Louisville, Kentucky, our sincere regrets that distance and duties here prevent us from meeting with them on this occasion. We also join with them in mourning the loss by death of our beloved comrade and President, General John A. Rawlins, a generous and true friend, a brave and noble soldier, honored and loved by all who knew him. Very respectfully, your comrades, WM. F. Wheeler, Late Captain 4th Minn. Vols., U. S. Marshal Montana. W. S. SCRIBNER, Late First Lieutenant 16th Wis. Infantry Vols., Secretary of Montana. F. C. DEIMLING, Late Colonel 10th Regt. Mo. Infantry, Virginia City, M. T. GENERAL A. HICKENLOOPER, KANSAS CITY, MO, October 23rd, 1869. Corresponding Secretary Society of Army Tennessee, Cincinnati, O.: Dear Sir:—Your favor of July 26th, covering notice of next regular meeting of our Society, was duly received. In return please accept my thanks. I would also tender to my comrades my sincere regret, because of my inability, through necessities of business, to be with them on that interesting occasion, and that whatever may be the changes in life, I shall always remember with pride that I was a soldier of the Army of the Tennessee. Very truly yours, ROBT. C. CROWELL, Late Major 26th Mo. V. I., 3rd Brig., 3rd Div. 15th A. C. GENERAL A. HICKENLOOPER, SANTA FE, N. M., October 12th, 1869. Corresponding Secretary Society of the Army of the Tennessee, Cincinnati : DEAR SIR:-Your notice of the time and place of the next annual meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee has been received. Soon after the close of the war I came to New Mexico, and have never yet had the pleasure of being present at any of the reunions, and I regret very much to state that it will be impossible for me to attend this year. And more especially do I regret, because year by year our members are growing less; our comrades are taken from us by an all-wise Providence; a loss to earth but a gain to heaven. A few brief years and we will all have made our final departure. The Society of the Army of the Tennessee can be perpetuated in the same manner as the Cincinnati Society of our continental fathers. Although I may never be present at any of these social reunions, yet my heart is ever with you. Yours cordially, H. M. DAVIS, Late Captain Co. C, 20th Regt. O. V. I., 2nd Brig., 3rd Div., 17th A. C. FORT CUMMINGS, N. M., August 14, 1869. GENERAL:-By recent papers I see that a meeting of the "Army of the Tennessee" is ordered for November 17th, 1869. As a former officer of that grand old army, I should love to be present, and think I shall. I desire a certificate of membership; but not knowing anything about the organization, I write for information. Be kind enough to send me a certificate, if that be possible, and I will heartily remit the required fee. I served as an officer of the 48th regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky, July 23rd, 1865. Very truly your obedient servant. J. C. MCBRIDE, First Lieutenant 38th Infantry, Brevet-Captain, U. S. A. ROCKFORD, ILL., April 29, 1869. GENERAL A. HICKENLOOPER: MY DEAR GENERAL:-I have just arrived from Utah, where I have lived for two years past. I regretted my inability to attend the meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee held at Chicago, 15th December, 1868. Accept thanks for report of the proceedings of the above meeting. I am anxious to keep up my connection with the Society. I leave in a few weeks for Brussels, to which place I have been appointed consul. My address will be at this place (Rockford). Hoping to have the pleasure of attending a meeting of your Society before the end of many years, and wishing you health and success, I remain faithfully yours, A. L. CHETLAIN. WASHINGTON, D. C., November 2, 1869. JOHN M. HARLAN, ESQ., Chairman Committee on Invitations, etc., etc., Louisville, Ky.: SIR-I have the honor to acknowledge your invitation to attend the annual reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee and the Cavalry Corps of the Military Division of the Mississippi, and regret that I will not be able to be present on that interesting cccasion. With sincere regards, I am your obedient servant, HON. JOHN M. HARLAN, EDWIN M. STANTON. WASHINGTON, November 11, 1869. Chairman Committee on Invitations: SIR:-I am in receipt of your favor of the 25th ultimo, inviting me, on behalf of the committee, to attend the annual reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee and the Cavalry Corps of the Military Division of the Miss issippi, to be held at Louisville, Kentucky, on the 17th and 18th instant. I beg to return to yourself and the committee my sincere thanks for this flattering recognition of my sympathy with the deeply interesting event to which you allude. My official engagements here will deprive me of the pleasure of accepting your invitation, but in spirit, and in earnest appreciation and grateful remembrance, I will be with the survivors of the noble army to which you refer, and who have made for themselves an imperishable record of valor and patriotism. