the " diapason of the cannonade ;"
while we, sorae bullet-riddled, scarred and maimed, some
developed and strengthened In every fibre of physical and moral
manhood, have emerged from the deadly clouds of war into
the glad sunshine of peace, and meet to-day as brothers to feed
anew in the altars of our hearts the holy fires of an undying
patriotism. And now, my comrades, when "grim-visaged war
hath smoothed his wrinkled front," and even the re-echoes
of the conflict are fading from our ears, let us not forget the
significance of the struggle, or the grandeur of the achievement.
Remember not merely the feats of valor, or of military genius —
these are In no danger of passing out of mind ; they are already
blazoned forever upon the illumined page of history. But,
grand as they were, the great cause for which we fought was
grander still. The splendor of our victories are surpassed by
nothing before in the history of the world ; but their glory is
enhanced by the nobleness of the cause in which they were
gained. They fought for a nation's life ; they achieved a nation's
peace and grandeur. It is this peace and grandeur — It is this
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constantly remember, and transmit with grateful hearts to the
keeping of our children.
It Is a severe but just commentary on the dominion of passion
and prejudice over reason, that great and revolutionary changes
in political organizations are rarely made except through blood
shed. The internal convulsions of Rome, the overthrow of
feudalism, and the consolidation of monarchy in Europe, the
Reformation, the era of Cromwell, and the French Revolution
are notable examples in other countries. Nor are we an excep
tion. Our national independence was baptized in blood, and
our Federal Union consolidated in the fiery furnace of war.
Political theorists had doubted or denied the perpetual obligation
of our national corapact, and asserted the freedom of the States
to withdraw at pleasure ; and, sad as was the ordeal, our
Institutions, like those of other nations, had to be tried by the
dread arbitrament of force, and their perpetual covenant sealed
In blood. The political growth of our nationality was stunted,
and crippled by the heresy of secession, and our national
escutcheon was stained by the sin of slavery ; from the heresy
and the stain alike the triumph of our arms has forever relieved
our national future.
But these are not the only great achievements of the war.
The political thinker and the humane enthusiast may have made
one or the other of these the load-star of his action. But higher,
and deeper, and holier than all else in the popular heart, was
that mysterious, half-religious sentiment of patriotism, worth
more to a nation than all the dogmatic catechisms of the politi
cians. Our country ! our flag ! fired the heart and nerved the
arm of the American soldier, as his faith and its symbol, the
cross, inspired the heroic crusader. The chief good of the war,
then, was tiie lofty, the sublime patriotism it cultivated. The
Constitution of the National Government, the rights of the
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tine walls of our political structure. But the people make and
unmake ; they are the Government itself, and on their wisdom
and patriotism alone the whole superstructure finally rests.
Should the mightiest nation on earth menace the rights, or seek
to overthrow our Government, would not millions of soldiers
equally from the North and the South rush eagerly to the front
in the nation's defence.? The South! Let us be friends!
We have conquered the South, but we have not vanquished them
to servitude. We have only redeemed them from secession and
war to union and peace. Who that took part in the strife does
not know that even in its darkest hours, a love for the old flag
lingered In the breasts of the rebels themselves.? When raost
defiant, did they not model their national and state governraents
mainly on ours.? In their maddest moments they remembered
with love the old forms of institution, and copied their very flag
from our own. Like lovers parted by a sudden quarrel, the old
affection between the sections was secretly cherished by each, and
was stronger than either knew. In returning again to the open
arms of the Union, the defeated Soutli has nothing to conquer
but its wounded pride, and our own magnanimity ought to make
that no dificult task. We have gloriously proved we knew how
to make war ; let us now magnanimously show we know how to
make peace. The victory of arras is ours. All that stood in the
way of peace and union is buried in the grave of the past. Let
its only epitaph be, " To err is human ; ' tis Divine to forgive.
The victors can afford to be generous, and the truly brave are
always magnanimous to the disarmed. The merciful terms of
Grant and Sherman to their conquered foes do them as much
honor as their grandest victories. Nay, they are their grandest
victories. Fellow-soldiers, in the heat of conflict we may have felt the
animosities of civil war, but we ever stanched the wounds of a
foe, or cooled the dying lips of even an enemy. And now, m

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he hour of victory and peace, we are called on to bind up the
wounds of a conquered section, and teach them to cultivate
friendship by cultivating it ourselves, to reciprocate the esteem
and confidence cherished by our common ancestors. As the
ocean which has been tossed by the storms of a season, but then
returns to its accustomed tides, so the passions of sectional strife
do not at once subside with the storm, but will, ere long, be
called to sleep In the quiet ocean of national peace, whose only
sectional uses shall be the emulation of brothers in the service of
a common country. Sprung from the same noble ancestry, nur
tured to love the same free Institutions, speaking the same
language, inspired by the same religious faith, and heirs to the
same glorious national heritage, who can doubt that a few years
will make us all, of every section, proud alike of our free institu
tions and national glory, and equally fired by the loftiest national
patriotism? The impetuous Southerner, goaded by imaginary
wrongs which a false theory had taught him were real ones,
struck for what his mistaken zeal clothed with the dignity of
** rights," and gallantly he fought for them while resistance was
possible, and the same ardor will nerve his arra in the national
service, now that the elements of national strife are buried forever
In the grave of the " Lost Cause." Men of the South, If we are
but true to ourselves, how gloriously looms up the national
future ! The graves of your Revolutionary sires are sacred soil,
no less in our affections than In yours. The services of your
great men in times past, in peace and in war, are as dearly cher
ished by us as by you. Your ancestors and ours went hand In
hand to the council-boards, and stood shoulder to shoulder on the
battle-fields of the Revolution. You and we were once friends
In peace and war. Your valor and ours were the common price
of our vast dominion and of our coramon glory. Once raore
"let us be friends.'' The great future is ours and yours, and
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would make that future peaceful and grand, let us, as soon as
possible, bury the animosities of the late war, and vie with each
other in developing to the utmost the spirit of brotherly love and
national patriotism. We have the finest institutions, the richest
sources of national wealth, of any people on earth, and we need
but peace, fraternal confidence, and wise counsels to be the
ruling power in the family of nations, and at the same time the
home of the freest and happiest people the world ever saw.
Counseled by the lessons of our Divine Master, let us bury the
" dead past." Nerved to the arduous duties of the " living pres
ent,'' and inspired by the stirring hopes of a magnificent future,
let us strike hands with all of every section who " keep step to
the music of the Union," and, in the spirit of a catholic patriot
ism, send greeting to the whole country, universal amnesty and
perpetual friendship.
Song by the Glee Club; — '¦'•Shall Old Acquaintance le
Forgot?"

LETTERS.

The following letter of invitation, and the replies appended,
form an interesting part of the General Reunion Report :

Committee Rooms, Armies Tennessee.
Cumberland, Ohio and Georgia,

Chicago, November 30, 1868.

Sir ; — The soldiers of the Western armies represented in the
Arraies of the Cumberland, the Tennessee, the Ohio, and
Georgia, feeling that the best memories of their lives are con
nected with those years which they spent in the successful effort
to vindicate the integrity of their government and country, and
obedient, as of yore, to the call of their old leader, Lieutenant
General Sherman, will assemble at Chicago on the fifteenth
and sixteenth of December next, to renew again in social inter
course friendships formed, and to perpetuate the ties which so
closely bound them together, in the hour of peril and danger to
their common country.
You are respectfully and cordially invited to be present and
participate in the observances of the occasion.
An immediate reply, addressed to General A. C. Ducat,
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will facilitate the necessary arrangements for the reception of
those who accept this invitation.
We have the honor to be, very respectfully.
Your obedient servants,
John McArthur,
F. T. Sherman,
A. C. Ducat,
John M. Corse,
w. b. scates,
Julius White,
A. C. McClurg,
Wm. E. Strong,

Committee
V of
Invitation.

Washington, December 14, 1868.
General; — Please express my thanks to your Committee for
their kind invitation to be present at the Army Reunion at
Chicago, and my regret that I can not avail myself of it.
The gratitude of the whole people follows the brave soldiers
who saved the Republic, one and indlylsible. Even tlie
gallant men whose cause was lost will yet find, welcome to
generous rivalry in service to our common country, that their loss
was not loss, but exceeding gain.
Yours, very respectfully,
S. P. Chase.
General A. C. Ducat,
Secretary of Committee.

New York, December ph, 1S68.
Dear Sir ; — I am In receipt of your favor of the 2nd Instant,
inviting me to be present at the Reunion of our Western Army,
on the 15th, and hasten to answer you that, while nothing could

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give me more pleasure than to meet with those who composed
that gallant Army, — whose march was always onward, and
whose movements I once watched with so much anxiety and
interest, when my duties called me to the Upper Mississippi, —
still the numerous engagements I have already accepted, and the
very Inclement state of the weather, render It impossible for me
to comply with the request.
I regret this the more, inasmuch as I have always advocated
the constant reunion of those of both branches of the service, as
the best mode of establishing that good-fellowship and harmony
which always should exist between such as have endured together
the privations of war ; which was particularly the case in our
recent Rebellion. "
As I shall not, therefore, be able to make the speech you
desire, permit me to give you, In its stead, the following sen
timent :
"The Army and Navy of the United States — While each is
ever ready, by its own resources, to sustain the national honor,
may they always stand shoulder to shoulder, as on tho Missis
sippi, in protecting the property and preserving the union of our
common country." I am very truly yours,
D. E. Farragut,
Admiral U. S. Navy.
W. E. Strong, Esq.

Department of State, Washington, D. C,
December 7, 1868.
General A. C. Ducat,
Chicago, Illiiiois :
Dear Sir ; — I have received the invitation with which you
have favored me, to the Reunion of the soldlej-s of the Western

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Armies, to be held at Chicago on the 15th and i6th of December
instant. It ought not to be necessary for me to express, at so late a day,
my exalted appreciation of the honorable and heroic services
which the soldiers of the Western Armies have rendered to the
Republic. It can hardly be necessary to say that it would be
very inconvenient, if not Impossible, for me to visit Chicago on
the happy occasion referred to. I am sure that it is unnecessary
to say that I sincerely regret my Inability to accept the invitation,
and while I earnestly hope that the raeeting may be a happy and
useful one, I am very truly yours,
Will. H. Seward.

Attorney-General's Office, Washington,
Decetnber 12, 1868.
Sir ; — I have had the honor to receive the kind invitation of
your Committee to be present at the Array Reunion, at Chicago,
ou the 15th and i6th instant.
I have the good fortune to have forraed the personal acquaint
ance of some of the celebrated soldiers who will make up your
numerous and brilliant company upon this interesting occasion,
and It would give rae the greater pleasure to look upon the whole
array of the brave defenders of our constituted liberties who shall
answer to the call of their forraer leader. General Sherman.
So long as it Is and raust be easier to serve than to save the
state, so long must all the professions and employments of life
pay homage to the citizen soldiers who by war have raaintained,
that they and we in peace may obey, the laws and constitution of
our country.
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of this pleasure, and I can only send my good wishes for the
general joy of your whole company.
I have the honor to be your obedient servant,
Wm. M. Evarts.

Washington, December 15, 1868.
General George H. Thomas :
Please present to the officers and soldiers of the great Union
Armies my sincere congratulations on the circumstances under
which they now reunite at Chicago. May the influences of this
reunion tend to establish and perpetuate fraternal feeling araong
all who now honor and sustain the flag, however they may have
been heretofore divided.
Hugh McCulloch.

Headc(uarters Department of the Missouri, ^
Camp Supply, Canadia River, f
Indian Territory, December 5, 1868.
General McClurg, Chicago:
My Dear General ; — I am in receipt of your note of
November 15, to-day, and deeply regret my inability to attend
the Reunion of the armies of the West, in your city, on the 15th
instant, on account of the Indian troubles in my department.
I have asked Generals Sherman and Thomas to make my regrets.
I had set my heart on being present at this meeting, and feel
very sad over my disappointment. Yours truly,
P. H. Sheridan,
Major- General.
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Atlanta, Georgia, December 8, 1868.
General ; — I h.ave to-d.ay received the printed letter of
invitation to be present at Chicago, on the i6tli inst., to attend
the Army Reunion to be then held ; and I regret extremely that
my public duties are of such a nature as to render it imprac
ticable for me to accept.
I regret this the more, as it would have afforded me great
pleasure to meet my brother soldiers of the Western armies, and
to have Interchanged with them those friendly courtesies and
feelings of mutual respect and kindness which I trust will ever
characterize the utterance of our nation's soldiers, whether they
come from the West or the East. Earnestly and sincerely
hoping — indeed feeling satisfied — that your Reunion will hfe
productive of much pleasure, and of beneficial results in the
future, I remain, with great respect,
}vIost truly yours,
George G. Meade,
2Iajor- General U. S. Army.
General A. C. Ducat,
Secretary Committee, Chicago, Illitiois.

Washington, D. C, December 11, 1S68.
General A. C. Ducat,
Secretary Committee, Chicago, Illinois.
!My Dear General; — I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your communication of November 30, extending an
invitation to me for the Army Reunion, to be held at Chicago on
the 15th and i6th of December next.
I feel highly gratified by the compliment, and regret that it
will not be practicable for me to attend.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. S. Hancock,
Major-General U. S. Army.

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U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., )
December 5, 1868. )
Dear Sir; — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of
your kind invitation to be present at the Army Reunion, to take
place at Chicago on the 15th and i6th of December. It would
afford me great pleasure to be present, but both my health and
duty prevent the acceptance of your invitation. It would be a
pleasant sight to me to witness the meeting of comrades who
had inarched and fought together for so many long years, and I
should be much gratified to meet the many gallant officers of the
Army of the Tennessee, with whom I was associated at Vicks
burg, Red River, etc. My connection with the different branches
of the Army of the Tennessee was always most agreeable to me ;
and, although I hope none of us may ever live to witness a
renewal of the fraternal strife that has so marred the best Inter
ests of our country, yet if any party should attempt to break up
this glorious Union, — the only asylum that I know of for those
disposed to be free, — I tru.st that the army and navy will be found
fighting shoulder to shoulder, as they always have done, under
the flag which the armies of your reunion so gallantly carried to
victory. Hoping that you will have a most pleasant time, and that this
will not be the last occasion when the gallant officers of the army
will meet in fraternal union, I remain.
Very respectfully and truly yours,
David D. Porter,
Vice-Admiral.
William E. Strong, Esq.,
Sec'y Executive Committee Armies of the Tennessee, etc.,
Chicago, Illinois.

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HoBOKEN, New Jersey, December 9, 1868.
General A. C. Ducat :
General; — I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt
of the very courteous invitation to be present at the Army
Reunion to take place at Chicago on the 15th and i6th
December. It is with sincere regret that I find myself prevented, by busi
ness engagements, from accepting the invitation of the Com
mittee, for I should no doubt find among the soldiers of the
Western Armies many of my comrades of the Armies of West
ern Virginia, and of the Array of the Potomac, and I should be
only too glad to embrace the opportunity of extending my
acquaintance among the soldiers of the gallant Armies of the
West. With my sincere wishes that the reunion may, in every respect,
be a most pleasant one, and that it may tend to strengthen still
more the close ties of fellowship uniting the soldiers of all the
Federal Armies, I am, most respectfully, your obedient servant,
Geo. B. McClellan.

New York, December 8, 1868.
General A. C. Ducat,
Secretary, etc. :
Dear General; — I have been honored with your invitation
for the 15th and i6th of December, and regret extremely that my
health will prevent my participating in your rejoicings at Chicago.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. Hooker,
Major- General U. S. Army.

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Hartford, Connecticut, December ii, i86S.
General ; — I have received the invitation to attend the meet
ing of the soldiers of the Western Armies who belonged to Gen
eral Sherman's command. Nothing would give me greater
pleasure than to meet these soldiers, among whom are many of
my old companions In arms, and to witness the greeting of their
old commander by them.
But my engagements will not permit me to leave here now,
and with thanks for your invitation, and best wishes for the entire
success of the Reunion, I am, respectfully yours,
W. B. Franklin,
Former Major- General U. S. Volunteers.
General A. C. Ducat,
Secretary, etc., etc.

Utica, December 12, 1868.
Gentlemen; — I am sorry I can not accept your invitation to
attend the Reunion of the soldiers of the Western Armies, —
Cumberland, Tennessee, Ohio, and Georgia, — at Chicago, on
the i6th instant. As many of the regiments sent out from New
York, while I was Governor of that State, served in these armies,
I feel, a personal as well as a national pride and interest in this
gathering. It is not necessary to speak of the respect and admiration in
which the soldiers of the Republic are held by its citizens ; and
foremost among you will be the distinguished General, now at
the head of our armies, who won his first laurels as one of the
leaders of the Armies of the West.
His election to the office of President of the United States,
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merits, the patriotic services of the soldier are held in honorable
and grateful remembrance by the American people.
I have the honor to be,
Truly yours,
Horatio Seymour.
To the Committee of Invitation.

Washington City, December lo, 1868.
General A. C. Ducat,
Chicago, Illinois:
Dear General ; — - The beautiful circular issued from your
coraraittee rooms, is just received by me. I would gladly obey
the call of my old leader. General Sherman, and be present with
you at Chicago on the I5tli and l6th inst., to renew In social
intercourse friendships formed, and to perpetuate the ties which
so closely bound us together in the hour of peril and danger to
our common country, but an engagement entered into some time
since will j^revent me from going. The most cordial greetings I
receive are from soldiers, now civilians, who have served with
us during the ^var ; and I know that my own heart goes out
towards a soldier, wounded or crippled by bullets from the
enemy, or towards a faraily left helpless by the loss of a father
upon the battle field, with more genuine sympathy, and a more
earnest desire to assist, than it does towards others.
A short time ago, a young man who had lost his right arm
and right leg in the service, carae to ray house late at night
utterly destitute ; his faraily were coraparatlvely helpless, and
dependent upon hira for support ; he had pawned every thing he
possessed that was valuable ; had earnestly sought employment
up and down the streets of New York ; had petitioned politi
cians ; and, having failed In all his efforts, finally come to me
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and others were able to assist him, and did so, and he went back
to his home with a happy heart.
I believe, if the sympathies of the multitude for poor soldiers
who have been crippled, or rendered useless for employment
requiring physical effort, shall ever grow cold, that at least their
old companions and officers who may be in good circumstances,
with health and strength, will never fail to labor earnestly and
actively In their behalf.
Trusting you may have a pleasant and profitable reunion, and
one never to be forgotten, I remain, with great regard.
Your faithful friend,
O. O. Howard,
Brevet Major- General, U. S. Army.

Washington, December 11, 1868. .]
General' A. C. Ducat,
Secretary Committee Invitation :
General; — -I have had the honor of receiving the invitation
of the Committee to the Army Reunion at Chicago on the 15th
and 1 6th inst. The associations of the field gave rise to friend
ships far different from those formed under the usual conditions
of life, and it would be a source of very great gratification to me
to meet the gallant soldiers of the Western arraies, and I regret
sincerely that It Is not in my power to be present and participate
in the enjoyments of the reunion.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully.
Your obedient servant,
A. A. Humphreys,
Brevet Major- General.

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St. Paul, Minnesota, December 17, 1S68.
General A. C. Ducat:
Sir ; — On my return to this place, after an absence of two
months, I found awaiting me the entirely unexpected honor of
an invitation to attend the meeting of the soldiers of the Western
armies at Chicago on the 15th and i6th inst.
I was at Chicago on my way to this place on the 15th, wholly
unaware that an invitation had been sent me, and, although my
duties did not permit my stopping to participate in the observ
ances of the occasion, I should not have failed to express my
regrets (had I known of the invitation,) that my time was not at
my disposal, so that I might accept the courtesy extended.
I take this my first opportxinlty to acknowledge the honor
of being invited, and to express my thanks for having been
remembered on such an occasion. Yours, respectfully,
G. K. Warren.

New York, December 9, 1S68.
General; — I regret that ill health deprives me of the
pleasure I anticipated in attending the reunion at Chicago on the
15th and i6tli Inst. Let us ever cherish the associations of our
glorious struggle. I trust it may not be long before we shall
see a grand reunion of the societies of all the armies.
With grateful acknowledgements to the Committee of Invita
tion, and to yourself, I remain. General,
Very sincerely yours, D. E. Sickles.
General A. C. Ducat,
Secretary Committee Invitation, Chicago, III.

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The Western Union Telegraph Company,
New York, December 12, 1868.
General Wm. E. Strong,
Secretary Executive Committee, Army Reunion :
Gratefully appreciating the honor, I regret to state that ill
health prevents my undertaking the journey, and compels me to
decline the distinguished part at the banquet assigned me in
your kind letter of the 8th inst. All honor to the heroic armies
of the West, and their illustrious leaders !
Very respectfully,
D. E. Sickles,
Brevet Major-General U. S. Army.

Washington, D. C, December 9, 1868.
General ; — Please accept my sincere thanks for the invitation
to be present and participate on the occasion of the reunion of
the societies of the arraies of the Cumberland, Tennessee, Ohio,
and Georgia, and my regrets that I will be unable to avail myself
of your kindness. Most respectfully. Your obedient servant,
W. N. Barnes,
Brevet Major- Getieral U. S. Army.
General A. C. Ducat,
Secretary Committee, Chicago, III.

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Washington, December ii, 1868.
General A. C. Ducat,
Corresponding Secretary, Chicago:
General; — ^I deeply regret that circumstances over which I
have no control will prevent me from participating in the observ
ances connected with your glorious Army Reunion.
Please accept my warm thanks for your cordial invitation.
I have the honor to be. General,
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
S. P. Hintzelman,
Brevet Major- General U. S. Army.

New York, December 12, 1868.
General; — I had the honor to receive, yesterday, the Invita
tion of the Committee to be present at the reunion of the armies
of the Tennessee, Cumberland, Ohio, and Georgia, at Chicago,
on the i5tli and i6th Inst.
.It would give me sincere pleasure to take part In the reunion
of soldiers of the war ; to meet again the many with whom I
have been more or less intimately associated In the service ; and to
make the acquaintance of many more whom I know only through
their reputations acquired during the war ; but I am compelled
by circumstances to deny myself the gratification of greeting
them In person on the occasion.
Very respectfully and truly yours,
A. G. Wright,
Brevet Major General U. S. Army,

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Princeton, W. Va., December 20, 1868.
General A. C. Ducat :
Dear Sir; — I beg to acknowledge the receipt of the invita
tion to be present at the assembling of my companions of the
Western Armies at Chicago. The invitation only came to hand
by last mail, thus utterly putting it out of my power to have been
present. I am assured that the reunion was full of stirring reminis
cences, and have a sad regret that I could not have been with
you, and enjoyed my small share of them.
Thanking the Committee for their kindness, and yourself,
personally, I am, very truly yours,
D. N. Couch,
Major- General late U. S. Army.

Washington, D. C, December 12, 1868.
General A. C. Ducat,
Chicago, Illinois.
General ; — Many thanks for your kind invitation to be pres
ent at the reunion. In Chicago, of the Western Armies, on the
15th and i6'th of this month. I regret extremely that my duties
are such as will render it impracticable for me to be absent from
Washington at that time. I shall ever retain the most agreeable
reminiscences of my service in the West, and feel sure that the
friendships formed while in the field will be permanent and
lasting. With great respect, I reraain
Your obedient servant,
John G. Parke,
Brevet Major- General U. S. Army.

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Washington City, December ii, 1868.
General A. C. Ducat,
Secretary Committee Invitation :
General; — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of
an invitation to be present and to participate in the observances
of the Reunion of the Western Arraies, at Chicago, on the 15th
and 1 6th instant. Not having been personally a participant in
any of the great field struggles of the West, under Grant, Sher
man, or Thomas, names immortal now, I am especially thankful
for the invitation, which, however, my current duties will not
allow me to accept. Perrait me to propose to the Army Reunion
the following sentiment: The grand fraternity of the great
Generals of the Western Armies.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. B. Eaton,
Brevet Major- General U. S. Army.

Brooklyn, New York, December 7, 1868.
General; — Yours of the 30th ultimo, conveying the polite
invitation of the Committee on Army Reunion at Chicago on the
15th and i6th instant, is just received.
I regret that my duties will prevent my attendance. Many acts
were performed by the Western Armies, in the late conflict,
which the pen of history will render immortal, and which have
sunk deep into the grateful hearts of loyal people of the whole
country. Very respectfully, Silas Casey,
Brevet Major- General U. S. Army.
General A. C. Ducat,
Chicago, Illinois.

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Brooklyn, New York, Decetnber 9, 1868.
General A. C. Ducat,
Secretary Committee Invitation, Chicago, Illinois:
General; — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt,
to-day, ofthe invitation to attend the Army Reunion.
I greatly regret that circumstances will prevent me from having
the honor and pleasure of attending.
With high respect, your obedient servant,
St. George Cooke,
Brevet Major- Getteral U. S. Army.

West Point, New York, December 8, 1868.
Generai. a. C. Ducat,
Chicago, Illinois:
My Dear General; — Your very kind invitation to be pres
ent and participate in the Army Reunion, at Chicago, on the 15th
and i6tli Instant, Is duly received. Although I can not claim to
have belonged to either of the glorious organizations which are
to assemble in your city on the 15th and i6th, to fight their bat
tles over again, yet I do claim to have organized and sent forward
to them, more troops from Illinois and Indiana than any other
one officer, and should not, therefore, feel like a stranger in a
strange land amongst them, in your great city, for doubtless some
of them would recognize in me the individual who first made
them hold up their right hands and " soleranly swear to bear
true faith and allegiance," etc., and would be willing to accord
me the honor of having performed the initiatory step of making
them great men. I wish I could be with you, but I regret to say
I can not. I have just returned from a leave of absence, and
have not the conscience to ask for another leave so soon ; so will
have to content myself with the newspaper reports of the speeches
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And with my best wishes that you may have a glorious good
tirae, I am, General, very truly,
Your obedient servant,
L. G. Pitcher,
Brevet Major- Getteral U. /S. Army.

Fort Sullivan, East Port, Maine,
Decetnber 18, 186S.
General A. C. Ducat,
Secretary Committee of Invitation,
Armies Cumberland, Tennessee, Oltio, and Georgia,
General; — I have just received your invitation, dated 30th
November, to be present at the raeeting of the soldiers of
the Western armies represented by the societies of the Armies
of the Tennessee, Cumberland, Ohio, and Georgia, In Chicago
on the 15th and i6tli of this month, and to participate in the
observances of the occasion.
I feel sensible of the high honor conferred upon me, and
deeply regret that even had I received the Invitation in time It
would have been out of my power to accept it. It would have
been very gratifying to me as one who, although a Western man,
served throughout the war in the Array of the Potomac, to meet
as comrades in a great cause our fellow soldiers of the Western
armies in social intercourse, and to unite with them in doing
honor to their illustrious comrade, and in recalling the memory
of the great deeds they performed under his leadership ; but my
engagements would have made it impossible for me to go to
Chicago at this time. Very truly yours,
Henry T. Hunt,
Brevet Maj or- Getieral U. S. Army.

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Washington Navy Yard, December 12, 1868.
Dear Sir; — With many thanks for the flattering and cordial
invitation to participate in the observances on the occasion of the
Army Reunion at Chicago. I regret very much that my duties
oblige me to decline the great pleasure.
Your obedient servant,
R. Breese,

Commander U. S. Navy.

General A. C. Ducat,
Chicaso.

Washington, D. C, December 10, 1868.
General A. C. Ducat,
Secretary Comtnittce Invitation, Chicago, III.
General; — Cordially approving of the perpetuation of the
fellowship and friendship which grew up among the officers and
soldiers of our patriotic armies, I should delight In participating
in the Intercourse of your annual meeting.
I had the honor, in some of their darkest and also some of
their most glorious hours, of doing what I could as a member
of the general staff of the armies of the United States, to
alleviate their sufferings, repair their losses, and secure their
triumphs. These are among the most agreeable recollections of a long
military service. I regret that I am unable to visit Chicago on
the 15th and i6th inst.
I beg of you, whom I well remember at Chattanooga, where
we counseled together upon the situation, and the measures
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brother officers, and to assure them of my pride and pleasure in
having been with them.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
M. C. Meigs,
^. M. General. Brevet Major-General U. S. Army.

Washington, D. C, December 11, 1868.
General A. C. Ducat,
Chicago, III.
Sir ; — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of an
invitation to attend the reunion of the Western armies at Chicago
on the 15th and i6tli ofthe present month.
I regret very much that my engagements forbid my being
present on this interesting occasion, especially as It would aflbrd
me the pleasure of meeting the honored members of your
societies, many of whom I am proud to remember among my
early and most valued friends.
The object of your reunion can not be too highly appreciated,
and it should commend itself to all of our citizens, who should
be proud of the deeds of those armies which contributed so
largely to the preservation of our Government.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. B. Dyer,
Brevet Major- General, Chief of Ordance.

Washington, December 11, 1868.
General A. C. Ducat :
Dear Sir ; — I am just favored with the receipt of your Com
mittee's invitation to the great military reunion at Chicago, the
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of the invitation, whilst I must beg of you to accept the expres
sion of my sincerest regrets that official engagements, just now
pressing upon me, will not permit ray acceptance. Be assured I
am with )'0U, in spirit, most cordially, though It was not my good
fortune to be perraitted to participate with you in the perils and
glories of the active field.
I am, with much regard,
Your obedient servant,
B. W. Brise,
Paymaster- General U. S. Artny.

Washington, December 11, 1868.
General A. C. Ducat,
And Gentlemeti of the Committee :
Gentlemen; — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of your Invitation to attend a meeting of the soldiers of the West
ern Armies, at Chicago, on the i5tli and i6tli of this month, and
regret that I shall not be able to be with you. It was not ray
fortune, during the war for the suppression of the Rebellion, to
serve In either of the distinguished armies you represent. Yet I
watched with deep interest your splendid feats of arms, and felt
a soldier's pride in every victory which crowned the heroic
efforts of that portion of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Having three times crossed the continent with Western troops,
and tasted with them the luxury of mule and buffalo bull meat, I
never had a doubt but that your armies would overcome all obsta
cles and force which might oppose them ; and when you cut
loose from your base and swung out from Atlanta, when the
whole country was anxious, watching the pillar of cloud by day,
and fire by night, that marked your course, I never for a moment
doubted that you would arrive safely at the sea.
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I ^vill not occupy your time by raaking any thing like a detailed
reference to the achleveraents of your arraies, but I must say that
your organization seeks the accomplishment of an object worthy
of the brave men of which those armies were composed, and
that it has my entire sympathy and hearty wishes for its success
and perpetuity.
I have the honor to be, gentlemen, with high regard,
Your obedient servant,
W. H. Emory,
U. S. Army, Late Major-General of Volunteers, Commanding i^ttt Army
Corps,

Bristol, Illinois, December 13, 1S68.
General A. C. Ducat :
Dear Sir ; — It has been a most earnest desire on my part to
be present in Chicago at the time of the gathering of the armies,
but a sickness that has now laid me aside for two weeks, forbids
it. I am suffering from an attack of acute bronchitis, and have
not left my quarters for a fortnight.
Please express to any of our old comrades my regret at not
being permitted to meet them, and assure them of my continued
interest in their welfare. '
Yours, most truly,
Joel Grant.

New York, December 14, 1868.
General ; — I very much regret that the Invitation to be pres
ent at the Army Reunion at Chicago reached me so late that I
was unable to alter engagements made for this week. It would
have given me much pleasure to be present. I should have been
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difring the war, and to have made the acquaintance of others so
well known to us all, but whom I have not had the pleasure to
know personally. Yours truly,
J. C. Fremont.
General A. C. Ducat,
Chicago.

Washington, Decetnber 13, 1868.
Dear General; — I am in grief that I am compelled at this
last moment to give up going to Chicago. Tell all our Cumber
land boys that I regret more than I can tell. But our work here
has accumulated so that I can not get away. Write me, and let
me know what kind of a tirae you had. Ever yours, J. Garfield.

Washington, December 12, 1868.
General A. C. Ducat ; — Your kind invitation to attend the
reunion of the Western Armies, was received some days since,
and I have delayed to reply until the last moment, hoping to find
a way to accept the same. I deeply regret that I am compelled
to decline.
To meet with the noble assemblage of men who will doubtless
be with you on this great occasion, I should heartily enjoy. To
hear them recount anew their experiences and triumphs for
liberty's sake, would add new force to the admiration which I, in
common with afl their grateful countrymen, cherish toward them.
To recall the glorious deeds of our sainted dead, whose self-sac
rificing patriotism Is the marvel of the whole civilized world,
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assist in the expression of our common pride in the glory of our
national arras, would be with me a labor of love.
It is the proudest memory of my life that I was permitted to
be a part of the mighty past, and that my tongue and hand were
the instruments to call into action many of the immortal heroes
whose names were not born to die ; and especially do I feel inter
ested in this reunion, for It is in very deed the marshaling anew
of the genius and prowess which first lifted the clouds of adverse
fortune from the nation's horizon, and revealed the nation's
redemption. One name we may mention without danger of
being considered invidious, for his glory is ours. He moved Into
the mighty arena, and order sprang from chaos. He spoke
victory into being. Lately, with the foresight of a prophet, and
the authority of a predestined ruler, looking upon the new gath
ering of discordant and stormy elements, he said, "Let us have
peace," and the storm recognized its master and straightway
accepted the situation.
In closing, I can only renew my thanks for the invitation tend
ered, and my regrets that I can not be with you. Congratulating
you upon the happy prospects for our beloved country, so near at
hand, and wishing you entire success in the objects for wliich you
meet, I am. General, with profound regard,
Your friend,
Richard Yates.
To General Ducat,
And the Coititnittee.

Albany, December '], 1868.
Dear Sir ; — It would afford me great pleasure to participate
in the festivities of the reunion, at Chicago, of the soldiers ofthe
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the privilege of seeing so many whose names are honorably
Identified with the defence of the country. Official duties inci
dent to the close of my term of office are so pressing as to prevent
me, greatly to my regret, from being with you.
Very respectfully,
R. E. Fenton.
General A. C. Ducat,
Secretary Cotnmittee Invitation, Chicago, III.

Norwich, Conn., Decetnber 12, 1868.
General A. C. Ducat,
Corresponding Secretary :
Dear Sir ; — I thank you for your invitation for the 15th and
l6th inst., and regret that I can not join in your congratulations on
that interesting occasion.
Permit me, however, to claim the privilege of being closely
aUIed and deeply interested in the soldiers who composed the
Army of the Union, and to say that no language that I can use
can express my appreciation of, their services.
I am, with great respect,
Your obedient servant,
Wm. a. Buckingham.

Washington, December 11, 1868.
General; — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of
an Invitation to be present at the reunion of the Western armies
which will assemble at Chicago on the 15th and i6th of this
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Having had the good fortune, as Governor of Minnesota, to
aid in sending Into the field many noble regiments which shared
in the dangers and glories of the armies of the West, it would
afford me sincere pleasure to participate in the observances of
this very Interesting occasion. But I regret that the require
ments of public business will probably prevent my attendance.
Yours, very truly,
Alexander Ramsey.

Executive Department, Indiana,
Decettiber 18, 1868.
General A. C. Ducat,
Secretary Cottitnittee Invitation, Chicago, III.
Dear Sir; — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of the communication of your Committee of the 30th ultimo,
inviting me to be present and participate in the Army Reunion
to be held at Chicago on the 15th and i6th days of the present
month. Allow me to assure you that I deeply regret that official
engagements will prevent rae from enjoying the pleasure and
honor of participating In the observances of the occasion.
Trusting that the reunion may more than realize the expecta
tions of the gallant and patriotic soldiers who may participate
therein, and to whom the Republic owes so much, and with
many thanks to the Committee for the kind invitation,
I have the honor, General, to be.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Conrad Baker.

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Lincoln, December 15, 1868.
Sir; — Your favor of the 30th, containing the invitation to
attend the reunion of the arraies of the West, was this day
received. The delay results frora the fact that the capitol of the
state has been recently removed from Omaha to this place, and,
probably, from a temporary stoppage of the mails from the
recent storm.
Nothing would have afforded me greater pleasure than to have
been present at your reunion to-day. to meet the heroes of the
battles of the Mississippi Valley, and of Sherman's march to the
sea. May this reunion ceraent more firraly the bonds of fellowship
between the glorious men of the armies ofthe West, and cause
the fires of patriotism to glow with renewed ardor over the entire
length and breadth of the Union restored by their valor.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully yours,
David Butler,

General A. C. Ducat,
Secretary Committee.

Governor of Nebraska.

Nashville, Tenn., Decetnber 10, 1868.
My Dear General ; — I am compelled, by imperative profes
sional engagements, to deny myself the pleasure of attending the
reunion of the Western Arraies this year. Present my best
wishes and n.ost cordial greetings to our old comrades.
With regrets and regards.
Very truly yours,
G. P. Thruston,
Late Brevet Brigadier- General U. S. Army.

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Albany, Decettiber 7, 186S.
General A. C. Ducat,
Chicago, Illinois:
I regret that a pressure of official engagements will not admit
of my acceptance of your invitation to be present at the reunion
of the grand old Armies of the West, on the 15th and i6th ofthe
present month.
Wishing you, in every respect, a joyous and happy meeting,
I am, respectfully yours,
S. E. Marvin,
Adjutant- General State New York.

Trenton, N. J., December 11, 1868.
General A. C. Ducat,
Chicago, Illinois.
General;- — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of
an invitation from )'our Committee to be present and participate
in the Army Reunion, at Chicago, on the 15th of this month. I
have delayed reply, hoping it might be possible for me to be with
you, to meet many of my personal friends and old comrades. I
find, however, that ray official duties just at this season will
deprive me of the pleasure. While I regret ray own Inability to
be present, I add ray most earnest wish that your gathering may
be successful in cementing a union of men of tried loyalty, and
at the same time an honor to yourselves, a glory to your country,
and a sure preventive to treason in future.
William S. Stryker,
Adjutatit- General Neiv Tork.

Letters.

20I

DesMoines, Decetnber 12, 1868.
General Arthur C. Ducat,
Secretary Cotnmittee, Chicago, Illinois:
Sir ; — I have delayed my answer to your Invitation to be pres
ent at the " Reunion" of the Armies of the Tennessee, Cumber
land, Georgia and Ohio, at Chicago, on the 15th and i6th Instant,
hoping that I should not be compelled to decline it; but duties
here will deprive me of the honor and pleasure of the occasion.
Iowa has her pride in her share in those armies and their
e.xplolts. Their history is a part of our State's history. Many
an lowan will boast of his share in their victories, and his
children and grand-children will remember and repeat the proud
boast of the gallant soldier.
May all of you survive for many more happy reunions ! Long
may you live In the memories of a grateful people ! And may
your example, your patient endurance on the march and amid
other sufferings, your gallant bearing and bravery on the battle
field, and your patriotic devotion at all times and on all occasions,
be so impressed upon the hearts and very fibres of all coming
men, that If emergencies ever shall arise, they will be worthy
imitators of your deeds. With great respect, very truly yours,
N. B. Baker.

NOTE

The following is a complete list of the sub-committees under -whose
special charge the various features of the Reunion were prepared:
finance committee.
Colonel John Mason Loomis, Cftairman.
General John M. Corse; General Theodore F. Brown; General M. R.
M. WalKice; Major G. S. Hubbard, Jr.; Colonel L. H. Whittlesey;
Colonel C. W. Davis ; General James R. Hugunin ; Major George
Mason; General W. Scott Stewart; Colonel Samuel B. Raymond; Cap
tain D. C. Bradley; Colonel Lyman Bridges; Captain R. P. Derrickson;
Colonel J. B. Sweet; Major J. G. McWiiliams; Captain Lyman A.
White; Captain E. V. C. Klokke; Colonel C. Fitz Simmons; Colonel J.
M. Woodworth, M.D. COMMITTEE ON BANQUET.
General William E. Strong, Cliairman,
General John McArthur; Colonel W. W. Wheeler; Colonel Hunting
ton Jackson ; M.ijor S. B. Eaton ; General C. T. Hotchkiss ; General J.
H. Ledlie; Colonel R. A. McFeeley; Colonel Henry Howland; Major A.
H. Boyden; Captain J. P. Rumsey; General R. W. Smith; Colonel C.
H.Dyer; General H.N. Eldridge; Captain W. H. Gale; Captain John
W. Gregg; General John B. Turchin.
committee on railroads and transportation.
General I. N. Stiles, Cliairman.
General Joseph Stockton; Major O. A. Schultz; General J. R. Hugu
nin; Colonel Levi P. Wright; Colonel W. Stubbs; Captain Harry Pease;
Captain A. C. McMurtry; Captain Chris. Miller; Captain O. H. Mor
gan; Lieutenant Fred. Fake; Lieutenant C. F. Schuman; Lieutenant
John W. Rumsey. committee on invitations.
General John McArthur, Cliairman,
General F. T. Sherman; General A. C. Ducat; General John M.
Corse; General Walter B. Scales; General Julius White; General A. C.
McClurg; General WiUiara E. Strong.

