General Gresham offered as an amendment that our President, Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer be elected and continued for the ensuing year without action of the Committee on Nominations. General Sherman protested on his own behalf to such action and desired a full expression of the Society, though he would prefer being released from further. duties of President. General Swayne, in an effort to call a vote on the motion, was called to order by the President, as such proceeding would take the matter from the Committee which should not be done. General Swayne, however, put the motion as one of the committee and claimed it was legitimate and it was carried, as amended, by acclamation. General Sherman again protested, and requested that some one else be selected, but General Gresham called a point of order that the motion was carried and was not now debatable. During an interim of business at this time, the Corresponding Secretary read the following communications from absent members. LETTERS. COUNCIL BLUFFS, April 3, 1871. GENERAL A. HICKENLOOPER, Corresponding Secretary Society Army of Tennessee: DEAR SIR:—I have delayed answering yours of March 1st, hoping that I should be able to attend the meeting of our Army this month, but it comes at a time that I am under engagements that I can not break. I regret this very much as I had looked forward to this meeting with more than usual interest. I hope you will have a successful, harmonious and pleasant reunion, and that you will all come out of it, as our old army used to from a fight, feeling good with your great success and ready for another. Wishing to be remembered to my old comrades one and all, I am truly, Your obedient servant, G. M. DODGE. 357 West 31st St. NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., March 14, 1871. GENERAL A. HICKENLOOPER, Corresponding Secretary Society of the Army of the Tennessee: GENERAL:—I regret I shall not be able to participate in the reunion of our Society, April 6th and 7th next. Agreeably to your written request and in accordance with article 3rd of our Constitution it may afford pleasure to such of my friends as may chance to be present at the reunion to be informed that after years of protracted and severe suffering from wounds and disease, incurred in the service, which resulted in partial paralysis, I have recovered and am about to enjoy, once more, through the kindness of Major-General Geo. B. McClellan, engineer-in-chief of the docks and wharves of New York City, the highest of all human blessings-that of earning bread by the labor of my hands and the sweat of my brow-in the practice of my profession as a civil engineer. With my best wishes for the health and happiness of each and all of the members of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee and of the members of the kindred societies, and cordial respect to yourself, I remain, Very truly yours, SCHUYLER HAMILTON, Late Major-General Vols. U. S. A. DECATUR, ILL., March 9, 1871. GENERAL A. HICKENLOOper, Corresponding Secretary S. A. of T.: Your notice of the next meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at Cincinnati, Ohio, 6th and 7th of April next, was received to-day. It will be impossible for me to attend the meeting this year. I hope the occasion may be one of profit and pleasure to all who may be present. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, R. J. OGLESBY, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, MONTANA TERRITORY, GENERAL A. HICKENLOOPER, Cincinnati, O.: DEAR GENERAL:-I regret that distance and official duties here will prevent me from being present at the fifth reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, to be held in your city on the 6th and 7th proximo. From my Rocky Mountain home I send a soldier's greeting to my brothers of the "old Army in council. God bless them and the country they did so much to save. Yours sincerely, B. F. POTTS. OFFICE OF U. S. MARSHALL, MONTANA TERRITORY, ) GENERAL A. HICKENLOOPER, HELENA, March 23, 1871. Corresponding Secretary Society Army Tennessee, Cincinnati, O.: DEAR SIR:—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your notice of the time and place of meeting of our Society. My official duties and the great distance from here to Cincinnati will prevent my attendance, but I shall not forget the time or occasion, and trust that at some other reunion I may be present. I am sir, Very respectfully, etc., WM. F. WHeeler. P. S. I am trying to raise another $50 for the McPherson Monument Fund. When I get that, will send on the list of subscribers. FORT WAYNE, MICH., March 21, 1871. DEAR GENERAL:-In response to your circular letter of the 1st instant, I regret to state that I shall be deprived the pleasure of meeting with our comrades of the Army of the Tennessee at the anniversary meeting on the 6th and 7th proximo, as I am under order to change station from here to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. I regret exceedingly that I can not be present to greet the old friends, when acquaintance was made under such vivid circumstances as introduced to each other at Shiloh" the personnel of the armies of the Cumberland and the Tennesssee, to the former of which I belonged at that time. With cordial greetings to all our tried and true companions, and with sincere wishes that your meeting may be like all of ours, a glorious reunion. I