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composed of the following gentlemen, all of whom were participants in the sanguinary struggle on the Chickamauga field:

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With the sincere wish that the meeting of your association will be a pleasant one, I remain,

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I have a matter to bring before the Society. It is well known that there are many pens and many minds busy in trying to write a history of the events of the war, and also that an official history eventually will have to be written, and that which is being prepared under the authority of the Government of the United States is partly out of print, and that the present volume and current volumes of Official Records of the War, which are now being published, are accessible only to a few persons, and you will therefore understand the spirit of the resolution which I now offer:

"Resolved, That a Committee consisting of the President and Corresponding Secretary of the Society and GENERAL H. V. BOYNTON be appointed to prepare and submit to the Congress of the United States a memorial, on behalf of this Society, urging and recommending an appropriation for a large edition and republication of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion."

The motion was carried.

LIEUTENANT RUHм:

I have another matter to lay before the Society. Since our last meeting, one has died who, probably more than any one other person, took an interest in the history of the Army of the Cumberland; in view of which I offer this resolution, and ask that it be spread upon the Minutes of this meeting:

The Society of Army of the Cumberland has been informed that since our last Reunion the widow of MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE H. THOMAS has departed this life, and has found her last resting-place by the side of her noble and never to be forgotten husband who lies buried at Troy, N. Y. We cherish the memory of her who was a true companion to him whom we honored and loved, and, as a token of our respect, it is ordered that this memorial be published in the records of our proceedings.

The resolution was adopted.

GENERAL CIST:

I have a resolution I would like to present to the Society. It is following after the resolution which was offered yesterday directing that a set of the reports of the Society be presented to the Union Prisoners of War National Memorial Asssociation.

There are a great many of these associations, but this one has special claims upon every soldier who fought in the Rebellion. These men who died in the prison-pens were doubly martyrs, and this prisoners' memorial association deserves to have the indorsement of this Society, as it has received the indorsement of several military organizations, notably the Army of the Potomac and the Grand Army. This resolution is as follows:

WHEREAS, We have learned with much pleasure of the incorporation of "The Union Prisoners of War National Memorial Associa

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tion," and of its determination to erect a memorial hall in the city of Washington, D. C., to the memory of the Union soldiers who died in the prison-pens of the so-called Confederacy during the war for the preservation of the Union; therefore, be it

Resolved, That the Society of the Army of the Cumberland at its Twenty-first Reunion in the city of Toledo, Ohio, September 17 and 18, 1890, does most cordially indorse the movement, and extends to "The Union Prisoners of War National Memorial Association" our congratulations and best wishes for the success of the great and worthy. enterprise it has inaugurated, and will gladly contribute whatever aid we can in accomplishing the noble work of the Association.

I move that resolution be adopted.

THE PRESIDENT :

You have heard that resolution. It is not for the Chair to discuss these things, but I think the Society ought to pay particular attention to the demand. Nobody supposes that I do not have all the sympathy possible for all those who suffered in these prisons and for those who died, but we must remember that there are lots of persons who go to these Associations who never were prisoners, and we don't want to go very rashly into any thing we don't know about. I have been asked to join that Association, and have declined it personally. We want to do what is right and just, but if we pass this resolution let us do it with our eyes open.

LIEUTENANT COCHRAN :

Is there any thing here which expresses the objects of this association by its articles of incorporation or any thing of that sort?

GENERAL CIST:

Yes, the expressed objects are to build in Washington City a Memorial Hall, which will be known as the memorial to the Union prisoners of war who died in the South as prisoners. The expressed object of the organization is to build this hall for the use of the Grand Army Posts in Washington City, and for the purpose of collecting mementoes to be preserved there as a military museum of the United States.

MISS CLARA BARTON, who is connected with the Red Cross, and who had charge of Andersonville five or six months after the war, collected a large amount of material, as, for instance, the original copy containing the name of every soldier who was in Andersonville, and has promised to place this all at the disposal of the association. The object of the association is to have a place where these records can be kept, and to have a Memorial Hall which shall be known as a memorial of the Union prisoners of war who died in the South.

LIEUTENANT RHUM :

Inasmuch as so little is known of the organization which we are now asked to indorse, I would move, for the purpose of bringing it properly before the Society, that the resolution be referred to the officers of the Society, with direction to report at the next meeting.

The motion was carried.

LIEUTENANT COCHRAN :

Gentlemen of the Society, in talking among some members last evening, we thought it would be a profitable way for you to dispose of this afternoon that such of you as desired shall go to the Manual Training School, and that after dinner we have a reception in this hall where every man may meet and greet our President and our members of the Society and have a social and easy time of it.

The Committee on the Banquet desire to say that if there are any other members of the Society who want banquet tickets, to please make it known immediately, as we want to provide others of our citizens who desire them. We are going to have others at our Banquet to-night; we have got a letter from GENERAL ALGER this morning, who, though his child is sick, will be with us. The hour of the Banquet is 9:30.

Here the meeting adjourned.

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JOHN W. STEELE,

Recording Secretary.

REPORT OF GENERAL J. S. FULLERTON,

Treasurer of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, made at the Toledo Meeting, September 19 and 20, 1890.

J. S. FULLERTON, Treasurer,

1889.

In Account with

THE SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND

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Sept. 18. To balance in hand this date, reported at the Chatta-
nooga meeting......

18. To Initiation fees paid by ninety-one members who
joined the Society at the Chattanooga meeting. (For
names and amounts paid see EXHIBIT A.)....................
18. To Re-initiation fees paid by seventeen former mem-
bers who rejoined the Society at the Chattanooga
meeting. (For names and amounts paid see Ex-
HIBIT B.).......

18. To Society dues paid at the Chattanooga meeting. (For
names of members who paid such, years for which
paid, and amounts paid, see EXHIBIT C.)........

1890. Sept. 16.

To dues, and subscriptions to the Sheridan Statue fund,
paid since the Chattanooga meeting, to date. (For
names of members who paid the same, date of pay-
ments, and amounts paid, See EXHIBIT D.).

$2,391 24

455 00

85 00

540 00

775 00

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Sept. 18. By amount paid for new book in which to record names

of new members....

18. By profit and loss, charged by order of the Society.....
By express charges paid on Society books forwarded
from Chattanooga to St. Louis.....

23.

30. By amount paid for printing blank receipts and orders
for volumes, Voucher 1..............

Amount carried forward....

$4,246 24

$ 1 00 10.00

1 15

275

$14 90

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