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committee on reception.
General J. D. Webster, Cliairman.
General John McArthur; Major E. Powell, M.D. ; General George W.
Smith; General C. T. Hotchkiss; Major Lu. H. Drury; General R. W.
Smith; Colonel W. \V. Wheeler; General W. Scott Stewart; General A.
C. McClurg; Lieutenant Caleb Blood; Colonel John Mason Loomis.
committee on halls.
General A. C. McClurg, Chairman.
General Joseph Stockton; General Williara E. Strong; General W.
Scott Stewart ; Colonel W. W. Wheeler; Major A. H. Boyden.
committee on decorations.
M.ajor W. L. B. Jenney, Chairman.
Colonel Lyman Bridges; General Ezra Taylor; General A. C. Ducat;
Colonel G. I. Waterman; Colonel Nelson K. Towner; General A. E.
Erskine; General Theodore F. Brown; Colonel A. Silversparre; Major
J. A. Fitch : Colonel John M. Woodworth, M.D. ; Captain George F.
Robinson; Major E. V. C. Klokke; Lieutenant George H. Heafford.
committee on printing and badges.*
Major S. S. Hart, Chairman.
Major S. B. Eaton; Colonel H. S. Brown; Major J. J. Spaulding;
Major Samuel E. Barrett; Colonel Oliver Stewart; Major W. L. B.
Jenney; Colonel L. H. Whittlesey. committee on music.
Captain L. B. Church, Chairman.
Major A. H. Boyden; Captain Henry Bennett; Major C. S. Moore;
Major E. O. F. Roeller, M.D.
* It would be pleasant, if it were practicable, to mention particular names in connection
with the labors of each of tlie sub-committees, and to give special credit to individuals
whose energy and judgement largely helped to make the Reunion a grand success. V/e
have not done this, as a rule, but we make an exception in the case of this committee, to
say that the very tasteful and pleasing results of its efforts were especially due to tlie effi
ciency and good taste of Major S. B. Elton and Col. H. S. Brown.

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REPORT

[Fumis/ied by the Recording Secr€iary\

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting

SOCIETY OF the ARMY OF THE
CUMBERLAND,
HELD AT CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,
December isth, iS6S.

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF
THE CUMBERLAND.
President :
Major-General George H. Thomas, U. S. A.
Vice-Presidents .
Major-General P. H. Sheridan, U. S. A.
Brevet Colonel William McMiciiael, Pennsylvania.
Brigadier-General W. J. Smith, Tennessee.
Brevet Major-General J. T. Croxton, Kentucky.
Brevet Major-General J. M. Brannan, District of Columbia.
Brevet Brigadier-General W. J. Palmer, Missouri.
Brevet Brigadier-General Wm. Cogswell, Massachusetts.
Colonel George B. Bingham, Wisconsin.
Brevet Brigadier-General J. W. Bishop, Minnesota.
Brevet Brigadier-General B. F. Scribner, Indiana.
Brevet Brigadier-General W. L. Stoughton, Michigan.
Brevet Major-General H. A. Barnum, New York.
Brevet Major-General W. W. Lowe, Iowa.
Brevet Major-General August Willich, Ohio.
Major-General John M. Palmer, Illinois.
Brevet Brigadier-General J. W. Burke, Alabama.
Brevet Major-General G. W. Mindel, New Jersey.
Major S. L. Coulter, Kansas.
Corresponding Secretary :
Brevet Major-General W. D. Whipple, U. S. A.
Recording Secretary :
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel George I. Waterman.
Treasurer :
Brevet Brigadier-General J. S. Fullerton.

CONSTITUTION.

article I.
The name and title of this Association shall be the " Society of the
Army of the Cumberland," and said Society shall include every
officer and soldier who has at any time served with honor in that army.
Honorary members may be elected from those officers who may have
become distinguished in any of the armies of the United States.
article ii.
The object of the Society shall be to perpetuate the memory of the
fortunes and achieveraenls of the Army of the Cumberland : to preserve
that unanimity of loyal sentiment, and that kind and cordial feeling
which has been an eminent characteristic of this army, and the main
element of the power and success of its effiorts in behalf of the cause
ofthe Union. The history and glory of the officers and soldiers belong
ing to this army, who have fallen either on the field of battle, or
otherwise in the line of their duty, shall be a permanent and sacred
trust to this society, and every eftbrt shall be made to collect and
preserve the proper memorials of their services, to inscribe their names
upon the roll of honor, and transmit their fame to posterity. It shall
also be the object and bounden duty of this Society to relieve, as far as
possible, the families of such deceased officers and soldiers when in
indigent circumstances, either by the voluntary contributions of the
members, or in such other manner as they may determine when the cases
are brought to their attention. This provision shall also hereafter apply
to the suffering farailies of those members of the Society who may, in
the future, be called hence, and the welfare of the soldier's widow and
orphan shall forever be a holy trust in the hands of his surviving com
rades. ARTICLE in.
For the purpose of effecting these objects, the Society shall be organ
ized by the annual election of a President, and a Vice-President from each
state having soldiers in the Army of the Cumberland, to be nominated
by members from the several states, a Corresponding Secretary, a
Recording Secretary, and a Treasurer.
The Society shall meet once in every year; the time and place of the
next meeting to be selected by ballot at each meeting. All members
of the Society who are prevented by any cause from personally attending
are expected to notify the Corresponding Secretary, and to impart such

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information in regard to themselves as they may think proper, and as
may be of interest to their brethren of the Society.
Having a fraternal feeling for, and honoring the glorious efforts of,
our brothers in arms belonging to other armies who have shared with us
the service of saving our Government, the President, and either of the
Vice-Presidents shall be authorized to invite the attendance of any
officer of the United States armies at any of our annual meetings.

BY-LAWS.
I. All meetings of this Society shall be opened by prayer to Alraighty
God by a former chaplain of the army, or by a minister of the gospel, to
be selected for the occasion by the President of the Societj'.
II. Every officer and soldier desiring to become a meraber of this Society
shall, upon signing the Constitution, pay to the Treasurer the sum of
five dollars as an initiation fee, and thereafter the like sum of five dollars
per annum as yearly dues ; and shall thereupon be entitled to a copy
of the proceedings of the Society, when published, free of charge.
III. Any member who shall be in arrears for dues for a period of two
years, shall have his name dropped frora the rolls.
IV. All moneys paid out by the Treasurer shall be upon the written
order of the Recording Secretary, approved by the written consent ofthe
President; and at each annual meeting of the Society, the Treasurer
shall make a full report of his receipts and disbursements.
V. When the place of the next annual meeting of the Society shall be
decided upon, the President shall appoint an Executive Committee
of three (3) merabers, resident at such place, or contiguous thereto,
whose duty it shall be to make all needful preparations and arrange
ments for such raeeting.
VI. That prior to the final adjournment of the Society, at such annual
meeting thereof, the President shall appoint a committee of three
members, resident in the city in which such meeting shall be, and not
ofiicers of the Society, as a committee on bills and claims, and to such
committee all claims against the Society of whatsoever character, should
be referred for investigation and allowance before being paid.
VII. No member of the Society shall speak more than once on any
question of business, and no longer than five minutes, without the
consent of the Society first obtained.
VIII. At each annual meeting there shall be selected, in such manner
as the Society shall deterraine, from the members of the Society, a
person to deliver an address upon the history of the Array of the
Cumberland, and the objects of the Society at the next annual meeting.
IX. Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Lavj shall be authority
for the government and regulation of all meetings of this Society.

ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND.

The Society of the Army of the Cumberland met at their
headquarters, in the Sherman House, on Tuesday, December 15,
1S68, and, at two o'clock P.M., mustering about six hundred
members, formed In procession and marched to McVicker's
Theatre, which had been kindly and freely offered for the busi
ness meetings of the Society. The President, Vice-Presidents,
and other officers of the Society, occupied the stage, at the back
of which was suspended a life-size portrait of General Rosecrans,
painted for, and presented to, the Society by the artist Brevet
Brigadier-General S. W. Price. The members of the Society
comfortably filled the lower part of the audience room, and many
visitors the upper part.
McVicker's Theatre, City op Chicago, Illinois, 1
December 15, 1868. )
Pursuant to its adjournment at the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, on
the 7th day of January, 1868, the Society ofthe Army ofthe
Cumberland met at two o'clock P.M., at McVicker's Theatre, In
the city of Chicago, Illinois.
The Society was called to order by Major-General George H.
Thomas, President, and Chaplain Thomas B. VanHorn invoked
the blessing of Almighty God.
The President then briefly presented his congratulations upon
the prospect of a happy reunion, and suggested that, owing to
the unavoidable absence of Brevet Brigadier-General Henry

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M. Cist, the Society was without the service of a Recording
Secretary. It was moved and seconded that General William D. Whipple
be requested to act as Recording Secretary.
General Whijaple suggested that he was now acting as Corres
ponding Secretary, and thought it well that some other member
should fill the position now temporarily vacant ; and General
Charles F. Manderson was chosen Recording Secretary, pro
tetnpore. It was moved and carried that the minutes of the proceedings
of the Society, at Its meeting at Cincinnati, Ohio, on February
6tli and 7th, 1 868, be adopted as published.
The President called for the report of the Local Committee,
and General F. T. Sherman, of that committee, stated that no
formal report on local organization- had been prepared, but he
could say that the committee had united Its efforts with those of
the committees of other societies assembled here, in making prep
arations for the present reunion, and hoped their arrangement,
of which an outline had been published, would be successfully
carried out, and be satisfactory to the Society.
Major-General Thomas J. Woods moved that the Society act
upon the suggestions made by the committee, and that they be
granted further time to report, which motion prevailed.
General S. W. Price, Chairman of the Committee on Memo
rials, reported the absence of an important member of his com
mittee, and asked further time to report, which, on motion, was
granted. General Whipple, Corresponding Secretary, made a report as
to the distribution of the printed report of the first Reunion of
the Society, which was accepted and adopted.
The President then appointed the following Committee on
Officers of the Society for the ensuing year, and instructed that
they snould report Wednesday morning :

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Lieutenant-Colonel Hunter Brooke, Colonel Lyman Bridges,
General Newel Gleason, General J. G. Parkhurst, Colonel J. E.
Jacobs, General Thomas F. Knipe, Lieutenant-Colonel G. C.
Wharton, Major F. W. Sparhng, Colonel George GInty, Adju
tant A. M. Hefbower.
The President also appointed Chaplain James H. Bristow to
act as Chaplain of the Society for the ensuing year.
General William Grose reported the condition of the treasury,
not including the financial transactions of the present meeting,
and this report was accepted and adopted.
The following committee was appointed by the President to
report immediately the names of three places from which the
Society should select the place for holding its next annual
reunion, and the time for holding such reunion :
Colonel G. C. Wharton, Colonel Henry Stone, and General
Stanley. The report of the Committee to Audit Claims being called for.
General S. J. McGroarty stated that he was a member of that
committee ; that their labors appeared to be over, so far as claims
against the Society were concerned, and that the committee had
audited and ordered paid all proper claims that had been pre
sented to them.
Chaplain Bristow moved that a warrant on the Treasurer issue
in favor of General Whipple for an amount that appeared to be
due him on the distribution of the published report of the Society,
and the motion was seconded.
General J. P. Jackson suggested that the proper course to
pursue would be to present the account to the Committee on
Claims for its action.
General Durbin Ward moved to lay the motion on the table,
whereupon Chaplain Bristow withdrew his motion.
The President called for the report of the Committee on Print
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General Henry M. Cist and Colonel L. Harris, were absent, and
therefore no report could be had.
Colonel G. C. Wharton, Chairman of the committee to select
three places from which to select, by ballot, the place for the next
meeting, reported Louisville, Indianapolis and Cleveland, as such
places, and December 15 and 16, 1869, as the time.
On motion, the rejDort of the committee was accepted.
Chaplain Granville Moody moved that the matter be made the
special order for to-morrow morning.
A motion was made to amend, and that a ballot be imme
diately taken.
A motion was made, and carried, to lay the original motion on
the table-
It was moved that the rules be suspended, and that the Presi
dent of the Society select the time and place.
Considerable debate ensued upon this motion, members advo
eating the advantages of different localities.
The President declined to act as proposed in the motion, and
declared it in conflict with the Constitution of the Society, and
therefore out of order.
Colonel Robinson and General Barnum advocated the holding
of the next reunion at some point in the East, and suggested the
city of New York.
After considerable discussion of this proposition, the President
ruled that it was not in order to suggest any other places but
those reported by the committee.
It was moved, but not carried, that the Secretary be Instructed
to cast the ballot of the Society for Indianapolis.
It was moved, and carried, that the President appoint twelve
tellers to collect ballots, and that the Society proceed to vote.
The chair appointed as tellers General N. Anderson, Colonel
Wharton, General Schneider, General Barnum, General
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Colonel Stone, Colonel Taylor, Colonel Northrop, and General
Parkhurst. These gentlemen proceeded to collect and count the
ballots. Chaplain Bristow asked and received permission to present a
matter foreign to the business of the Society ; and proceeded to
present the needs of a Church, and to ask aid for the same.
General Anson Stager tendered the use of the telegraph lines
to the Society and its members.
The thanks of the Society were voted to General Stager and
the Western Union Telegraph Company, and the Secretary
instructed to present the same In writing, on behalf of the
Society. The tellers reported the following as the result of the ballot:
Total votes, 449. Indianapolis, 182; Cleveland, 131; Louis
viUe, 136.
It was moved, and carried, that Indianapolis be unanimously
selected as the place of the next Reunion, and the 15th and i6th
of December, 1S69, as the time.
Major-General Butterfield moved that the President appoint a
committee of three, whose duty it shall be to cause to be pub
lished the Report of this Reunion.
The motion prevailed ; and the President appointed Major
L. H. Drury, General A. C. McClurg, and General Williara
Grose, as such Committee.
It was voted that this publication be under the instruction and
general direction of the President of the Society.
It was voted that a committee of five be appointed by the
chair, to nominate to this Convention an orator and alternate
for the Annual Reunion of 1869; said committee to report
to-morrow morning.
The President appointed General Barnum, Chaplain VanHorn,
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A motion to reconsider the vote selecting time and place was
made and lost.
On motion of Colonel Robinson, it was resolved that the
President appoint a committee of three to confer with Associa
tions of the Armies of the Tennessee, Ohio and Georgia, for the
purpose of uniting with us at Indianapolis, on the occasion
of the Reunion of December i5tli and i6tli, 1S69.
After a spirited debate the resolution prevailed, and the Presi
dent appointed General J. S. Robinson, General Nicholas Ander
son, and Colonel Qtiinn Morton.
Invitations were read by the Secretary from the Chicago His
torical Society to visit its rooms on Wednesday morning, at
eleven o'clock ; and from the Union Catholic Library Association
of Chicago, to visit its> Bazaar.
On motion, thanks were tendered for these invitations.
On motion of Colonel T. J. Pickett, the thanks of the Society
were tendered to J. H. McVIcker, Esq., for the use of his
theatre. It was unanimously voted that the thanks of this Society be
tendered to General S. W. Price for his present to the Society of
the portrait of General W. S. Rosecrans, painted by him for the
Society, and that the portrait be put under the care of the
Treasurer. On motion, the Society adjourned to meet Wednesday morn
ing, at ten o'clock.
Charles F. Manderson,
Secretary pro tem.

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McVicker's Theatre, Chicago, December i6, 1868.
The Society met, pursuant to adjournment. General Thomas,
the President, In the chair.
The proceedings opened with patriotic selections by the band,
after which the President announced that Colonel Whitman had
prepared a paper relating to his eflbrts In looking up the dead of
the Army of the Cumberland, and the other armies associated
with it, and would read a brief abstract of the paper pending the
arrival of the Secretary. The latter, however, came In at this
juncture, and Colonel Whitman declined reading his paper at
present. The question being submitted to the meeting, it was
decided to have the paper read.
The regular proceedings of the Society were then opened with
prayer by Chaplain Bristow, after which the Secretary pro tem..
General Manderson, read the minutes of the preceding meeting,
which, on motion, were approved.
Colonel Whitman then addressed the meeting in relation to the
dead of the Army of the Cumberland, saying that he hoped the
interest in the great work would be increased, and that some
action would be taken. It was eminently fit and proper that we
should not forget that noble army of officers and privates who
fell so nobly, and whose bodies dot the soil of the wide extent of
country traversed by the four armies now represented in this city.
The Government, through its agents, has been ardently but effi
ciently at work In removing the remains of soldiers to regular
inclosures, but the people know little or nothing of the extent or
completeness of the work. The speaker had been engaged In
this matter for about three years, and proceeded to give an outline
of its progress since his connection therewith. The paper was
ordered published, and a resolution of thanks was tendered to
Colonel Whitman.
The committee appointed to select an orator and alternate for

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the next annual reunion reported, through the Chairman, General
Elliott, the selection of Major-General Daniel Butterfield, Twen
tieth Army Corps, and for alternate, Major-General Negley, of
the Fourteenth Army Corps.
General Price, of the Committee on Memorials, reported that
the project of procuring biographical sketches of the distin
guished members of the Society who have died, has been aban
doned as impracticable. The only death which has occurred
during the year past has been that of Lieutenant William L. Por
ter, of the Sixth United States Cavalry, of whom a memorial has
been prepared.
The Secretary read a telegram from Secretary McCulloch, at
Washington, congratulating the organization upon its happy
reunion ; also a communication from the Army of the Ohio, con
taining the resolutions passed by that society.
On motion of Colonel Nicholas Anderson, the President and
Vice-Presidents of the Army of the Cumberland were appointed
a committee to confer with the proper officials of the Army of the
Ohio, with reference to a consolidation of the societies, and with
power to act.
Colonel Hunter Brook, Chairman of the Committee on Perma
nent Nomination of Officers for the ensuing year, reported as
follows :
For President — Major-General George H. Thomas.
Vice-Presidents — Pennsylvania, Brevet Colonel William Mc
Michael ; Tennessee, Brigadier-General W. J. Smith ; Kentucky,
Brevet Major-General J. T. Croxton ; District of Columbia, Bre
vet Major-General J. M. Brannan ; Missouri, Brevet Brigadier-
General W. J. Palmer ; Massachusetts, Brevet Brigadier-General
William Cogswell ; Wisconsin, Colonel George B. Bingham ;
Minnesota, Brevet Brigadier-General J. W. Bishop ; Indiana,
Brevet Brigadier-General B. F. Scribner; Michigan, Brigadier-
General W. L. Stoughton ; New York, Brevet Major-General H.

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A. Barnum ; Iowa, Brevet Major-General W. W. Lowe ; Ohio,
Major-General P. H. Sheridan ; Illinois, Major-General John M.
Palmer ; Alabama, Brevet Brigadier-General J. W. Burke ; New
Jersey, Brevet Major-General G. W. Mindel ; Kansas, Major S.
L. Coulter ; Ohio, Brevet Major-General August Willich.
Corresponding Secretary — Major-General W. G. Whipple.
Recording Secretary — Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel George I.
Waterman. Treasurer — Brevet Brigadier-General J. S. Fullerton.
The report was adopted, and the officers named were declared
elected. On motion of Colonel Hunter Brooke, the thanks of the
Society were tendered to the retiring Recording Secretary, Gen
eral Henry M. Cist, and retiring Treasurer, General William
Grose, for the faithful and efficient manner In which they had
performed the duties of their office.
General Whipple oflered and the Society adopted the following
preamble and resolution :
Whereas, It is understood that there are now stored In the
depot of camp and garrison equipage, at Jeffersonvllle, Indiana,
certain flags, the property of the United States, wearing the
devices described in General Orders, dated Headquarters Army
of the Cumberland,
Resolved, That the Treasurer be and is hereby directed to pur
chase the said flags, provided the Government will sell them, and
there is money sufficient in the treasury to pay for them after
all the other necessary expenses of the Society have been
liquidated ; that he address the War Department with a view
of efliecting the purchase ; that if, for any reason, the flags can
not be obtained, the Treasurer report such reason at the next
annual meeting.
Resolved, That, in case the flags become the property of the
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Society, for the time being, and that they be used for the purposes
of decoration at the meetings of the Society.
General Willich ofliered the following preamble and resolution,
which were adopted :
Whereas, it is generally known that strange contradictions
exist in the different official reports of the war on the same
subjects ;
Resolved, That the Society of the Army of the Cumberland
proceed to the organization of a Board of Trustees of the War
Record, to be composed of two members from each state repre
sented, to be designated by trie President of the Society. It
shall be the duty of this Board of Trustees to preserve and
watch tlie official war records. Examine the same carefully,
and investigate all apparent mistakes, and correct tlie same
wherever Injustice has been done to any particular command or
individual. The President of the Society designated the following officers
to constitute such Board of Trustees :
Brevet Brigadier-General J. S. Fullerton, Missouri ; Brevet
Brigadier-General F. Laibold, Missouri ; Brevet Major-General
WiUiam Grose, Indiana ; Brevet Major-General Charles Cruft,
Indiana ; Brevet Major-General John M. Palmer, Illinois ; Major
John M. Farquhar, Illinois ; Brevet Brigadier-General Charles
F. Manderson, Ohio ; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Hunter Brooke,
Ohio ; Brevet Brigadier-General John A. Martin, Kansas ; Major
T. L. Coulter, Kansas ; Brevet Brigadier-General John G. Park
hurst, Michigan ; Brevet Brigadier-General WiUiam L. Stough
ton, Michigan ; Colonel George B. Bingham, Wisconsin ; Colo
nel 0. C. Johnson, Wisconsin ; Major William H. Young, Iowa ;
Colonel William P. Heplum, Iowa; Colonel W. F. Prosser,
Tennessee ; Captain H. H. Thomas, Tennessee ; Colonel M. C.
Taylor, Kentucky ; Colonel J. P. Jackson, Kentucky ; Brevet
Brigadier-General William CogsweU, Massachusetts ; Lieutenant-

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Colonel Horace N. Fisher, Massachusetts ; Brevet Major-
General H. A. Barnum, New York ; Lieutenant-Colonel S. B.
Lawrence, New York ; Brevet Colonel William McMichael,
Pennsylvania ; Major-General James S. Negley, Pennsylvania ;
jSIajor Daniel Heaney, Minnesota ; Major-General H. P. Van-
clean, Minnesota ; Brevet Major-General George W. Mindel,
New Jersey ; Colonel H. W. Jackson, New Jersey ; Brevet
Brigadier General George E. Spencer, Alabama.
On motion of General Strelght, Major S. L. Coulter, of Kansas,
was added to the list of Vice-Presidents of the Society.
Colonel Sims, with an eloquent introduction, moved that three
grand cheers be given for General P. H. Sheridan, which were
given by the Society standing, amid the waving of hats and
handkerchiefs. At the request of General A. C. McClurg, he was excused from
serving on the Committee on Printing, and General A. C. Ducat
was appointed to fill his place.
General Willich presented the following preamble and reso
lution :
Whereas, It is honor enough for generations to come to have
been a private soldier in the Cumberland Army ; and,
Whereas, It is the general tendency to return to specie basis ;
and. Whereas, It appears that the coin of our national military
honor Is In danger of being swamped by the over-issue of brevet
currency, therefore,
Resolved, That the members of this Society resign cheerfully
their brevet ranks.
After an animated discussion by Generals Whitaker, J. D.
Morgan and Willich, a motion to lay the preamble and resolution
on the table prevailed.
On motion, the Society adjourned until two o'clock P.M.

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December i6, 3 P.M.
The President called the Society to order, and stated that In
accordance with Article V. of the By-Laws he would appoint the
following Local Committee :
Major-General Nathan Kimball, Brigadier-General A. D.
Strelght, Brigadier-General Fred. Knefler.
General Whipple offered the following resolution, which was
adopted :
Resolved, That the thanks of the Society be and are hereby
tendered to the Local Committee of Arrangements for the meet
ing of this Society, and to the joint committees of arrangements
for the reunion of the four army societies, for the ample and
beautiful preparations which have contributed so much to the
comfort of our members, and the grand success which has
attended this reunion.
The following was also submitted and adopted :
Resolved, That this Society return thanks, most sincere and
heartfelt, to the citizens of Chicago, for their hospitality, and to
the proprietors of the Sherman House for the ample manner in
which they provided accommodations for the headquarters of
this Society.
Colonel Henry Stone presented the following resolution, which
was adopted :
Resolved, As the sense of this Society, that a national monu
ment should be erected, at some appropriate place, to commem
orate the names and deeds of the heroes who gave up their lives
In the late war for the suppression of the Rebellion — and to aid
In carrying out the objects expressed in the above resolution, be it
further. Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by the Pres
ident of this Society to confer and co-operate with a similar com
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Ohio, and Georgia, and to report at as early a moment as
practicable, some plan by which this patriotic purpose may be
carried Into effect.
The President .appointed the following as such Memorial
Committee :
Brevet Colonel Henry Stone, Brevet Major-General R. W.
Johnson, Brevet Major-General U. L. Anderson, Brevet Briga
dier General Arthur C. Ducat, Brevet Colonel William Mc
Michael. General Granville Moody ofliered the following resolution,
which was adopted :
Resolved, That the thanks of the Society of the Army of the
Cumberland be hereby tendered to the several railroad compa
nies ^vllIch have furnished transportation to our members to and
from this place at half the usual rates of fare.
The following resolution was offered and adopted :
Resolved, That the name of Brigadier-General August Wil
lich be placed on the list as Honorary Vice-President of this
Society, as representative of the thousands of Americans of
German descent who fought in the Army of the Cumberland.
Colonel W. M. Kilgour offered the following resolution, which
was adopted :
Resolved, That a commiteee of three be appointed by the
Chairman to take into consideration the subject of Certificate
of Membership of the Society, and report at the next meeting.
The President appointed as such committee :
Colonel Hunter Brooke, General Henry M. Cist, General R.
H. Ramsey.
The President, In accordance with Article VI. of By-Laws,
ajipointed the following Committee on Bills and Claims :
General C. T. Hotchkiss, General A. C. Ducat, and Major
J. M. Farquhar.
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amended that the first order of business at the annual meeting
of the Society, shall be the Election of Officers.
The following resolution was offered and adopted :
Resolved, That the thanks of this Society be presented to the
Chicago Board of Trade for the continued evidence of patriotism
and respect for the soldier by the tender of their room for our
banquet. General G. W. Elliott off'ered the following resolution, which
was adopted :
Resolved, That members of the staff of Lieutenant-General
Sherman, not members of any organization of the Arm)' of the
Cumberland, be elected honorary members of the Society of the
Army of the Cumberland, with the privilege of becoming mera
bers upon subscribing to Its Constitution and requirements.
Colonel Archibald Blakeley presented the following resolution :
Resolved, That the Committee on Publication of the Pro
ceedings of this meeting of the Society be requested to procure
and publish the orations of Major-General J. D. Cox, Brigadier-
General William K. Belknap, and Brigadier-General William
Cogswell, delivered last evening before the Societies of the
Arraies of the Cumberland, Tennessee, Ohio, and Georgia, in
the Opera House.
On motion the Society adjourned, to meet at Indianapolis,
Indiana, on the 15th of December, 1869.

Treasurer's Office,
Society of the Army of the Cumberland

A

Mr. President, and Members of the Society of the Cumberland:
I have the honor to report that since our organization at Cincinnati, in February last, there has been
paid into the treasury of said Society money as follows :

to

1868. Dr,
To Dec. 15. To 356 members at $5 each,  $1,780 00
" " To 2 members' payment of annual
dues, $5 each,  10 00
" " To sale of books reported, and ac
counted for by Secretary  75 75

$i>S6s 75

1S68.
Feb. 13.
Feb. 27.
April I.
June 24.
June 24.

Dec. 10.
Dec. 10.
Dec. 10.
Dec. 15.

Cr.
By Draft No. 4,074  $825 53
By Stationery of Robert Clark & Co., 9 75
By Printing Circulars — Caleb Clark,. 5 00
By Printing Report of Society — Rob
ert Clark & Co.,  945 37
By am't paid H. M. Cist, Sec'y, above
am't included in draft of Febr'y 13.
iAraount Paid  $52 25 )
Included in Draft  50 00 )
By am't paid for book- record of names
alphabetically,  2 50
By Printing Circulars — E. Pleas,.... 8 oo-
By Stationery and Postage, use of
Treasurer  5 00
By Balance in Treasury  62 35
$1,865 75
Respectfully, Wm. GiiOSE, Treasurer.

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REMARKS ON NATIONAL CEMETERIES.— ORIGINAL
MILITARY DIVISION OF THE TENNESSEE.
BY brevet lieut. -col. E. B. WHITMAN, LATE CAPT. AND A. q. M. VOLS.
In the midst of personal congratulations, and the social interchange
of those thoughts and feelings which the reminiscences of the past are
calculated to suggest on an occasion like the present, it is eminently fit
and proper that we should not forget — you do not forget — that noble
army of martyrs, officers and privates, who laid down their lives a
wiUing sacrifice upon the fields of your renown ; whose remains were
left by the stern necessities of war far away from home, where kindred
and friends could drop no tears over their graves, or protect the hallowed
spots from intrusion and desecration ; scattered broadcast over remote
and now deserted battle-fields ; dotting every hill and grove ; lining the
road-side; along the banks of our rivers; upon the routes of all our rail
roads; upon deserted camping-grounds, or gathered in the crowded
hospital grave-yard — every where over the widely extended country
traversed or fought over by the four gallant armies represented here
to-day. So they were. After the lapse of three short years, what do we now
behold! The Nation, the Government, has come, and, in grateful
remembrance of its fallen heroes, has gathered up their scattered and
shattered remains, and with the careful tenderness of bereaved friends,
laid them down in spots consecrated forever to the memory of their
deeds. Greece, in the days of her splendor, laid under contribution the
eloquence of her most gifted orators to pronounce eulogiums over the
ashes of her fallen sons ; and France, in her triumphant period, made
a feeble and partial effort to gather up for honorable burial the bones
of her citizens who fell in battle; but it remained to be the honorable
distinction of free Araerica to have searched the country through with
the careful and scrutinizing eye of the most devoted friend, and to gather
in the mortal remains of her slain soldiers, and assuine forever, as her
high privilege, the task of keeping sacred vigils over their graves.
Such a consecration of a nation's power and resources to a sentiment,
the world had never witnessed. And, when the work shall have been
fully carried out; when, by some proper participation, the individual
states represented shall have inscribed their record of grateful remem
brance within the consecrated inclosures, this movement, as has been
said by another, "will deserve to take its place in the annals of all
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coming time by the side of that wonderful sanitary work which minis
tered so tenderly to the wants of the living."
Yet, this is no more than we should have expected. In the past
history of nations, with perhaps the approach to an exception, the soldier
in the ranks has been looked upon as a pawn upon the world's chess
board, with which kings and emperors might play for a time, and, when
their work was done, and they had fallen, to be abandoned forever;
no longer of use; no longer remembered.
But, in this war, the armies which went forth to do battle for their
country were, essentially, in the rank and file, as well as in their com
manding officers, an integral and constituent part of the Governinent
itself: and we have the grand and sublirae spectacle of a p>art of a
government devoting itself to voluntary death to save the rest.
Fitting, indeed it was, that the surviving portion should rise up in
grateful homage to that which had fallen, and by some worthy national
act, record, in ineffaceable characters, its holiest, noblest sentiment.
Such records, among others, are these points of coramon sepulture
of the dead. Established, ornamented, and forever the objects of national
care and protection, they will become so many ineffaceable historical
records; illustrated pages, to be seen and read of all men.
To a considerable extent in Southern soil, and in the very presence
where bold Treason reared its ungrateful head, they shall teach the
children, whose fathers sought to dismember and destroy the Republic,
to cherish its institutions, and to seek its honors and rewards. That
Nation vvhich respects and honors its dead, shall ever be respected and
honored itself.
While the Government, by its .igents, has been silently, though
steadily, pressing this great work to completion, the people generally
have a very imperfect conception of its scope and magnitude.
The official reports furnish, indeed, a comprehensive view, in statistics
and tabular statements, of its character and progress, but these, even,
come under the notice of but few, and fail entirely to satisfy the emotions
of deep personal interest felt in the subject by the surviving officers
and soldiers of the Army, and by the friends and relatives of the dead.
It has been suggested, and the suggestion has met with approval, that
this reunion of the four great armies of the South and South-west would
afford a convenient and suitable opportunity for submitting some state
ments more in detail respecting the disposition which has been raade of
their dead in the original Military Division of the Tennessee.
Having had the honor of being assigned to special duty in this
connection in December, 1865, and having now spent \\\.&xM.y three years
among your dead, I am here before 3'ou to present some leading facts
pertaining to the origin of the work, and showing the raanner, extent,
and completeness of its execution.
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special provision for the honorable care of those who should die in its
service during the war, is found in an act of Congress, approved July 17,
1862, which provides: "That the President of the United States shall
have powei-, whenever in his opinion it shall be expedient, to purchase
cemetery'grounds, and cause thera to be securely inclosed, to be used as a
National Cemetery for the soldiers who shall die in the service of their
country." But no provision was raade, either in the act or otherwise, for
the payment of any such purchases, and I am not aware that any official
action was ever had under it by the President.
Encouraged, perhaps, by this intimation on the part of the Govern
ment of what it purposed to do, or more probably influenced by
sentiraents of humanity, and by a thoughtful sense of the obligation of a
great nation to its fallen defenders, the following Order was issued at
Chattanooga, December 25, 1863 :
"It is ordered that a National Cemetery be founded at this place,
in commemoration of the battle of Chattanooga, fought November 23rd,
24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th, and to provide a proper resting place for the
remains of such as may hereafter give up their lives in this region in
defending their country against treason and rebellion.
" [signed] " By order of Major-General Geo. H. Thomas.
"William D. Whipple,
" Brevet Brig,-Gen. and A. A, General, Army of the Cumberland,"
In the following spring a similar order was issued by General Thomas,
establishing another National Cemetery on the battle-field of Stone's
River. Under these orders appropriate grounds were selected at
Chattanooga, by General Thomas himself, and at Stone's River by
Brigadier-General H. P. Van Cleve; and the work was comraenced at
Chattanooga under the charge of Chaplain Thomas B. VanHorn, and at
Stone's River, at first, under Captain J. "A. Means, of the one hundred
and fifteenth Ohio Volunteers Infantry, and subsequently continued under
Chaplain William B. Earnshaw. This work was, however, confined to
the burial of the dead frora the neighboring hospitals, and the collection
of those interred upon the battle fields in the iraraediate vicinity. The
work upon both of these ceraeteries was performed entirely by detailed
men from the volunteer service.
Thus far the movement remained comparatively local in its character,
until October, 1865, when Major-General Meigs, Quartermaster General
of the Army, issued Order No. 65, directing officers of the Quarter
master's Department to make a special report to his office of the
localities and condition of cemeteries, with reference, especially, to their
exact location, condition, place of deposit, and condition of records,
with recommendations of the means necessary to provide for the preser
vation of the remains from desecration ; and whether the site should be
continued, and the land purchased, or whether the bodies should be
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The attempt to comply with this order in spirit as well as in letter, in
a thoroughly satisfactory manner, soon rendered it manifest that a more
complete and systematic exploration must be resorted to than was
provided for in the ordinary routine of the Quartermaster's Department.
To meet this difficulty, it was at once determined to make this work a
specialty in the Military Division of the Tennessee, at that time com
manded by General George H. Thomas.
On the 26th of December, 1865, an order was accordingly issued by
General Thoraas directing an exploration to be made of the battle fields,
cemeteries, and places where Union dead were interred in that Division,
and reports thereon be submitted.
The extent and magnitude of such duty none can appreciate more
fully than the officers of the armies, and even they can have but an
imperfect conception of the practical difficulties that lay in the w.aj' of its
efficient execution. To be of practical value, for the purpose designed,
it would require not only a minute examination of every battle and
skirmish ground, but a thorough, systematic exploration of all the various
routes of our armies, their places of rendezvous, and of encampment; the
locations of hospitals, public and private burial places, door yards,
gardens, orchards, fields, and woods, from the Mississippi river to the
Atlantic, and from the Ohio to the Gulf.
No efforts were spared lo provide for the successful accomplishment
of this duty. In all the preliminary arrangeraents, and during the
progress of the work, it is due to the officers in every department of the
service to say, that every aid and assistance was raost cheerfully rendered.
To ask, was to receive.
While the explorations were at once commenced and carried on in
those parts of Eastern and Middle Tennessee, from which the dead had
not been already reraoved, diligent preparation was made for extending
the researches throughout the entire Division at the earliest opening
of spring. Without delay, a circular was prepared, headed, '¦^Important
Informazion Wanted!" in which surgeons, chaplains, agents of san
itary and Christian commissions, quartermasters, ex-officers, and soldiers,
who had at any tirae served within the liraits of the Division, having
knowledge of the places of burial of an}- Union soldiers, were requested
to furnish information to aid in the search, or in identifying the unknown
dead. It was added, in explanation, that this exploration was prelim
inary to the collection of the Union dead every where into National
Cemeteries, on the plan of those already in process of completion at
Chattanooga and Stone's River. It is proper, however, to say, that this
statement was without authority from Washington, and in no way
sanctioned by the terras of the Order No. 65, of October 30, from the
Qiiartermaster-General's office. Though, perhaps, premature, as the
announcement of a plan, yet, viewed as the e.xpression of a desire, and a
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other measures afterwards adopted, to which I shall hereafter allude, the
utterance will not be thought strange.
These circulars signed by Major-General Donaldson, Chief Quarter
master were widely distributed through the medium of the post office,
and published in all the prominent newspapers in the United States.
As the replies carae in frora every source, the character of the informa
tion imparted new and additional interest to the enterprise. It revealed
the existence of nuraerous records of the localities of graves, in forras
more or less complete, with the naraes of the dead, which would not
only prove of great value as guides in the search for graves, but, with
proper precaution in the disinterraents, would lead to -the identification
of many an unknown body. Further, as prelirainary aid, official reports
and campaign maps were carefully consulted, and, finally, the Southern
people, themselves, resident in the neighborhood where Union dead were
supposed to be buried, were appealed to, and not without efiect.
On the 1st day of March, 1866, the exploring party, consisting of ten
persons, afterwards increased to twenty, mounted, and provided with
pack mules to transport carap equipage and provisions, left Nashville,
Tennessee, with the battle field of Fort Donelson as its first objective
point. Frora this time until the following Christmas the search was
diligently prosecuted with but little interruption. It embraced the
prorainent points on the Mississippi, Tennessee, and Cumberland
rivers; the various lines of railroads in the states comprising the
Division; the main routes ofthe armies, to the front and to the rear;
the fields of operation in the Corinth, Vicksburg and Atlanta campaigns,
and the several lines of the "grand march to the sea," including battle
fields, skirmish-grounds, hospitals, and the prison pens of Andersonville
and Millen or Lawton.
A brief description of the methods pursued in the exploration of those
battle-fields on which the dead were buried as they fell, over a large area,
may not be without interest. Take the battle-field of Shiloh, for instance,
repeated in other sirailar cases. The entire party formed in raanner of
skirmish line, at short distances from each other, passed and repassed
in line over the entire extent of the field, sweeping it in belts or swaths,
pausing at every appearance of a grave, to notice its location, and to
copy the inscription, if any. Seven days were thus occupied by the
whole party on this field alone. No less than four hundred miles of
travel for one man were accomplished, resulting in the discovery of one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four graves, of which six hundred
and twenty were identified at the time. These graves were distributed
in one hundred and seventy-eight localities, of which twenty-nine were
regimental groups.
On the routes ofthe armies, no less care was taken. As a rule, no resi
dence or person was to be passed without the inquiry, "Do you know, or
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and all information, or hints even, was followed up with a careful explo
ration. In all cases, a minute and circumstantial record was made of all
the facts necessary to serve as a guide for officers, or parties who might
subsequently be employed to make the disinterraents and removals.
Frequent reports, showing the results thus obtained, accompanied by
tabular statements, were from time to time forwarded from the field to
headquarters, and to the Quartermaster-General, at Washington.
Although this exploration was designed only as a preliminary work,
a sort of outline, to be filled up afterwards by the more thorough and
minute search of disinterring parties, 3'et the results were by no means
insignificant. Not less than three hundred difierent places where battles
or skirmishes had been fought, or troops stationed, or hospital^ estab
lished, were visited. The existence and exact location of raore than forty
thousand scattered graves were deterrained, occupying more than two
thousand distinct localities ; over ten thousand names were copied from
rude head-boards, or from inscriptions on the bark of trees, or obtained
from the inhabitants, of which there probably existed no record, outside
of the regimental returns, and, in raan^- cases, not even there, graves of
missing men. Between twenty-five and thirty thousand miles of army
routes were passed over, including rivers and railroads. This enumera
tion does not embrace some twenty-eight thousand burials made from
the larger general hospitals, of which there existed records more or less
complete; or the twelve thousand upwards of prisoners of war buried
at Andersonville, which had been previously reported, and a Roll of
Honor published, by Colonel Moore, under the direction of the Qiiarter-
master-General. However imperfect and desultory the manner in which our work may
have been performed, it served to furnish at least an outline of what
was required to be done, and a guide in the commencement of the work
of removals. It revealed the sad fact, and brought it to notice, that the
entire country over which the war had extended its ravages, was one
interminable grave-yard, and it early deepened and extended the convic
tion already felt by many, that it was the duty of Government to
assume, without delay, the place of friends and relatives, and with
tender care collect together and afford proper protection to the remains
of those who had fallen in so noble a service, beyond the reach or care
of friends. It also oftentimes revealed another fact, which added still
greater force to these convictions. I refer to the marked distinctions
shown, as the armies passed away, between the care and protection
of Union and Confederate graves by many of the Southern people them
selves, not, it raay be, culpable, but natural. The one class were buried
araong their friends, and on friendly soil; the other, for the time at
least, in an enemy's country, and beyond the reach of friends.
Gradually, by a natural process, the work of the future took mental
form and shape. Battle-fields, localities of hospitals, routes of armies,