remain, fraternally yours, B. J. D. IRWINE, Surgeon and Brevet-Colonel U. S. A. GENERAL A. HICKENLOoper, KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 21, 1871. Corresponding Secretary Army Tennessee, Cincinnati, Ohio: DEAR SIR:-Your circular of 1st inst., enclosing notice of fifth annual meeting of our Society, was duly received. In reply I would state that, because of the requirements of business I am very reluctantly compelled to be absent from this gathering of comrades and their friends. Yet, though absent in person my heart is with you, for their is a tie that binds men who have stood shoulder to shoulder in the trying hours of battle, that none can forget even if it were desired, and only those who have then earned the name of comrade can truly appreciate. Permit me to express my earnest wishes for the welfare of the Society, and the individual happiness of each of its members, and I remain, GEN. A. HICKENLOOPER, Very truly yours, Corresponding Secretary, etc.: ROBT. C. CROWELL, Late Major 26th Mo. Inf`ty Vols. BLUE GRASS STOCK FARM, AVON, ILL., March 30, 1871. DEAR SIR:-It would afford me great pleasure to meet and take by the hand again my old friends of the Army of the Tennessee. Other engagements will prevent my doing so at this time. The meeting I know will be a happy, a joyous one, and I hope all may live to enjoy many such. In compliance with article 3rd of our Constitution, can only say I am in my usual health. Am engaged in farming and stock-raising, and well pleased with the business. It may interest some of my old friends to know that a year ago my neighbors honored me by electing me to the offices of Supervisor of the town and School Director. I also hold the position of Corresponding Secretary of the “Union Farmers' Club" of this place. I have tried to discharge these positions in a proper manner, and do not design to be too much elated by my accumulation of honors. With kindest regards to all, I remain very truly, etc., LEONARD F. Ross. COLONEL L. M. DAYTON, CONSTANTINOPLE, TURKEY, February 13, 1871. Secretary Society Army of the Tennessee: MY DEAR SIR:-I send you herewith three dollars. Two for Army Reunion and other documents, and one for my dues for 1871. I preserve a warm interest in the affairs of the Society, and if you can so record my name and address as to insure the sending to me of future reports I shall be much obliged. Although I am probably a fixture here for some years, I take much pleasure in knowing what becomes of our old comrades of the campaigns from Fort Donelson to Raleigh. Very truly yours, H. O. DWIGHT. Late 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant 20th O. V. Infantry. DECATUR, ILL., April 5, 1871. GENERAL A. HICKENLOoper, Secretary: DEAR SIR:-Circumstances over which I have not the entire control will prevent me from being with you tomorrow. I assure you I am very much disappointed, for I had anticipated a joyous time meeting so many of my old comrades. I wish you to see that my name is entered upon the roll. Send me a statement of my account with the Society, and I will remit you the amount. Remember me to members of the "Old Staff" who may be present, and to all old army friends. Hoping you may enjoy a glorious time, and that I may have the pleasure of meeting you at the next meeting of the Society, I am, Yours truly, GEORGE R. STULE. PRINCETON, ILL., April 3, 1871. GENERAL A. HICKENLOoper, Corresponding Secretary Society Army Tennessee: SIR:—I am reluctantly compelled to send my regrets that I cannot meet with our Society at its reunion of the 6th and 7th. I have been in the hands of the doctor for some time, but indulged the hope, until now, that I would escape him in season to meet with my friends on this interesting anniversary. Please to assure them my interest is unabated, and I shall ever stand ready to contribute my mite, to carry out the aims and objects of our association. With best wishes for all, I remain, Yours truly, C. C. KELLOGG. UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE, COLLECTOR'S OFFICE FIRST DISTRICT KY., PADUCAH, April 5, 1871. GENERAL A. HICKENLOOPER, Corresponding Secretary Society Army of Tennessee, Cincinnati, O.: SIR:-I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of invitation to attend the fifth annual meeting of the Society, at Cincinnati on the 6th and 7th instant, and regret exceedingly that my official duties as Collector Internal Revenue are pressing me so close just at this time as to render it improper for me to leave my office; hence I will not be able to attend. MY DEAR GENERAL:-I have the honor to inform you that I received your notice of the fifth annual meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. and I am sorry to say that, owing to a press of professional business, I will be unable to attend in person, but rest assured I will be with you in the spirit. I was with the Army of the Tennessee from its organization until after the surrender of Atlanta, and I have always considered the battle of Shiloh the severest ordeal through which it passed. I therefore deem the 6th and 7th of April the most appropriate time for this annual meeting of the Society. I hope you may have a happy reunion, and believe me, General, that on the 6th and 7th the memory of Shiloh and the Army of the Tennessee will be with me. Your obedient servant, C. GOODBRAKE, Late Surgeon 20th Illinois Infantry. |