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. HOLT. DAYTON, OHIO, November 9, 1869. GENERAL JNO. M. HARLAN, Chairman Committee on Invitations: GENERAL:-A protracted absence has prevented an earlier reply to your kind invitation to be present at the annual reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, to be held at Louisville on the 17th instant. I assure you nothing could give me greater pleasure than to meet my former comrades of that grand old army, the men with whom I stood at Shiloh, Mission Ridge, in the Atlanta campaign, and at Nashville; and if it is pos sible I will attend the approaching meeting. Should it be impossible for me to be present, I beg you will assure our assembled comrades that I will be with them in the most cordial sympathy and the warmest fraternal feelings. Pray greet them for me individually and collectively. Very truly, your friend and late comrade-in-arms, TH. J. WOOD, Major-General U. S. A. HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE ATLANTIC, JOHN M. HARLAN, Chairman Committee on Invitations, Louisville, Ky.: DEAR SIR:—I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th ultimo, inviting me to attend the annual reunion of the Army of the Tennessee, to be held on the 18th instant, to return you my sincere thanks for the compliment paid me, and to express my extreme regret that my public and private engagements will not permit my being present. Very respectfully your obedient servant, GEO. G. MEADE, Major-General U. S. A. HOBOKEN, November 2, 1869. GENERAL J. M. HARLAN, Chairman Committee on Invitations: GENERAL:-I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your most courteous invitation to be present at the annual reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee and the Cavalry Corps of the Military Division of the Mississippi. I regret extremely that business engagements will render it impossible for me to avail myself of your kind invitation, for which I beg to offer my warmest thanks. With my cordial wishes for the complete success of the reunion, and the continued prosperity of the two Societies. I am, most truly yours, GEO. B. MCCLELLAN. ST. PAUL, MINN., November 8, 1869. TO GENERAL JOHN M. HARLAN, Chairman Committee on Invitations: GENERAL: Your communication of October 25th, inviting me to be present on the occasion of the annual reunion of the Societies of the "Army of the Tennessee" and the Cavalry Corps of the Military Division of the Mississippi, to be held at Louisville, Kentucky, on the 17th instant, has been received. I regret that it will not be convenient for me to accept the courteous invitation which you have so politely conveyed. I beg, however, to state, that it would afford me real pleasure to meet the gentlemen assembled from these renowned bodies of troops, and to express the hope that their meeting may be as happy as their valor in the field was distinguished. I am truly your obedient servant, WINFIELD S. HANCOCK, STATE OF INDIANA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, COLONEL JOHN M. HARLAN, Chairman Committee of Invitations: DEAR SIR:-I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your kind communication of the 1st instant, inviting me to attend the annual reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee and the Cavalry Corps of the Mississippi Division, to be held in the city of Louisville, on the 17th and 18th days of the present month. Be pleased to accept for yourself, and the committee over which you preside. my profound thanks for the honor of the invitation, with the assurance that it will afford me much pleasure to attend the reunion, unless prevented by other engagements, which I fear will be the case. Whether I shall be able to be with you or not, you will have my best wishes for the prosperity of your association and for the success of the approaching reunion. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, NEW YORK CITY, 363 West 28th Street, November 12, 1869. GENERAL JNO, M. HARLAN, Chairman Committee of Invitations: DEAR SIR:-Your polite invitation to attend the annual reunion of the Army of the Tennessee has been received. I regret extremely private business prevents me from accepting. Very respectfully, SCHUYLER HAMILTON. GENERAL JNO. M. HARLAN, NEW YORK, November 10, 1869, Chairman Committee on Invitations, Louisville, Ky.: MY DEAR GENERAL:—It is with regret that I find myself obliged to decline your kind invitation to the "annual reunion of the Army of the Tennessee and the Cavalry Corps of the Military Division of the Mississippi," on the 17th and 18th instant, but my business arrangements for the month are of such a nature as to demand my personal attention here. Thanking you for the remembrance, and with hearty good wishes for a pleasant reunion with your old comrades, I am very truly yours, A. E. BURNSIDE, BREVOORT HOUSE, NEW YORK CITY, November 5, 1869, JOHN M. HARLAN, Chairman of Committee on Invitations: DEAR SIR:-Your polite invitation to attend the annual reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee and Cavalry Corps of the Military Division of the Mississippi, to be held in Louisville, on the 17th and 18th instant, is received. It would afford me sincere pleasure to meet my gallant companions-in-arm on the occasion of their reunion, but I fear that the state of my health will deprive me of that pleasure. Very respectfully your obedient servant, J. HOOKER, STATE OF OHIO, EXECUTIve DepartmENT, Ì GENERAL JOHN M. HARLAN, Chairman Committee on Invitations Society Army of the Tennessee: SIR-I regret that I shall not be able to attend the reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee and the Cavalry Corps of the Mississippi Division, to be held at Louisville on the 17th and 18th of this month. I was present at the last reunion of the Society at Chicago, and the best wish I can express for the association is, that the reunion at Louisville may be as successful in all respects as the one which I attended last year. Thanking you for the honor of the invitation, I remain very respectfully, R. B. HAYES, JOHN M. HARLAN, ESQ., TREASURY DEPARTMENT, November 2, 1869, Louisville, Kentucky: SIR-While it would give me pleasure to accept your invitation to attend the annual reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee and of the |