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stations of troops, scattered graves, resolved theraselves into definite
cemeterial districts, ranged around sorae central spot, convenient and
appropriate to receive the dead from all its liraits.
Suggestions and recomraendations regarding the removal of the dead
were in every case embodied in the original field reports.
While this work was being prosecuted in the field, others were not idle.
The record of the location of graves, the selection of sites for ceme
teries, and plans for the removal of the dead, would prove of no ultimate
avail, without the authority of law to execute the work.
The visit of the Congressional Committee to Memphis, in the spring
of 1S66, to investigate the cause of the riot at that place, afforded a
favorable opportunity to bring the subject to the attention of Congress.
An informal delegation, consisting of Brevet-Major G. W. Marshall,
Assistant Quarterraaster, and Chaplain Wm. B. Earnshaw, of the
Stone's River Cemetery, accordingly went to Memphis to consult with
the gentlemen of that committee. An interview was obtained; copies
of the reports already made upon the battle-fields, detailing the condi
tion of the dead, were submitted to their perusal. The facts thus made
known to them, together with the personal representations raade by
these gentlemen, enlisted the deep interest of the Board, especially of
Hon. E. B. Washburne, chairman of the committee.
The result was that a bill for the establishraent and protection of
National Cemeteries was then and there drawn up, or all of the leading
points agreed upon. On the return of the committee to Washington, it
was introduced into the House and passed; in the Senate, however, by
some oversight, it failed to be called up for a third reading, and Congress
adjourned without its becoraing a law.
Although the bill failed at this terra of a passage, the favor with which
it had been received, gave assurance that the work would ultiraately be
sanctioned, and the Qiiartermaster's Department at Washington pro
ceeded to act upon it.
General Donaldson, Chief Quarterraaster of the Military Division of
the Tennessee, took a deep interest in the work, and his suggestions
and recommendations for that Division were listened to and cordially
approved by General Meigs at Washington.
On the 13th of June, 1866, another order in the series was issued by
General Thomas, directing " the location, purchase and establishment of
National Ceraeteries and the preparation of Mortuary Records for the
Military Division of the Tennessee."
In some parts of the Division, as at Chattanooga and Stone's River, the
work had never been entirely intermitted, and the collection of the dead
in Alabama into the city grave-yards, at Montgomery and Mobile, had
been commenced under the direction of the Quartermaster-General ; but
now the work assumed a general character. During the summer exten
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ofthe Quartermaster-General, for a vigorous commencement ofthe work,
early in the fall, throughout the entire division.
Contracts were made for furnishing coffins and inclosing the grounds.
And here let me remark, to correct erroneous statements that have
sometimes been made, that no contracts -vere ever let in the Military
Division of the Ten7iessee for the disinterment and reburial of the dead in
the National Cemeteries. It was, indeed, proposed and urged as a matter
of economy. On the other hand, it was plead that in this work the Gov
ernment having assumed to stand in the place of the relatives of the
deceased, it should do nothing which, under similar circumstances, they
would not themselves do. When bereaved friends should advertise and
let by contract, to the lowest bidder, the performance of the last sad rites
claimed by the sacred ties of love and affection, then it would be time for
the Government to attempt to do such a thing in their behalf.
To return to a description of our work: Sites were selected and
approved, and steps taken for their purchase; the country was districted,
and officers detailed or assigned to conduct the work in the several dis
tricts ; agents were employed from among the discharged officers and
soldiers of the army; and discharged colored soldiers eraployed, in most
cases, as laborers.
In some portions of the Division the work was necessarily commenced
in advance ofthe explorations. This was especially the case in Northern
and Western Georgia, and in Central and Southern Alabama; but in all
cases where explorations had been made, and as fast as they were
extended over other portions, the several officers in charge were fur
nished with a carefully prepared list and description of the localities of
graves, as far as discovered, and with such names as had been copied,
and with copies of all communications of friends giving information, or
making inquiries concerning their dead.
On the 9th day of August, i856, an order, known as Order No. 8,
describing in detail the raethod to be pursued in disinterring the dead
and keeping the record, was issued from the office of the chief Quarter
master. It says: "The Government, in assuraing to perform a work
which belongs, as a special right, only to the kindred and friends of the
deceased, deraands of its agents to discharge the duty with the delicacy
and tenderness of near and dear friends." And it closes with the remark
" That all officers and men engaged in this delicate and responsible
work, will take such personal interest in its faithful execution, and exer
cise such diligence and care in preserving a clear and distinct trace of
every body removed, that no friend or relation of the dead may have any
just cause of complaint."
Forms of burial sheets or records were devised and furnished, by the
aid of which any intelligent and careful person would be able to keep an
intelligible record of every body found, showing, in the case of single
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or collection of graves, or of trenches, in addition, the precise order and
method of burial.
Each body, known and unknown, was placed in a separate coflin, and
marked to correspond with the entry upon the record sheet; and when
transported to the new cemetery, a duplicate copy of this disinterment
record was forwarded as a bill of lading. When the several coffins were
consigned to their new graves, the designation ofthe section and number
of grave into which each had been put, was entered on the bill in its
proper place. A duplicate copy of these sheets thus corapleted were then
to be forwarded to the office of the mortuary records for use in preparing
the catalogues and rolls of honor.
The design of this minute and careful record is so important that I
shall be pardoned for entering into an explanation here.
In the course of my investigations, the fact had been developed, — I
quote from a report upon this subject forwarded to the Quartermaster-
General, February 13, 1S67, — "That in very many cases careful records
of the place, names, and order of burial, had been made, and that these
documents were in existence, either in the hands of those who had pre
pared them, or of friends and relatives of the deceased, to Avhom they
had been sent, and by whom they had been most carefully preserved. I
assumed, therefore, as the basis of a plan, that a knovjledge and a
record of every grave, both of its locality and of its occupant, -vas in the
possession of some living person, and that these means might be made
available to restore the name, rank and regiment, and even ihe date of
death, to the occupants of all those graves -which, in the lapse of time,
and hy various casualties and accidents, had lost their external marks.
" Could these records have been collected for use in advance ofthe dis
interments, the work of recognition and identification would have been
simple and easy in all cases. But, in the mean time, the Government
had decided to gather up and remove the dead from these scattered graves
and groups, both known and unknown alike, to national cemeteries, and
were even entering upon their work.
"The question then presented itself for imraediate decision, -whether the
bodies from all graves found -without marks, should be transferred as
absolutely unknown, and no clue be left by -which to trace them from
an mihto-wn grave in the ne-w cemetery to their original resting-place, of
¦which there might, and doubtless did, exist a full and complete record in
the hand of some person, and -lohich at some future time -would be
produced ?
"Manifestly, under the circumstances, this would of itself be a desecra
tion, and with a knowledge ofthe facts, a culpable violation ofthe rights
of the friends and relatives.
"In order, therefore, that the work of disinterment and removal might
proceed without delay, and yet all the opportunities and means to raake
the information I have alluded to permanently available, a very simple

234 Army Reunion.
expedient was adopted, in the forra of a tabular sheet of record, to be
used in all cases of disinterment, and by raeans of which not only could
each particular body reinterred in a national cemetery be traced to its
original resting-place, but in case of groups, rows and trenches, the pre
cise order and relative position of each body, as originally buried, could
be easily known. * ^f * * *
" The work once done on this plan by intelligent and careful men, and
the application of the principle is very siraple and easy.
" These original burial sheets are all carefully preserved and filed in
the office of the raortuary records, where the coraplete records of the
division are kept, and the catalogue of each cemetery prepared."
In its practical application I can now say that this system generally
proved most satisfiictory, and has already led to the identification of
a large number w-ho were disinterred and removed as unkno-wn ; and
in the future it promises to be valuable, so long as there remain in exist
ence any records by which a body anight have been identified before
removal, and so long as proper facilities are aftbrded for the investigation.
This plan, witli full illustration and explanation, thus communicated to
the Quartermaster-General, was subsequently adopted and raade appli
cable throughout the United States, in General Orders No. 26, Qiiarter
master-General's Office, March 25, 1867 ; not, however, until disinterraents
and removals had been extensively made in other departments. In this
order the Qiiartermaster-General very concisely and clearly expresses the
idea by sa^-ing : " That the record of the disinterring officer is imperfect
unless it will enable a stranger to take the bodies from their new resting-
place and replace them in their original graves, in their original order."
These remarks, subraitted in passing, showing the possibility of identi
fying raany of the unknown dead in the future, will naturally suggest the
duty of the Governinent to provide facilities, for some time to come, for
carrying out and realizing the benefits of the system. It indeed seems a
right which the friends ofthe dead should demand. They may say, with
the emphasis of deep feeling: "Ye have taken away our dead, and
-where have ye laid them.'" Not that they may remove the body,
but restore the narae at the grave or on the record, in pl.ace of the
sad inscription, unkno-wn ; and satisfy the claims of affection by dropping
a tear upon the grave.
Furnished with copies of the field notes and records of the original
explorations as a general guide, the officers and agents in charge of the
work were directed to push their researches into all parts oftheir respect
ive districts, where they could hear of any dead, or had any reason to
suppose that any were to be found. As a general thing, both officers and
men showed a commendable zeal in the work, and deserve great credit
for their faithfulness. The thorough minuteness of the search affords
positive assurance that but few have been overlooked in, this great sepul
ture. All cases of accidental oraission have been provided for, and any
hereafter discovered will be removed by the keepers ofthe cemeteries.

Army of the Cumberland. 235
On the breaking up of the original Military Division ofthe Tennessee,
and the formation of the Third and Fourth Military Districts, the super
vision of the construction of the ceraeteries in Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi, with the exception of that at Corinth, was transferred to the
chief Quarterraaster of those districts. In order, however, to preserve a
unity of plan in the preparation ofthe record, and to insure the successful
application of the original principles which had governed in their prepa
ration, the Secretary of War, by a special order, dated March 23, 1867,
directed that all records of disinterments and reinterments should be
continued to be forwarded from these districts to the headquarters of the
Department of the Cumberland, fbr use in the preparation of the perma
nent records and rolls of honor for the entire original Military Division.
In Februai-}', 1S67, the attention of the chairman of the military com
mittee of the Senate was specially called to the failure to pass the Ceme
terial Bill at the previous session. Some modifications were suggested
and adopted, the appropriation for the comraencement of the work was
increased frora fifty to seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the
bill for the establishment and protection of national cemeteries passed
Congress, and was approved by the President February 22, 1867.
The movement had now become indeed a national work. Under the
impulse thus given it was prosecuted with renewed energy; and now, in
less than t-wo years from the passage of the bill, and in three years from
the time the first preliminary steps were really taken in this great work,
we are able to announce that the work of removing the dead has been
completed in the original Military Division of the Tennessee, with the
exception of a few at Vicksburg and Natchez. More than one hundred
thousand bodies of the scattered dead, who died and were buried within
its limits, including those who fell upon the west bank of the Mississippi
river, and in the borders of Virginia and North Carolina, in connection
with military operations originating in or carried on within the division
itself, have been carefully exhumed and reburied, each in a separate coffin,
in some one of the beautiful national cemeteries established mostly
within the limits of the division.
Disabled soldiers have been selected by the Secretary of War, under
the provisions of the act, and one now resides at each of the cemeteries,
to watch over and protect the graves, and to wait upon visitors.

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Army of the Cumberland. 237
The dead-from Eastern Georgia, including those from Lawton Prison-
pen, have been removed to the national ceraetery at Beaufort, South Car
olina; and those from Columbus, Paducah, and Fort Holt, Kentucky, to
Mound City, Illinois; and those frora extreme Eastern Kentucky, and
country adjacent to the Ohio River, below Louisville, to New Albany,
Indiana — in all about six thousand. All others are buried within the
limits ofthe original division.
The land upon which most of these cemeteries are located has been
purchased and paid for, and the jurisdiction has been ceded to the United
States by the several States in which they are situated. Permanent stone
walls, or temporary wooden fences, sufficient for their present protection,
have been constructed around them all.
Under direction of the Quartermaster-General, complete lists of these
dead are being corrected and systematically arranged by cemeteries : One
copy, together with a complete set of the original burial-sheets, for
deposit at each cemetery, and another, in the form of ii roll of honor, to
be forwarded to the Qiiarterraaster-General for publication. In addition
to this, plats of the ceraeteries have been prepared, showing the internal
arrangement of sections; and enlarged sectional maps showing the exact
location and number of each grave.
A general cemeterial map of the entire country from which the dead
have been removed, is in process of preparation. Upon this map will be
shown the exact location of the cemeteries; the limits of the several dis
tricts from which the dead have been reraoved to each; the location of
battle-fields and skirmishes ; the lines of march of the arraies ; the routes
of raiders, and all the prorainent places where dead have been found.
This, I understand, is to be extended by the Quartermaster-General to
include the entire country embraced in the cemeterial operations East and
West. In closing the brief sketch of this great national work within the limits
of the original Military Division of the Tennessee, I feel impelled to say
that he who thinks to provide for our slain more honorable graves than
those in which they were originally interred, dying at the post of duty,
and sleeping -where they fell, has but a faint conception of the glory of
their deeds, or the significance of this work.
Stand, as I have done, by the grave of Rankin, of the Eighty-First
Ohio, killed af the battle of Corinth, and buried at the front, on the spot
where he poured out his blood, and read the simple but suggestive
inscription upon the rude tablet: " He died doing his whole duty ; " or
by that of Color Sergeant McCall, of the same regiment, and interpret
upon his tombstone the classic inscription, made ever sacred to Ameri
cans by its utterance from the lips of the laraented Warren as he fell
on the heights of Bunker Hill — "Dulce ct decorum est, pro patria
mori" — ; or in the midst of the forest solitudes of Shiloh, on the
deserted and now silent battle-field, at the common grave of the Color

238 Army Reunioti.
Sergeant of the sixteenth Wisconsin, and guard, who fell to a man,
while gallantly defending the flag of their country, and read their names
and youthful ages recorded on a common tablet, and say what act of
grateful recognition, by their countrymen, of the priceless value of the
services they, and thousands of others as brave and pure, have rendered,
in their deeds and in their examples, can add one single ray to the halo
of glory that now surrounds them.'
All that a grateful country can do, is by honoring the memories, and
protecting the sacred remains of those who laid down their lives for its
salvation, to show its appreciation of the heroic sacrifice, and teach to
succeeding generations lessons of undying patriotism.

239

"MEMOIR."
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM L. PORTER, FIFTH U. S. CAVALRY.
Died, April 23, 186S, at Gallatin, Tennessee, Williara L. Porter, Fifth
United States Cavalry, from the efiects of an amputation, rendered
necessary by injuries received while firing a salute on the 22nd of
February, 1868.
The subject of this memoir was born at Lodonia, Northern India,
February 9, 1842. He w-as the oldest child of the Reverend Joseph
Porter and Harriet Athern Porter, missionaries of the American Board
of Foreign Missions. He was brought to this country by his father, on
the occasion of his raother's death, in the year 1849, to receive the
education that could not be obtained in the far distant field of labor
where his parents spent their lives. His father, returning to India,
survived but a year or two, leaving Porter an orphan at the early age
of eight or nine years. Being placed at school at South Hanover,
Indiana, he remained there until 1857, when he entered Miami
University, at Oxford, Ohio, where the breaking out of the Rebellion,
in 1861, found hira.
On the 19th day of April, iS6r, Mr. Porter enlisted at Oxford, as a
private, in Company B, Twentieth Ohio Volunteers Infantry, for the
period of three months. At the expiration of this term of service,
he re-enlisted, in Western Virginia, as a private, in Company B, Twenty-
fourth Ohio Volunteers Infantry, for the period of three years. At this
date he was detailed as a clerk in the Assistant Adjutant-General's office,
at General Rosecrans' Headquarters, under Captain George L. Hartsuft",
and there received the training that rendered his services so valuable at
a later date, in an enlarged sphere of duty. Remaining there until
July 25, 1862, he was transferred to Baltimore, and was assigned to duty
in the Assistant Adjutant-General's office, at General Wool's Head
quarters. In the fall of 1862, General Rosecrans, after brilliant services in the
armies of the West and South, was ordered to assume command of the army
then operating under General Buell, and was ordered to Kentucky', where
he assumed comraand of the Army of the Cumberland. In October of this
year, Mr. Porter was ordered to report to Governor Tod, of Ohio, who
commissioned him first lieutenant, in Company D, Fifty-sixth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, November 10, .and ordered him to report to Gen
eral Rosecrans, which he did, at Bowling Green, Kentucky. During
the stay of the army at Murfreesboro, and while the army was engaged
in campaigning in the field, up to the time General Rosecrans was

240 Army Reunion.
relieved from the comraand of the Array of the Curaberland, Lieutenant
Porter served on General Rosecrans' Staff, as Acting Aid-de-Camp, and
was as.signed to the responsible branch office of Reports and Returns,
together with having supervision of the printing of the General Orders
of the Department.
General Thomas, ou assuraing command of the Department of the.
Cumberland, continued Lieutenant Porter in charge of the same duties
he previously performed. On November 10, 1864, he was mustered out
as first lieutenant, but reraaining at Department Headquarters, he served
without pay until April g, 1865. On application of General Thomas,
he was appointed captain and Assistant Adjutant-General, volunteers,
Jilay 16, to date April 9, 1S65. In the fall of this year, he was ordered to
report to General Stoneman, as Assistant Adjutant-General, and, while
on duty at Memphis, was breveted major for efficient services rendered
during the war. He was mustered out ofthe volunteer service November
1, 1S66. Returning North, he engaged for a short period in insurance
business. His taste for army life returning, he made application for a
position in the regular army, which, on the recommendation of the
general officers under whom he had served, he secured. On the 13th
day of August, 1S67, he was appointed second lieutenant Fifth United
States Cavalrj'. He served at Nashville as Assistant Adjutant-General,
¦ District of Tennessee, until January, i858, when he was ordered on duty
as Post Commissary and Quartermaster at Gallatin, Tennessee. On the
22nd of February of that year, he was engaged, with others, in firing a
salute in honor of Washington's birth day. After firing all but the last
salute, he gave directions to fire "one extra one, as the last." The anvil
they were using on the occasion exploded, and a fragment striking the
leg of Lieutenant Porter, crushed and mangled it terribly. He refused
for over two months to allow amputation, as it would render him useless
as a cavalry officer; but, finding that he was sinking in his mangled
condition, he reluctantly consented to have his leg amputated, and the
operation was performed. But, too late! His constitution, naturally
vigorous, was prostrated by the two months confinement and intense
pain, and it had not sufficient vitality to rally from the effects of the
operation, and seven hours after the operation was performed, he passed
away. Thus, at the early age of twenty-six, the mortal career of
Lieutenant Porter was ended, and his spirit found rest.
Born in that far distant land of wondrous tale and fabled story, he was
deprived of the tender care of his parents, at the tirae the opening mind
of the child most needs a father's precept, and a mother's watchful,
prayerful care. Becoming an orphan at an early date in his life, he
missed these essential guides in the formation of his character.
This gave him a spirit of self-reliance, almost of hardihood, which
enabled him to push his way, and make friends, where a more timid
mind would have failed.

Army of the Cumberland. 241
Lieutenant Porter was of a frank, cheerful nature ; active and ener
getic in all he undertook; lively and warm hearted. He made many
friends during his career in the army, who mourn his untimely end.
Brave in battle, and cool under fire, he was the admiration of the general
officers under whom he served. The three important engagements he
¦participated in were. Stone River, Chickamauga, and Mission Ridge.
There is One higher than man, whose wa3'S are past finding out. Lieu
tenant Porter went through these engagements, frequently under heavy
fire, and escaped untouched, to lose his life, at last, in the festal coramem
oration of the 22nd of February.
Only one year ago, and no one so bright and happy at our first meet
ing as Lieutenant Porter. Welcoming old friends he had not met since
peace sent army friends to the four corners of our land, to their old
homes and avocations, exchanging the hearty grasp of fellowship in our
new organization, his very presence, with his cheery voice and kindly
eye, made it a pleasure to see him, and a happiness to have him with us.
Let us cherish his meraory, and guard well the heart memories we hold
of hira. In his far off Southern resting-place, may his grave have
brighter, fresher tints, and the air about it a sunnier hue, and the birds a
sweeter tone, by reason of the loving hearts who hold his memory
precious, and who turn with warra, loving thoughts to that low resting
place in the valley.
[signed] General S. W. Price,
Cliairman Committee on Memorial.
16

LETTERS.

Extract from letter of Major- General W. S, Rosecrans to Major-
General George H. Thomas, expressing regret at his inability to be
present at the Reunion.
" If the memories of the places and plays of childhood touch our hearts,
what emotions must be aroused by the scenes and events of the bivouac
and the battle! If the sports of youth, and the ad\entui-es of young
manhood bind hearts in companionship, and create memories and friend
ships which follow us through life, what hallowed memories, what
enduring companionships, what manly friendships must unite those who
have cherished the love of country in hearts warmed by the same patri
otic fires — who have shared the same privations, faced the same
dangers, and felt, under the same canopy of battle, the lofty eraotions
that thrill the souls of men fighting for such a nation and such a land
as ours.
" Is it any wonder that a bond of brotherhood should unite the officers
and soldiers ofthe Union anny.' a bond admitting the extreraest individ
uality, and variety of character, and yet strong enough to draw to each
other men who have been reared in the remotest sections of the
Union, and who have served their country in armies on the most distant
lines ,of operations.
" Long may this bond survive those by whose united valor, under
God's good prpvidence, we have been preserved from becoraing a byword
in history, and now stand glorious among the nations of the earth.
May it unite our children's children in brave, self-sacrificing devotion to
our country through long coming years."

Nashville, Tenn., December lo, 1868.
My Dear General; — I deeply regret that imperative professional
engagements render it impossible for me to attend the Chicago Reunion,
and I raust content myself for this year with sending, through you, my
warmest greetings, and best wishes, to our old comrades of the Army of
the Curaberland. Truly and fraternally yours,
G. P. Thruston,
Late Brevet Brigadier- General U. S, V.
General Wm. D. Whipple,
Corresponding Secretary Society Army Cumberland,

Army of the Cumberland. 243

Headquarters General Service Depot,
Fort Columbus, N. Y. IIaruor,
December 11, iS68.
Major-General D. Butterfield,
V. P. for the Ne-.v Vork Society of the Army of the Cumberland :
General; — I regret exceedingly that ray military duties will prevent
me from availing myself of your kind invitation to be present in Chica<>-o
at the festival reunion of the Society of the Armies of the Cumberland
Ohio and Tennessee.
Nothing could aflbrd me greater satisfaction than to be allowed to
participate in the exercises, and partake of the courtesies, of that inter
esting occasion. To be brought face to face in familiar intercourse, and
associated with such high, heroic natures as the gallant countrymen who
constitute the membership of that Association, is indeed a rare privi
lege; and, except for the reason already given. I should as certainly be
present in person, as that assuredly I shall be with you in spirit.
Honor to them all! to the famed and noble living, to the enshrined
and sacred dead. "The mystic chords of memory,'' stretching over man^-
battle-fields, binding you together with the strong brotherhood of com
raon memories, common sacrifices, and coramon fellowships, will, indeed,
notably illustrate the immortal beauty of our martyred president's
invocation; and most sincerely do I trust that among the observances
connected with that liberty beloved and rescued by himself and by you
all, maybe found the annual gathering of your "Association," to keep,
amid the drouths of commerce and of peace, the heart green with
remembrances of the close comradeship born out of sorrow and of war.
I am. General, very truly your obedient servant,
H. D. Wallen,
Brevet Brigadier-General U. S. Army, Commanding.

Army Building, New York, December 12, 1S6S.
General; — Intimately associated, as I have been, with the armies
of the West, it would give me the greatest pleasure to renew my old
associations with their representation, at Chicago, on the anniversary
of that decisive victory at Nashville ; but I regret that it will not be in my
power to be present at this very interesting 'assemblage of officers,
among whom are so many of my most attached friends.
I am. General, yours most respectfully,
George AV. Cullum,
Brevet Mafor-General U, S. Army.
Brevet Major-General D. Butterfield,
V. P, for Ne-w Tork Society of Army of Cumberland.

244 Army Reunion.
Fort Columbus, New York Harbor, )
December II, i858, )
My Dear General; — In reply to your kind invitation of yesterday
to accompany you to Chicago, perrait me to say that I know of noth
ing which would give rae greater pleasure, but, on account of a very
severe cold which has kept me down sick for three or four days, I do
not think it would be prudent for me to atterapt the journey. I shall
look with anxiety for the order placing me on duty in your office, and
will do my best to give you satisfaction.
Thanking you for your kindness, and wishing you a most pleasant
journey, I remain. Very truly yours, Charles G. Bartlett.
Brevet Major-General Butterfield.

New York, December ii, 1868.
General ; — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your kind
invitation to attend the annual Reunion at Chicago, on the 15th inst.,
and to express my thanks, with regret that I ara unable to attend the
raeeting. I ara. General, very respectfully.
Your obedient servant, R. S. Satterlee.
Major-General Daniel Butterfield, U, S. Army,

Court Rooms, New York, December 11, 1868.
General; — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note
inviting me to attend the annual Reunion at Chicago, of the Society of
the Army of the Cumberland, on the 15th inst. Nothing would afford
me more pleasure. My duties, however, as a raeraber of a General
Court Martial will deprive rae of that pleasure.
Very truly yours, etc., J. J. Abercrombie,
Colonel and Brevet Brigadier- General U. S. Volunteers.
General Daniel Butterfield,
U, S. Volunteers, Vice-President for Ne-w Tork,

Artny of the Cumberland. 245
Engineers, \
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ber II, 1868. j

Office of the Board of Engineers,
for Permanent Fortificati
New York, Decembe

General; — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note
of the gth inst., inviting me to attend the annual Reunion of the Army
of the Cumberland at Chicago, on the 15th inst.
Honoring the glorious services of the Army of the Cumberland, and
of the associated Arraies of the Ohio and ofthe Tennessee, which, under
their great leaders. Grant, Sherman, Thomas, and Schofield, achieved
such mighty results, it would give rae much satisfaction to be able to
accept the invitation, and to meet in fraternal union so many brave
soldiers and esteemed friends, but ray immediate duties, and my private
affairs forbid, at the present raoraent, the journey which it requires.
I am, with great respect, your raost obedient,
I. G. Barnard,
Colonel and Brevet Major- General.
Brevet Major-General D. Butterfield,
V. P. for Ne-w Tork, Society of Army of Cumberland.

Coleman House, New York, December 11, 1868.
Dear General; — I return my cordial thanks for your kind invita
tion to attend the celebration, or annual Reunion, of the Army of the
Cumberland on the 15th inst., and regret that I cannot be present on
that occasion. Yours, very truly,
Abner Doubleday,
Brevet Major- General.
To Brevet Major-General D. Butterfield, U. S. Army.

irginia, \
7, 1868. j

Headquarters District of Virginia,
Bu. R. F. N. L.,
Richmond,. Va., December
To Major-General William D. Whipple,
U, S. Army, Cor, Sec, Society Army of the Cumberland :
General; — I write to express many regrets at my inability to be
present at the second meeting of our Society, on the 15th inst. With
the memory of our first most auspicious reunion fresh in my mind, it is
with inexpressible reluctance I relinquish the design to participate in the
second.

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Reunion.

Hoping our grand "Society of the Army of the Curaberland"
may not be marked " with vivacity of inception, apathy of progress, and
prematureness of decay;" but, like that venerable relic of the revolution,
"the Society of the Cincinnati," its glories and its meraories may be
made inheritable by the descendants of its heroes.
1 have the honor to reraain, with many desires for its perpetuity, and
sincere wishes for the prosperity of each individual comrade.
Your most obedient servant,
Will. A. Coulter,
U, S. Army.

Cincinnati, December 12, 1868.
At a regular meeting of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry Association, held
December 11, 1S6S, it was ordered that Colonel John Kennett, and Cap
tains II. A. Hamilton, and H. A. Osborn be and are hereby constituted
delegates to represent this Association at the raeetings of the armies in
Chicago, and bear our greetings to the comrades there assembled.
H. H. Hamilton,
Vice-President, and President pro tem,
LuciEN Wilson, Secretary

REPORT
[Fur7iished by ihe Recording Secretary']

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting

SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE
TENNESSEE,
HELD AT CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,
December isth, 1868.

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pflESl DENT, SOCIETY ARMY OF TENNESSEE

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE
TENNESSEE.
President :
Major-General John A. Rawlins.
Vice-Presidents :
Major-General Joh.n A. Logan,
Major-General G. M. Dodge,
Major-General B. F. Potts,
Major-General W. Q. Gresham,
Brigadier-General T. C. Fletcher.
Brigadier-General N. Rusk.
Recording Secretary :
Lieutenant-Colonel L. M. Dayton.
Corresponding Secretary :
Brigadier-General A. Hickenlooper.
Treasurer :
Major-General M. F. Force.

CONSTITUTION.

article I.
The Association shall be known as "The Society of the Army op
THE Tennessee," and shall include every officer who has served with
honor in that array.
Honorary merabers raay be elected from those who have served with
honor and distinction in any of the armies ofthe United States.
ARTICLE II.
The object of the Society shall be to keep alive and preserve that
kindly and cordial feeling which has been one of the characteristics of
this army during its career in the service, and which has given it such
harmony of action, and contributed in no small degree to its glorious
achievements in our country's cause.
The fame and glory of all the officers belonging to this army, who have
fallen either on the field of battle, or in the line of their duty, shall be a
sacred trust to this Society, which shall cause proper memorials of their
services to be collected and preserved, and thus transmit their names with
honor to posterity.
The families of all such officers who shall be in indigent circumstances,
will have a claira upon the generosity of the Society, and will be relieved
by the voluntary contributions of its members whenever brought to their
attention. In like manner, the fame and suffering farailies of those offi
cers who may hereafter be stricken down by death, shall be a trust in the
hands of their survivors. ARTICLE III.
For the purpose of accomplishing these objects, the Society shall be
organized by the annual election of a President and Vice-Presidents.
The Vice-Presidents to be chosen, one from each Army Corps of the old
Array of the Tennessee, and a Corresponding and a Recording Secretary.
The Society shall raeet once in every year, and those officers who, for
any cause, are unable to attend its meetings, will be expected to write to
the Corresponding Secretary of the Society, and impart such information
in regard to themselves as they may desire, and which may be of interest
to their brother officers. Honoring the glorious achievements of our

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brothers-in-arms belonging to other armies, w-hose services have contrib
uted, in an equal degree, in the re-establishment of our Government, and
desiring to draw closer to them in the bonds of social feeling, the Presi
dent, or either of the Vice-Presidents of this Society, shall be authorized
to invite the attendance of any officer of the United States Army at any
of our annual raeetings.

AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.
First. That the first sentence of the third article of the Constitution
be amended so as to read as follows :
"The Society shall be organized by the annual election of a President
and six Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secre
tary, and a Treasurer."

BY-LAWS,

ARTICLE I.
That one dollar per annum be paid by each member to the Recording
Secretary, the money so raised to be paid by him to the Treasurer.
ARTICLE II.
Money for ordinary expenses of the Society may be expended by the
Treasurer upon the warrant of the President. All other expenditures,
only in pursuance of a vote of the Society.
ARTICLE III.
The Treasurer shall m.ake a report to the annual meeting of all receipts
and expenditures with vouchers.
The Recording Secretary shall report to the annual meeting all money
received by him, and all transferred by hira to the Treasurer.
The Corresponding Secretary shall report to every meeting all corres
pondence of general interest. ARTICLE IV.
All questions and resolutions shall be decided by a majority of the
members present. But amendments, proposed to the Constitution, shall
be acted upon only at the annual meeting subsequent to the one at which
they may be proposed, unless the postponement be dispensed with by a
vote of two-thirds of the members present.

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ARTICLE V.
The order of business shall be as follows :
I. Reading of the journal of the previous raeeting.
2. Appointments of coraraittees on business and for nomination of
officers. 3. Receiving reports.
4. Current business.
5. Election of officers
6. Adjournment. ARTICLE VI.
If the Society shall, at any meeting, omit to designate the time and
place of the next meeting, the President shall, by due public notice, fix
the tirae and place.

ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE.

Society of the Army of the Tennessee,
Chicago, III., December 15, 1868.
To accomplish its Third Annual Reunion in accordance -with
its adjournment at St. Louis, and to join in a reunion with the
Societies of the Armies of the Cumberland, the Ohio, and the
Georgia, the Society of the Army of the Tennessee was called
to assemble in the city by the follov/ing notices :
Washington City, D. C, October 15, 1868.
Ofiicers of the Army of the Tennessee :
You are respectfully notified that in accordance with your last adjourn
ment, and the following call issued by Lieutenant-General W. T. Sherman,
the third annual meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee will
be held in the city of Chicago, on the 15th day of December, 1S6S, at 10
o'clock, A.M.
Every officer who has at any time served in the Army or Department
of the Tennessee, is entitled to raerabership, and to all such an earnest
invitation is extended to be present, to unite with our brother officers
of the Armies of the Cumberland, Ohio, and Georgia, in perpetuating
that kindly, cordial and social feeling, which, amidst scenes and events
now historical, ever marked our intercourse with the soldiers of
these arraies, whose hearts still beat in friendly unison when touched by
the meraories ofthe past.
All necessary arrangements for the raeeting will be made by the
following local committee, residents in Chicago :
General William E. Strong, General J. M. Corse, Colonel Harry Gile,
General John McArthur, General Joseph Stockton, and Colonel John M.
Loomis, to whom letters of inquiry raay be addressed.
Major-General John A. Rawlins, President.
Brigadier-General A. Hickenlooper,
Corresponding Secretary, Cincinnati, Ohio,
Lieutenant-Colonel L. M. Dayton,
Recording Secretary, St, Louis, Missouri.

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Washington, D. C, April 20, 1868.
Notice is hereby given, that the Societies representing the Annies
of the Tennessee, Cumberland, Ohio and Georgia, will meet on the
15th and i6lh days of December, 1S6S, at Chicago, Illinois. The object
is purelj' socia4, and designed to preserve the memories of the war, and
to cherish the friendships formed during that period of our national
history. All are cheerfully invited to be present and participate.
An orator has been appointed for each army, and addresses will be
delivered on the night of the 15th of December, and a grand banquet
will be held on the night of the i6th.
Letters of inquiry may be addressed to General William E. Strong,
Chicago, Illinois, who "will attend to all preliminary business, until
a joint committee of arrangeraents has been appointed to carry into
effect the above plan.
W. T. Sherman,
Lieutenant-General U. S. Army,

Crosby's Music Hall had been selected by the local committee
of arrangements, in which to hold the meeting of the Society,
and at two o'clock it organized. The President, Major-General
Rawlins, and the Senior Vice-President, Major-General Howard,
not being present, the second in order of Vice-Presidents, Major-
General Giles A. Smith, assumed the chair, and announced the
Society ready for the transaction of business.
On motion of Colonel Coleman,
Resolved, That in consequence of the temporary absence of
the Secretary, Colonel Dayton, who is engaged in impo-tant
business of the Society, Colonel T. S. Mather act as Secretary,
-pro tem.
On motion of Colonel Joel,
Resolved, That all general officers present be invited to seats
with the President. The President extended the invitation.
On motion of General Leggett,
Resolved, That a committee of seven be appointed to nomi
nate officers for the ensuing year.
The President announced the committee as follows:

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Major-General M. D. Leggett, Major-General J. M. Corse,
Colonel D. C. Coleman, Brevet Brigadier-General Benjamin
Spooner, Colonel J. M. Hedrick, Colonel Thomas Reynolds,
and Colonel George G. Pride.
On motion of D. P. Grier,
Resolved, That a committee of seven be appointed to select
the place for holding the next annual meeting.
The President announced the committee as follows:
General D. P. Grier, General B. F. Potts, General E. W.
Rice, Major-General W. Q. Gresham, Colonel L. M. Dayton,
U. S. A., and Colonel K. Knox, U. S. A.
Major-General S. A. Hurlbut oflered a resolution that a com
mittee of thirteen be appointed to attend the inauguration of the
President elect.
Colonel Fort moved, as an amendment to the resolution of
General Hurlbut, that a committee of thiiteen be appointed to
draft an address of congratulation, to be presented to General
Grant, the President elect. Amendment accepted.
General Fletcher oflered, as an amendment, that the motion as
amended, be postponed for consideration at ten o'clock, Decem
ber 16, and it was so resolved.
On motion of General Eldridge,
Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to call upon
General Grant, Lieutenant-General Sherman, Major-General
Thomas, Major-General Schofield, Major-General Slocum, and
General Cox, and invite them to meet the Society of the Army
of the Tennessee, at its place of meeting, on December 16, at
such hour as they may designate.
The President announced General Eldridge, General Webster,
and General Starring as such committee, and requested them to
also act as escort.
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Resolved, That the Adjutant Generals, Quartermaster-Gen
erals, Commissary-Generals, and their assistants, and all other
staft' officers of the Governors of the respective states that
furnished troops for the Army of the Tennessee during the war,
be admitted to membership, and all privileges of this organiza
tion, upon their complying with existing regulations.
This motion elicited discussion by diflerent members, and
upon the question being brought to vote, was rejected, because
it conflicted with the Constitution of the Society.
There being no further business for the present consideration
of the Society, on motion of Colonel Wood,
Resolved, That the Society stand adjourned until ten o'clock
A.M., December 16, 1S68.

Society of the Army of the Tennessee, )
Chicago, Illinois, December 16, 186S. )
The Society met in Crosby's Music Hall at ten o'clock A.M.,
pursuant to adjournment of December 15, and was called to
order by Vice-President General Giles A. Smith, who occupied
the chair. By his invitation. General Fallows, formerly chaplain
of the Thirty-Second Wisconsin, and afterward Colonel of the
Forty-Ninth Wisconsin Volunteers, opened the meeting with
a prayer appropriate to the occasion, invoking Divine blessings
upon the saviors of the nation, asking God to assist them in their
counsels, and to make it a happy Reunion.
The President announced the meeting ready for the transaction
of business. The first in order being the reading of the journal
of the previous meeting.
The Recording Secretary of the Society, Colonel Dayton, then
read the proceedings of the last annual meeting, held at St.
Louis, Missouri, and, on motion of Colonel Coleman, it was

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Resolved, That the records of the last annual meeting, as just
read by the Secretary, be adopted, and so entered in the records
of the Society.
Next, in the order of business, being appointment of commit
tees on business. Colonel Thomas Reynolds arose to a question
of privilege, and desired to formally announce to the Society the
death of General Cassius Fairchild, Fifth Vice-President of the
Society, one of its most distinguished and beloved members.
Permission was granted, when he said that it was designed that
General Howe should make the announcement to the meeting,
but, owing to the unavoidable absence of that distinguished
soldier, the duty devolved upon him. For upward of twenty
years he had known General Fairchild. They had been friends
and neighbors. For four years they had served side by side in the
army. He knew him as a citizen, as a soldier on the march, at
the bivouac, and in the bloody field of battle. Knowing and
appreciating his character so well as he did, the speaker could
not help feeling profound sorrow when he looked upon his vacant
chair, and feeling that some token of regard should be offered
to their departed comrade.
And, on motion of Colonel Reynolds,
Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to draft
resolutions for the action of the Society, and commemorative
of the deceased patriot and soldier, Brigadier-General Cassius
Fairchild. The President announced the committee to consist of Colonel
Reynolds, Generals Belknap, M. F, Force, Scribner, and
McArthur. General Rogers desired to announce the death of Lieutenant-
Colonel J. J. Jones, Forty-Sixth Illinois Infantry.
And, on motion of General Rogers,
Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to draft
resolutions for the consideration of the Society, as expressive of
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its feelings upon learning of the death of the lamented Lieuten
ant-Colonel John J. Jones, Forty-Sixth Infontry.
The President announced the committee to consist of the
following gentlemen :
Generals Rogers, Gersham, and Corse.
Colonel Stone announced the death of General Charles
Mathies, and on his motion it was
Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to draft, for
the action of the Society, resolutions of condolence for the
friends of General Mathies.
The President announced the committee to be as follows :
Colonel J. C. Stone, Colonel J. M. Hedrick, and General E.
W. Rice.
There being no other committees to appoint, the President
announced that in accordance with the by-laws of the Society,
the next in order of business was the " receiving of reports."
The Secretary desired to file his annual report, and was requested
by the President to read it. The report is as follows :
SECRETARY'S REPORT.
St. Louis, Missouri, December 1, 1868.
Major-General John A. Rawlins,
President Society Army of the Tennessee:
General; — Article third of the by-laws of the Society of the Army
of the Tennessee, requires of me, as Recording Secretary of the Society,
to render at this annual meeting ofthe Society a report. Before entering
upon that report, I wish to state that article first of the by-laws of the
Society fixes the annual dues of the merabers at one ($1) dollar each.
By resolution of the Society, passed at its annual meeting held in Cin
cinnati in 1866, it devolved upon the Corresponding Secretary to request
of each raeraber a contribution of five ($5) dollars for the purpose of
creating a permanent fund for the use of the Society.
In accordance with these provisions for raising raoney, I now present
the following : Since my last annual report there has been paid me by
members, in compliance with article first, naraely : For dues, two hund
red and seventy-six ($276) dollars ; and in response to the resolution

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cited, as passed at the annual raeeting of 1866, and received since my
last annual report, five hundred and fifty-five ($555) dollars, making paid
me for dues and perraanent fund, a total of eight hundred and thirty-one
($831) dollars, which I have, in corapliance with the by-laws, passed over
to the Treasurer, General Force, and herewith inclose his receipts.
This money was nearly all received during the session of the last
annual meeting, and after my report for the previous year had been
made. I wish further to state that the Corresponding Secretary has notified
the officers who served in the Array of the Tennessee, of this provision
of the Society, for raising funds needed to carry out its intentions, by
circulating the annual report of the proceedings of the Society, at its
annual raeeting of 1S66, prepared by the Secretary, and ordered published
by the Society, fifteen hundred (1,500) copies of which were sent by mail
to the known address of members.
Further notification was given the merabers as follows : I arranged the
proceedings of the last annual meeting for publication, and had a thou
sand copies struck off. These were forwarded to the members by the
Corresponding Secretary.
All money for the Society is payable to the Recording Secretary, which
necessitates his keeping an individual account with each meraber. Con
sidering it my duty, both to the Society and to members, to keep them
informed of their financial standing with the Society, I prepared a circu
lar, making a statement of their accounts in accordance with the provis
ions of the Society, and which reads as follows :

Society of the Army of the Tennessee, )
St. Louis, Mo., '^une i, 1868. )
Sir: Your attention is invited to those parts of the constitution and by-laws
that fix the raerabership, and specify the authorized assessments and dues
of the Society.
The Secretary's books show that you are indebted to the Society in
conformity thereto :
For assessment, . - - - - $
For dues, ...... $
Please make an early remittance to the Secretary, to whora all moneys
for the Society are paj'able. L. M. Dayton, Secretary.

These circulars were also forwarded to members by the Corresponding
Secretary at the sarae tirae that he sent the report.
I have been thus particular in raaking my report, in order that you and
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give the proper information to them, that they might know the require
ments of the Society.
The circulars mentioned were sent to members in June last, but up to
this time only twelve (12) persons have responded. This will show to
you all that it is evident the action of the Society thus far to provide its
treasury, has not been adequate, and that some further action is abso
lutely needed, which fact is more specially shown by the Treasurer in his
report. I therefore respectfully recomraend this subject to the considera
tion of the finance coraraittee, and the Society, at this raeeting.
At our last annual meeting, held in St. Louis, no resolution was passed
by the Society to provide for the publication and distribution of the pro
ceedings, but at the suggestion of some of the members, that it was an
oversight, I undertook the task, and succeeded as you know. The
expenses were paid by funds secured by the local committee of arrange
ments of that raeeting, and the treasury of the Society was not called on
for any money.
I would further suggest that some definite action of the Society be
taken in regard to the carrying out of a provision of the constitution that
contemplates the preservation of the record of its raerabers, especially of
those who are lost to us by death. Though it has not been regularly so
reported, it is known that several have died since our Society has been
organized. Tirae is fast obliterating from our meraories many interesting
features of their service and character, and we ought, without further
delay, to give this subject our attention. I am, with respect,
Your obedient servant,
L. M. Dayton,
Lieutenant- Colonel U. S. A,,
Secretary Society of the Army of the Teniicssce.
On motion of Colonel Reynolds —
Resolved, That the annual report of the Secretary, as just read,
be accepted.
The Treasurer asked permission to file his annual report, in
accordance with the by-laws, and by request of the President,
read it to the Society. The report is as follows :

TREASURER'S REPORT.
Chicago, Illinois, December 15, 1868.
At the last annual report the balance reraaining in the permanent fund
was one hundred and sixty-four dollars ($164.) Since then the Record
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one coupon on a Government bond has been collected, making, with its
premium on gold, twenty dollars and ninety-seven cents ($20.97.) The
expenditure has been five hundred and forty dollars ($540), paid in pur
chase of a Governraent bond for five hundred dollars ($500), on which
another coupon will be due January i, 1S69. There remains, with the
permapent fund, this Government bond, and one hundred and ninety-nine
dollars and ninety-seven cents ($199.97) '" cash.
At the last raeeting the balance in the general fund was twenty-one
dollars ($21). Since that tirae two hundred and seventy-seven dollars
($277) have been received. Frora this fund has been paid out, on the
warrant of the President of the Society, two hundred and twenty dollars
and seventy-six cents ($220.76), leaving a balance of seventy-seven dollars
and twenty-four cents ($77.24) reraaining.
In 1866, by resolution of the Society, three hundred and forty dollars
were appropriated frora the permanent fund toward payment of the
current expenses of the Society. I respectfully recoraraend that the
balance now in the general fund, and future receipts therein, till the
amount equals three hundred and forty dollars ($340,) be transferred to
the permanent fund.
I took the responsibility of investing the raoney ofthe permanent fund,
as soon as enough was received, in a Government bond. I respectfully
recommend that the Treasurer be authorized from tirae to time to make
such investments when there is sufficient money on hand.
It was determined, on the organization of the Society, to create a per
manent fund, the interest of which would be enough to meet the incidental
expenses, other than the supper, of the annual raeetings. For this pur
pose at least ten thousand dollars should be raised. We can not always
look to generous citizens to raeet these expenses for us. Enthusiasm is a
sentiment of too high pressure to be permanent. I respectfully suggest
that some immediate steps be taken to carry out this important policy of
the Society.
M. F. Force,
Treasurer of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee.
On motion of General B. F. Potts,
Resolved, That the report of the Treasurer, as just read by
himself, be accepted.
Colonel Reynolds, chairman of the committee appointed to
draft resolutions expressive of the feelings of the Society on
learning of the death of General Fairchild, asked leave, which
was granted, to file their report, which is as follows :

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Resolved, That in the death of General Cassius Fairchild, of
the Army of the Tennessee, of wounds received in battle, his
wife has lost a tender husband, his family an affectionate brother,
his country an earnest patriot and gallant soldier, and we, his
fellows, a noble and generous comrade.
Resolved, That we tender to his stricken bride and bereaved
relatives, a soldier's sympathy, asking them to accept with us the
consolation we find in this sorrow, in the knowledge that his
name is on the roll of those who were not born to die.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the
widow, and each of the brothers and sisters of the deceased.
[Signed by the Committee.]
On motion of General Force,
Resolved, That the rejDort as filed by the above committee be
adopted. General Leggett, chairman of the committee appointed for the
nomination of officers for the Society, asked leave to file their
report, which was granted, and reads as follows:
Chicago, III., December 15, i868.
The committee appointed to nominate officers for the Society
of the Army of the Tennessee for the ensuing year, submit, as
their report, the following nominations :
For President :
Major-General John A. Rawlins, U. S. A.
For Vice-Presidents :
Major-General John A. Logan,
Major-General G. M. Dodge,
Brevet Major-General B. F. Potts,
Brevet Major-General W. Q; Gresham,
Brigadier-General T. C. Fletcher,
Brigadier-General N. Rusk.

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For Recording Secretary :
Lieutenant-Colonel L. M. Dayton, U. S. A-
For Corresponding Secretary :
Brevet Brigadier-General A. Hickenlooper.
For Treasurer :
Brevet Major-General M. F. Force.
[Signed by the Committee.]
On motion of General Fuller,
Resolved, That the report, as read, be adopted.
On motion of General Leggett,
Resolved, That the rules of business proceeding be suspended,
for the purpose of taking up the election of officers for the
Society for the ensuing year.
On motion of General W. W. Belknap,
Resolved, That the persons presented by the Committee on
Nomination of Officers are unanimously elected to the positions
recommended, and are duly authorized to act respectively and
accordingly as officers of the Society.
The President pro tetn. announced, that by the resolution just
passed, the officers elected for the ensuing year, to be
Major-General John A. Rawlins, U. S. A., President.
Major-General John A. Logan, First Vice-President.
Major-General G. M. Dodge, Second Vice-President.
Brevet Major-General B. F. Potts, Third Vice-President.
Brevet Major-General W. Q. Gresham, Fourth Vice-President.
Brigadier-General T. C. Fletcher, Fifth Vice-President.
Brigadier-General N. Rusk, Sixth Vice-President.
Lieutenant-Colonel L. M. Dayton, U. S. A., Rec. Secretary.
Brevet Brigadier-General A. Hickenlooper, Cor. Secretary.
Brevet Major-General M. F. Force, Treasurer.

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The presiding officer. General Smith, asked leave to vacate
the chair, in the absence of the President elect, in favor of the
First Vice-President elect. General Logan, who assumed the
chair as presiding officer, amidst applause, and addressed the
Society in these words :
" Fellow-comrades of the Army of the Tennessee :
I presume that not one of the men whose names are regis-
stered as your officials for the year, in the report just read,
but feels a just pride in your selection, and toward you grateful
for the compliment bestowed. Upon assuming the responsibility
of your presiding officer, it may be proper for me to say something
in regard to those officers of the army who are not present with us
here to-day. In selecting General John A. Rawlins as your
President, you have made a noble choice. He is a man of
intellect and courage — one whose nobility is unquestioned, and
whose generosity is as boundless, in expanse, as the ocean.
" Alas ! there are others absent from our midst with whom we
have fought side by side upon many a bloody field — McPherson,
than whom the war produced no greater commander save
one, our President elect. There are many others whom I
think of now. They died that we might live. Then let us so
live that we may emulate them in a noble death. I hope that
while presiding I shall secure all due aid and assistance in the
performance of my duties from the Army of the Tennessee."
The committee appointed to draft resolutions commemorative
of General Mathies, asked leave and presented, as their report,
resolutions as follows :
Resolved, That the Society of the Army of the Tennessee
learns, with the deepest regret, of the death of the late General
Charles S. Mathies, of Iowa, an adopted citizen of the United
States, who, in the late war for the Union, first served as captain

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in the distinguished First Iowa Volunteers, then as Lieutenant-
Colonel of the Fifth Iowa, then as Colonel of that noted com
mand, from which, for the most intrepid gallantry and efficient
conduct at the battle of luka, he was promoted to the rank
of Brigadier-General, in that capacity maintaining the reputation
he had justly earned, and greatly adding to it throughout all the
campaigns and operations of General Sherman to the victory of
Missionary Ridge, where he was severely wounded.
Resolved, That the pure personal character, strict individual
and political integrity, valor, and military services of General
Mathies, most justly won for him general respect while he was
living, and entitle his memory to be cherished in the hearts of
all good and patriotic citizens, now that he is dead.
[Signed by the Committee].
On motion of General Dodge,
Resolved, That the report of the committee appointed to
draft resolutions of respect to the late General Charles S.
Mathies, be adopted.
The committee appointed to report resolutions respecting
Colonel John J. Jones, presented the following report:
Whereas, It has pleased Hira above to take from us our
brave and honored comrade. Colonel John J. Jones, late Colonel
of the Forty-sixth Illinois, therefore, be it
Resolved, That we revere his memory, and remember with
pride his brave and daring deeds at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and
other fields throughout the late war.
Resolved, That we tender to his bereaved wife and friends the
consolations of this organization.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be furnished to the
widow and parents of the deceased. [Signed by the Committee].
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Resolved, That the report of the committee appointed to
draft resolutions of respect to Colonel John J. Jones be adopted.
Colonel Coleman, chairman of the committee appointed at the
last annual meeting, to report a design of seal and certificate
of membership of the Society, reported that it had been impos
sible to get a meeting or conference of the committee, and that
nothing had been done ; and, on his own motion.
Resolved, That the committee appointed to report a design
for seal and certificate of membership be discharged.
On motion of General Potts,
Resolved, That Generals Force, Hickenlooper, and Yorke be
authorized as a commitlee to report to the Society a design for
seal and certificate of membership.
General Sanborn moved that, before the resolution should be
put to vote, it be amended so as to read, " That the committee be
authorized to adopt a design for seal ancl certificate of member
ship for the Society."
General Potts accepted the amendment, and the resolution, so
amended, was adopted.
General Grier, chairman of the committee appointed to select
the place for the next annual meeting of the Society, reported
that the committee had not reached any conclusion, and desired
an extension of time for considering the matter, and that the
coinmittee might confer with resident officers of different cities
in which it would be desirable to hold the meeting.
On motion.
Resolved, That the report of the committee appointed to
select the locality for holding the next annual meeting be
accepted, and the committee is granted further time, according
to the necessities of the faithful performance of their duties in
making such selection ; and, when made, will report the same
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The committee appointed to report a design for a Society
badge was called on for a report.
The chairman of the committee. Colonel Joel, not beino-
present, and not having made any report. Colonel Dayton, next
in order of the committee, stated, that so far as he knew, the
committee had never been called together for deliberation, and
he had been unable to learn that any thing had been done, and
presumed there had not ; and, therefore, asked, by reason of there
being no probability that the committtee appointed would do
any thing, that the committee be discharged.
By resolution of the Society the committee was discharged.
On motion of General Dodge,
Resolved, That Generals Force, Hickenlooper, and Yorke,
tbe committee appointed to select and adopt a device for seal
and certificate of membership, shall constitute a committee to
adopt and report a device for badge of the Society, and are
instructed to incorporate in such device a representation of the
corps badge of each corps that served in the Army of the
Tennessee. •
General Hickenlooper, upon behalf of the McPherson Monu
ment Committee, was granted leave to read and file his report
of transactions for the past year, as follows :
Chicago, December 15, i86S.
General John A. Rawlins,
President Society of ihe Army of the Tennessee :
Sir; — On behalf of the Coraraittee on McPherson Monument, I have
the honor to subrait for the inforraation of the Society the following
report :
The balance remaining in ray hands November 14, 1867, as
per report subraitted at our last annual meeting $3,121 11
Amount reported to General Leggett, i>934 3^
Amount reported by McPherson Monument Association, of
Clyde, Ohio, exclusive of $3,000 expended for grounds and
improveraents, - 2,000 00
Total reported on hand November 14, 1867, - $7>oSS 43

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Since that date I have received the following subscriptions :
November i8, 1867, Lieut. Charles E. Griffin, - $25 25
Noveraber 21, 1867, Dr. S. P. Bonner - 5 00
January 6, 1S68, Captain J. S. Foster, - - S 00
January 18, 1868, Francis Skiddy, - 1,000 00
January 20, 1868, Colonel T. Reynolds, - 56 00
January 28, 1S68, General W. E. Strong, - - 300 00
March 9, 1868, Colonel L. M. Dayton, - - 100 00
June 27, 1868, Colonel Jaraes Peckham, 35 00
September 23, 1868, Colonel E. F. Winslow, - 18 00
December 12, 1S68, Captain John Ried, - 33 00
Received from Interest account, - - 276 74 — $1,853 99
$8,909 42
There having been no expenditures from this fund during
the year, leaves balance in my hand at this time, of - $4,975 10
I have received no inforraation either frora General Leg
gett, or the McPherson Monuraent Association, at Clyde,
Ohio, which will enable me to give any definite information
in regard to the funds in their hands. Supposing it has
increased by accumulating interest only, (six per cent), it will
amount to not less than, in the hands of General Leggett, - 2,060 04
And in the hands of McPherson Monument Association, of
Clyde, Ohio, - ... 2,130 00
? Making the aggregate of - - - - - $9,165 14
At our last meeting considerable enthusiasm was manifested by our
members upon the subject of raising a sufficient sum to enable the com
mittee to proceed with the erection of the monument. Various sums
were pledged, and subscription blanks were given to twenty-two persons
making such pledges, but only three of thera have reported collections,
viz. : General W. E. Strong, Colonel Thoraas Reynolds, and Colonel L.
M. Dayton.
In reply to my letters requesting information as to progress made in
this matter, five of those persons answer, assigning various reasons for
having neglected to carry out the good intentions expressed at St. Louis;
the remainder are unheard from.
In conclusion, I can not too earnestly urge upon you the necessity of
further and more energetic exertion, and remind you that we, as a
Society, have pledged ourselves to the erection of this monuraent.
As the Army of the Tennessee has never yet failed in any thing it has
vindertaken, let us not do so in this, but put forth renewed efforts, and
the result will add one raore to the raa»iy achleveraents which we are
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At the conclusion of reading the report of General Hicken
looper, he desired General Logan to express his views in regard
to this subject, which he did, in the most interesting and feeling
manner, eliciting the commendation of the members present.
The mention of McPherson's name, and that the Society pro
posed to assist in the erection of a monument over his grave, was
sufficient to claim the earnest attention of all. Colonel McMil
lan also made some remarks, approving the efforts of the Society,
and thought if a committee were appointed to solicit subscrip
tions in New York City, money might be obtained there.
On motion of General Hickenlooper,
Resolved, That Colonel Charles R. McMillan, Colonel S. M.
Bowman, and Colonel G. G. Pride, be appointed a special
committee to solicit subscriptions in the city of New York, on
behalf of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, in aid
of the McPherson Monument Association.
On motion of General Noyes,
Resolved, That the most earnest thanks of the Society of
the Army of the Tennessee are accorded to Mr. Francis Skiddy,
of New York, for his liberal contribution of one thousand dol
lars in aid of the McPherson Monument fund.
At this point Lieutenant-General Sherman entered the hall,
and was received, on presentation, with many cheers and raptur
ous applause. Learning what the point of business was that
the Society was discussing, he stated that he had something
referring to it, and which he would at once engage in, if in
order. Specially stating to the reporters present, that he had to speak
of private affairs of General McPherson and a young lady to
whora he was engaged to be married, when killed, he requested
the reporters to omit this subject in their report, he said :
Fellow-soldiers; — I understand that the subject now com
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You recollect that at the time McPherson was killed, he was
engaged to a young lady whom he met at the house of Mr. Louis
McLean. It was my good fortune to become acquainted with
Mr. McLean, in California, in 1S46, and we both remained in
that country until we became the respective heads of banking
houses. Mr. McLean was a good Union man. The lady was
very accomplished, and now considered herself the widow
of McPherson, and was generally so recognized by Mr. McLean,
with whom she lived in California. The other da}', at St. Louis,
I was called upon by Mr. McLean, who had come there on
a visit, and, during the course of our conversation, he told me
that he had collected four thousand three hundred and fifty
dollars ($4,350) in California, as contribution to the McPherson
Monument fund, but that his widow wished that the monument
should be erected at West Point. Nevertheless, that if I could
procure her consent, the amount should be forwarded for the
Clyde Monument. I immediately wrote the young lady a long
letter, in which I stated the claims that Clyde, where the hero was
born, had in the premises, and I have since received her consent
that the money collected by Mr. McLean shall go toward the
monument now erecting over the grave of McPherson. Mr.
McLean has signified this fact to me in a telegram which I
received on Saturday last, and will now read to you :
New York, December 8, 1868.
General W. T. Sherman,
St. Louis, Missouri :
You can rely on the California subscription in my hands for monu
ment to General J. B. McPherson, amounting to some four thousand
three hundred and fifty dollars ($4,350.) Louis McLean.
I now pledge to your Association, for the use as named, that
sum of money, and in doing so I will suggest that the selection
of the monument, and its erection, be accomplished as speedily

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as possible. I need not tell you of McPherson's claims upon
us, or how much I honored him, and appreciated his nobleness as
a gentleman, a soldier, and your commander, but I do think if a
modest memorial is erected over his grave now, with the money
we have, it will do him more honor than if we defer until
years hence and erect one inore costly.
General Sherman desired further to say a few words in
connection with letters he had, though not regarding the matter
under immediate consideration, he asked it as a privilege,
because he had some engagements that would prevent his
remaining during the regular course of business. He spoke
of the lamented General Ransom in the strongest terms of
approbation as a soldier and gentleman, and also read a letter
from a Mr. Bridgeman, of New York, in which he hopes
the matter of erecting a monument to General Ransom will
be looked to at this meeting. He submitted the letters for
consideration of the Society, and asked its members to do
what they could in furtherance of the object. The letter reads :
New York, December 12, 1868.
Lieutenant-General Sherman :
Dear Sir; — The remains of ray friend. General Ransom, who died
at Rome, Georgia, more than four years ago, were taken to Chicago,
for interment, hy his request. The city that he loved, honored him
as one so gaUant should be honored at his burial, but, if I raistake not,
there is not a stone to mark the spot where he sleeps, and no movement on
foot to place one there. It has occurred to me that some word might be
said by some of the speakers at the reunion next week, that would incite
to action the generous people of Chicago, who are going ahead so fast
that they forget the past, and need to have their memory jogged. Cer
tainly that city should build a monument to one so brave and noble, who
has laid down his life in their service.
I am sure you will sympathize with what I have written. I hope you
will excuse the liberty a stranger takes. I will only add, I am a friend of
Mr. Healy, the artist. Very respectfully,
W. H. Bridgeman.

272 Army Reunion.
General Sherman here spoke of Admiral Farragut, and Vice-
Admiral D. D. Porter, presenting letters from them explaining
why they could not accept his invitations and attend this reunion.
Admiral Porter was at one time in command of the Mississippi
Squadron, and worked in perfect harmon}' with the commanders
of the Army of the Tennessee. His letter was wholly private,
and but few extracts could be read from it ; these, however,
elicited much applause from the hearers.
Admiral Farragut's letter was read in full, as follows :
Dear General; — Your very kind letter of the 2nd inst., inviting me
to join your reunion of the Western armies, at their regular annual
meeting, has just been received. To be present upon such an occasion,
for the most excellent purpose of keeping alive and cementing raore
strongly the bonds of friendship forraed in trials of fire and blood, and,
in fact, every hardship incident to a war of the most desperate character
that ever afflicted a nation, and through which their gallant leaders
conducted them with such unparalleled success, from the raountains of
the West to the ocean beach on the East, would, I can assure you, give
me the greatest possible gratification, if it was only to experience the
pleasure of hearing the soldiers of that grand army fight their many
battles over again, and raake their criticisms on the acts of their com
rades, whilst I could — in my time I could — occasionally tell them how
these aff'airs were looked upon by the different nations of Europe; how
they had, by their deeds, astonished and aroused the admiration of the
most distinguished military men throughout the countries I have so
recently visited; but I regret that it will not be in my power to visit the
West this winter. I beg you to believe me, however, when I say that I
fully appreciate your desire to receive me with yards manned, and
the kind expressions of friendship, which, I can assure you, I cordially
reciprocate. I sincerely hope I may have the pleasure of meeting you
during next spring, but ray tirae is so rauch occupied at present that lam
not able to make any engagements ahead.
I ara, General, very sincerely yours,
D. G. Farragut.
Lieutenant-General Sherman,
United States Army.
New York, December 8, x858.
General Sherman now made one more appeal to the members
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McPherson, giving it as his opinion that we should secure all
subscriptions, and complete the whole, during the coming year.
He was now done, and. kindly thanking his listeners for the
patience with which they heard him, he withdrew, the members
giving him rapturous applause and three cheers.
Resuming the business under consideration, General Hicken
looper, on behalf ofthe committee, explained at some length, the
impracticability of fixing upon any particular date upon which
to close the subscriptions. As the monument is to be erected not
alone for the present, but for future generations, the committee do
not deem it advisable to be too hasty in concluding a long and
laborious task. Their past efforts must be taken as an earnest of
what will be done in the future ; while there is no doubt that the
subscriptions pledged will be promptly paid, the committee could
not consent to go on and contract for the monument until the
money necessary to pay for it is actually in their possession,
or under their iminediate control. The fund is steadily increas
ing, and in the opinion of the committee, it would be better
to wait until the desired sum, fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000),
can be obtained, rather than erect a monument with the compar
atively small sum now on hand. As soon as the California fund,
and the Clyde Association subscriptions are paid in, the commit
tees will be in a condition to act ; but even then ample time must
be given them to advertise for plans, make their selection, and
contract for the work. After which, he reported the subscrip
tions received during the present meeting, as follows :
Colonel Ad. Sanders, - - $5 oo
Major 0. D. Kinsraan, - 5 oo
Colonel F. H. Madenburg, - - - - lo oo
General J. B. Sanborn, 25 00
Captain L. F. Ross, ... 10 00
General H. T. Reid ... 100 00
Captain A. Barto, - - - 5 00
General G. M. Dodge, - - - - 50 00
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Surgeon Plumraer, $r oo
Lieutenant Francis Rutger, ^ oo
Captain Ed. Spear, 25 00
Colonel John H. Howe, ^ 00
Surgeon A. E. Heighway, 10 00
^asn, 2 00
General W. E. Strong, ^o 00
Captain E. W. Lucas, c 00
Colonel L. H. Whittlesey, ^ 00
General C. E. Lippencot, 5 00
Colonel H. Scofield, 5 00
General E. F. Noyes, 10 00
General J. W. Sprague, 10 00
Colonel John P. Hall, 5 00
Major-General John A. Logan, 550 00
Colonel S. A. Stockdale, 20 00
Colonel John Logan, c,o 00
Colonel Richard Rowett, 10 00
General Giles A. Smith, 50 00
General L. E. Yorke, 25 00
Colonel A. Sabine, 50 00
And his statement was greeted with cheers.
On motion of Colonel Dayton,
Resolved, That the thanks of the Society are hereby accorded
to Mr. Louis McLean, formerly of San Francisco, now of Balti
more, for the assistance he has given us through aiding Lieuten
ant-General Sherman in securing the California subscription, to
be used by our Society, with its association fund, to place the
McPherson Monument over his remains, at Cl}'de, Ohio.
On motion of General Smith,
Resolved, That the report of the committee on McPherson
Monument, as given by General Hickenlooper, be accepted.
The proceedings of the Society were again interrupted by
the arrival of Major-General George H. Thomas, U.S.A., and
President of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, who
was greeted in a most kindly manner by rounds of cheers. It
seemed to be a very gratifying incident to our Society to be
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during long campaigns, so ably co-operated with their own efforts
in the one common object. General Logan formally presented
him to the Society, when he said :
Soldiers ; — As I belonged to the Army of the Tennessee for
a short time, I hope you will permit me to make a few remarks.
I am gratified to be so courteously received. Now, at the present
time, there is a very interesting meeting ofthe Army ofthe Cum
berland, to which I especially belong, and I must be there to
keep them in order.
Three cheers were proposed for General Thomas, and given
with a will.
The subject of a monument for General Ransom was then
brought up by General Dodge, who urged the matter, and
expressed the hope that some definite action would be taken.
General Wallace referred to the letter of Mr. Bridgeman, that
had been read to the Society, and said that the remains of
General Ransom are now deposited in Rose Hill Cemetery, the
point selected for them, and that an association of the friends of
General Ransom, and citizens of Chicago, were endeavoring to
erect a monument to his memory, and desired the assistance of
the Society.
On motion of General Dodge,
Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to confer
with the citizen association of Chicago intending to erect a mon
uraent commemorating General T. E. G. Ransom ; said com
mittee to be Generals W. E. Strong, F. A. Starring, Ezra
Taylor, Joseph Stockton, and Colonel L. H. Whittlesey.
On motion of General Giles A. Smith,
Resolved, That the thanks of the Society are accorded as
follows : To the local committees who have had in charge the
arrangement of this reunion, for their untiring exertions, judg
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276 Army Reunion.
and pleasure of this meeting. To the Glee Club that has done
so much to enliven the occasion by their excellent singing. To
the various railway companies who have carried our members to
and from this meeting at reduced rates. To the citizens of this
city, ladies and gentlemen, for their uniform kindness and
courtesy, and their personal presence, on appropriate occasions,
to encourage and add to the interest of our meetings.
On motion of General Wallace,
Resolved, That the thanks of the Society be conveyed to
General Giles A. Smith, for the able, gentlemanly and devoted
manner in which he has presided at this meeting while a Vice-
President of the Society.
On motion.
Resolved, That the thanks of the Society are tendered " The
Chicago Board of Trade " for the great respect and deference
that has been shown by it toward those gathered here to partici
pate in this reunion, in giving the free use of their unequaled
trade room to hold our banquet in, and for adjourning their
regular trade session this day, that the room might be prepared
for us, and that this recognition of the same be communicated in
writing. On motion of General M. R. M. Wallace, it was
Resolved, That the thanks of the Society be tendered our dis
tinguished comrade. General W. W. Belknap, for his able and
eloquent address, delivered at the Reunion of the Societies of the
Armies of the Tennessee, Cumberland, Georgia and Ohio, at
Crosby's Opera House, last evening, in behalf of this Society,
and that the Corresponding Secretary be instructed to notify him
in writing.
General Grant visited the Society at this time, escorted by the
committee selected for that purpose. His entrance to the hall
was the signal, and was followed by the most emphatic enthu
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arose and stood to receive their old and first commander, under
whose guidance they had won so many victories, and preserved
the nation to peace. In introducing him the President said :
Gentlemen; — I have the pleasure of presenting to you the
President elect, who has proved his faith by his works.
He was received with long and loud cheers, and in response
said : '
Gentlemen of the Army of the Tennessee; — My first
associations in the beginning of the rebellion through which we
have so happily passed, were with you. I am heartily glad to be
with you and with the other officers of the armies who fought so
gallantly with you. I thank you heartily for this reception, and
the country thanks you for your deeds. I am now suffering from
one of those neuralgic headaches with which I am periodically
afflicted, and which prevents me, even were I so inclined, from
saying any thing further on this occasion.
On motion of General Force,
Resolved, That it is the opinion of the members present, that
officers who served in such parts of the Army of the Mississippi
prior to its being consolidated with the Army of the Tennessee,
but who were compelled to abandon the service by reason of
wounds or disabling sickness, are entitled to membership in this
Society. In the mean time. Generals Schofield and Cox, and Governors
Oglesby and Marshall had arrived to visit the Society. In
response to loud calls. General Schofield was presented and
received with repeated cheers. He made a few remarks, devoted
principally to a description of the joint movements of the grand
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278 Artny Reunion.
other parts in the battles of Franklin and Nashville. At the
conclusion, cheers were again given him.
General Sherman was loudly called on for a speech, and in
response said :
Gentlemen; — I have spoken to you ah-eady, and I will prob
ably be engaged for eight hours to-night presiding at the banquet.
I have manifested, and always will manifest, a spirit of submis
sion to the desires of my old armj' comrades, and will do so now.
I wish, however, to preserve my voice and keep it as clear as
possible for use this evening. For these reasons, I hope you will
excuse me from making further remarks at present.
Governor Oglesby was called for, and on being introduced by
the President said : That he was a living specimen of the grati-
itude of the people to the soldiers. It was because he was a
soldier that the people of the great State of Illinois had made
him Governor. He was but a new member of the Society, but
was glad to meet his associates. They came here for pleasant
talk and associations. He thanked God that all political excite
ment was banished from the reunion, and no political talk was
attempted to be indulged in. This was a reunion of good and
patriotic men, who met to talk of past misfortunes, and of a
future bright with promise. The people feel proud of the
soldiers, and the soldiers of the people. From their distin
guished Commander-in-Chief to the lowest in the ranks, all were
worthy of honor. This State was fortunate, far more fortunate
than her sister States, in being the scene of this gathering. The
officers must feel they have received gratitude enough. Grant,
Sherman, Schofield, Pope and Logan were sufficiently compli
mented by the generous expressions of delight received from the
people. [Turning to General Sherman :] Noble, good man,
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all honor to you. He was not much of a soldier himself. He
served one year, and was wounded at the battle of Corinth, and
believed it was that wound that gave him his commission as
Major-General of Volunteers, and the governorship of this great
State. He received a mortal wound, but did not die. With his
brother Governors, Cox, Fletcher and Marshall, he was assigned
his duty, and would receive his rations at the banquet to-night.
The war did one good thing, as it would give them a grand,
good, fat supper. Generals Grant, Sherman, Thomas, and the
balance ofthem, would be at the upper end ofthe tables, and the
Governors take the butt end. He hoped to ineet them all at
seven o'clock, or before, hungry as bears, with empty knapsacks,
empty haversacks, and empty stomachs.
Governor Fletcher of Missouri responded to calls, saying that
he was proud of having been a member of the Army of the
Tennessee. Though he had left the army before the close of the
rebellion, it was only to assume the position of Governor of his
State, to which he had been called, and where he had performed
duty in the same cause that others had in the field.
General J. D. Cox and Governor Marshall were called upon
for speeches, but both declined upon the ground that they did not
wish to occupy the time of the Society that should be used in
doing business.
The regular proceedings of current business being again
resumed, on motion of Lieutenant-Colonel Dayton,
Resolved, That the sincere regrets of the Society are hereby
expressed at the absence from this reunion of our worth}', accom
plished, and much-esteemed President, Brevet Major-General
John A. Rawlins, and that this resolution be communicated to
him in writing by the Secretary.
On motion of Colonel Pride,
Resolved, That the Secretary and Corresponding Secretary act
as a committee to publish the proceedings of this meeting for the

28o Artny Reunion.
members of the Society, one thousand copies to be printed and
by them distributed.
On motion of Colonel Pride,
Resolved, That the thanks of the Society are accorded Colonel
Dayton, the Recording Secretary, General Hickenlooper, the
Corresponding Secretary, and General Force, the Treasurer, for
the able manner in which they have performed the duties of their
offices. The Secretary informed the President that, under the present
head of business, he had a communication from the Society of
the Army of the OhiD, which should be acted upon before
the Society adjourned. He was directed to read the comraunica
tion referred to, which is as follows :
Army Reunion, Rooms Army of the Ohio, 1
December 15, lS5S. i
Sir ; — I have the honor to transmit, herewith, copies of reso
lutions this d.ay passed by tlie Society ofthe Army ofthe Ohio.
I am, with much respect.
Your obedient servant,
Julius White,
Secretary of the Army of the Ohio.
To Secretary of Society Artny of the Tennessee.
The resolutions were, as transmitted, as follows :
Resolved, That a committee, to consist of the President and
the Vice-Presidents of this Society, present in Chicago, be
appointed to confer with the Societies of the Cumberland, the
Tennessee, and the Georgia, relative to a union or consolidation
of the whole into one Society.
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to confer with the
several Societies of the Western Armies, relative to the tirae and
place for holding the next joint reunion.

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Colonel Hartsuff", Colonel Graves, and Colonel Wheeler
appointed as such committee.
On modon of General Leggett,
Resolved, That a committee of three, consisting of Generals
Leggett, Force and Hickenlooper, be appointed to confer with
any committees of other Army Societies relative to a consolida
tion of the various Societies of the Armies of the West into one
Society ; also in regard to the time and place where these Socie
ties shall hold their next joint reunion ; but that said committee
is Instructed to inform such other committees with whom they
may confer, that this Society is opposed to any consolidation.
The President now announced that there was no more business
to claim further attention from the Society, but that it was ready
for the usual form of adjournment. He, however, hoped that
when they separated they would do so as they met, with the best
feeling toward one another. They were now citizens who once
were soldiers. Much they have done has gone to adorn history,
but there is much they can do to make as bright a record in the
future. He then dwelt feelingly and eloquently on the fallen
brave, urging his hearers never to forget the widows and the
orphans of their dead comrades. The nation can pay its debt,
but there is one debt it can never pay — the debt of gratitude it
owes to the men who fell in her behalf. They should never be
forgotten, but they and their children should be held in fond
remembrance, and willing hands be extended to aid and relieve
the widows and orphans.
Music— ">S^ar Spangled Banner"
On motion,
Resolvcif, That the Society now stand adjourned.
L. M. Dayton,
Recording Secretary.

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The following telegram was received after the Society had
adjourned, and is here given to show the interest manifested in
the Society by our President : Danbury, Ct., December 16, i868.
General A. Hickenlooper,
Cor. Sec'y Society of the Army of the Tennessee :
Please say to those of the Army of the Tennessee, and of its
comrade armies, that while my health is such as to prevent my
being with them, I congratulate them upon their grand reunion,
and hope their happiness may be as great as the names present
make the occasion distinguished.
Jno. a. Rawlins,
President Society Army of the Tennessee.

IN MEMORIAM.

Death of General Cassius Fairchild.

It is with feelings of deep regret we announce the death of General
Cassius Fairchild, one of our Vice-Presidents, and United States Marshal
of Wisconsin, which took place at the residence of his father-in-law,
Robert Haney, at seven o'clock A.M., October 24, 186S, after a lingering
illness, resulting frora a wound received in defence of the flag of his
country. General Fairchild was born on the i6th of Deceraber, 1829, at Franklin
Mills (now Earlville), Portage County, Ohio. He was a brother of
General Lucius Fairchild, Governor of Wisconsin, and Charies Fairchild
of Boston, a son of Hon. Jairus C. Fairchild, first Treasurer of the State
of Wisconsin, first Mayor of the city of Madison, and a gentleman of
fine ability, high character and great prominence in the eariy history of
the State. Cassius came to Milwaukee in the year 1S43, with his uncle,
Mr. F. J. Blair. Soon after, his parents moved to the same place,
and resided there till the spring of 184S, when they reraoved to Madison.
He was Deputy Treasurer under his father, and was connected with him,
for years, in the mercantile business in that city. He was, for several
terms, an Alderman, and for one year President ofthe Common Council.
In 1859 '""^ ^^^ "^^ Democratic candidate for the Legislature, and was
elected by a considerable majority.
Cassius Fairchild was appoinled Major of the sixteenth Regiment of
Infantry, during the late war, promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel on the
loth of October, i85i, and raade Colonel of his regiment on the 17th of
March, 1864. In the battle of Shiloh, while in comraand of a line of skir
mishers, he was seriously wounded in the hip; but, as soon as his wound
would permit, was with his regiment, and remained with it until the end
ofthe war, doing gallant service for the flag he loved so well. When the
war closed, he was remembered among the deserving and gallant men,
and breveted Brigadier-General.
In 1866, General Fairchild was appointed United States Marshal for
the District of Wisconsin, and reraoved from Madison to Milwaukee. It
was believed that he had nearly, if not quite, recovered frora the effects
of his wound; but some months ago a slight injury again developed it,
and in a few days brought him to his bed, from which he has never risen.
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recovery; but these hopes have been dissipated, and on the morning of
the 24th of October, he sank gently to rest forever.
There are few men whose death could create more painful feelings in
the rainds of the coraraunity than that of General Fairchild. As a gal
lant officer, as a high-rainded and conscientious official, and as a noble-
hearted social friend, he was universally known and respected, and his
death will be sincerely mourned by all.
There is — -connected with the death of General Fairchild — a touching
incident. When stricken down upon his bed of sickness, he was engaged
to a young lady of Milwaukee, and the day for the raarriage was set.
When the day arrived, he who expected to be a bridegroora was pros
trate, and the soleran faces of physicians told, in plain words, that there
was little hope for his recovery ; that death had put forth a stronger
claira than the altar; but in this chamber of death, the two hearts which
had loved so tenderly, and had looked forward to so much of happiness
on earth, were united. It was not the happy bridal scene which had
been hoped for, and there were tears instead of smiles, but the hearts
which had loved so well, were united. Now death has put forth its claim,
and the household is left with a vacant chair, and with sad and aching
hearts. The funeral services took place at St. Paul's Church, Milwaukee, Tues
day morning, October 27, 1868. The remains were taken to Madison by
the morning train, the St. Paul Railroad Company having provided a.
special car for the funeral party. A nuraber of citizens accorapanied the
funeral frora there. A large crowd was in waiting at the depot, and a
procession of a mile of carriages followed the hearse — to which the Mil
waukee Light Guard acted as a guard of honor — to Forest Hill Cerae
tery. There the body was laid, beside his father and raother, to its last
repose, with the beautiful and impressive service ofthe Episcopal Church,
performed by Rev. Mr. Spalding, of Grace Church, and Rev. Mr. Ashley,
of St. Paul's Church, Milwaukee. The burial casket was covered with
many beautiful floral offerings, in emblematic designs.

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ROCEEDINGS of the /\NNUAL iViEETING

Annual Mee-

SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE
OHIO,
HELD AT CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,
December 15TH, 1868.

ARMY OF THE OHIO.

At a meeting of officers of the Army of the Ohio, held at the
Briggs House, in Chicago, on the 15th day of December, 1868,
on motion. General J. D. Cox was elected temporary chairman,
and Julius White, Secretary, pro tem.
On motion of General Stiles, books were opened for registra
tion of names of those who desire to become inembers of the
proposed Society of the Army of the Ohio.
General J. H. Ledlie moved that a committee of three be
appointed to draft a Constitution and By-Laws. Motion carried ;
and General J. H. Ledlie, General R. W. Smith, and Colonel
W. M. When-}' were appointed such committee.
On motion of General R. W. Smith, the following commit
tee were appointed to report names for officers of the permanent
organization :
General R. W. Smith, Colonel H. Capron, General Casement,
General T. J. Henderson, and Colonel G. W. Schofield.
On motion, the meeting adjourned to meet December i6th, at
Caledonian Hall, at nine oclock, A.M. December 16, 186S.
Meeting convened at the hour designated, General J. D.
Cox, President, pro tetn., in the chair.
On motion it was resolved to proceed to the organization
of the Society of the Army of the Ohio.
General Robert W. Smith, on behalf of the members resident
in Chicago, delivered an address of welcome.

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address of welcome, by general r. w. smith.
My Fellow-comrades of the Army of the Ohio : We
have assembled here to-day in obedience to the command of the
distinguished leader of the armies of the West, Lieutenant-
General Sherman. We have come from the East, and from the
West, from the North, and from the South ; we have come from
the office, and from the farm, from the exchange, and the marts
of merchandise : thrown aside our briefs and Blackslones, left our
offices of state, and our seats in the halls of legislation. We
have left behind us the cares and duties of the hour, and
assembled here on a common level, for a common purpose — the
reunion of our army.
When we all last met, the scenes and circumstances then sur
rounding us were very diflierent from what we witness now.
Our meeting then was in the camp, and on the field, beset with
threatening danger, in the face of a hostile and determined foe,
far from pleasure, friends and home. We met then in the midst
of war.
We meet now in peace, not to plan campaigns, or mingle in
the bitter strife, but to join joyfully in this grand reunion, and
welcome each other with a soldier's greeting. It is well that we
thus come together to review the past, and to be enlivened by
the inspiration which this occasion will furnish.
In all ages of the world, associations of men, who have been
engaged in the prosecution of great enterprises, when their
labors have been well done, have met together to congratulate
each other upon their achievements, and to join in mutual pleas
ures. Families often, after long and wide separations, meet at
stated intervals to renew the scenes of long ago, and to repeat
the stories of distant years.
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how much the more should the sunny comrades of a long and
terrible war, whose friendships are those begotten amid danger,
whose attachments were formed and strengthened by mutual
privations and mutual perils, when their work has been accom
plished, their duty done, and history proclaims it well done,
come together to look back upon their victories and their
triumphs, and renew their vows of friendship and fidelity for the
future ! As soldiers of a common cause, we owe this to our
selves, and to each other. We owe it to the patriotism of
the heroic dead, that we may pay just tribute to their memory.
We owe it to the widowed and orphaned living, that we may
assure them of our sympathy, and give them kind promise of our
remembrance and our aid. We owe it to our country, that
while we remember her struggles and her perils, we can recount
her victories, admire her greatness and power, and kindle anew
our devotion to her flag.
We say, then, comrades of the Army of the Ohio, welcome !
But, while we most cordially bid you welcome, we are but too
sadly reminded that your thoughts, and ours, are not all joyous.
Memory true to herself and to us, brings to this scene recollections
of sadness. All are not here. Many brave and true, who went
forth when their country and duty called, -who went as hopeful
and willing as we, as gallant and brave as any, are not here to
join with us in the pleasures and greetings of this pleasant
gathering. " The brave have gone to rest.
The brothers of combats on the breast
Of the red field they reaped."
Their lips are silent, and no friendly word of cheer will be
heard from them to-day.
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" On fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread.
And glory guards with solemn sound
The bivouac of the dead."

They died that their country and liberty might live. And,
though no towering shaft or storied urn marks well their last
resting-place, a grateful republic, in sacredness, will cherish
their meinory, and the nation's fame and greatness will be their
monument. May the remembrance of their heroism, and their
willing sacrifice of life to duty, enlarge and hallow the patriotism
of the living. But we leave them in silence and in sadness, to
welcome you, their survivors, to the reunion.
We welcome you to Chicago — that sent forth thousands of
her sons to battle for their country and for freedom ; whose
earnest, loyal -women followed the soldier to the camp, and
to the field, with their blessings and their prayers ; and who gave
so largely of their labor and their means to provide for his wants
and relieve his sufferings.
We welcome you to our courtesies, and our hospitalities ; to
our homes and our hearts. In the name and behalf of your
fellow-comrades of Chicago, we say again to the officers of the
gallant Army of Ohio, welcome, comrades, thrice welcome.
The Committee on Permanent Organization reported the fol
lowing nominations : President :
General J. M. Schofield.
Vice-Presidents :
General A. E. Burnside, of Rhode Island ;
General A. H. Terry, of Connecticut ;
General George Stoneman, of New York ;
General J. D. Cox, of Ohio ;

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General M. S. Hascall, of Indiana ;
General T.J. Henderson, of Illinois ;
General George L. Hartsuff", of Michigan ;
General T. H. Ruger, of Wisconsin ;
General Thomas, of Minnesota ;
Colonel W. E. Hobson, of Kentucky ;
Colonel Stewart, of New Jersey.
Recording Secretary:
General Julius White, of Illinois.
Corresponding Secretary :
Colonel J. A. Campbell, D. C.
Treasurer :
Colonel W. W. Wheeler, of Illinois.
The report was accepted, and the election declared to be
unanimous. General Schofield, on taking the chair, said :
Fellow-soldiers: — I take great pleasure in meeting you in
this reunion. In your name, I extend to the local committee
of Chicago, our heartfelt thanks for the abundant preparations
they have made to make our stay here as pleasant as possible.
The Committee on Constitution and Bj^-Laws reported the fol
lowing, which were adopted :
CONSTITUTION.
AR-nCLE I.
This Society shall be called and known as "The Society of the
Army of the Ohio," and shall erabrace all such officers and soldiers as
have at any tirae served in this army, and who have been honorably dis
charged from such service; or who remain in service in the regular

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army — who shall have subscribed to the Constitution and By-Laws of
the Society, and paid their initiation fee.
Honorary merabers raay from time to time be elected from among the
officers of other armies of the United States w-ho have served with dis
tinction in their armies. article 11.
The object of the association shall be to preserve and perpetuate the
history of the Array of the Ohio; to preserve and unite those patriotic
sentiments, and to raaintain and strengthen that courteous and friendly
intercourse for which the members of this army have alw.ays been distin
guished. To preserve the narae and fame of the members of this army
w-ho have fallen in the field, or otherwise perished in the service of their
country, shall be one of the sacred duties of this association, and no
efforts shall be spared to collect and preserve, in the archives of the
Society, the testimonials of their deeds and services.
This Society tenders to the widows and orphans of our fallen comrades
its warmest sympathy, and sacredly pledges itself to provide for the wants
and relieve the sufferings of all such as are destitute, by the voluntary
contributions of the members, or in such other way as may from time to
time be determined. It further pledges itself to use all proper eftbrt, and
procure for all such disabled soldiers and their families as are entitled
thereto, the pensions now provided by law. The welfare of the soldier's
widow, the good narae and education of his children, shall always be
regarded as a sacred trust of the association.
article III.
The officers of this Society shall consist of a President, and one Vice-
President frora each State that furnished troops for the " Army of the
Ohio," a Corresponding Secretary, and Recording Secretary and Treas
urer. The Vice-President of each State shall be selected by the inembers
residing in such State. The foregoing officers shall be elected at the
regular meeting of this Society, and the vote ofthe majority of the mem
bers present shall elect. article IV.
The meetings of the Society shall be held annually, at such time and
place as a majority of the members present at any regular meeting may
determine by ballot. All members of the Socif-ty shall use their best
endeavors to promote the interests of the association, and maintain kind
feelings and unanimity araong the raerabers. The raerabers are expected
to attend all regular raeetings of the Society, and in case of their inability
to do so, will report to the Corresponding Secretary the cause of their
absence.

By-Laivs. 293

article v.
This constitution m.ay be altered or amended at any regular raeeting of
the Society, provided the alteration or araendment proposed is submitted
in writing, or filed with the Recording Secretary at least one month'
before the regular meeting at which it is proposed to present the same ;
and provided, further, that two-thirds of the members be present at such
meeting.

BY-LAWS,

article I.
The regular meetings ofthe Society shall be opened by prayer by some
suitable person, to be selected by the presiding officer.
article ii.
All officers and_ soldiers who have served in the Array of the Ohio, and
have been honorably discharged from service, or may now be in the reg
ular service, are entitled to membership, and upon signing the Constitu
tion and By-Laws ofthe Society, and paying an initiation fee of $5, shall
be entitled to full membership. article hi.
The regular dues of members shall be $5 per year for officers, and $3
per year, for enlisted men, and shall be paid annually. Any member
permitting his dues to reraain unpaid for a period of over two years shall
be dismissed frora raerabership, and can only be restored by the payment
of all back dues and a vote of two-thirds the members present at a regular
meeting. article IV.
All dues shall be paid to the Recording Secretary, and no moneys shall
be expended by the Treasurer except upon the written order of the
Recording Secretary, countersigned h}' the President; and at each annual
meeting of this Society the Treasurer shall report in detail the amount of
money received, and the disbursements made.
ARTICLE V.
When the place of holding the next annual meeting of the Society
shall be determined, the President shall appoint an Executive Committee
of five members, whose duty it shall be to make all necessary preparations
and arrangements for such raeeting, but who shall not be authorized, by
virtue of such appointment, to contract any debts for which the Society
shall be held liable.

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ARTICLE VI.
No raeraber of the Society shall speak more than once on any question
of business under discussion by the Society, and no longer than five
-minutes, without the consent of the Society.
ARTICLE VII.
At each annual meeting there shall be selected, in such manner as the
-Society shall determine, two persons from the members thereof — one to
deliver an address of welcome, and the other an oration upon the history
of the Army of the Ohio, and the objects of this association, at the next
annual meeting. ARTICLE VIII.
These by-laws raay be altered, amended, or additions made thereto, at
any regular meeting of the Society, by a vote of two-thirds the members
.present. ARTICLE IX.
This Society, at its meetings, shall, in the discussion of matters brought
before it, observe the rules governing deliberative bodies.
General Stiles inoved that a committee, consisting ofthe Chair
man, Vice-Presidents, and other officers, be appointed to confer
with the Army of the Cumberland, and the other armies, with
reference to consolidation. The motion prevailed.
General Schofield called General Cox to the chair, and spoke
as follows :
It has so happened, during the progress of the war, that we
have fallen under the command of distinguished generals, who,
on account of their positions, have not become members of our
organization. I now propose to invite them to become honorary
H-nembers of our Society. For that purpose, I move that Generals
Grant, Sherman and Thomas, and the stalT officers who served
•under them during the war when in the Army of the Ohio, be
elected honorary inembers of our Society.
The motion was carried amid great applause.
On motion of General M. D. Manson, General D. C. Buell
was elected an honorary member of the Society.

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On motion of General Stiles, a coinmittee, consisting of the
President and Vice-Presidents present in Chicago, was appointed
to confer with the societies of other armies relative to the expe
diency of consolidating the several societies into one.
General George Stoneman moved that a committee of three be
appointed to confer with the other armies as to the time and place
of the next annual meeting, and that the Committee on Consoli
dation report at the same time.
The Chairman appointed the following gentlemen as the Com
mittee on Conference : General George L. Hartsuff", General
Graves, and Colonel W. W. Wheeler.
Adjourned, to meet at the Briggs House, at twelve M., same
day. The Society reconvened at the above-named hour.
On motion of Colonel J. A. Campbell,
Resolved, That the President and Secretaries be authorized to
transact the necessary business of the Society until the next meet
ing ; also that they be authorized to fill the blank for an j.dditional
Corresponding Secretary with the name of a member residing at
the place where the next meeting is to be held, when such place
has been designated.
On motion of Colonel John Mason Brown, the thanks of the
Society were tendered to the resident members, and to the citizens
of Chicago generally, for their generous hospitality.
Adjourned sine die.

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Proceedings of the Annual Meeting

SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF GEORGIA.

HELD AT CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,

December 15TH, 1S6S.

ARMY OF GEORGIA.

Sherman House, Chicago, III., 1
December 15, 1868. )
Pursuant to call, the officers of the Army of Georgia met at
the Sherman House, at ten o'clock.
The call was heartily responded to, and a full attendance
present. On motion, General William Cogswell, of Massachusetts, was
called to the chair.
On motion of General Barnum, of New York, Major-General
Henry W. Slocum was chosen to preside.
On motion of General Robinson, of Ohio, Captain R. B.
Brown, of St. Louis, was chosen Secretary.
General Barnum moved that a separate organization be
forraed, to be known as " The Society of the Army of Georgia ;"
and the motion was carried unanimously.
General Morgan moved that a coinmittee of three be appointed
to draft a Constitution and By-Laws ; and the motion was
carried. The President appointed Generals Morgan, Barnum, and
Walcott, as such committee.
General Cogswell moved that a committee of three be
appointed to report officers for permanent organization. Carried.
The President appointed Generals Cogswell, and Robinson,
and Captain Taylor.
This committee reported as follows :

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For President :
Major-General Henr}- V\ . Slocum, of New York.
I ice-Presidents :
Generals Jeff". C. Davis, A. S. Williams, Movver, Ward, Bay.
ard, Jacobs, Carlen, Morgan, Geeiy, and Walcott.
The report was accepted, and adopted ; after which the
following additional officers were chosen :
Recording Secretary :
Captain D. Taylor, jr., of Ohio.
Corrcspotiding Secretary :
Captain R. B. Brown, of St. Louis.
Treasurer :
Brevet Brigadier-General H. M. Whittlesey, Washington, D. C.
Generals Robinson and Barnum, of the Twentieth Corps,
General J. G. Mitchell, and Colonel Tolen Jones, of the Four
teenth Corps, were elected an Executive Committee.
On motion, the meeting adjourned, to meet again Wednesday,
at nine A.JNI. ; when all officers and soldiers of the Fourteenth
and Twentieth Corps were earnestly requested to be present to
act on matters of importance.
Major-Gexeral Henry W. Slocum,
President.
Captain David Taylor, Jr.,
Recording Secretary.

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Headquarters SociE-rv Army of Georgia,
Sherman House, Chicago,
December i5, lo A.M.
Society called to order. General LI. W. Slocum, President, in
the chair.
Coinmittee on Constitution and By-Laws were called upon for
report. General Barnum, of said coinmittee, reported the Constitution
and By-Laws, which were discussed, amended, and adopted as
follows :
CONSTITUTION. article I.
This Society shall be called and known as " The Society of the Army
of Georgia," and shall embrace all such officers and soldiers as have at
an}' time served in this army, and who have been honorably discharged
frora such service; or who reraain in service in the regular army, who
shall have subscribed the Constitution and By-Laws of the Society.
Honorary merabers may, from time to time, be elected from among the
officers of other armies of the United States, who have served with
distinction in their armies. ARTICLE II.
The object of the Association shall be to preserve and perpetuate the
historj' ofthe Army of Georgia ; to preserve and unite those patriotic
sentiraents, and to maintain and strengthen that courteous and friendly
intercourse for w-hich the members of this army have ahvaj-s been
distinguished; to preserve the name and fame of the members of this
army, who have fallen in the field, or who have otherwise perished in the
service of their country, shall be one of the sacred duties of this
Association, and no eff'orts shall be spared to collect and preserve in
the archives of the Society, the testimonials of their deeds and services.
This Society tenders to the widow-s and orphans of our fallen comrades
its warmest sympathy, and readily pledges itself to provide for the wants
and relieve the suffering of all such of thera as are destitute, by the
voluntary contribution of its raerabers, or in such other way as from
time to tirae may be determined.
It further pledges itself to use all proper effort to procure for all such
disabled soldiers, and their farailies, as are entitled thereto, the pen
sions and bounties now provided by law.

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The welfare of the soldier's widow; the good narae and education
of his children, shall always be regarded as a sacred privilege and trust
of the Association. ARTICLE III.
The officers of this Society shall consist of a President, and one Vice-
President frora each of the ten army organizations, one Corresponding
Secretary, one Recording Secretary, and a Treasurer.
The Vice-President frora each of the ten organizations, shall be
selected by the merabers belonging to such organization.
The foregoing officers shall be elected at the regular meeting of this
Society, and a vote of a majority of the members present shall elect.
ARTICLE IV.
The meeting of the Society shall be held annually, at such time and
place as a majority of the members present, at any regular meeting, m.ay
deterraine by ballot. All members of the Society shall use their
best endeavors to promote the interests of the Association, and maintain
kindly feelings, and unanimity araong the merabers. The memb rs are
expected to attend all regular raeetings of the Society; and, in case
of tneir inability to do so, will report to the Corresponding Secretary the
cause of their absence. ARTICLE V.
This Constitution raay be altered or araended at any regular meeting
of the Society, provided the alteration or amendment proposed is
submitted in writing, and filed w-ith the Recording Secretary at least one
month before the regular meeting at which it is proposed to present the
same; and provided further, that two-thirds of the members be present
at such meeting.

BY-LAWS.

ARTICLE I.
The regular meetings of the Society shall be opered by prayer, by
some suitable person, to be selected by the presiding oiiicer.
ARTICLE II.
All officers and soldiers who have served in the Army of Georgia, and
have been honorably discharged from service, or may now be in the
regular service, are entitled to membership; and, upon signing the
Constitution and By-Laws of the Society, shall be entitled to full mem
bership.

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ARTICLE III.
The regular dues of merabers shall be $  per year for officers,
and $  per year for enlisted raen, and shall be paid annually.
Any meraber permitting his dues to remain unpaid for a period of over
two years, shall be disraissed from membership, and can only be restored
by the payment of all back dues, and a vote of two-thirds of the mem
bers present at a regular meeting. ARTICLE IV.
All dues shall be paid to the Recording Secretary; and no funds shall
be expended by the Treasurer, except upon the written order of the
Recording Secretary, and countersigned by the President; and, at each
annual meeting of this Society, the Treasurer shall report in detail the
amount of funds received, and the disbursements made.
ARTICLE V. I
When the place of holding the next annual meeting of the Society
shall be determined, the President shall appoint an executive committee
of five members, whose duty it shall be to make all necessary prepara
tions and arrangeraents for such meeting; but who shall not be
authorized, by virtue of such appointraent, to contract any debts for
which the Society shall be held liable.
ARTICLE VI.
No raeraber of the Society shall speak more than once on any question
of business under discussion by the Society, and no longer than five
minutes, without the consent of the Society.
ARTICLE VII.
At each annual raeeting there shall be selected, in such manner as the
Society shall determine, an orator, and alternate, from the raerabers
thereof, of w-hora one shall deliver an address appropriate to such
occasion, and on such subject as shall be of especial interest to the
members of the Society of the Array of Georgia; said address to be
delivered at the next annual meeting.
It shall be the duty of the retiring President to deliver an address of
welcome. ARTICLE VIII.
These By-Laws may be altered, amended, or additions raade thereto,
at any regul-ar meeting of the Society, by a vote of two-thirds of the
members present. ARTICLE IX.
This Society, at its meetings, shall, in the discussion of matters
brought before it, observe the rules governing deliberative bodies.

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A communication was received from General Julius White,
Secretary Army of the Ohio, accompanied by resolutions from
said Society, im-iting committees of conference as to the feasi
bility of consolidating the Societies of the four (4) Western
Armies, viz. : The Army of the Tennessee, the Army of the
Cumberland, the Army of Georgia, and the Army of the Ohio — ¦
into one Society ; also as to time and place of holding next
reunion. General Henry AI. Whittlesey inoved thai the communication
be received, and that a committee of three be appointed; —
carried. A Committee of Conference, and on time and place of holding
the next reunion, were chosen, as follows : Generals Zeulich,
Smith and Salomon.
On motion of General Robinson,
Resolved, That the Armies of the Tennessee, of the Cumber
land, of the Ohio, and of Georgia, be consolidated into one grand
Army Society. Resolution unanimously adopted.
The following were elected honorary members : Generals
Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan, Scofield, Llooker, and
Joseph Knight.
General Henry M. AVhittlesey offered the following resolutions,
which were unanimously adopted :
Resolved, First, That the congratulations of this Army Societv
are tendered to General Cogswell for the eloquent and able
address which he delivered before the assembled armies last
evening ; and the success with which he represented this army at
Crosby's Opera House last night.
Resolved, Second, That it shall be the duty of the President,
and of the Executive Committee (in conjunction), to cause five
hundred (500) copies of the Constitution and By-Laws of this
Army Society, together with all the proceedings of the meetings
in organizing the same, to be published, and that to said com-

Army of Georgia. 305
mittee, together with the President of the Society, be left the
fixing of the time and place of the next reunion ; — ^ adopted.
General Cogswell moved that the President appoint a com
mittee of five on History of the Anny of Georgia, whose duty it
shall be to compile, as soon as possible, a complete history of the
Army of Georgia, and submit the same to the President, for his
approval, before the same be printed.
General Henry M. Whittlesey moved that General Slocum be
made ex-officio member of said committee ; — carried.
Captain David Tajdor moved that we now adjourn, to meet at
the call of the President. Adjourned.
Major-General Henry W. Slocum,
President.
Captain David Taylor, Jr.,
Recording Secretary Society Army Georgia.
Headquarters Society Army Georgia, \
Sherman House, Chicago, >
December 17, 1868 — 10 A.M. )
Pursuant to call of the President, Society assembled at Head
quarters ; President Major-General Henry W. Slocum in the chair.
The President announced the following Historical Committee :
General John G. Mitchell, Fourteenth Corps, Generals H. M.
Whittlesey, H. A. Barnum, and William Cogswell, and Captain
A. E. Lee.
The Secretary offered the following resolution, which was
adopted unanimously :
Resolved, That the members of the Society of the Army of
Georgia heieby tender to their comrades of the Annies of the
Tennessee, the Ohio and the Cumberland, their unfeigned thanks
for the courtesy they'have received from each of those respective
Societies during the Grand Reunion of the last two days ; and
that we express to each of those Societies the great pleasure and
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satisfaction we have enjoyed at this reunion, and that we join in
congratulations to the members of the Societies of the Tennessee,
of the Ohio, and of the Cumberland, on the complete success of
this grand meeting.
General Zeulich offered the following :
Resolved, That this Society return their sincere thanks to the
citizens of Chicago, and to the press, and to the members of the
local committees having in charge the various matters appertain
ing to this Grand Reunion ; — adopted.
General Zeulich also offered the following :
Resolved, That we return a vote of thanks to the members of
the Board of Trade of Chicago for their kindness in tendering
the use oftheir spacious hall for the Grand Banquet; — adopted.
On motion of General Zeulich, it was
Resolved, That at our next meeting all officers and soldiers are
requested to appear in full uniform, designating their respective
rank ; — adopted.
General Barnum moved that we adjourn, subject to the call of
the President ; — adjourned.
Major-General Henry W. Slocum,
President.
Captain David Taylor, Jr.,
Recording Secretary Army of Georgia.

LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE ARMY
OF THE CUMBERLAND.

Adae, Carl, A. G., Capt. 4th Ohio
Cav., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Atwater, M. B., Capt. 51st 111. V.
I., Newton, Iowa.
Allen, Theo. F., Brev.-Col. U. S.
v., Cincinnati, O.
Anderson, Ed. L., Capt. 52nd O.
V. I., Cincinnati, O.
Anderson, E. G., Co. C, 74th Ind.
V. I.
Anderson, Geo. T., Capt. Co. D,
51st Ind. V. I.
Anderson, N. L., Col. 6th O. V. I.,
Cincinnati, O.
Aramen, Jacob, Brig.-Gen. U. S.
v., Lockland, O.
Ashbrook, A. P., Lieut. 17th O.
V. I., Lancaster, O.
Armstrong, Williara F., Capt. 74th
O. V. I., Cincinnati, O.
Abbott, Will. A., Capt. 79th Ind. V.
I., Indianapolis, Ind.
Atkins, Sraith D., Col. 92nd 111.
v., Brev. Major-Gen., Freeport,
111.
Andrews, N. S., Col. 12th U. S.
Cav., Detroit, Mich.
Audalbu, Ed. L., Capt. 72nd O.
V. I.
Bartholoraew, W. H., Maj. 34th
Inf., Columbus, Miss.
Bailey, O. H. P., Lieut.-Col. 73rd
Ind., Plymouth, Ind.
Babcock, S., Lieut, ist Wis. Inf.,
Milwaukee. Wis.
Baldwin, A. P., Capt. 6th O. Ind.
Light Bat., Ackron, O.
Baker, Edward, Co. B. 3rd Ky.
Cav., Princeton, Ind.
Bane, O. F., Capt. 123rd 111., Chi
cago, 111.
Baker, H. N., Capt. 47th 111.
Blackstone, Jr., J., 15th Penn. Vol.
Cav., Pittsburgh, Penn.
Babbitt, A. T., Capt. 93rd O. V. I.

Blanke, Wm., Capt. 24th III. V. I.,
Chicago, 111.
Barren, Henry C, Surg. 3Sth 111.
Vol., Springfield, 111.
Bauer, O. F., Capt. 123rd 111., Chi
cago, 111.
Barrow, S. S., Capt. 9th Mich. Vol.
Inf., Chicago, III.
Barnum, H. A., Brev. Maj.-Gen.,
Syracuse. N. Y.
Ballow, J. T., Capt, Peru, Ind.
Blakesly, Archibald, Lieut.-Col.
7Sth Penn. Vol. Inf., Pittsburgh,
Penn.
Barker, W., Capt. 20th Ohio Bat.,
Cleveland, O.
Bass, Wm., Sergeant 59th III., Chi
cago, 111.
Barlow, J. W., Brev. Lieut -Col.
U. S. Engineers, U. S. A.
Bayliss, Lot P., ist Lieut, and
Qi M. 74th Ind. Vol., Ft. Wayne,
Ind.
Bradley, L. P.. Lieut.-Col., Brev.
Brig.-Gen. U. S. A., Omftha,
Neb.
Bacon, C. H., Surg. 13th U. S.
Cav., Lockport, 111.
Balding, T. E., Capt. 24th Wis.
Inf., and Brev. Maj.-Gen. U. S.
A., Milwaukee, Wis.
Babcock, E. E., Hosp. Steward
S8th 111., Freeport 111.
Baker, John J., Lieut.-Col. 19th
Mich. Vol., Sturgis, Mich.
Bannister, D , Brev.-Col. and Pay
master U. S. v., Columbus, O.
Barber, G. M., Brev. Brig.-Gen.
U. S. V . Cleveland, O.
Barger, B. F., Maj. 33rd O. V. I.,
Cincinnati, O.
Barker, John D. Capt. ist Ohio
Cav., Marietta, O.
Barnes, John, Capt. 23rd Ky. Inf.,
Cincinnati, O.

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Barnett, James, Brev. Brig.-Gen.
U. S. v., Cleveland, O.
Blake, John W., Col. 40th Ind.
Vol. Inf., Indianapolis, Ind.
Barrett, W. W., Brev. Brig.-Gen.
U. S. v., Columbus, Miss.
Brandt, O. B., Capt, 17th O. V. I.,
Lancaster, O.
Brannan, John M., Brev. Maj.-Gen.
U. S. A.
Bates, Caleb, Maj. and A. D C,
U. S. v., Cincinnati, O.
Beattie, Alex. H., Capt. U. S. V.,
Helena, M. T.
Bennett, Henry, Chicago Art,
Chicago, 111.
Bestow, Marcus P., Brev.-Col. and
A. A. G. Vol., N. Y. City.
Breraner, David F., Capt 19th 111.
Vol. Inf., Chicago, III.
Bickara, Wm. D., Maj. and A. D.
C, U. S. v., D.a3'ton; O
Bird, Ira H., Lieut, and Q^ M. 2nd
O. V. I., Cincinnati, O.
Bigelow, J. C, Lieut.-Col. 134th
111. Inf , Chicago, 111.
Beeber, J. W., ist Lieut. Co. F, 87th
Ind. Vol., Rochester, Ind.
Bingham, George B., Col. ist Wis.,
Milwaukee, Wis.
Bishop, J. W., Brevet Brig.-Gen.,
Mankato, Minn.
Billings, Edwin L., Capt. Co. K.,
57th Ind., Goshen, Ind.
Bidwell, T. S., Assistant Surgeon
I24tb O. Vol. Inf., Chicago, 111.
Biggs, Jonathan, Brevet Brig.-Gen.
U.S. v., Olney, 111.
Bridges, Lj-man, Brevet Colonel U.
S.V., Chicago, III.
Bristow, Benjamin H., Col. 8th Ky.
Cav., Louisville, Ky.
Bristow, James H., Chaplain 5th
Ky. Inf., Covington, Ky.
Brooke, Hunter, Brevet Lieut.-Col.
U. S. v., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Brookfield, E. V., Brevet Major and
C. S. U. S. v., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Brown, J. Morris, Brevet Major U.
S. A., through Adj. -General.
Boden, Williara, Lieut.-Col. 23rd
Ky. Vet. Vol. Inf, Newport,
Kentucky.
Bohan, John, ist Lieut. 8th Ind.
Vol. Inf, Kokorao, Ind.
Boone, Thomas C, Colonel 115th
Ohio Vol. Inf., Salem, O.

Boyden, A. H., Major and A. P. M.
U. S. v., Chicago, 111.
Brown, Thomas, Captain SSth 111.,
Chicago, 111.
Bowles, C. B., Sergeant Co. H 92nd
111. Vol. Inf, Ashton, 111.
Broettbeck, S. D., M.ajori2th Iowa,
Highland, 111.
Boltz, Fred. F., Captain 88th Ind.
Vol.
Boydston, Nelson N., Major 30th
Ind. Vol. Inf., Warsaw, Ind.
Brooks, Edwin F., ist Lieut and
Adj. ist Wis. Cav., Chicago, 111.
Bogue, Roswell G., Surgeon 19th
111. Inf., Chicago, 111.
Brock, Jos. B., Capt. Co. D., 93rd
Ohio Vol. Inf, Middletown, O.
Boyd, J. M., Col. 19th Ohio Inf.
Boyd, James S., Col. 51st 111. Inf.,
Chicago, 111.
Brown, A. A., Captain Co. H., 15th
Wis. Inf. Vol., Northfield, Minn.
Boal, C. T., ist Lieut 88th 111. Inf.,
Chicago, 111.
Brown, Theo. F., Brev. Brig.-Gen.,
U.S. v., Chicago, III.
Brooks, C. B., Sgth 111., Aurora,
111.
Blodgett, A. Z., 96th 111. Vol. Inf.,
Waukegan, 111.
Bones, Williara, Capt. 22nd Wis.
Vol. Inf., Cresco, Iowa.
Bucke, William H., Major 52nd O.
Vol. Inf., Cincinnati, O.
Buford, L. M., A. D. C. to Maj.-
Gen. Crittenden, Rock Island, 111.
Burroughs, George, Brevet Major
U. S. A., through Adj. -General.
Butterfield, Daniel, Brevet Major-
General U. S. A., N. Y. City.
Bunts, Willham C, 125th Ohio Vol.
Inf., Cleveland, O.
Buttrick, E. L., Lieut-Col. 24th
Wis., Chicago, 111.
Burt, A. S., Capt 27th Inf U. S. A.
Buck, R. M., 1st Sergeant Co. B.
86th III. Vol., Henry, 111.
Burns, R. S., Captain Co. G. 75th
111., Franklin Grove, 111.
Burke, Joseph W., Col. loth Ohio
Inf., Brevet M.ijor-Gen., Hunts
ville, Alabaraa.
Burness, Samuel L., ist Lieut 15th
U. S. Inf., Philadelphia, Penn.
Bluthard, F. I., Surgeon 23rd Wis.
Vol. Inf., Chicago, 111.

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Bryant C. H., Brevet Colonel U. S.
v., Cincinnati, O.
Cable, C. A., Captain iSth O. Vol.
Inf., Nelsonville, O.
Calkin, Edward, 1st Lieut, Roch
ester, Ind.
Carlin, William P., Brevet Major-
Gen. U. S. A., Nashville, Tenn.
Carter, G. U., Lieut-Col. 84th Ind.
Vol. Inf., Winchester, Ind.
Chalfant, David, Captain 51st O.
Vol. Inf., Ulricksville, O.
Clark, George D., ist Brig. Band
3rd Ohio Vol., Meriden, INIich.
Clark, Albert, 2nd Lieut. 9th 111.
Cav., Genesee, 111.
Carpenter, John E., Capt. and Act
ing Adj.-Gen., Memphis, Tenn.
Chandler, George, ist Lieut. 88th
111. Vol. Chicago, IU.
Crawford, F. C, Brevet Major and
A. A. G. 3rd Div. 20th Corps,
Terre Haute, Ind.
Chapman, C. W., Col. 74th Ind.
Vol., Warsaw, Ind.
Crane, Alex. B., Lieut.-Col. 85th
Ind. Vol. Inf.
Chadborne, A. S., Lieut.-Col. 88th
IU., Chicago, 111.
Carter, W. D., Asst-Surg. 44th
111 , Nashville, 111.
Clarkson, Theodore F., Capt. Co.
D. 96th 111. Vol., Waukegan, 111.
Calef, J. H., S8th 111. Inf, Chicago,
111.
Clark, Geo. W., 4th Mich. Cav.,
Chicago, 111.
Caron, Henry L., Lieut, and Adj.
13th U. S. C. I., Brev.-Maj., N.
Y. City.
Chandler, Wra, P., Lieut.-Col.
35th 111. Vol., Danville, III.
Charaberlain, Orville T., Capt. Co.
G 74th Ind. Vol. Inf., Elkhart,
Ind.
Crane, Wra. E., Capt. 4th O. V. C,
Cincinnati, O.
Carahan, R. H. Brev. Brig.-Gen.,
Danville, IU.
Cravath, E. M., Chap. loist O. V.
I., Cincinnati, O.
Campbell, James E., A. M. Mate
Miss. Squadron U. S. N., Ham
ilton, O.
Campbell, T. W., Col. 17th Ky.
Cav., Bowling Green, Ky.

Clendenin, Frank, Maj. 147th 111.
Vol., Morrison, 111.
Clenahan, John M., Lieut.-Col.
ISth Ohio Inf, Ottawa, Kan.
Crittenden, J. N., ist Lieut. Mich.
Engineers, Chicago, III.
Clifford, W., Capt 31st Inf., Holly
Springs, Miss.
Cist, Henry M., Brev. Brig.-Gen.
U. S. v., Cincinnati, O.
Chickering, J. W., Brev.-Capt U.
S. A., Ft Sully, Dakota Ter.
Childs, John C, Lieut.-Col. 3rd
Tenn. Vol. Inf. Wilson, Tenn.
Christopher, A. C, Lieut.-Col.
6th O. V. I., Cincinnati, O.
Christian, Wm. H., Private Co.
K 19th 111., Chicago, 111.
Coulter, S. L., Maj. 64th O. V. I.,
Erie, Neosho Co., Kan.
Croxton, John T., Brev. Maj.-Gen.
U. S. v., Paris, Bourbon Co.,
Ky.
Cox, C. B., Maj. S4th 111. Vol. Inf,
Vermont, Fulton Co., 111.
Connelly, Thos. J., Capt. 9th Mich.
Vol. Inf., Jackson, Mich.
Colburn, W. J., Capt. and Act Q^
M., Brev. -Maj. Vol., Chattanoo
ga, Tenn.
Coe, E. S., Lieut.-Col. 124th O.,
Cleveland, O.
Crosby, Lyman B., Capt. S7th Ind.
Inf., Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Connolly, Robert J., 2nd Lieut.
73rd Ind., Logansport, Ind.
Cole, A. S., Brev.-Maj. U. S. V.,
Kenosha, Wis.
Cosgrove, A. P., Private Co. D
44th Ind., South Bend, Ind.
Cogswell, Wm., Brev. Brig.-Gen.
U. S. v.. Col. 2nd Mass. Inf,
Salem, Mass.
Collins, C. D., 1st Lieut. 124th O.
Vol., Cleveland, O.
Cook, David S., Capt Co. G 7Sth
Penn. Vet. Vol. Inf., Chicago, 111.
Cotwango, John, 75th IU., Dixon,
III.
Copp, Jaraes F., Capt. Co. F 89th
111. Vol., Rock Island, 111.
Collier, J. H., Capt 12th U. S. C.
I., Antioch, 111.
Clock, Albert, 2nd Lieut 9th 111.
Cav., Geneseee, IU.
Collins, H. E., Lieut-Col. 2nd Ky.
Vol. Cav., Cincinnati, O.

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Cochnower, J. H., ist Lieut. 74th
O. V. I., Cincinnati, O.
Coulter, WiUiara A., Captain U. S.
A., Washington, D. C.
Cox, A. P.. Captain M. M. Brigade,
Oxford, O.
Cox, Thomas, Captain ist Ky. Vol.
Inf., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Craft, Hii-ara J., M.ajorgSth O.Vol.
Inf, Indianapolis, Ind,
Crofton, R. E. A., Brevet Lieut.-
Col, U, S,, through Adj,-Gen.
Cruft, Charles, Brevet M.ajor-Gen,
U. S. V,, Terre Haute, Ind,
Cummings, H, H,, Captain 105th O,
Vol. Inf, Tidionte, Penn.
Church, L. B., Captain U. S. V,,
Turner's Junction, 111,
Cullen, Robert, Captain 74th Ohio
Vol. Inf, Hamilton, O.
Curtis, James, Brevet Maj. U. S. A.,
Mobile, Ala.
D.avis, S, W,, Captain ist O, Vol,
Inf,, Dayton, Ohio,
Davis, Charies W,, Col, sist IU,,
Chicago, 111,
Davis, Hasbrouck, Brig,-Gen,, Col.
I2th 111, Cavalry,
Davis, R. W,, Colonel 14th Mich.
Inf., Pontiac, Mich,
Davis, H. G., Brigadier-General U.
S. Vol., Goshen, Indiana,
Deane, Charles H,, Brevet Lieut,-
Col. and A, Q. M,, Peoria, IU,
Deal, Paul, Captain 31-d Ohio Cav,,
Lima, Ohio,
Deun3', WiUiara A,, Captain 90th
Ohio Inf, Chicago, Illinois,
Deardoff, D. P,, Captain 74th Ind,
Vol,, Goshen, Ind,
Denison, J, C, Hospital Steward
36th 111,, Elgin, 111,
De Sand, C, V,, Captain Co, C 9th
Mich, Inf, E, Saginaw, Mich.
Devol, George H., ist Lieut. 3Sth
Ind, Vet Vol, Inf, New Albany,
Indiana.
Dickinson, E, H,, Sergt, 5th Iowa
Cav., Dubuque, Iowa,
Dick, George F., Colonel 86th Ind.,
Blooraington, 111,
Dox, H. P,, Brevet Brigadier-Gen,,
Chicago, IU,
Dickey, M, Van, Lieut. 94th Ohio
Vol, Inf, Franklin, Ohio.
Dilger, H., Capt. U. S. V., Spring
field, 111.

Donaldson, J- L., Brevet Maj.-Gen.
U. S. A., St Louis, Mo.
Donovan, J. M,, Captain 6th Ohio
Vol, Inf., Cincinnati, O,
Dornbush, Henry, Captain loth O,
Vol, Inf, Dayton, O.
Doughty, J, A., Colonel 17th Tenn.
Vol. C\n-., Clinton, Tenn.
Dowdy, R., Captain 1st Tenn. Vol.
Mounted Inf, Hales' Mills, Tenn.
Drouillai-d, J. P., Captain U.S.A.,
Nashville, Tenn.
Douglas, R. J., 2nd Lieutenant Co.
D 96th 111 , Waukegan, 111.
Dooley, J, H,, Captain Co. F 40th
Ind., Lebanon, Ind.
Dodge, J, B,, Col, 30th Ind. Vol.
Inf. Warsaw-, Ind.
Dysart, A. P., Col, 34th III, Vol.,
Nachusa, Lee County, 111.
Dockstader, J. G,, Lieut, 51st Wis.
Vol. Inf.
Down, Hylor, A. Q^ M. S. 19th 111.
Vol. Inf., Chicago, 111.
Durand, Calvin, Sergeant Board
of Trade Battery, Chicago, 111.
Dunbar, G. Edwin, Col, and Chief
Q_M, Kilpatrick's Cav,, Kalama
zoo, Mich,
Duffield, Henry M., Lieut, and Adj,
9th Mich, Vol. Inf, Detroit, Mich,
Drury, Lu, H,, Major ist Wis, Vol.
Artillery, Chicago, 111.
Dryden, D. H,, Major Pay Depart
ment U, S, V,, Dayton, O,
Dufl^ield, W. W,, Colonel 9th Mich.
Vol. Inf., Belmont, Ky.
Ducat, Arthur C, Lieut.-Col. and
Brev. Brig.-Gen. Ass't Inspector-
Gen. Vol., Chicago, 111,
Dunlevy, Howard,- Captain 79th O.
Vol. Inf, Dayton, O.
Duston, Daniel, Brev, Brig,-Gen,
U, S, v.. Sycamore, 111,
Evans, M,, Maj. 96th IU, Inf,,
Waukegan, IU,
Elara, John W,, Capt, Co, D 87th
Ind., Valparaiso, Ind,
Ewing, Geo, W,, Act, Ord, Ser
geant, Ft. Wayne, Ind,
Earie, Charies W,, Capt 96th IU,,
Chicago, 111,
Earhart, G, T., Lieut 35th O, V,
Inf,, Harailton, O,
Earnshaw, J., Capt, U. S. V,, Cin
cinnati, O,

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311

Earnshaw, Wm,, Chap, U, S, A.,
Dayton, O,
Elliott, W. J,, Brev, M.ij,-Gen, U,
S. A., Ft. Boise, Idaho,
Evans, J, D., Maj, 39th Ind, Vol,
Inf , Indianapolis, Ind,
Emmett, J. M., Lieut, Co, C 34th
III, Vol., Franklin Grove, 111.
Emmons, F. A,, Maj, 147th IU.
Inf., Chicago, 111.
Erbe, Arthur, Capt. Co. H 24th
III,, Chicago, 111,
Erickson, Christian, Capt, 82nd
IU. Inf., Chicago, 111,
Ellis, M, D,, Capt 87th Ind,, Peru,
Ind,
Ellis, E, C, Capt 93rd O, V, I,,
Dayton, O.
Emingre, A, J,, Capt, 93rd O, V.
I,, Miamisburg, O.
Falkner, I, K., 7th Vol, Cav,
Farrington, Geo, E., ist Lieut.
85th Ind. Vol. Inf., Terre Haute,
Ind.
Frankebergro, J. C, Lieut.-Col,
i88th O, V. I,, Cincinnati, O,
Frazer, Isaac, Capt, S8th IU,, Chi
cago, 111,
Fake, Fred, L,, Q;. M, Sgth 111,
Chicago, 111,
Eraser, Thos, K,, ist Lieut, ist Ky,
Vol, Inf, Cincinnati, O,
Farquhar, John M., Maj, Sgth 111,
Inf, Chicago, 111,
Fergusson, Geo., ist Lieut. 96th
III. Inf, Waukegan, 111.
Free, John W., Maj. 31st O. V. I.,
New Lexington, 0.
Fearing, B. D., Brev. Brig.-Gen.
U. S. V„ Cincinnati, O.
Free, W, H., Brev, Col, U, S, V.,
New Lexington, O,
Feighly, J, C, Lieut 31st O. V. I.,
New Lexington, O.
Fletcher, Robert, Brev. Col. U. S.
v., Cincinnati, O.
Findley, R, P., Col, 74th O, V. I,,
Mattoon, 111.
Fritsch, Otto, Capt 68th N. Y. V.
I,, Chicago, 111.
Fisher, Horace N., Lieut-Col. U.
S. V,, Brookline, Mass,
Finch, A, J., Maj, 12th U. S. C. I.,
Chicago, 111.
Fisher, J, A., Capt 2nd O. V. I.,
Cincinnati, O.

Fisher, John H., Capt. A, D, C.
U, S. V,, Brookline, Mass.
Frizzel, J, W., Brig.-Gen,, Owen-
ville, O.
Fitch, M, H,, Brev, Col, 21st Wis,,
Milwaukee, Wis,
Finckhouse, John J., Col, ggth 111,
Inf., Ethngham, IU.
Finch, John Wm,, Maj, 26th Wis.
Vol. Inf, Milwaukee, Wis,
Fitch, T. D,, Surgeon 42nd III,
Inf Chicago, IU,
Fitzwilliam, Francis J., Capt 33d
O, V, I,, Bloomington, 111,
Fitch, Geo, W., Capt 12th U, S,
C. I,, Chicago, 111.
Flood, Ira A., Capt, qSth 111, Vol,
Inf., Vincennes, Ind,
Ford, Henry, Corporal 36th 111,
Vol, Inf, Crystal Lake, 111,
Foote, Allen R,, Lieut. 21st Mich,
Vol. Inf., St Louis, Mo.
Fox, P. v., Lieut-Col. ist U. S,
V, V, Engineers, Grand Rapids,
Mich,
Ford, Gus.,C, Capt 31st Ind, Vol,
Inf,, Cincinnati, O,
Foster, Edgar J,, ist Lieut. Co. K.
79tli Ind., Indianapolis, Ind.
Forsyth, James W., Brev. Brig.-
Gen. U. S. A., Chicago, 111,
Fullerton, J, S,, Brev, Brig,-Gen,
U. S. v., St Louis, Mo,
Fulmer, Jessie, Brev, Maj, U, S, A.
Williamsport, Tenn.
Flynn, G. W., Lieut, and Adj. 25th
111. Inf., Champaign, 111.
Gratiot, E. A., Brevet Lieut.-Col.
P. M, U, S, A,, PlattvUle, Wis,
G.aubert C, H,, Capt and A. Q^M,
Chicago, 111.
Granger, A. H,, Captain 42nd IU,,
Chicago, III,
Gamble, James E., ist Lieut, 4th
Indiana Battery, Chicago, 111,
Gantz, J, T„ 34th 111. Vol,
Galbraith, Robert, Col, 5th Tenn,
Vol, Cav,, Shelbyville, Tenn,
Gallagher, John F,, Captain 2nd
Ohio Vol, Inf., Franklin, Ohio.
Gary, M. B., Battery C ist O. Light
Artillery, Geneva, O,
Gano, C L., Lieut,-Col. 69th Ohio
Vol. Inf., Sharonville, O.
Garfield, J, A., Maj,-Gen, U. S. V.,
Hiram, O.

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Grayson, J. W. M., Lieut.-Col, 4th
East Tenn. Vol. Inf., Taylors-
ville, Tenn.
Gleason, Newel, Brevet Brig.-Gen.
U. S. v., Laporte, Indiana.
Greenwood, W. H., Lieut,-Colonel
and A, I, Gen,, St, Louis, Mo.
Gentry, George C, Col, 47th Wis.
Vol, Inf., Brevet Brigadier-Gen
eral, Green Bay, Wis.
Getty, William, 2nd Lieut, 12th
Ind. Battery, Chicago, 111,
Gilman, Charles, Captain 6th O,
Vol. Inf,, Cincinnati, O,
Griffith, D, J,, Surgeon 2nd Ky,,
Louisville, Ky,
Gilbreath, W, C,, Lieut. 20th Bat
tery Ind, Vol,, Chicago, III,
Grose, WiUiam, Brevet Maj,-Gen.
U, S, v., Newcastle, Ind.
Goodhue, William, Adj. 4th Ky.
Inf, Danville, Ky.
Grosvenor, C, H,, Brevet Brig,-
Gen, U, S, V,, Athens, O,
Glover, Amos, Captain 15th Ohio
Vol. Inf., Powhattan, O.
Grubbs, R, M., Captain 84th Ind,
Vol. Inf., Knightstown, Ind,
Guriitz, A, T., Lieut 2nd Ky, Vol,
Cav., Cincinnati, O.
Guthrie, John B,, ist Lieut, U. S, A,
Through Adj.-Gen,
Guenther, George, ist Lieut. Co,
C 24th 111., Chicago, 111,
Guernsey, H. H,, ist Lieut, 14th
U, S, C, I,, Janesville, Wis.
Hale, Fran. Ed., Capt, ist Mich.
Vol, Artillery,
Harabright, Henry, Brevet Col, U,
S, A. Through Adj.-Gen,
Hamilton, Thornt, Adj, 21st Ky,
Vet. Vol, Inf., Lexington, Ky,
Hannah, George W., Captain 124th
Ind, Vol. Inf,, Connersville, Ind.
Hayden, Richard N., 12th 111. Cav.,
Chicago, III.
Hannan, W., Captain 124th Ohio
Vol., Dayton, O,
Harms, Charies A,, Capt, 43d 111,
Vet Vol, Inf,
Harries, George H,, Brevet Lieut,-
Col, U, S. V,, Cincinnati, Ohio,
Harrington, J, W,, Capt, gth Tenn.
Vol. Cav,, Cincinnati, 0.
Haight, Edward, Brev, Lieut, -Col,
i6th U, S, Inf, N, Y. City.

Harter, G. D., ist Lieut 115th O.
Vol. Inf,, Canton, O,
Hawthorn, L, A,, Brevet M.ajor U.
S. y.. Newport, Ky,
Hayward, George L., Captain ist
O, Vol, Inf,, Cleveland, O.
Plazzard, J. De\'., Brevet M.-ij, 79th
Penn, Vol. Inf, Monongahela
City, Penn.
Harris, L. A., Col, 2nd Ohio Vol.
Inf., Cincinnati, O,
Hawk, R, A., Capt 12th 111. Vol.,
Monmouth, III.
Hammond, Charles M., Col. looth
IU. Vol. Inf., Joliet, III,
HaU, H, W,, Captain 59th 111, Inf.,
Shelbyville, III,
Hart, Samuel S,, Capt, 13th Wis,,
Chicago, IU,
Hayden, James R,, Capt, igth 111.
Vol. Inf, Chicago, III,
Hand,  , Capt 24th 111. Vol.,
Chicago, 111.
Hand, Lew. B., Lieut. Chicago
Board of Trade Battery, Chicago,
Illinois.
Harhaw, Wellington, Capt. Co. A
4th Ky. Inf, Danville, Ky.
Harbottle, Wm. Penn, Sergt-Maj,
looth 111, Inf., Wilmington, 111.
Hamlin, D, W., Capt Co, E 138th
Ind, Vol., Etna Green, Ind,
Harrington, R., Capt, gth IU, Cav.,
Geneseo, 111.
Hair, J. S,, A, B. Q^M,, Chicago,
Illinois,
Hassler, Dan, K,, istO, and Adj,
14th U, S. C, I., Dayton, O,
Hapeman, Douglas, Colonel 104th
111, Inf., Ottawa, 111.
Harwood, E., Sergt-Major, Joliet,
Illinois.
Harding, A, C, Brig,-Gen,, Mon
mouth, 111.
Hanson, Henry N., Lieut. Co. H
2ist Wis. Vol., Toledo, O.
Hemphill, William S., Captain 4th
Ind, Cav., Wars.aw, Ind,
Heighway, A, E,, Surgeon U, S.
' v., Cincinnati, O.
Heard, C. D., Lieut.-Col. 30th Ind.
Vol., Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Heaney, D,, Brevet Maj. U. S. V.,
Rochester, Minn.
Heard, J. Theodore, Brevet Lieut.-
Col. Med. Director 4th Army
Corps, Boston, Massachusetts.

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313

Hefelbower, Ad, M,, ist Lieut. 31-d
O. Vol. Cav., Nashville, Tenn.
Heilburn, A., ist Lieut, gth O, V,
Inf,, Cincinnati, O,
Hennessey, M, T,, ist Lieut, 231-d
Ky, Vol, Inf,, Cincinnati, O,
Herrick, H, J,, Surgeon 17th O, V,
I,, Cincinnati, O,
Helm, Clinton, Surgeon 92nd 111,
Inf, Byron, Ogle Co,, 111.
Hernalt, G, F,, Maj, loth Ind.
Cav., Franklin, Ind.
Hill, J, H., Lieut Bat B. ist O. V,
L, A., Minonk, Woodford Co,
111,
Hildreth, J. H,, Corporal Chicago
Bd, of Trade Bat, Chicago, IU,
Hicks, Geo., Maj, and Brev, Col,
96th 111, Vol,, Mt Carroll, 111,
Hinkley, L. D., Lieut loth Wis.
Inf., Waupun, Wis,
Hill, H. R, Lieut-Col, 115th O,
East Liverpool, O,
Hinman, F. H., U, S. N., Cleve
land, O.
Hibbard, Geo, B,, Brev, Maj, and
Capt and A, Q^ M., Chicago, 111,
Hills, Charles F, ist Lieut, 51st
111. Vol,, Chicago, 111,
Hoffman, William E,, ist Lieut,
31st U. S. Inf.
Hoffman, Southard, Lieut.-Col,
and A. A, G, Vol., N, Y, City,
Hooper, William, Vermont, 111.
Hoyt, F., Capt Com, Sub., Tre-
mont House, Chicago, 111.
HoUings worth, E. T., Lieut-Col.
19th Ohio, Albion, Mich,
Hover, T, A,, 139th Ind. Vol.
Hobbs, A. M., Capt 36th 111. Vol.,
Bristol, Kendall Co., Ill,
Hoar, Charles, ist Lieut, 21st 111,
Inf, Henry, III,
Homer, Wm, J,, Lieut, 123rd 111,
Vol, Inf, Charieston, 111.
Horton, B. J., Lieut 24th O. V. I.,
Cincinnati, O,
Hosea, L. M,, Brev, Maj. U. S. A.,
Cincinnati, O.
Hotchkiss, C. T., Brev. Brig.-Gen.
U, S, V,, Chicago, 111,
Hough, Alfred L,, Brev, Col, U. S.
A, Through Adj.-Gen,
Houk, L. C, Col, 31-d Tenn, Vol.
Inf, Clinton, Tenn.
Hodges, Henry C., Maj. and A.
QiM., Brev. Lieut-Col. U. S. A.

Howard, Jos., Brev, Col, U. S, A,,
Union, West Va.
Holden, L, P,, Maj, SSth 111, Inf,,
Chicago, 111.
Howell, "Wm, A,, Capt Co, G, Sgth
111, Vol,, Altoona, III.
Hoblitzell, W. S., Lieut-Col, 5th
Ky, Cav., Cave City, Ky,
Hopkins, Enos, Maj. Mich, Engi
neers, Nashville, Tenn,
Howland, Henry, Col, Q^ M, Dep,,
Chicago, HI.
Hudnall, Jas. J., Capt, 4th Ky,
Vol, Inf,, Falmouth, Kv.
Hunter, Robert, Capt, 74th O. V.
I., Cincinnati, O.
Howell, J, P,, Capt Co, B S6th
111. Inf., Henry, 111,
Holt, John M, Sergeant Sth Kan,,
Moline, 111,
Hull, W, A,, Capt gth Mich, Inf.
Petroleum Centre, Venango Co.,
Penn,
HuU, G, A,, Capt, U, S. A,, Jeff'er-
sonville, Ind,
Hunt, P, B,, Lieut,-Col, 4th Ky.
Vol., Lexington, Ky,
Hubbard, Jr., Gurden S., Brev.-
Maj, SSth 111, Vol. Inf,, Chicago,
111,
Hulburd, E, M., Lieut,-Col, iSth
Mich. Inf,, Hudson, Mich.
Humphreys, Geo., Col, SSth and
I3gth Ind,
Humphreys, L,, Col, and Med,
Ins,, South Bend, Ind,
Hyde, J, D,, Lieut, and Adj,
Inman, Chas,, Maj, 2nd Tenn, Vol.
Cav,, New Garden, Tenn.
Innes, William P., Brev, Brig,-
Gen, U, S. V,, Nashville, Tenn,
Innes, William, Col. 15th I. S. C
Inf., Chicago, 111.
Isom, John F., Capt, 25th 111, Vol.
Inf., and A. Q^ M., Cleveland,
O.
Jackson, Huntington W., Brev.
Lieut.-Col. A. D. C, Chicago,
111.
Jackson, J. P., Lieut.-Col. 23rd
Ky. Vol. Inf., Cincinnati, O.
Jasse, JohnM., Surgeon 32nd Ind.
Vol.
Jackson, Thos. J., Col. 6th U. S.
A., New Albany, Ind.
Jacobs, J. E., Brev. Col. U. S. V.,
St. Louis, Mo.

314

Army Reunion.

Jacobi, A., 24th 111., Chicago, III.
Jeft'ers, Stephen, Major.
Johnson, A. M., 77th 111., Gales-
burg, 111.
Johnson, Henry W., Maj. and Q;
M., Michigan City, Ind.
Jones, Stephen E., Capt. and A.
_ D. C, Louisville, Kv.
johns, F. A., Capt gSth HI. Vol.
Inf, Olney, HI.
Johnson, George, Capt. nth O. V.
I., Cincinnati, C.
Johnson, George W., ist Lieut.
igth U. S. Inf, Covington, Kv.
Johnson, James, Capt. 71st O, Vol,
Inf, Cincinnati, O,
Johnson, O, C, Colonel 15th Wis.
A'ol. Inf, Madison, Wis.
Johnson, R. W., Maj.-Gen. U. S, A,
Through Adj.-Gen. U, S. A,
Johnson, Thomas, Col, 65th Ind.
Vol. Inf, Cincinnati, O,
Johnston, E, W., Adj, 5th Ky, Vol,
Inf,, Louisville, Ky,
Jones, H. C, Captain i8th O. Vol.
Inf, Mc.Vrthur, O.
Jordan, Thomas J., Brevet Brig.-
Gen, U, S. v., Harrisburg. Pa.
Judson, A, M., Private 77th 111,,
Galesburg, 111,
Jukes, C. J., looth 111, Vol,
iCarill, Wm, M., Surgeon, Prince
ton, 111,
Kearney, Thomas H,, Surg, 45th
Ohio Vol, Inf, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Keifer, J. Warren, Brev, Maj.-Gen,
U. S. V,, Springfield, O,
Keller, A. R., Captain and A. Q^M,
U. S, V , Lancaster, O,
Kelley, W. J., Surgeon 15th Ohio
Vol". Inf., Fremont, O,
Kemper, And. C, Capt U. S. V.,
Cincinnati, O.
Kennedy, J. F., Captain U. S. V.,
Cleveland, O.
Kennedv. WiUiam N., Major 24th
Wis., Milwaukee, Wis.
Kennett John, Col. 4th Ohio Vol.
Cav., Cincinnati, 0.
Keene, L. S., Surgeon 29th Ind.
Vol.
Kelly, Henry C, Capt., Chicago,
Illinois.
Kelly, James, Captain, Columbus,
Mississippi.
Kelly, R. M,, Col. 4th Ky. Vol., •
Lexington, Ky,

Keller, A, R,, Capt and A. Q. M.,
Lancaster, O.
Kellogg, S. C, Brevet Lieut.-Col.
U. "S. A. Through Adj.-Gen.
U. S. A.
Knecht, Adara, Jr., Lieut. 52nd O.
^'ol, Inf, Dayton, O,
Kercher, D, M., Colonel lothRegt.
Wis. Vol., Ripon, Wis.
Kent, George W., ist Lieut Co. B
SSth 111., Greeley, HI.
Kendall, McCay, Surgeon 3rd O.
Vol. Cav., Buc3-rus, O.
Kirby, J. W., Col. loist Ohio Vol.
Brevet Brig.-Gen., Upper San
dusky, O.
Kline, Jacob, Capt. 25tli Inf., Brev.
Maj.'U. S. A., Washington, D. C
King, Rufus, B. C Maj. and C S.,
Chicago, III.
Kimmel, Louis, Capt,, LaFayette,
Indiana.
Kingman, Martin, 1st Lieutenant,
Peoria, Illinois,
Knipe, Thoraas F,, Brig, -General,
Harrisburg, Penn,
Kilgour, W, M,,Brev, Col,U, S,V.,
Sterling, 111,
Kimball, Nathan, Brevet Major-
General U, S, v., Indianapolis,
Indiana,
King, Robert P,, ist Lieut U, S, A,,
Philadelphia, Penn,
Kirk, E, B,, Captain and A, Q^ M,
U. S, A, Through Adj.-Gen,
Kitchell, Edward, IJrev, Brigadier-
General U, S, V,, Olney, III,
Kniftin, G. C, Lieut-Col. U. S. V.,
Paris, Ky,
Knight, George A,, Captain i88th
Ohio Vol, inf., Catletsburg, Ky,
Klokke, E. W. C, Brevet Maj. 24th
111., Chicago, 111,
Kyle, James, Capt. 94th Ohio Vol.
Inf., Xenia, O.
Lambright, Lewis, ist Lieut. 3Sth
Ohio Vol. Inf., Middletown, O.
Landis, A. H., Ass't Surg. 3Sth O.
Vol. Inf, Millville, O.
Landis, F. B., Captain U. S. Vol.,
Hamilton, O.
Landrum, W, J,, Brevet Brig.-Gen.
U. S, V,, Lancaster, Ky,
Lane, P. P., Col. nth Ohio Vol.
Inf., Cincinnati, O.
Lawrence, Sarauel B,, Lieut.-Col.
U. S. A., New York.

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315

Lapham, j. W,, Major iisth 111,
Vol. Inf., Evanston, 111.
Lamborn, Charles B,, Lieut,-Col,
15th Penn. Cav,, St, Louis, Mo,
Lasalle, Godfrey, Sergeant gth 111.
Vol. Cav., Geneseo, III,
Lacy. H. A., Captain and A, Q^M,,
Detroit, Mich,
LaFayette, Mulnix, Sth Kansas,
Sheridan, 111,
Langley, J, W,, Col. 125th HI. Vol.
Inf., Charapaign, IU.
Leslie, John R., S3d IU., Chicago,
Illinois.
Lytle, R, P,, Capt, Co, B 27th 111,
Inf, Decatur, IU,
Leedy, John R,, Surgeon 74th Ind,,
Warsaw, Indiana,
Leib, Henry F., Adj. goth Ohio
Vol. Inf., Columbia, O.
Le Due, WiUiam G., Brevet Major-
Gen. U. S. v., Hastings, Minn.
Lenur, J. B., Capt. 2nd Mich. Vol.
Lemert, George A., Captain g/th
Ohio Vol. Inf., Dresden, Ohio.
Leonard, G. P., Captain ist Ohio
Vol. Inf, Dayton, Ohio.
Leonard, J. A., Major iSSth Ohio
Vol. Inf., Dayton, Ohio.
Lincoln, A. A., Lieut. 3rd Missouri
Vol., Chicago, Illinois.
Liverraier, D. E., Lieut.-Col. 3rd
Ohio Cav., Chicago, 111.
Little, Sarauel J., Brevet Col. U.
S. v., Nashville, Tenn.
Linklater, Jerry H., ist Lieut. Co.
D g6th IU., Waukegan, 111.
Loomis, James B., Capt. 7th Mich.
Cav., Albion, Michigan.
Logan, R. F., Surgeon 15th Ky.
Vol. Inf., Louisville, Ky.
Lovell, Ogden, Captain 42nd 111.
Vol., Chicago, 111.
Loveless, B., Co, A 36th 111. Vol.,
Elgin, Illinois.
L'Hommedieu, Sarauel, Capt 35th
Ohio Vol, Inf, Hamilton, O,
Long, Charies L,, Lieut, -Col, 35th
Ohio Vol, Inf,, Dayton, O,
Long, Eli, Major-General U, S, A,,
Cincinnati, O,
Loomis, C O,, Brevet Brig,-Gen.
U, S, v., Coldwater, Mich,
Lowe, William R,, Brevet Major
U, S, A. Through Adj.-Gen,
Lowe, W. W., Brevet Brig.-Gen
U. S. A.

Loughlin, WiUiam M., Capt. U. S.
V. V. Engineers, Lake Forest,
Illinois.
Lyon, Samuel, Capt. 2nd Ky. Vol.
Cay., Gallatin, Tenn. Through
Adj. -General.
Ludlow, Israel, Lieut, 5th U, S,
Artillery, Cincinnati, Ohio,
Ludlow, William E,, loth Ind. Vol,
Inf, Cincinnati, O,
Lybrand, A., Capt. 731-d Ind, Vol.
Inf, LaFayette, Tippecanoe Co,,
Indiana.
Lynd, George M,, Capt, looth 111.
Inf., Lockport, 111.
McAdams, Wm., Lieut, 5gth 111,
Vol, Inf., Kansas, 111,
McCarthy, J, F., Surgeon 2gth Ind,
Inf., Valparaiso, Ind,
McArthur, W, W, H,, Capt, 3rst
O, V, I., Springfield, O,
McDermott, C, Surgeon U, S, V,,
Dayton, O,
McMerchin, W, E., Lieut,-Col,
2ist 111. Salem, 111.
McNair, James E., ist Lieut. 6th
Tenn. Vol. Cav., Trezevant,
Tenn.
McClenahan, John, Lieut.-Col.
15th O. V. I., Ottawa, Kansas.
McWiiliams, John, Lieut, and R,
Q. M. I2gth 111, Vol,, Odell, 111,
McGroarty, J, S., Brev, Brig.-Gen.
U, S, v., Cincinnati, O.
Mcllvaine, F. E., Brev, Lieut-Col.
U. S. A.. N. Y. City.
McClurg, A, C, Brev, Brig,-Gen,
U, S, V,, Chicago, 111,
McMurtry, Alex. O,, Capt, SSth 111.,
Wilwaukee, Wis.
McWiliams, J. G., Maj. 51st 111.
Inf, Chicago, IU.
McMichael, William, A. A. G.,
Brev,-CoI, U, S, V,, Philadelphia,
Penn,
McCook, Edward M„ Brev, Maj,-
Gen, U, S, A., New Mexico.
McCook, John J., Capt U, S, V,,
Steubenvi le, O.
McCook, Anson G,, Brev, Brig,-
Gen, U. S. V,, Steubenville, O.
McCoy, Daniel, Brev, Brig,-Gen.,
Col, 175th O. V. I., Thorason,
Carroll Co., HI,
McCoy, Theodore W,, Capt, 39th
Ind, Vol. Inf., Jeflersonville,
Ind.

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McCrory, Wra., ist Lieut. 7 S. S.
Gen. Sherman's guard, Chicago,
McCullough, J. R., Asst. Surg, ist
Wis. Vol. Inf, Jeff'erson, Wis.
Manderson, Chas. F., Brev. Brig.-
Gen. U. S. v.. Canton, O,
Mannen, Thomas H., Maj. 40th
Ky. Vol. Inf, Cincinnati, O.
Martin, Alfred, M.aj. 6th Ky. Vol.
Inf., Covington, Ky.
Martin, W. H., Brev. Brig.-Gen.
U. S. v., Dayton, O.
Mason, C W., Capt. 35th Inf.,
Brev. Col. U. S. A.
Mathews, Stanley, Col. 51st O. V.
I,, Cincinnati, O,
Manzv, James II., Capt. 6Sth Ind.
Vol". Inf, Rushville, Ind.
Markeser, P, C, Capt, Sth Iowa
Vol, Inf, Dubuque, Iowa.
Maxwell, O. C, Brev, Brig,-Gen.
U. S, V,, Dayton, O.
Mather, C J., Capt, Co, F,, 15th
Penn, Cav,
Marks, S., Surg, loth Wis. Vol.,
A\'ilw-aukee, Wis,
Martin, J, O., Col, 17th N, Y. Vol.,
Indianapolis, Ind.
Maeder, J. T., Capt 25th U. S. Inf,
Ktokuk, Iowa.
Marshall, J. M., Maj. 5th U. S. Inf
\^ol., Indianapolis, Ind.
Mars, F. H., Maj. ist Wis. Cav.,
Chicago, 111.
Mattson, C. R., 13th Wis.
Marsh, F. E., Capt. and Brev. Maj.,
Chicago, 111,
Marsh, Jason, Col, 74th 111, Vol,,
Rockford, 111,
Messer, John, Lieut, -Col, loist O.,
Brev, Brig.-Gen,, Chicago, 111,
Merrill, C H., Signal Corps, U, S,
A., Chicago, IU,
Merrick, C C, Capt 5isf III.,
Chicago, 111.
Merrill, Samuel, Lieut.-Col. 70th
Ind. Vol. Inf., Indianapolis, Ind.
Megrue, C G., Maj. 4th O. V. C,
Cincinnati, O.
Merrill, Win. E., Brev. Col. U. S.
A., Chicago, 111.
Metzner, Adolph, Capt. U. S. V.,
Indianapolis, Ind.
Miller, L. F., Maj. 33rd Ind., Brev.
Col. U. S. v., Williamsport,
Warren Co., Ind.

Meyers, Vincent, Capt. ist Tenn.
Lt Art, Claiborne, Tenn.
Mindel, Geo. W., Brev. Maj.-Gen.
U. S. v., Philadelphia, Penn.
Miller, Clement F., ist Lieut, and
Adj. 1st Mich. Engineers, Battle
Creek, Mich.
Mitchell, Oscar, 2nd Lieut. Co. K
2nd Ky, Inf,, Chicago, III,
Miller, Ben, C, ist Lieut. Co. K
nth Ind. Cav., City Hospital,
Chicago, HI.
Minty, Robt H. G., Brev. Maj,-
Gen, U, S. v., Jackson, Mich,
Middleswart, H, ¥,, Capt, 92nd
O. V, I., Marietta, O,
Miller, B, F., Surgeon 2nd O. V.
I., Cincinnati, O.
Milier, S, J, F., Surgeon 5th Ky.
Vol. Inf., Cincinnati, O.
Michaelis, O. E., Brev.-Capt, Ord.
Corps, Washington, D, C.
Milward, H, K,, Colonel iSth Ky.
Vol, Inf., Lexington, Ky,
Merrill, Lewis, Brevet Brig, -Gen,
"Merrill's Horse," Brevet Col.
U. S. A.
Milward, Will. R., Col. 21st Ky.
Vet Vol. Inf., Lexington, Ky.
Montagnier, Jules J., Captain 6th
Ohio Vol. Inf, Cincinnati, O.
Moody, Granville, Brevet Brig.-
Gen. U. S. v., Ripley, O.
Moore, O. F., Col. 33rd Ohio Vol.
Inf., Portsmouth, O.
Moore, R. M., Lieut.-Col. loth O.
Vol. Inf., Cincinnati, O.
Morgan, O. H., Captain 7th Ind.
Vol. Battery, Chicago, III,
Morgan, William A,, ist Lieut, 23rd
Ky, Vol, Inf,, Cincinnati, O.
Moriarty, William C, Adj, 35th
Ind, Vol, Inf,, Indianapolis, Ind,
Morton, Quin, Lieut,-CoIoneI 23rd
Mo. Vol. Inf, Shelbyville, Ind.
Mosenmeier, B., Ass't Surgeon 33rd
Ohio Vol, Inf,, Cincinnati, O,
Moxley, J, D., Major ist Ohio Vol.
Cav,, Chillicothe, O.
Montague, H, O,, Captain ist Wis,
Inf, Whitewater, Wis,
Moore, Absalom B,, Col, 104th 111.
Inf, Ottawa, IU.
Morgan, James D., Brevet Major-
General, Qiiincy, 111.
Morrison, A,, Captain 5th Battery
Ind, Light Art,, Plymouth, Ind.

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317

Munn, Lewis, Brevet Brig.-Gen.
Brevet Colonel U. S. A,
Mullen, John S,, 2nd Minn. Vol.,
Nashville, Tenn.
Mulnix, LaFayette, Private Sth
Kansas, Sherin, 111.
MuUins, M., Lieut.-Col, 40th Ky.
Inf, Falmouth, Ky.
Murdock, L. K,, Captain loth Ohio
Vol. Inf,, Cincinnati, O,
Muscroft, C, S,, Surgeon loth O.
Vol. Inf., Cincinnati, O.
Mussey, W. H., Lieut-Col. U. S.
A., Cincinnati, O,
Negley, Jaraes S,, Maj, -Gen, U. S.
v., Pittsburg, Penn.
Nelson, D. M., Captain Co, A loth
Tenn, Cav,, Knoxville, Tenn.
Nicar, Edwin, Captain 15th Ind,,
South Bend, Ind,
Nicholson, George B., Sergt. Co.
K 6th O. Vol. Inf, Cincinnati, O.
Nodine, R. H., Col. 25th HI. Vol.
Inf., Champai,gn, 111,
Nost, J, M,, Col. igth Ohio Vol.,
Ohio.
Nuten, H. A., Captain 12th U. S.
Colored Inf., Rockford, 111.
Oldershaw, P. P., Capt U. S. V.,
New York City.
Olmstead, Samuel G., Chaplain,
Louisville, Ky.
Otis, E. A., Captain U. S. V., Chi
cago, IU.
O'Connell, P., Major U. S. V.,
Dayton, O.
O'Kean, Mortimer, Col, 38th III.
Inf, Olney, 111.
O'Donoughue, W., Surg, ist Mich.
Engineers, Albion, Mich.
Opdyke, E., Brevet Major-Gen, U.
S. v.. New York City,
Orr, George W., 1st Lieut, 15th U,
S. Col. inf, Indianapolis, Ind,
Palmer, Wra, J,, Col, 15th Penn.
Cav., Brevet ]3rig.-General, St.
Louis, Mo.
Palmer, J. J., C. S. U. S. A.,
Indianapolis, Ind.
Patten, Robert W., Co. E 3rd Wis.
Vol., Brodhead, Wis.
Paine, C. N., Capt Co. B 21st Wis.
Inf, Oshkosh, Wis.
Patrick, N. T., Lieut.-Col. 5th Iowa
Cav., Omaha, Nebraska.
Patterson, E. L., Capt Co. D 7gth
Ohio Vol. Inf, Cleveland, O.

Park, H. S., Capt. Co. C 2nd Ky.
Cav,, Henderson, Ky,
Parkhurst, J, G., Brevet Brig,-Gen,
U. S, V,, Detroit, Mich,
Parrott, E, A,, Col, ist Ohio Vol,
Inf, D.ayton, O,
Patton, J, T. Capt, 93rd Ohio Inf,,
D.ayton, O,
Prather, Alien W., Col. 120th Ind.
Vol. Inf., Columbus, Ind.
Perin, G,, Surgeon U. S, A,, New
port Barracks, Ky.
Peari, A. M., Capt 3i-d Ohio Vol.
Cav., Berlin Heights, O.
Peters, Matthew H., Major 74th
Ohio Vol. Inf, Watseka, III.
Peak, George B., Capt, Co, A 351!
Ill,, Decatur, 111,
Pepoon, G. W., Capt 96th 111, Vol,
Inf., Wan-en, 111,
Pickett, G. P,, 2nd Lieut. 34th U,
S. Inf, Lauderdale, Miss.
Pickett, Thomas J,, Col. 132nd 111.
Inf., Paducah, K3',
Philips, L, S., 1st Ohio Vol. Art,
Cleveland, O,
Pierce, C W., Brevet Major Ssth
HI. Vol., Demopolis, Ala.
Price, S. W., Brevet Brig.-Gen, U,
S, v., Lexington, Ky.
Phelps, William, Col., Paymaster
U, S. A., Detroit, Mich,
Prosser, Wm, F., Col. 2nd Tenn.
Cav., Nashville, Tenn.
Porter, Horace, Col. and Brevet
Brig.-Gen. U. S. A., Washing
ton, D. C.
Putnara, Jr., Douglas, Lieut.-Col.
92nd Ohio Inf, Hot Furnace, O.
Pickands, James, Col. 124th Ohio
Inf, Cleveland, O.
Pollock, John K., Brevet Maj. g6th
111. Vol. Inf, Milburn, HI.
* Porter, WiUiam L., Brevet Major
U. S. V.
Pugh, J. L., Lieut.-Col. 4th Ohio
Vol. Cav., Cincinnati, O.
Putnam, David, Capt. 92nd Ohio
Vol. Inf., Athens, O.
Quigley, William F., Lieut i8th
' Ohio Vol. Inf, Nelsonville, O.
Quinn, R. L., Capt 75th Illinois,
Franklin Grove, 111.
Ransom, Edward P., Captain U. S.
v., Cincinnati, O.
* Deceased.

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Ransora, J, S,, Capt 44th 111, Vol.
Inf, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Ramnells, R. M., ist Lieut and R.
Q,M., S7th Ind.
Raflin, Alex. W,, Lieut.-Col, igth
111., Chicago, 111.
Rathburn, H. B., Lieut Co. D 2nd
Mich. Cav,, Chicago, 111.
Rauch John H,, Surgeon U. S, A,,
Brevet Col,, Chicago, HI,
Raymond, Lewis, Chaplain 51st
HI, Vol, Inf, Chicago, III,
Raymond, Samuel B., Lieut, -Col,
51st 111,, Chicago, 111.
Ransom, W. C, Brevet Lieut.-Col.
U. S. A., LouisviUe, Ky.
Raymond, W. F., Capt nth N. Y.
Cav., Cedarville, N. Y.
Ramsey, Robert H,, Major and A,
A, G,, Brev, Col, U, S, A,, Potts-
ville, Schuylkill Co,, Penn,
Read, E,, nth Ind, Cav., Terre
Haute, Ind.
Remington, Thomas, J. L., Major
74th III., Rockford, HI.
Reynolds, J. J., Brevet Maj.-Gen.
U. S, A., Austin, Texas,
Reed, N, A,, i,st Lieut U, S, V,,
Cincinnati, O.
Regan, D., Capt. iSth O. Vol. Inf.,
Dayton, O.
Reapernan, Douglas, Colonel 104th
Illinois.
Reibold, Daniel, Corporal ist Iowa
Cav., Dayton, O.
Richards, Edward S., Brev. Lieut. -
Colonel U. S, V,, Cincinnati, O,
Rigg, Joseph, Capt, 187th O, Vol,
Inf, Champaign, III,
Rider, R, G., Major 85th 111,
Richards, W, T,, Major Sist Ind,
Vol, Inf, LaFayette, Ind,
Rhines, James, ist Lieut, Co, E
SSth III,, Toledo, O,
Rice, T, T., Sist Ind,, Chicago, 111,
Rice, J, W,, Major 3rd 111. Cav.,
Springfield, III,
Ringland, George, 79th HI, Vol,,
A, A, Surgeon, Kansas, III.
Rosecrans, Williara S., Maj.-Gen.
U. S. A.
Robinson, George F., Capt. Sgth
111. Vol. Inf, Chicago, III.
Roper, George S,, Capt. C S. U.
S, Vol,, Alton, HI.
Robinson, J. S., Brevet Maj.-Gen.
U. S. v., Kenton, O.

Royse, D., Adj. 40th Ind. Vol.,
LaFayette, Ind.
Rose, F. E., Col. 77th Penn. Vol.
Rowan, C E., Capt. g6th III. and
Brevet M.ajor U. S. A., Chicago,
Illinois.
Rockwood, Frank B., Co. C Board
of Trade Battery, Chicago, IU.
Rose, Rufus, Major 51st III,, Chi
cago, 111,
Runyan, John N,, Captain Co, A
74th Ind, Vol, Inf, Warsaw, Ind,
Ruhn, John, ist Lieut, 15th U, S.
C. I,, Nashville, Tenn,
Rust. H, A,, Major 27th 111,, Chi
cago, 111,
Russell, James A,, ist Lieut, and
R, Q. M. 84th 111., Vermont, Ful
ton Co., 111.
Runkle, Ben. P., Brevet Maj.-Gen,
U, S, V,, Louisville, Ky.
Russell, A. O,, Major 6th O, Vol.
Inf, Cincinnati, O.
Santraeier, J. P., Captain U. S. V.,
Cincinnati, O.
Sharp, D. N., Adj. 5th Ky. Vol.
Inf, Shelbyville, Ky.
Sanford, J. E., Co. C 3Sth Ohio
Vol., Chicago, 111.
Sparling, Fred. W., Surgeon loth
Mich, Vol, Inf, Nashville, Tenn,
Slade, Sarauel, Capt. 51st O, V, I,,
Port Washington, O,
Sand, C, V. D, R,, Capt gth Mich.
¦ Inf., E, Saginaw, Mich.
Stackhouse, W. P., Captain 19th
Ind, Vol, Bat, Greensfork, Ind,
Stannage, Jas, O., Capt. U. S. V,,
Cincinnati, O,
Stanley, David S., Colonel 22nd
U, S, L, Brev, Maj,-Gen, U, S. A,,
Ft, Sully, Dakota Ter,
Stanton, Byron, Asst, -Surg, U, S,
V,, Newberg, O.
Sawyer, E. G., Lieut.-Col. gth
Penn. Cav., Lykens, Penn.
Straub, W. F., Capt. U. S. V.,
Cincinnati, O.
Slaughter, Jas. J., ist Lieut. Co. H
n5th 111., Delaware, 111,
Salisbury, Leroy, ist Lieut. 36th
111, Vol, Inf,, Chicago, III,
Shannon, Jas. H,, Col. 138th Ind.
Vol,, Laporte, Ind,
Savage, E, G,, Lieut,-Col, gth
Penn, Cav,, Lykens, Dauphin
Co,, Penn.

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319

Spalding, E. G., ist Lieut Co. K
22nd Mich., Port Huron, Mich.
Stafford, C. A., Brevet Brigadier-
Gen. 1st O. I., Lancaster, O.
Sabin, Oscar C, ist Lieut. 29th
Ind. Vol. Inf, Chicago, 111.
Swazey, John C, Brev. Maj. C V.
I., Newcastle, Ind.
Salter, F., Surgeon U. S. V., En
terprise, O.
Spaulding, J. J., Captain SSth 111.
Inf, Chicago, HI.
Stanbaugh, Jaraes W. R., Captain
75th HI. Vol. Inf., Steriing, 111.
Shaffiner, L., Lieut.-Col. 153rd 111.
Schlaud, J., i6th 111.
Stanley, T. R., Col. iSth O. Vol.,
and Brev. Brig.-Gen., Chatta
nooga, Tenn,
Slaughter, John, Co, F 34th 111.
Vol., Ashton, 111,
Swallow, Gftorge R,, Col, loth Ind,
Cav,, Jerseyville, Ind,
Sabin, C E,, Hospital Steward
36th IU,, Elgin, HI,
Schneider, Ed, F., Lieut,-Col, Sth
Kan, Vol, Inf,, Canton, O,
Seib, Araos D,, ist Lieut, ist O,
Vol. Cav., Marysville, O.
Shepherd, A, C, Capt, and C S.
U, S, V,, Rochester, Ind,
Sheridan, Philip H,, Lieut, -Gen,
U, S. A., Chicago, III,
Sherwood, J, R,, Brev. Brig.-Gen.
U. S. v., Bryan, O.
Steele, John W., Brev. Lieut.-Col.
U. S. v., Elyria, O.
Stewart, John, Brev. Maj. U. S. V.,
Cincinnati, O.
Schweinfurth, Frank, Lieut. 24th
IU. Vol, Inf, Chicago, 111,
Stewart, Wra, M,, Brev, Maj, looth
111, Vol,, Blooraington, III,
Stinson, R. B,, Capt, 60th III.
Stephens, S. H., Lieut. " Chicago
Board of Trade Battery" III.
Vol., Nashville, Tenn.
Schick, C. U.
Scherraerhorn, Jno. M., Capt. g2nd
111., Lena, Stephenson Co., 111.
Sheets, B. F., Lieut.-Col. g3rd HI.
Vol., Oregon, Ogle Co., HI.
Sweet, C, Captain, Chicago, III.
Speed, James B., Adj. 27th Ky.
Inf, Louisville, Ky.
Speed, John, Capt. and A. A. G.
Vol., Louisville, Ky.

Sterling, John, ist Lieut. Co. A
30th Ind.
Sherman, Geo. D., Maj. 36th 111.
Inf, Elgin, 111.
Sheldon, H. G., Capt Co. D loist
O. V. I., Toledo, O,
Sheren, Samuel B,, Maj, 15th III,
Cav., Aurora, 111.
Sexton, W. H., Lieut 83rd HI, Inf,
Monmouth, III,
Seidman, G, B,, Lieut 12th Mo,
Cav, Lena, 111.
Sherman, F, T., Brev. Brig.-Gen,
U, S, V,, Chicago, 111,
Sweet, R, J., Brev, Brig.-Gen,,
Chicago, HI,
Sweet, John E,, Colonel 151st Ind.
Inf., Chicago, III.
Sperry, Anson, Brev. Lieut.-Col.
Asst-Payraaster, U, S. A., Chi
cago, 111,
Sraith, John D,, Lieut, Co, K 92nd
O, V, I,, Altona, III,
Smith, Charles B., Lieut, and A,
A. Q^ M, 5th Iowa Cav., Omaha,
Neb.
Smith, Geo. W., Colonel SSth 111.
Inf., and Brev. Brig.-Gen.
Smith, Wm. H., Chaplain 75th
HI., Polo, Ogle Co., III.
Sraith, Win. S., Brev. Brig.-Gen.,
Chicago, HI.
Smith, J. C, Brev. Brig.-Gen. 96th
III., Galena, 111.
Smith, Melvin, ist Lieut. Co. F
105th HI. Vol. Inf, 111.
Smith, Norraan M., Lieut.-Col.
igth Penn. Cav., Pittsburgh,
Penn.
Smith, C, Captain, Chicago, 111.
Smith, S. B., Major 93rd O. V. L,
Dayton, O.
Smith, W. J., Brev. Brigadier-Gen.
U. S. v., Memphis, Tenn.
Smith, Frank G., Capt 4th Art,
Brevet Major U. S. A.
Schmith, Cari, Capt. and A. A.
G. U. S. v., Cincinnati, O.
Scribner, B. F., Brev. Brig.-Gen.
U. S. v.. New Albany, Ind.
Shiner, Henry G., Captain 23rd
Ky. Vet Vol. Inf, Cincinnati, O.
Sidell, Wra. H., Brev. Brig.-Gen.
U. S. A., Ft. Abercrombie, Da
kota Ter.
Stillwell, J. R., Chaplain 79th O.
V. I., Indianapolis, Ind.

320

Army Reunion.

Strelght, A, D,, Col. 51st Ind,
Inf, and Brev, Brigadier-Gen,,
Indianapolis, Ind,
Shipraan, S, V., Major ist Wis,
Cav, and Brev. Colonel U. S. V.,
Madison, Wis.
Stire, F. H., ist Lieut, Lacon, III,
Simpson, J, H., Capt. 4th Mich.
Cav,, Adrian, Mich.
Stoner, Henry M., Sergeant 30th
Ind. Vol., Cedarville, Ind,
Scoville, II, C, Capt. Co, K g2nd
III. Vol. Inf., Rockford, HI.
Scott, W. T,, 3rd Ky, Vol, Inf
Stoughton, Wm, L,, Colonel nth
Mich, Inf, and Brev, Maj.-Gen,
U, S. V.
Spotts, L, M,, 87th Indiana Vol,,
Rochester, Ind,
Song, H. C, Captain S7th Ind.,
Rochester, Ind,
Sowers, Percy A., Lieut,-Col, 35th
O, V. I., Canton, O.
Stoufer, John W., SSth III., Grid-
ley, HI.
Slocum, H. W., Maj.-Gen, Vol.,
Brooklyn, N. Y,
Scott, N, A,, Sergeant, 83rd 111,
Vol,, Monmouth, 111.
Stone, N. E., Lieut, 2nd Ky, Cav,,
Celina, O,
Stone, B, B., Capt g2nd O, V, L,
Belpre, O.
Stone, Henry, Brevet Colonel U,
S, v., Nashville, Tenn.
Spooner, E. D., 1st Lieutenant 5th
U. S. Art, Cincinnati, O,
Slocum, J, J,, Colonel U, S. V.,
Cincinnati, O,
Scott, T. W,, M.ajor U, S, V.,
Olney, 111.
Sturges, E, P., Lieutenant ist O.
Vol, Lt, Art,, Mansfield, O,
Sutphen, J, M., Capt goth O. V, I,,
Lancaster, O.
Stuzk, C, U. S, Cav.
Stundart, Wm. E., Capt Co. B O.
V, C, Toledo, O,
Shyrock, R. G,, Colonel 87th Ind,,
Rochester, Ind,
Symes, G. G., Colonel 44th Wis.,
Paducah, Ky.
Tanehill, C 0„ Capt Co, B 65th
O, V, I., Pen-yville, O,
Tasso, John M,, Surgeon 32nd Ind,
Taylor, M, C, Col. 15th Ky, Vol,
Inf, Shelbyville, Ky,

Taylor, Jr , David, Captain Co, B
113th O, V. I,, Taylor's Station,
O.
Thatcher. T. R,, Capt, 17th Ohio
Vol. Inf
TenEvck, T., Capt, iSth Inf, Brev,
Major U, S, A,, Ft, Sedgwick,
Colorado,
Temple, M. D,, ist Lieut, Bridge's
Bat, III, Vol., Chic.-igo, HI,
Treanor, John L,, Lieutenant-Col,
5th Ky. Inf, LouisviUe, Ky,
Ter Bush, Sylvan, Major loth
Mich, Inf, Chic.igo, III,
Teetor, H,B,, Brev, Lieut,-Colonel
U, S, v., Cincinn.ati, O.
Tipton, A. F., Lieut, Sth Iowa C,
Elkader, Iowa,
Tingle, James, ist Lieut, 93rd O.
V. L, Dayton, O.
Tinney, Henry C, A. A. G. U. S.
v., Lafayette, Ind.
Tinker, Henry H,, Captain 6th O.
V. I., Cincinnati, O.
Tillman, Wm., Brev. Lieut.-Col.
Paymaster, Detroit, Mich.
Thomas, George M., Major-Gen.
U. S. A,, San Francisco, Cal,
Thomas, Jerome B.,' Asst, -Surg.
U, S, V,, Dayton, O.
Thoraas, Will.'R., Capt U, S, V,,
Sycamore, III.
Throop, E. S,, Adj, 6th O, V. I.,
Cincinnati, O.
Tower, Isaiah F., Capt 93rd O.
V. I., D.ayton, O,
Townsend, Robert, Lieut, 23rd Ky.
Vol. Inf, Newport, Ky.
Townsend, H., Lieut, gth Ky. Vol.
Inf., Warren, O.
Toll, Charles II., Brev. Major and
C. S., Clinton, Iowa.
Todd, E, P., 2nd Lieut Co, E 96th
III, Vol., Apple River, III.
Townsend, Wm. R,, Capt, 42nd
III, Vol,
Tower, J. B., Brev, Major-General
U, S, A,, Care Adjutant-Gen,
Thompson, J, E., Captain 30th
Ind., Benton, Ind,
Tuttle, Russel M,, Brev, Capt, and
Topographical Engineer, Hor
nellsville, N, Y,
Turchin, J, B., Brig.-Gen, U, S.
V,, Chicago, 111,
Turnbull, John M,, ist Lieut, 36th
111,, Monmouth, 111.

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321

True, Clinton J., Colonel 4th Ky.
Vol., Lexington, Ky.
Thruston, G, P., Brev, Brig,-Gen.
U. S. v., Nashville, Tenn.
Turner, Wm. C, Brevet Colonel
U. S. v., Cleveland, O.
Turney, Samuel D., Lieut.-Colonel
U. S. v., Circleville, O.
Tindale, Hector, Brig.-Gen. U. S.
v.. Philadelphia, Penn.
Tryner, George A., Sergeant 21st
III. Inf, Bloomington, III.
Unold, John, Capt 105th 111. Vol.
Inf, West Lyons, III.
Utley, Wm. L., Colonel 22nd Wis.
Vol. Inf., Racine, Wis.
Van Antwerp, W. W., Capt. and
Brev. Major 4th Mich. Cav.
Vance, W. J., Brevet Captain U. S.
v., Findlay, O.
Vandegrift, George, A. A. G., U.
S. v., Cincinnati, O.
Vanderveer, F., Brigadier-General
U. S. v., Hamilton, O,
Vandeveer, Wm,, Brig,-General,
Brev. Major-General, Dubuque,
Iowa.
Vanderveer, John, Capt. 35th O.
V. L, Hamilton, O.
Vanhorne, Thomas T., Chaplain
U. S. A., Piqua, O.
¦Varney, R. W., Asst.-Surg, 31st O.
V, I,, N, Y, City,
Vail, Nicholas J., Major 14th U. S.
C. I., Chicago, 111.
Van Osdel, John M,, Capt Co, K
59th 111, Vol, Inf,, Chicago, 111,
Vincent, Wesley, Asst,-Surg, nth
Mich, Vol, Inf, Chicago, 111,
Vocke, Wm,, Capt. 24th 111. Vol.
Inf, Chicago, 111.
Von Fritsch, Otto, Capt 68th Reg.
N. Y. Vol. Inf., Chicago, 111.
Votau, M., Capt. 123rd III. Vol.
Inf, Neoga, HI.
Wade, D. E,, Surgeon 2nd O, V.
I., Cincinnati, O.
Ward, Durbin, Brevet Brigadier-
General U. S. v., Lebanon, O.
Ward, J. H., Lieut.-Col, 27th Ky.
Vol. Inf, Louisville, Kv.
Watkins, W. W., Adjutant ist
Wis. Vol. Inf, Milwaukee, Wis.
Watts, Joseph R., Lieut U. S.V.,
Louisville, Ky.
Watkins, J. B., ist Lieut Sgth HI.
Vol. Inf, Clinton, Iowa.
21

Wharton, G. C, Lieut.-Col. 10th
Ky. Vol. Inf, Louisville, Ky.
Waterman, Luther D., Surgeon
3gth Ind. Vol., Indianapolis, Ind.
Watson, J. A., Major 75th 111.,
Dixon, IU.
Waterman, George I., Captain 51st
111., Brev. Lieut.-Col., Chicago,
III.
Wade, A. B., Colonel 73rd Ind.,
South Bend, Ind.
Ward, A, A,, Surgeon 43rd Wis.
Vol., Madison, Wis,
Warren, John W,, Captain 89th
III. Vol., Chicago, 111,
Watts, E, S., Col. 2nd Ky. Cav.,
Evansville, Wis,
Waterman, Alfred, Surgeon 105th
111, Vol,, Wheaton, 111,
Warnock, James, Capt, 2nd O, V.
I.. Cincinnati, O.
Wendt, Henry, Q^ M. 24th III.,
Chicago, III.
Wendt, Henry M., ist Lieut, nth
Ind. Bat, Ft Wayne, Ind.
Whedon, A., Capt. Co A 82nd
Ind., Jeffersonvllle, Ind.
Webber, J. R., Capt. C S., Morris,
111.
Welch, Horace, ist Lieut. 125th O.,
Canton, Texas.
Weeks, J. F., Surgeon 51st Hh Inf,
Chicago, III.
Whittlesey, Henry M., Brev. Brig.-
General, Washington, D, C,
Wily, H,, Capt. Co. A 59th 111.
Vol.
Wilson, M. H., ist Lieut, and Adj.
nth O. V. I,, Chicago, HI.
White, David H,, Captain Co. E
74th Ind,, Middlebury, Ind.
Williams, Henry M., ist Lieut.
nth Ind. Bat, Ft. Wayne, md.
Wilson^ W. T., Brev. Brigadier-
Gen., Upper Sandusky, O.
Williston, John H., Major 41st O.
Inf, Cleveland, O.
Williams, George O,, Capt. and
A. D. C, Omaha, Neb.
Whitman, Q^ D., 104th 111. Vol.
Inf.
Wister, Stephen C, Lieut.-Col.
41st Reg. O. V. I.
White, John C, Musician i6th
U. S.I,, Chicago, 111,
Wilson, R, L,, Paymaster U. S. A.,
Sterling, 111.

322

Army Reunion.

Wilson, J. H,, Lieut.-Col, 35th
Inf'y, Brev. Maj.-Gen. U. S. A.,
Keokuk, Iowa.
Wickersham, M. D., Colonel, Mo
bile, Ala.
Wickershatn, D., Col. loth HI. Vol.
Cav., Springfield, HI,
Whitaker, Walter C, Brevet M.<ij,-
General, Louisville, Ky,
AMiite, L, A,, Captain III, Light
Art,, Chicago,
Widmer, John H,, Major 104th III,
Inf, Henry, III,
Wright, L., Colonel ist Mass.,
Chicago, 111,
Wilson, J, H,, A, Q^ M,, Laporte,
Ind,
Whiting, W, A,, Captain SSth 111,
Vol,
Whipple, W. D., Brevet Maj.-Gen.
U, S, A., San Francisco, Cal,
White, Norman P,, Capt. 4th O.
V, C, Cincinnati, O,
White, W, O., Capt, 4th Tenn,
Vol. Cav., Cleveland, Tenn,
Whitemore, H, C, Capt. 2nd HI,
Vol. Light Art., Sycamore, 111,
Wilder, J, T,, Brev. IBrigadier-Gen.
U. S. v., Greensboro, Ind.
Wiley, G. W., Capt and A. C.
S. U. S. v., Indianapolis, Ind.
Willard, John P., Brev. Lieut-Col.
U. S. A. Through Adj.-General.
Williaras, Wm. N., 2nd Lieut. U.
S, A,, Madison, Ind,
Willich, A., Brigadier-General U.
S. v., Cincinnati, O.
Wills, A. W., Lieut-Col. U. S. V.,
Philadelphia, Penn.
Wilshire, J. W., Capt. 45th O. V.
I., Cincinnati, O.

Willett, Jas. R., Major ist U. S.
Vet. Vol. Engineers, Nashville,
Tenn.
Wilson, Jaraes S., Capt. and A. A.
G.,U,S, V,, Dayton, O.
Wilson, W,, Capt 124th O, V. L,
Cleveland, O.
Wilson, W. C, Col, 40th and 135th
Ind, Vol. Inf, Lafayette, Ind.
Wilstach, C. F., R, Ql, M. loth Ind,
\o\, Inf, Lafayette, Ind,
Wing, Ch.aries T,, Col, U. S, V,,
Nashville, Tenn,
Wolcott, Frank, Lieut.-Col. 20th
Ky. \'oI. Inf., Covington, Ky.
Wood, Thoraas J., Brev. Major-
General U. S. A., D.-iyton, O.
Worrell, J. P., C-iptain S6th HI.,
Henry, 111.
Woods, T. E., Captain 123rd 111.
Mounted Vol. Inf, Mattoon, 111,
Wood, Wm, R,, Color-Sergeant
6th O, V, I,, Cincinnati, O.
Worheser, P, C, Capt, Co, G Sth
Iowa Cav,
Woodcock, Albert, M.ajor g2nd 111.
Vol., Oregon, III.
Wolfley, Lewis, Major 31-d Ky.
Cav., New Orleans, La,
Wykoff", P, W,, Lieut, 86th HI, Vol,,
Henry, 111,
Young, Thoraas L,, Brev. Brig.- .
Gen. U. S. v., Cincinnati, O.
Yeoraan, S. W., Brevet Colonel U.
S. v., Washington, O.
Zahra, Lewis R., ist Lieut and
Adj. 3rd O. V. C, Chicago, 111.
Zahra, Lewis, Colonel 3rd O. V.
C, Monroeville, Huron Co., O.
Zellweger, Jacob, Private gth O.
V. I., Ft. Lyon, Colorado Ter.

LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE ARMY
OF THE TENNESSEE.
[Furnished hy the Secretary of the Society i\

Arrastrong, W. F., Captain, Hills
borough, HI.
Allen, Jr., David, Capt., St. Louis.
Andre, Wra., Capt., St. Louis, Mo.
Abbott, George, Major, St. Louis,
Mo.
Audenried, J. C, Lieut.-Col. Gen.
Sherman's Staff", Washington
City.
Alexander, L. F., Capt, La Salle,
III.
Andrews, C. C, Gen., St Cloud,
Minn.
Andel, C, Captain, Belleville, 111,
Adams, A,, Surgeon,
Allen, F, S,, Lieut, Chicago, III.
Adams, C. H., Lieut.-Col. , Chica-
go. III.
Arndt, A. F. R., Major, Detroit,
Mich.
Arnold, J. A., Major, Joliet, 111.
Allen, G. M., Captain,
Averill, John T,, General,
Andrews, W, D, E,, Captain, Rock
ford, HI,
Alexander, J, I,, Colonel, Terre
Haute, Ind,
Bonner, Frank, Lieutenant,
Buckland, R. P., Gen,, Fremont,
Ohio,
Belknap, W, W,, General, Keokuk,
Iowa.
Bleitz, John, St, Louis,
Banks, J, C,, Lieutenant, Antwerp,
Ohio',
Baldwin, W. H,, General, Cincin
nati, O.
Bonner, S. P., Surgeon, Cincin
nati, O.
Bain, Wra,, Lieut., Chicago, HI.
Buckhannan, R., Col., St. Louis.
Bruce, John, Colonel, Keokuk,
Iowa.
Barrett, S. E., Major, Chicago, 111.

Brinck, W. F., Major, St. Louis,
Mo.
Brookman, J. B., Lieut., St Louis,
Mo.
Baily, G. W., Captain, St Louis,
Mo.
Brewster, W. B., Capt., St. Louis,
Mo.
Blair, F. P., General, St. Louis,
Mo.
Baggs, Jaraes, Surgeon, Ontario, O.
Black, W. P., Captain, Champaign,
111.
Baily, W. N., Surgeon, Plymouth,
Ind.
Bixby, A. S., Captain Iowa City,
Iowa.
Barnes, J. W., Maj., Warsaw, 111.
Blizzard, A. C, Lieut, Wilton,
Iowa.
Bohn, A. v.. Major, Dayton, O.
Blackburn, E. C, Captain, Chica-
go. 111.
Benson, H. H., Captain, Musca
tine, Iowa.
Borland, J, J., Lieut,, Chicago, 111.
Barber, J,, Adjutant, Cleveland,
Ohio.
Busey, S. T,, General, Urbana, III,
Black, Charles, General, Chara
paign, HI,
Boggis, Jas. H., Capt., Toledo, O,
Barnum, W, L., Col., Chicago, 111,
Bracket, G, B., Captain, Denraark,
Iowa,
Barto, A,, Captain, Geneva, Kane
Co,, IU,
Butler, E, G,, Lieutenant
Busse, G, A,, Capt , Chicago, III.
Bennett, T. W,, Gen,, Richmond,
Ind,
Barre, M. M., General, Quincy, HI,
Bennett, S, J,, Capt,, Warrensburg,
Mo,

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Army Reunion.

Bigelow, H. E., Captain, Chicago,
111.
Baker, S. R., Lieut.-Col., Peoria,
HI.
Benton, W. M., Lieut, Chicago,
111.
Botkin, W. W., Lieut-Col., Chi
cago, 111.
Busse, F. C, Capt., Chicago, 111.
Bird, H. P., Lieut., Mennekaunee,
Wis.
Bryan, O. M., Surg., Sycamore,
111.
Beath, C. L., Captain, McLean, III.
Barlow, W. H., Capt, EflSngham,
III.
Bloomfield, I. J., General, Bloora
ington, III.
Bell, J. B., Major.
Burton, Thomas, Lieutenant, Chi
cago, III.
Baker, John B., Captain, Dwight,
111.
Blanden, L., General, Harvard, 111.
Buchanan, R. W., Lieut, Ottawa,
HI.
Brush, C. H., Lieut.-Col., Ottawa,
III.
Bow-en, J. H,, Capt, Cincinnati, O,
Bowen, S, M., General, N. Y. City.
Bruce, M,, Colonel,
Barlow, A,, Captain.
Boyden, A. H., Maj., Chicago, 111.
Brown, H. S., Col., Chicago, III.
Campbell, S., Captain, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Coleman, D. C, Col., St. Louis,
Mo.
Cadle, C, Jr., Col., Montgomery,
Ala.
Cavender, J. S., Colonel, St. Louis,
Mo.
Creamer, F. M., Colonel, Moulton,
Ala.
Coates, J. H., Col., St. Louis, Mo.
Carapbell, A. H., Bath, III.
Colcord, J. P., Lieut., St. Louis,
Mo.
Carle, C, Major, Tamaroa, III.
Cooverdale, Robert, Captain, Cir
cleville, O.
Castle, George E., Capt., Cairo,
111.
Corse, J. M., Gen., Chicago, 111.
Carper, L., Asst. Adj.-Gen., Bur
lington, Iowa.
Curtiss, J. S., Capt, Chicago, 111.

Cunningham, C. H., Captain.
Coon, D. E., General, Selma, Ala.
Colby, Enoch, Lieut., Taylorsville,
III.
Cole, F. W., Lieut, Springfield,
III.
Cheeney, S. C, Lieut., Munroe,
Wis.
Campbell, R. M., Captain, Mon-
i-nouth. 111.
Coates, J. H., Captain.
Carpenter, W. R., Maj., N. Y.
Cady, W. F., Surgeon, Lafayette,
Ind.
Clarke, Geo. R., Lieut-Col., Chi
cago, III.
Cook, John, General, Springfield,
III.
Callahan, C. N., Maj. 3rd U. S.
Artillery.
Callender, B. M., Capt., Chicago,
111.
Christersen, Ch., Major, Oskosh,
Wis.
Clark, W. A., Capt., West Liberty,
Iowa.
Chadwick, C C, Capt., Columbus,
Ohio.
Cochran, M. B., Surgeon, Daven
port, Iowa.
Carr, W. H., Captain, Quincy, 111.
Case, Charles, Captain, Wauke
gan, III.
Craib, Wra. E., Lieut, Chicago,
111.
Cooley, C G., Capt, Chicago, 111.
Clough, David, Lieutenant.
Cowles, H. R., Lieut.-Col., Wash
ington, Iowa.
Cooper, E. H., Major, Joliet, 111.
Crane, J. L., Chap., Springfield,
HI.
Cutler, John F., Adjutant, Cleve
land, O.
Corning, A., Capt., Cairo, 111.
Carskeidden, D., Colonel.
Callender, F. D., Gen., St Louis,
Mo.
Campbell, J. C, Captain.
Crowell, R. C, Major, Kansas
City, Mo.
Colby, George W., Capt, Selma,
Ala.
Douglas, J. C, Capt., Zanesville,
Ohio.
Dunn, Wm., Capt, Washington,
D.C.

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325

Dawes, E. C, Maj., Cincinnati, O.
Dunn, Hugh, Capt., Zanesville, O.
Dodds, O. J., Lieut.-Col., Cincin
nati, O.
Dayton, L. M., Lieut.-Colonel, St.
Louis, Mo.
De Gress, Frank, Capt, City of
Mexico, Mexico.
Duniling, F. C, Colonel, Virginia
City, Mont.
Davis, H. M., Captain, Santa Fe,
New Mex.
Dwight, H. O., Lieut, Northamp
ton, Mass.
Dickerson, Joseph, Capt,, Cadiz, O,
Doyle, M. A., Lieut, St. Louis,
Mo.
Dickey, F. L.,"Col., Springfield, III.
De Gress, J. C, Captain, U. S. A.
Durhara, J. B., Capt., Kankakee, 111.
Derrickson, R. P., Capt, Chicago,
HI.
Duncan, L. A., Major, Niles, Mich.
Dean, H. H., Col., Rockford, III.
Dement, H. D., Capt., Dixon, 111.
Dunn, Jr., W. H., Capt, Washing
ton, D. C.
Dyer, D. P., Col., Louisiana, Mo.
Dodge, G. M., General, Council
Bluffs, Iowa.
Duncan, E. A., Surg., Vicksburg,
Miss.
Eaton, C. G., General, Clyde, O.
Edwards, A. W., Maj., Carlinville,
HI.
Evans, R. N., Major, Bloomington,
HI.
Ewing, Charles, General, Wash
ington, D. C
Everest J. G., Capt, Chicago, 111.
Elliott, I. H., Gen., Princeton, HI.
Erskine, A. E., Gen., Chicago. 111.
Everts, L. H., Maj., Geneva, Kane
Co., HI.
Everts, J., Lieut, Yorkville, 111.
Eggleston, E. L., Lieut, Litchfield,
Mich.
Ewing, H. A., Lieutenant.
Essrager, B., Captain.
Emmerson, G. W., Col., Chicago,
HI.
Eddy, N., Col., South Bend, Ind.
Emery, C F., Captain.
Eldridge, H. N., General, Chicago,
Engert, S., Lieutenant.
Edwards, S. R., Lieutenant

Everett, E., Surgeon, Quincy, 111.
Fry, J. C, Colonel, Sidney, O.
Fairchild, Cassius, Gen., Milwau
kee, Wis.
Ford, Geo. E., Col., Philadelphia,
Penn.
Force, M. F., Gen., Cincinnati, O.
Franklin, E. C, Maj., St. Louis,
Mo.
Flad, H. C, Col., St Louis, Mo.
Fisher, C. W., Colonel, Otturawa,
Iowa.
Fox, F. W., Capt, St. Louis, Mo.
Forbis, Wm., Col., St. Lo-iis, Mo.
Flint, M. R., Capt, Shipman, 111.
Fitch, J. A., Maj., Chicago, HI.
Fletcher, T. C, Col., St Louis,
Mo.
Foote, W. E., Surg., Cincinnati, O.
Farey, R. B,, Capt,, Lamoille, 111.
Fifife, J. R., Lieut, Magnolia, 111.
Ferry, Jr., Wm. M., Col,, Grand
Haven, Mich.
Frowe, S. S., Capt., Springfield,
HI.
Fisher, F. P., Lieut., Chicago, 111.
Fearing, B. D., Gen., Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Fabrique, A. H., Maj., St. Louis,
Mo.
Fuller, J. W., Gen., Toledo, O.
Fox, J. H. C, Captain.
Ferrier, T. E., Lieutenant.
Foster, J. T., Col., Chicago, 111.
Frick, C. A.. Capt, Keithsburg, 111.
Fisk, C. B., Gen., St. Louis, Mo.
Foster, J. S., Capt, Araelia, O.
Ford, M., Captain.
Foster, J. W., Col., Evansville, Ind.
Foot, G. L., Lieut.-Col., Lacon, 111.
Funke, Otto, Col., Peoria, 111.
Felton, Chas. H., Lieut, Chicago,
111.
Fallows, Sarauel, Gen., Milwaukee,
Wis.
Fry, T. W., Cot, Lafayette, Ind.
Fry, J. C, Col., Sidney, O.
Flansburg, N., Lieutenant, Galena,
Henry Co., HI.
Foster, Lyonel, Surgeon.
Furguson, D., Lieutenant.
Gile, D. H., Capt, Louisville, Ky.
Griffin, C. E., Lieut, Harailton, O.
Goodwin, Geo. J., Capt., St. Louis,
Mo.
Gilmore, F. H., Capt, St. Louis,
Mo.

326

Army Reunioti.

Graves, W, H,, Col,, Toledo, O.
Grier, D. P., Gen., Peori.a, III.
Goodbrake, C, Surg., Clinton, 111.
Glading, C, Lieut., Chicago, III.
Grave, P., Lieut.-Col., Albion,
Mich.
Gere, W. B., Colonel.
Godfrey, H. W., Lieut, Quincy, 111.
Graves, S. E., Capt., Adrian, jlich.
Garber, M, C, Col,, Madison, Ind,
Guthrie, J, W,, Assist, -Surgeon.
Grey, H. L., Lieutenant,
Gresham, W, Q^, Gen,, New Al
bany, Ind.
Gooding, E. L., Capt., Lockport,
HI.
Gregg, Jno. W., Capt, Chicago,
111.
Hill, E. S., Surgeon, Oxford, O.
Hunt, F. B,, Col,, Cincinnati, O,
Highway, A, E,, Surg,, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Henry, C D,, Captain,
Hoover, J, S,, Col., Middleton, Ind,
Hartshorne, D. W., Major, Cincin
nati, O.
Henerich, John S., Lieut., Cincin
nati, O.
Harper, T. L,, Maj., Cincinnati, O.
Hughes, J. H., Lieut., Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Heath, T. T., Gen., Cincinnati, O.
Hodges, W. R., Capt, St'. Louis,
Mo.
Harding, Chester, Gen., St. Louis,
Mo.
Hawkins, W. J., Maj,, St, Louis,
Mo,
Holtzinger, L, M., Lieut,, St, Louis,
Mo,
Hequembourg, W, A., Lieut.-Col.,
St. Louis, Mo.
Haverly, C. R., Capt,, St, Louis,
Mo.
Hedley, F. Y., Capt., Bunker HiU,
III.
Hunter, G. H,, Capt, Ottawa, 111,
How, J, F,, Lieut,-Col,, St, Louis,
Mo,
Hicks, S,J,, Col,, Salem, HI.
High, Frank, Lieut, St. Louis, Mo.
Herbert, J. T., Lieut.-Col., Liver
pool, O.
Heath, W. H., Lieut, St Louis,
Mo.
Henry, W. C, Maj., Freestown, O.
Hitt, J. E., Capt., Oregon, IU.

Hammond, J. H., General, Chilli
cothe, Mo.
Hill, W. W., Lieut-Col., Cincin
nati, O.
Hickenlooper, A., Gen., Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Hitt, J. W,, Lieut, Mt. Morris, III,
Holman, J, H., Gen,, St, Louis, Mo.
Hildt, Geo, H,, Lieut,-Col,, Canal
Dover, O,
Hendrick, J. M., Col., Otturawa,
Iowa.
Hopkins, M,, Assist-Surgeon,
Hajl, John P., Col., Morganfield,
Union Co., Ky,
Harailton, C S., Gen., Fond du
Lac, Wis.
Hunt, Wm., Lieut., Springfield. O.
Harts, D. H., Capt, Chicago, III.
Higgens, A. D., Lieutenant.
Hoyt, H. W. B., Captain.
High, F., Captain.
?IiII, J. M., Captain.
Heafford, G. H., Lieut, Chicago,
III.
Hatch, R. B., Lieut.-Col., Chicago,
III.
Hart, L. W., Capt, Cleveland, O.
Hitchcock, P. M,, Lieut,, Cleve
land, O,
Hawthorn, John, Lieutenant,
Hensey, G. E., Capt, Keosangua,
Iowa,
Plamilton, J, D,, Captain,
Hawke, A, J,, Lieut.-Col,, New Al-
ban3', Ind.
Hale, G, W,, Adj,, Chicago, HI,
Hurlbut S, A., Gen., Belvidere, 111,
Hosmer, H P., Capt,, Chicago, III,
Hunt, J, S., Surg,, Chicago, III,
Hoover, H., Captain, Muscatine,
Iowa,
Hugunin, Jas. R., Gen., Chicago,
HI.
Howe, Jas. H., Col., Chicago, HI,
Hotaling, J, R,, Maj,, Rochelle, III,
Hunting, C PI,, Lieut,, Chicago,
111,
Haraill, W. B,, Lieut, Cedar Falls,
Iowa.
Hamilton, J, C, Maj,, Owatonna,
Minn
Hoge, Geo, B., Col,, Ft, Duncan,
Texas,
Hurry, W, C, Major,
Hazen, W. B., Gen., Ft. Harker,
Kansas.

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327

Irwin, B. J. D., Surgeon, Detroit,
Mich.
Jacobs, W, C,, Major, Akron, O,
Jenney, W. L. B,, Major, Chicago,
III.
Judd, Wm. H., Captain, Jefferson
City, Mo.
Johnson, W. A., Captain, Grand
Lake, Ark.
Johnson, E. S., Maj., Springfield,
Illinois.
Joel, E. M., Lieut-Col., St. Louis,
Missouri.
Jonas, E., Captain, Quincy, 111.
Janes, H. W., Captain, Fortress
Monroe, Va.
Jones, Theodore, Gen., Columbus,
Ohio.
Jacobs, W. C, Surg., Akron, O.
Johnston, N., Lieut.
Kersey, H. E., Lieut., Bethalti,
Madison Co., HI.
Kellogg, C C, Col., Oberiin, O.
Klink, J. G., Col., Rochester, N.Y.
King, S. Noble, Lieut,, Blooming
ton, III.
Keppler, C W., Capt, Newark, O.
Kniffner, Wra. C, Gen,, Belleville,
Illinois,
Ketteler, C. H., Capt., Waterloo,
Illinois.
Keer, Daniel, Lieut., Edwardsville,
Illinois.
Kinsman, O. D., Lieut.-Col,, Clin
ton, Iowa.
Knox, Kilburn, Col., Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
Keeler, Wm. B., Col., Muscatine,
Iowa.
Keables, B. F., Maj., Pella, la.
Kenyon, N. C, Lieut.-Col., Chats-
worth, HI.
Knox, Wm. A., Surgeon, Chicago,
Illinois.
Kennard, G. W., Major, Cham
paign, HI.
Knipe, J. F., Gen., Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania.
Krughoff, Louis, Major, Nashville,
Illinois.
Kalb, J. C, Surg., Columbus, O.
Kemper, A,, Capt., St. Louis, Mo.
Knispel, C P., Captain, Belleville,
Illinois.
Kinney, T. J., Gen,, Vermont, 111.
Kleckner, G. S., Captain.
Klein, Otto.

Keeler, M. E., Lieut,, Belvidere,
Illinois.
Kinslow, A. S., Lieut, Ottawa, 111.
Kittoe, E. D., Surg,, Galena, 111,
Landrum, W. J., Col., Lancaster,
Kentucky.
Leggett, M. D., Maj.-Gen., Zanes-
yille, O.
Laniraan, J., Lieut., Napoleon, O.
Lain, S, M,, Captain,
Lewis, J, v., Capt,, St, Louis, Mo.
Landeman, O, C, Capt,, St, Louis,
Missouri,
Loomis, John Mason, Col., Chi
cago, IU.
Logan, John A., Gen., Washing
ton, D. C
Logan, John, Col., Carlinsville, 111.
Lippincott, Charles E., General,
Chandlerville, 111.
Lowe, S, A., Capt,, Chicago, III,
Logan, Thomas, Lieut.-Col,, Car
thage, 111,
Leuke, J, B,, Lieut,-Col,, Daven
port, la.
Lewis, J. C, Capt., Buchanan, 111.
Lutz, N. L,, Capt, Chicago, 111,
Leib, H., Gen., Springfield, HI.
Lucas, E. W., Lieut.-Col., Iowa
City, Iowa.
Lacey, M. M., Major, Richraond,
Indiana.
Lariner, Jaraes R., Capt., Bloom
ington, III.
Ledyard, G. C, Captain, Chicago,
Illinois.
Lanstrum, C, Captain, Galesburg,
Illinois.
Lovejoy, F. E., Adj., Litchfield,
Michigan.
Lawrence, E. C, Lieut., Chicago,
Illinois.
Loop, C B., Major, Belvidere, HI.
Lynch, W. F,, Col,, Elgin, III.
LaMotle, R. S., Major.
Murphy, D. A., Lieut, St. Louis,
Missouri.
Mason, R. H., Capt., Chicago, 111.
Murphy, P. H., Colonel, St. Louis,
Missouri.
Miles, Joseph, Lieut., Louisville,
Kentucky.
Moss, J. Thomson, Lieut., Cincin
nati, O.
Munson, G. D., Lieut.-Col., Zanes
ville, O.
Mueller, A.

328

Army Reutiion.

Meuraann, Theodore, Col,, East
St, Louis, III,
Miller, P,, Major, Liverpool, O.
Miller. M., Gen., Galena, IU.
Martin, A., Lieut.
Mitraan, Williara, Capt.
Moffat, T. S,, Capt,, Chicago, 111,
Mead, W, G,, Lieut,, Chicago, 111.
Mahon, Samuel, Major, Otturawa,
Iowa.
Merrill, N. H., Capt., Buchanan,
Michigan.
Mather, T. S,, Col,, Springfield,
Illinois,
Marsh, J, R., Dr,, Chicago, III,
Madgeburg, F. H,, Capt., Milwau
kee, Wis,
Martin, James, Gen,, Salem, III.
Morton,  , Col,, St, Louis, Mo,
Mitchell, S, M., Gen,, Colurabus,
Ohio,
Mei-ril, W, T,, Captain,
Mason, W. B,, Capt, Bloomington,
Illinois,
Matz, O, H,, Col,, Ass't Engineer,
Chicago, III.
Maguire, G. A., Capt,, St, Louis,
Missouri.
Moore, J, A., Chaplain,
Marshal, Wra. R,, Gen,, St Paul,
Minnesota,
Markland, A. H,, Col., Washing
ton, D. C.
Merrill, S,, Gen,, DesMoines, la,
Manville, C, P,, Lieutenant,
Munroe, J, H,, Major, Muscatine,
Iowa,
Mayer, D, W,, General,
Moore, J. T,, Lieut,-Col,, Lima,
Ohio,
Moore, John, Col,, Parkersburg,
West Virginia,
Mower, J, A., Gen., New Orleans,
Louisiana.
May, Dwight, Gen., Kalamazoo,
Michigan.
Martin, O., Lieutenant.
Moore, L. W., Capt, Edwardsville,
Illinois.
Mason, George, Major, Chicago,
Illinois.
Martin, Edward, Lieut, Chicago,
Illinois.
McDowell, M., Major, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
McClernand, J. A., Gen., Spring
field, 111.

Mac Feeley, R., Col., Chicago, III.
McCook, Ed., Gen., Springfield,
Illinois.
McGrew, J. S., Lieut.-Col., Cincin
nati, O.
McDonald, Jon., Lieut.-Col,, Saint
Louis, Mo,
McLean, Capt,, St, Louis, Mo,
McGruth, John, Major,
McArthur, John, Gen,, Chicago,
Illinois,
McCoy, J. C, Lieut,-Col,, Peat-
ville. Wis,
McFall, Gen,, St, Louis, Mo.
McKinney, Capt,, Peoria, III.
McClayben-y, R. W,, Major,
McAulei-y, J, T,, Capt,, Chicago,
Illinois,
Mcintosh, A,, Capt,, Joliet, 111,
McDermott, R,, Lieut,-CoI,, Day
ton, O.
McCartney, J. A,, Lieut,, Chicago,
Illinois.
McCauley, P. H., Major, Milwau-
k G G W 1 s
McGi-'ath, P., Capt, Chicago, III.
McNeil, H. C., Lieut, Davenport,
Iowa,
McMillan, Charies, Surgeon, N. Y.
City.
McArthur, H. C., Major, Memphis,
Missouri.
McGinnis, G. S., Gen., Indianapo
lis, Ind.
McKindlj', S, J,, Captain,
McCaleb, H, A,, Col., Ottawa, HI.
Nichols, F. C, Major, St, Joseph,
Wisconsin,
Noble, J, W,, Gen., St Louis, Mo,
Newshara, T, J,, Major, Edwards
ville, 111,
Neely, J, C, Capt, Chicago, IU,
Nichols, E. A,, Capt,, Chicago, 111.
Noleraan, R. D., Capt, Centralia,
Illinois,
Newton, D. C, Captain, Batavia,
Kane Co., HI.
Nesh, J., Captain.
Nichols, R., Surgeon, Blooming
ton, 111.
Norton, J. B,, Major, Earlville, 111.
Noble, H, T., Col,, Dixon, III.
Neil, J. B., Major, Colurabus, O.
Nutt, E. E., Captain.
Noyes, E. F., Gen., Cincinnati, O.
Nichols, A. N., Major,
Nelson, WUliam, Major U. S. A.

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329

O'Connell, John, Capt., St. Louis,
Missouri.
Oglesby, R. J., Gen., Decatur, III.
Owsle}', W. T., Surgeon, Paducah,
Kentucky.
Oliver, H.
O'Kane, J., Lieut-Colonel.
Oliver, J. M., Gen., Little Rock,
Arkansas.
Patier, Charles O., Captain, Cairo,
Illinois.
Parker, Eli, General, Washington,
D. C
Peckham, James, Col., St. Louis,
Missouri.
Phillips, Julius, Capt., HiUsboro,
Illinois.
Parrott, J. C, General, Keokuk,
Iowa.
Porter, F. G., Surgeon, St. Louis,
Missouri.
Putnam, C. N., Captain.
Padon, Williara, Major, Troy, 111.
Pitzman, Julius, Capt,, St. Louis,
Missouri.
Phillips, J. J., Lieut.-Col., HiUs
boro, 111.
Pope, A. J., Major, Sigourney, la.
Pike, R. W., Lieut., Chicago, 111.
Parker, W. B., Lieut, Chicago, 111.
Parker, W. B., Lieut., Douglas, la.
Puterbaugh, G., Capt., Peoria, 111.
Perkins, John L., Major, Burling
ton, la.
Pitraan, W. G., Captain, Madison,
Kentucky.
Pressel, D. W, Lieut, Keokuk, la.
Pullen, J. O., Capt., Blooraington,
Illinois.
Putnam, W. H., Capt., DesMoines,
Iowa.
Peters, M, H., Captain,
Pope, John, Gen,, Detroit, Mich.
Perry, J. J., Captain.
Page, E. E., Lieut., NaperviUe, HI.
Plummer, S. E., Surgeon, Rock
Island, 111.
Pierce, G. T., Colonel, Valparaiso,
Indiana.
Pike, E. W., Lieut., Chicago, IU.
Poke, D. W., Lieut, Warrensburg,
Missouri.
Pfoutz, Ira, Captain, Dayton, O.
Pearson, R. N., Gen., Springfield,
Illinois.
Polk, William, Captain, Freeport,
Illinois.

Peek, W. G , Major, Ironton, Mo.
Puramill, John, Lieut.-Col., Cin
cinnati, Ohio.
Potter, J. B., Surgeon, Columbus,
Ohio.
Paddock, G. L., Major, Chicago,
Illinois.
Pierson, G. L., Lieutenant.
Pride, G. G., Col., New York City.
Perry, A. C., Major, Michigan
City, Ind.
Peirounette, C. A., Capt, Arling
ton, HI.
Powell, E., Maj., Chicago, 111.
Peterson, R. H., Lieut.-Col., Phil
adelphia, Pa.
Potts, B. F., Gen., Columbus, O.
Quinby, S. J., Surgeon, Memphis,
Tennessee.
Rawlins, J. A., Gen., Washington,
D. C.
Romer, Francis, Col., St. Louis,
Missouri.
Ravold, Wra., Lieut., St. Louis,
Missouri.
Randolph, M., Capt, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Reynolds, Thos., Col., Madison,
Wisconsin.
Rowett, R., Gen., Carlinville, III.
Reed, H. T., Gen., Keokuk, Iowa.
Ryan, A. H., Col., Fort Sraith,
Arkansas.
Ross, E. C, Major, Washington
City.
Reed, John, Capt., St. Louis, Mo.
Roots, L. H., Lieut.-Col., DeValls
Bluff, Ark.
Reid, David O., Captain, Rock
Island, 111.
Ruff; W. A., Capt., Chicago, 111.
Reese, Theodore, Captain, Evans
ton, HI.
Rowley, W. R., Gen., Galena, 111.
Ross, L. F., Gen., Avon, III.
Ruggles, J. M., Gen., Havana, 111.
Richraond, J. F., Capt, St. Charles,
111.
Ribsarae, Chris., Captain, Decatur,
111.
Reynolds, J. S., Gen., Chicago, 111.
Reid, J. M., Lieut.-Col., Keokuk,
Iowa.
Rogers, J., Lieut., Chicago, HI.
Ransora, J. P., Lieutenant
Rogers, Geo. C, Gen., Chicago,
IU.

330

Army Reutiion.

Roberts, A, J,, Lieutenant,
Rurasey, J, W., Capt, Chicago, 111.
Rumsey, I. P., Capt, Chicago, HI,
Routh, John L,, Capt,, Blooming
ton, III,
Rossett, L., Lieut,, Springfield, III,
Reid, R, M,, Adj,, Rock Island, III,
Rosenbaum, H., Capt, Toledo, O.
Rutger, F., Lieut, Belvidere, 111.
Randall, J. R., Capt., Wilraington,
HI.
Rice, E. W., Maj.-Gen., Oskaloo
sa, Iowa.
Rose. L. M,, Capt,, Cincinnati, O,
Riggin, John, Gen,, St, Louis, Mo,
Reiley, W, N,, Captain,
Rittenouer, E., Lieut,, Chicago, 111,
Rusk, J, M,, Gen,, Madison, Wis,
Rose, F, M,, Maj., Winona, Minn.
Sraith, John E., Maj.-Gen,, Galena,
III,
Silversparre, A,, Captain, Chicago,
III,
Sullivan, P, J., Col., Cincinnati, O.
Sraith, Giles A., Maj, -Gen,, Bloora
ington, 111,
Swayne, Wager, Gen,, Colurabus,
Ohio,
Spooner, B., Gen., Lawrenceburgh,
Ind,
Spear, E,, Capt,, Warren, O,
Simpson, P.J,, Lieut,-Col,, Green
ville, O,
Schuster, George, St. Louis, Mo.
Sanborn, J. B., General, St, Paul,
Minn.
Sheldon, C S., St. Louis, Mo.
Sanford, W. W., Gen., St. Louis,
Mo.
Simpson, Sarauel P., Lieut.-Col.,
Jefferson City, Mo.
Short R. W., Capt, Brighton, HI.
Steckle, J. H,, Lieut, St, Louis,
Mo,
Seyraour, W, B,, Captain,
Spring, E, S,, Lieut, Macon, Mo.
Simmons, T. H,, Lieutenant,
Strong, W, E,, Gen,, Chicago, III,
Stebbins, F. G., Lieutenant.
Sraith, A. J., Gen., St. Louis, Mo.
Sabine, A., Major, Jeffersonvllle,
Ind.
Safeley, J. J., Maj., Otturawa, Iowa.
Schofield, H., Col., Washington,
Ind.
Semple, Jas., Lieut., Keokuk, Iowa.
Sears, D. B., Lieut., Moline, 111.

Sotterfield, T. R., Chaplain.
Sraith, H.B., Captain.
Sherburne, E. A.. Captain.
Stewart, Owen, Col., Chicago, III.
Smith, i\I. L., Gen., St. Louis, Mo.
Stafford, E. F., Capt, Batavia. 111.
Silva, C. P., Lieut, Chicigo, III.
Swarthout, W., Lieut.-Col., Qiiin-
cy. 111.
Scheel, T. E., Lieut., E. St. Louis,
Mo,
Scates, W. B,, Gen,, Chicago, III,
Starring, F. A., Gen., Chicago, III.
Smith, 'R. a,. Captain,
Shane, John, Col,, Vinton, Iowa,
Scribner, W. S,, Lieut, Helena,
Montana,
Sturges, IL, Capt,, Lincoln, 111,
Shedd, Warren, General, Warrens
burg, Mo,
Smith, A, J,, Capt,, Chillicothe, O.
Still, Rob. A,, Capt,, Chicago, III,
Simpson, John E,, Maj,, Indianap
olis, Ind,
Smith, Miles, Col., Keokuk, Iowa,
Scammon, Charles T., Maj., Chi
cago, HI,
Stewart, W, H,, Capt,, Otturawa,
low-a.
Smith, H, H,, Champaign, III,
Sraith, J. M,, Capt,, Chicago, 111.
Stone, J, C, Colonel, Burlington,
Iowa,
Sraith, J. A,, Capt,, Mattoon, III,
Smith, W, S., Gen,, Chicago, III,
Scott, John, Col,, Nevada, Iowa,
Sanders, A. H,, Gen,, Davenport,
Iowa,
Stockdale, S, H,, Maj,, New Or
leans, La,
Stockton, Joseph, Gen,, Chicago,
111.
Sprague, J. W., General, Winona,
Minn,
Stewart, A, S., Capt,, Woodstock,
HI,
Skinner, H, Lieut,-Col., Winona,
Minn.
Strong, W, A,, Capt, Chicago, 111.
Taylor, Ezra, Gen., Chicago, III.
Tytler, S. S., Lieutenant.
Towne, R. R., Lieut -Colonel, Du
Quoin, 111.
Towne, H. M., Lieutenant.
Tompkins, Logan, Maj., St. Louis,
Mo.
Townsend, C. D., Maj., Chicago, 111.

Army of the Tennessee.

ii'i

Teed, D., Captain, Evanston, HI,
Tyner, N, N., Captain, Davenport,
Iowa.
Tullis, Jas., Lieut-Col., Lafayette,
Ind,
Tillson, John, Gen,, Quincy, 111,
Thomas, D, C,, General.
Toby, E, P,, Lieut, Chicago, HI.
Thomson, T. H., Capt,, Geneva, III.
Terry, U.J,, Lieutenant.
Taggart, C, Capt, Freeport, III,
True, J. M., Gen., Mattoon, 111,
Taylor, F, M,, Lieut, Chicago, III.
True, J, W., Maj., Mattoon, HI.
Titcomb, J. S,, Captain.
Towner, H, N., Maj., Chicago, III.
Thompson, J. N., Maj., St. Joseph,
Mo.
Taggart, Sara'l L., Dubuque, Iowa.
Underwood, N. C, Lieut, Chica
go, 111.
Underwood, B. W., Lieut., Chicago,
HI.
Van Seller, H., Lieut.-Col., Paris,
III.
Van Blessing, L., Col., Toledo, O.
Voges, Theo,, Capt,, Cleveland, O,
VanhoU", Henry D,, Lieut, Spring
field, III,
Vogelson, W. M., Lieut.-Col., Co
lumbus, O.
Van Duzen. D., Col,, Litchfield,
111,
Wright, W. R,, Col,, Canton, 111,
Winslow, C S., Gen., Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Wilson, H., Col., Sidney, O.
Woods, C R., Maj.-Gen,, Newark,
Ohio,
Wyne, Wra, M,, Lieut,, Colurabus,
Ohio,
Walsh, P, J,, Maj,, Cincinnati, O,
Waterhouse, N, C, Col., Hanni
bal, Mo.
Walcutt, C. C, Gen., Colurabus,
Ohio.
Woods, W. B,, Gen,, Newark, O,
Wilson, T, P,, General, St Paul,
Minn,
Ward, Durbin, Gen., Lebanon, O.
Welch, D. N., Capt, New Haven,
Conn.
Walker, J. B,, Capt,, Cincinnati, O,
Woodhull, Max,, Gen,, N, Y, City.
Wanglein, H., Gen., Belleville, 111.
Webber, D., Col., Cincinnati, O.
Ware, W. E., Maj., St. Louis, Mo.

Webster, D. H., Capt., LaCrosse,
Wis.
Wright, H., Capt, Franklin, 111.
Williams, M. H., Col., Dixon, HI.
Willard, L. S., Major, Litchfield,
III.
Wagner, Louis, Lieutenant,
Wilheiras, J. H,, Captain.
Wright, W. W,, General, Leaven
worth, Kan,
Woodworth, J, M,, Surg., Chicago,
111,
Wallace, Wra, L,, Gen,, Ashland,
Ohio.
Wilson, T. P., Capt, Cambridge,
Ohio.
Whittenhall, D. S,, Captain,
Webber, C, Col., Springfield, 111,
Wilson, F, C, Lieut, Chicago, 111.
Woodward, F. J., Capt,, South
Pass, Union Co,, HI,
Wetmore, S. R,, Col,, St, Louis,
Mo,
Webster, J, D., Gen., Chicae-Q, 111.
Wickliffe, J. H., Lieutenant"
Whittlesey, L. H., Col., Chicago,
HI.
Webber, J. C, Gen., Springfield,
III.
White, J. G., Captain.
Welker, F., Capt, Mt Vernon, O.
White, J. W,, Col., Aurora, 111,
Wood, E. J,, Lieut,-Col,, Goshen,
Ind,
Wilson, F, H,, Maj,, Newark, O,
Warner, Jno,, Lieut.-Col.. Clinton,
111.
Wilcox, J. S., Gen., Elgin, III.
White, M. H., Maj., Cincinnati, O.
Welles, G. E., Gen,, Toledo, O,
Winans, J, L., Lieut, Benton Har
bor, Mich.
Waid, H.A., Lieutenant.
Warner, V., Capt., Clinton, HI.
Williams, C, C, Capt,, Boonsbor-
ough, Iowa,
Williaras, G. C, Lieutenant,
Woodbury, H, H,, Adj., Chicago,
III.
Webber, A. B,, Captain.
Wallace, Thoraas, Capt,, Chicago,
HI,
Walker, W, B., Lieut, Harvard, 111.
Warrens, C. H., Lieutenant.
Whiting,  , Lieutenant.
Weaver, C R,, Col,, Ft, Madison,
Iowa,

332

Army Reunion.

Wilson, J. H., Maj.-Gen., Keokuk,
Iowa.
Wilson, O. M., Maj., Indianapolis,
Ind.
Williaras, D. H., Lieut.-Colonel,
Rochester, Minn.
Woods, P. N., Surgeon, Fairfield,
Iowa.
Wood, John, Col., Quincy, 111.

Worden, A., Maj., Oskosh, Wis.
Wood, W. W., Lieut., Belvidere,
III.
York, L. E., Gen., Cincinnati, O.
Youn.g, Wra., Capt, Freeport, 111.
Zickerick, Wra., Capt, Fond du
Lac, Wis.
Zearing, J. R., Maj., Dover, IU.

LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE
ARMY OF THE OHIO.
[Furnished by ihe Secreiary of the Society.]

J. M. Schofield, U. S, A., Maj.-Gen.
Array of Ohio.
J. D. Cox, Major-Gen. 23rd A. C,
Cincinnati, O.
Alfred H. Terry, Major-Gen. U. S.
A., loth A. C.
Jas. H. Ledlie, Brig.-Gen. gth A.
C, Chicago, III.
J. S. Casement, Brig.-Gen., Paines-
ville, O., 23rd A. C
L N. Stiles, Brig.-Gen. 231-d A. C.
Army Ohio, Chicago, 111.
Wm. M. Wherry, Brev. Col. U. S.
A., A. D. C Army Ohio.
J. A. Campbell, Lieut.-Col. U. S.
A., A. D. C Array Ohio.
G. W. Schofield, Brevet Col. U. S.
A., A. D. C Army Ohio.
Wra. Ennis, Brev. Capt. U. S. A.,
4th A. C
C. J. True, Col. 23rd A. C, Lex
ington, Ky.
Jno. Mason Brown, Col. 23rd A.
C, Frankfort, Ky.
Julius White, Brig, and Brev. Ma
jor-Gen. 23rd and gth Corps, Chi
cago, 111.
H. J. Hayden, Brevet Maj. gth C,
Boston, Mass.
Horace Capron, Col. and Brevet
Brig.-Gen. 23rd A. C. U. S. A.,
Washington, D. C.
George Stoneman, Brig, and Maj.-
Gen. Dist. No. I, Richraond, Va.
Walter S. Babcock, Lieut-Col. 12th
U. S, C. H. A. 23rd C, Chicago,
Illinois.
Horace Dexter, Capt 17th Mass.
231-d C, Chicago, 111.
E. H. Hobson, Brig.-Gen. 23rd A.
C, Greensburg, Ky.
Emorv S. Bond, Lieut-Col. 112th
111. Inf, Chicago, III.
S. M. Letcher, Brevet Col. Chief
Cm. Gen. Schofield's Staff, Lex
ington, Ky.

C Fitz Simons, Brevet Brig.-Gen.
gth C, Chicago, 111.
C. D. Rhodes, Captain A. A. G.
Vols., Chicago, 111.
W. M. Dunn, Brevet Brig.-Gen. U.
S. A.
A. C. Loomis, Lieut. 23rd A. C,
Chicago, III.
R. A. Reraick, Lieut. 23rd A. C,
Chicago, HI.
E. W. Seyraour, Lieut. Res. Arty.
Brig., Chicago, III.
D. C. Bradley, Capt. 23rd A. C,
Chicago, III.
C. H. Maple, Capt. and C S. 23rd
Chicago, III.
J. W. Brockway, Capt, Elgin Bat,
231-d A, C, Chicago, 111,
A. M. Wood, Capt. 23rd A. C,
Chicago, 111.
D. G. Rush, Major U. S. V., Chi
cago, III.
W. W. Wheeler, Col. 2Sth Mich.,
Chicago, 111.
Wm. E. Clarke, Major Army Ohio,
Chicago, HI.
Thos. H. McBride, Capt lOOth P.
V. gth A. C
Henry C Brennan, Capt. 20th Ky.
Vol. Inf., Lexington, Ky.
R. W. Smith, Brevet Brig.-Gen.
i6th 111. Cav. gth A. C, Chicago,
Illinois.
George Howison, ist Lieut 'jgth
N. Y. Highlanders, Chicago, 111.
J. P. Tanner, Jr., 104th O. V. I.,
Chicago, HI.
Geo. L. Hartsuff, Brevet Maj.-Gen.
Ass't Adj.-Gen. U. S. A.
J, W. Wallace, Capt i6th Ky. Vet
Vol. Chicago, HI.
E. W. Whitaker, Brevet Brig.-Gen.
U. S. V. Cav. Hartford, Conn.
O. E. Babcock, Brevet Brig.-Gen.
Gen. Grant's Staff', U. S. A.,
Washington, D. C

334

Army Reutiion.

Albert B. Capron, Capt. 14th 111.
Cav., Kenosha, Wis.
Henry Curtis, Jr., Brevet Lieut.-
Col. Vol. and A. A, G, 23rd C,
Rock Island, 111.
Isaac R. Sherwood, B, B, General
iiith O, V, I,, Bi-yda, O
Jas, G, Hatchitt, 23rd A, C, Frank
fort, Ky,
M, G, Ransom, Lieut, Bat, D ist
Ohio Art, Cleveland, O,
G, S, Wormer, B, B. Gen, ist Brig,
4th Div, 23rd A, C, Detroit,
Michigan,
W, E, Hobson, Col, 13th Ky, V, I.
231-d A, C, Bowling Green, Ky,
J, Stearns Smith, Adj, 6th N, H,
V. Vol, gth A, C, Chicago, 111.
Levi T. Schofield, Capt, 103rd O,
V, I,, Cleveland, O,
Elisha Mix, B, B. Gen., Allegan,
Mich,
R. S, Montgomery, Capt, 23rd A,
C, Rock Island, HI,
L, S, Trowbridge, Col, and Brevet
Maj.-Gen. loth Mich. Cav. 23rd
A, C, Detroit Mich,
W, H, Bailhache, Capt, A, Q^ M,
2nd Div, 23rd A, C, Qiiincy, 111,
Jno, C. Joss, 1st Lieut, 3rd Div,
gth A. C, Centreville, Mich,
Jno, Mehringer, Brig.-Gen, 2nd
Div, 23rd A, C, Louisville, Ky.
H. M. Bacon, Chaplain 63rd Ind.
Vol., Toledo, O.
C. A. Zollinger, Col. I2gth Mich.,
New Haven, Mich.
J. U. Wells, Capt, 29th Mich, 23rd
A, C, Kalamazoo, Mich,
Geo, S. Neuman, ist Lieut, 17th
Mich, Inf gth A, C, Chicago,
Illinois.
Adara Waite, Maj. looth and iSgth
Ohio, Toledo, O.
Andrew Young, Capt. 65th III. Inf,
Chicago, HI.
C E. Sargeant, Capt. 103rd Ohio,
Racine, Wis.
W. H. Harris, Lieut-Col. Headq'rs
Army of Ohio, Indianapolis, Ind.
Wra. O. Watts, Capt 37th Ky.
N. Daniels, Capt. Sig. Office, May
ville, Wis.
H, Tindall, Lieut,-Col,
B. O. Carr, Col. and A, Q^ M,,
formerly of General Schofield's
Staff-.

H. H. French, Major Headq'rs A.
of Ohio, Chicago, III.
H. S. Pickards, M.ajor 103rd O. V.
L, Cleveland, O,
J, H, Colvin, Capt. Colvin's Bat,
HI, Light Ari,, Chicago, 111.
J. J, Ruby, Lieut, 14th 111, Cav,,
Chicago, III,
R, M, J. Miller, Captain 65th Ind,
Vol, Inf., Princeton, Ind.
S, G, Remington, Private igth O.
Bat, Adrian, Mich,
S. A, Whitfield, Capt gth N, H. V.,
Cincinnati, O.
Jas. Daly, Captain, Chicago, 111.
F. J. Joliat, Colonel 15th Mo. Vol.
Inf, Chicago, HI.
O. B. Todd, Lieut 120th Ind. Inf,
Laporte, Ind.
W. S. Stewart, Col. 65th IU. V. V.,
Chicago, III.
Geo. P. Lyon, ist Lieut. 65th III.
V. Vol. Chief C. S. A. of O.,
Chicago, III.
R. B. Treat, Col., C. C. S. Array
of Ohio, New York.
C P. Washburn, Capt. iiSth O. V.
I., Little Rock, Ark.
H. H. Thoraas, Capt and A. A. G.
3rd Div. 23rd Corps, Nashville,
Tenn.
E. A. Scovill, Lieut.-Col. 128th O.
V. I., Cleveland, O.
O. L. Spaulding, Col. 23rd Mich.,
St. John's, Mich.
E. B. Whitraan, Lieut.-Col. A. Q^
M., Capt and A. Q^ M. Array
Ohio, Louisville, Ky.
T. E. Milchrist Captain 112th 111.
Vol., Galva, 111,
J, F, Bond, Brevet Brig,-Gen. A,
Q^ M,, Memphis, Tenn,
Milo S, Hascall, Brig,-Gen, 2nd
Div, 23rd A, C, Goshen, Ind,
E. L, Mottley, Lieut,-CoI, 3rd Div.
ist Brig., Bowling Green, Ky,
T, J. Henderson, Brevet Brig.-Gen,
31-d Brig, 3rd Div, 23rd A, C,
Princeton, III,
R, S, Baker, Captain ist Brig, ist
Div., gth A, C, Port Huron,
Michigan.
Chris. Miller, Capt loth Ind. Vol.,
Chicago, 111.
Theo. Crowl, 2nd Lieut. 178th C.
V. I., 23rd A. C, Darlington,
Pennsylvania.

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335

E. A. Starling, Col. 35th Ky. Inf.,
Hopkinsville, Ky.
E. R. Kerstetter, Captain 2nd Div.
23rd A. C, Goshen, Ind.
L. J. Croxton, Capt. and A. Q^M.,
Goshen, Ind.
M. D. Manson, Brig.-Gen. 231-d A.
C, Crawfordsville, Ind.
M. B. Hascall, Lieut.-Col. Array
Ohio, Goshen, Ind.
N, S. Barnes, Lieut,-Col. Surg. U.
S. v., Chicago, HI.
J. E. MuUaly, Maj. 17th Miss. Vol.
231-d A. C, Chicago, 111.
H. C. Babcock, ist Lieut. 23rd A,
C, Waupun, Wis,
Rufus Cheney, Paymaster.
N. M, Curtis, Brig, and Brev. Maj.-
Gen., Ogdensburg, N. Y.
A, Pearson, ist Lieut, 4th Div, 23rd
A, C, Ottawa, III,
O, W, Steel, Col, 23rd A, C, New
York.
N. H. Church, Capt, 124th U, S. C.
T, and Adj, G. D. of K., Potska,
Indiana,
J, W, Ames, Brevet Brig,-Gen. 3rd
Brig. 3rd Div. loth Corps, Bur
lington, Iowa.
A. A, Dewey, Capt 112th III, 23rd
A, C, Chicago, 111.
S. C Burhara, Colonel and C. S,,
formerly of General Schofield's
Staff.
J, S, McClelland, ist Lieut 5th U.
S, T. of 129th Ind., Galesburg,
Illinois.
Sol. DeLong, Lieut.-Col. 23rd A. ¦
C, Fort Wayne, Ind.
Capt C. McKinney loth 111., Dal
las City. 111.
Thos. L. Young, Brevet Brig.-Gen.
iiSth Ohio Vol. Inf, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
H G. Griffin, 1st Lieut 112th 111.
Inf, Cambridge, HI.
R F. Steele, 2nd Lieut 112th 111.
Inf., Geneseo, 111.
J C. Phillips, Captain 23rd A. C,
Chicago, 111.
B. F. Toof, 1st Lieut S3rd 111., Dal
las City, HI.
R. H. Loraax, ist Lieut. 83rd 111.,
Dallas City, III.
W. A. Gibson, Private 124th Ind.
Vol., Cincinnati, O.
E. H. Bacon, Captain, New York.

D. Kuckman, Private 29th N. Y.
Vol. nth A. C, Eton, Ohio.
S. D. Burchard, Captain and A. Q^
M., Beaver Dam, Wis.
Sam. W. Krotr, Private gth A. C,
Chicago, 111.
Chas. Waite, Brig.-Gen. gth A. C,
Sycamore, IU.
A. J. Hiller, Private iSoth O. Vol.,
Dayton, O.
R. R. Griffith, Capt. gth Wis. Bat.
231-d A. C.
Edwin \Vaite, Capt. gth A. C,
Sycamore, HI.
R. S. Botsford, Capt. loth A. C,
Waukegan, III.
Jasper Packard, Brevet Brig.-Gen.
23rd A. C, Laporte, Ind.
Frank Wilson, Capt. igth O. Bat.
23rd A. C, Cleveland, O.
Wm, L, Thomas, Sergt, 23rd A. C,
Flowerfield, Mich.
C F. Knapp, Capt 3gth 111., Chi
cago, Illinois.
Wm. M, Luff', Brevet Major 12th
111, Cav,, Chicago, HI.
Jos, E. Lockwood, Brevet Major
Chief Cora, of Musters, Chicago,
Illinois.
Chas. H. Graves, Capt, and Brev.
Lieut,-CoI. 34th Inf loth A. C,
Gen. Terry's Staff-.
H. K. Milward, Col. i8th Ky. Inf.,
Lexington, Ky.
Geo. O. Williams, Captain 6th Ky.
Cav., Omaha, Neb.
L. P. Wann, Capt gth A. C
J. F. Bradley, Major gth A. C,
Chicago, IU.
Fred. Clemons, Brevet Lieut.-Col.
23rd A. C, Palmyra, N, Y,
N, J, Frink, Maj. 28th Mich,, Mar
shall, Mich.
Geo. B. Green, Adj. 23rd Mich.,
Detroit, Mich.
Wra. Hartsuff", Brevet Brig.-Gen.
Jas. A. Kenly, Lieut 3rd Pa. Reg,,
Johnstown, Pa,
Benj, B, Smith, Major 23rd A. C,
New Mexico,
M. W. Toole, Captain 65th 111,,
Austin, Texas,
T. H. Fisher, Capt 5th Ind. Cav.,
Chicago, HI.
Jno. W. McKinney, 2nd Lieut.
iSgth O. V. I., Chicago, 111.
B. McVickar, Major, Chicago, 111.

336

Army Reutiion.

N. H. Merrill, 2nd Lieut. 35th
Mich. Inf., Buchanan, Mich.
John R. Reno, 2nd Lieut. 25th Ky.
Vol., Granville, Ky.
John C. Crawford, Capt. 1st Min
nesota, Winona, Minn.
J. E. Flagg, B. Capt, 150th 111.
J. F. Huller, Brevet Major 231-d A.
C, Louisville, Ky.
H. N. Davis, Brevet Major and C.
S., Beloit, Wis.
Jno. B. Handy, Capt. 25th Mich.
Inf, 23rd A. C, Three Rivers,
Michigan.
H. W. Wells, Major Chief of Art
23rd A. C, Peoria, III.
Charles W. Clarke, Capt. 6gth U.
S. C. Inf., Jackson, Miss.
Henry Palmer, Brevet Lieut.-Col.
Surg. U. S. v., Janesville, Wis.
Wm. W. H. Beadle, Brevet Brig.-
Gen. 1st Mich. S. S., Boscobel,
Wisconsin.

D. D. Thorpe, 2nd Lieut. 25th
Mich. Inf., Three Rivers, Mich.
Geo. Taylor, Chaplain Sth Mich.
Inf., Ann Arbor, Mich.
Sam. Chadwick, Captain, Three
Rivers, Mich.
D. M. Doty, Capt 118th O. V. L,
Elkhart, Ind.
Wm. W. Burden, Capt. 140th Ind.
Vol., Chicago, HI.
Lewis Wolfley, Maj. 3i-d Ky. Cav.,
New Orleans, La.
Wm. H. Backus, Captain ist Colo
rado Cav., Oberlin, Ohio.
W. H. B. Ramsey, Lieut 51st P. V.,
Indianapolis, Ind.
A. H. Markland, Col. Mail Dep't,
P. O. D., Washington, D. C.
A. Willich, Brig.-Gen. 4th Corps,
Cincinnati, O.
Henry C. Pike, Capt. 23rd Corps,
Chicago, 111.

LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF TLIE ARMY
OF GEORGIA.

Allen, M. V., Capt. 195th HI., Sha-
bona Grove, 111.
Anderson, E. G., Private 74th Ind.,
Ft Wayne, Ind.
Anderson, E. L., Capt. 52nd Ohio,
Cincinnati, O.
Allen, H. L, Capt. 156th 111., Rock-
ton, 111.
Arnold, S. V., ist Lieut. 104th 111.,
Lockport, 111.
Barnum, H. A., Brev. Maj.-Gen.,
Syracuse, N. Y.
Burst, J. W., ist Lieut 105th HI., HI.
Butler, D. J., Private 22nd Wis.,
Chicago.
Buck, H., Maj., 52nd O. V. I., Cin
cinnati.
Blood, Capt. 32nd 111., Chicago.
Brown, R. B., Capt. 2nd Mass.,
St. Louis, Mo.
Boltz, Ferd. F., Capt. 88th Ind.,
Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Buttrick, E. K., A. A. G. ist Div.
20th Corps, Milwaukee, Wis.
Burdick, J. D., Captain 31st Wis.,
Chicago, 111.
Breraan, Jno., 2nd Lieut., Chicago,
IU.
Booth, Wilber C, Sergeant n3th
O. V. I., Columbus, O.
Bows, Wm,, Captain 22nd Wis,,
Cresco, Iowa,
Barnes, S. S., Capt. gth Mich.,
Chicago.
Culocu, C G., Captain 105th 111.,
Sandwich, 111.
Clark, H. S., ist Lieut. 73rd 111.,
Mattoon, HI.
Clay, H. H,, Maj, 102nd HI., Gales
burg, III.
Cogswell, Wm., Brev. Brig.-Gen.,
Salem, Mass.
Cole, Geo. E., Private loth Mich.,
Chicago.
Crawford, F. C, Brevet Major,
Terre Haute, Ind.

Coe, A. L., Capt. 51st 111., Chi
cago.
Chadrick, S., Captain 2Sth Mich.,
Mich.
Chrebro, O. B., Private 20th Army
Corps, Chicago.
Crane, A. B., Lieut.-Col, 85th Ind.,
New York.
Dyer, R. F., Sergeant 104th 111.,
111.
Deardoff, D. P., Capt. 74th Ind.,
Goshen, Ind,
Deane, Charles H., Brev. Lieut-
Col,, Peoria, 111,
Dodge,  , Asst,-Surg, 74th Ind,,
Elkhart, Ind,
Daniels, S. T,, Capt 105th 111.,
Wheaton, III.
Detzler, E. H., 2nd Lieut. 105th
HI,, HI,
Delhi, Charles, Captain 23rd HI,,
Chicago,
Donelson, Augustus, ist 111, Art.
Deyden, W. A,, 14th Corps, Mon
mouth, 111,
Dutton, E, F,, Brev, Brig,-Gen,,
Sycamore, III,
Day, W. H,, Brev, Major loth O,
Cav,, Dubuque, Iowa,
Dustin, Daniel, Brev. Brig.-Gen.,
105th 111., Sycamore, 111.
Dysart, A. P., Col. 34th 111., 111.
Evans, D., Sergeant 31st Wis., St.
Paul.
Emmit, J. H., Lieutenant 34th III.,
Franklin, 111.
Elliott, Frank, Battery M ist N. Y.
Art, Medina, N. Y.
Ellis, Milo D., Capt. 87th Ind.
Peru, Ind.
Flint, C. C, ist Lieut. 13th Mich.,
St Louis, Mo.
Eraser, Geo. N. C, Capt 5th Ohio,
Cincinnati.
Farrington, Geo. E., 1st Lieut. 85th
Ind., Terre Haute, Ind,

338

Army Reunioti.

Green, George, Major 78th 111,,
Chicago,
Greenhut, J,, Captain 82nd 111,,
Chicago.
Grouty, Y., Brev. Brig.-Gen,, Cin
cinnati,
Grisher, A,, Capt. i6th 111, Cav,,
Chicago,
Hatchard, Thomas, Surgeon 22nd
Wis., Milwaukee, Wis,
Hinkley, W,, Capt, 3rd Wis., Mon
roe, Wis.,
Hill, H. R., Lieut.-Col, 115th O,
V, I,, East Liverpool, O,
Hicks, B, M,, Capt — Mich.,  ,
Mich.
Hartley, C. S., Capt. 28th Penn.
Vol., Chicago.
Howe, Charles, Lieut, ist HI, Art,
Henry, 111,
Hanson, James, Capt, 33rd Mich.,
Chicago.
Herrick Charles K,, Private 82nd
111., Chicago,
Hinkley, L. D,, ist Lieutenant loth
Wis.,  , Wis,
Heath, Geo, B., Capt 105th III.,
 , 111
Hamraerid, J, P., Chicago.
Hansel, H. N,, Lieut, 21st Wis,,
Toledo, O,
Jordan, T, M,, Surgeon 78th 111.,
Chicago.
Klein, Jacob, Captain 25th Inf.,
Washington, D. C
Kenode, M. A., Lieut nth Mo,,
Centralia, 111,
Halb, J, C, 1st Sergeant, 42nd O.
V, I., Colurabus, 0.
Knipe, Joseph F., Brig.-Gen,, 20th
Corps.
Lee, Alfred E., Capt, 82nd O, V.
I., Delaware, O.
Leete, Jaraes M,, Lieut,-Col., St
Louis, Mo,
Langley, G, W,, Col. 125th IU,,
Charapaign, HI,
Lippert, P, H., ist Lieut, 24th 111,,
Chicago,
Lucas, A, F,,  84th Ind., Mon
mouth, 111.
Lewis, Geo. F., ist Lieut. 31st
Wis., Elgin, IU.
Lewis, A. T,,  , 31st Wis., El
gin, 111.
Long, H. C, Capt 78th Ind., Ro
chester, Ind.

Lacj,', H, A,, Capt.  , Detroit
Mich,
Mindil, Geo, W,, Brev. Maj.-Gen.
Philadelphia, Penn.
Miller,  , Col, 33rd Ind,, Wil
liarasport, Ind.
May, D. R,, Capt, 22nd Wis,, Ra
cine. Wis,
McClurg, A, C, Brev. Brig,-Gen.,
Chicago, 111,
McWilliam, John, Lieut. i2Sth HI.,
Odell, 111.
Newraan, C, E,, Capt 2nd Mich,,
Chicago, III,
Pease, Grama!, Private S3rd HI,,
Victoria, III,
Peters, M, H,, Major 74th Ohio,
^\'atseka, III,
Peasle, L, L., ist Lieut. 105th III.,
NaperviUe, III,
Robinson, I, S,, Brev. Maj.-Gen,,
Kenton, O.
Ramsey, A. B., Assist-Surg., Three
Rivers, Mich.
Reynolds, G, W,, Capt, 83rd HI.,
 , HI.
Rogers, T. S., Captain 105th 111,,
 , 111,
Rockefeller, F,, Cleveland, O,
Slocum, Henry W., Major-General,
Brooklyn, N. Y,
Sraith, F, C, Brev, Brig, -General,
Oneida, III,
Stephens, E. B., Brev. Maj. 137th
N. Y.,  , N, Y,
Smith, John D., Lieut. g2nd O. V.
I,, Alton, 111,
Scroggs, George, Lieut, 125th III,,
Champaign, 111,
Salomon, E, S,, Brev, Brig, -Gen,,
Chicago,
Smith, A. A., Brev, Brig. -General,
Galesburg, III,
Sears, P. C, Captain 33rd Mass,,
Chicago.
Smith, Melvin, 1st Lieut. 105th III.,
Wheaton, III.
Sexton, W, H,, 1st Lieut 831-d 111,,
Monraouth, III,
Speed, John, Lieut, and A, A, A,
G., Louisville, Ky,
Slocura, John G.,  102nd 111,,
Oneida,  ,
Taylor, David, Jr., Capt. 113th O.
V. I., Taylor's Station, O.
Tuttle, R. M., Capt. 20th Corps,
Hornelsville, N. Y.

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Vliet, John B., Capt 31st Wis.,
Lawrence, Kan.
Vallette, H. F., Lieut.-Col. 105th
IU., Wheaton, III.
Thoraas, W. R., Capt,  , Syca
more, 111.
Talbott. J. B.. Private 83rd 111.,
Galesburg, 111.
Scott, W., Jr., ist Lieut. 105th 111.,
Maysville, III.
Vanderver, Wm., Brev. Maj.-Gen.,
Dubuque, Iowa.
Whittelsey, Henry M., Brev. Brig.-
Gen., Washington, D. C
Waterman, Alf., Surg., 105th 111.,
Wheaton, HI.
Matteson, A. B., Capt. 102nd HI.,
Oneida, 111.

Wade, A. B., Col., 73rd Ind., South
Bend, Ind.
Widner, John H., Major 26th Wis.
Vol,, Milwaukee, Wis.
Warner, Wm,, Capt, 82nd 111.,
Chicago,
Willard, H, H,, D. C
Wells, George H., ist Surg, 123rd
N, Y„ Chicago,
Whiteraire, H. C, Capt. 2nd 111
Art, Sycaraore, 111.
Wilward, H. K., Col. 18th Ky. V
V. I., Lexington, Ky.
Wilcox, R. H., Orderly Sergeant
123rd N. Y.,  , N, Y,
Wolfley, Lewis, Maj, 3rd Ky, Cav.,
New Orleans, La.

The above is a true list of names of meinbers of the Society Army of
Georgia, so near as I am able to copj- from their autographs,
David Taylor, Jr,,
Recording Sec. Army of Georgia.

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