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List, giving the year and place of the several meetings of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, with the date of each:

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Washington, D. C.

.Toledo, O.

12th-1880. September 22d and 23d
13th-1881. September 21st and 22d......................................... Chattanooga, Tenn.
September 20th and 21st....................... ...... Milwaukee, Wis.

14th-1882.
15th-1883. October 24th and 25th..

...Cincinnati, O.

18th........ ..Rochester, N. Y.

16th-1884. September 17th and 18th. 17th-1885. September 16th and 17th...........Grand Rapids, Mich. 18th-1887. May 11th and 12th......................

.Washington, D. C.

19th-1888. September 19th and 20th................... ................. ....Chicago, Ill. 20th-1889. September 18th and 19th..............Chattanooga, Tenn. 21st-1890.. September 17th and 18th......

...Toledo, O.

List of the Members of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland who have delivered the Annual Orations, with the year and place of meeting.

1st-1868. Cincinnati, O.....

2d-1868. Chicago, Ill.................. ........ GENERAL CHARLES CRUFT.,

3d-1869. Indianapolis, Ind.............

4th-1870. Cleveland, O.....

5th-1871. Detroit, Mich..

GENERAL R. W. JOHNSON.

..GENERAL J. S. NEGLEY.

.GENERAL J. M. PALMER.

.GENERAL H. A. BARNUM.

......GENERAL T. J. WOOD.

.GENERAL DURBIN WARD.

4th-1870. Cleveland, O....................................GENERAL J. A. GARFIELD.'

6th-1872. Dayton, O..........

7th-1873. Pittsburg, Pa........

...GENERAL J. D. Cox.3 .GENERAL S. D. ATKINS.

8th-1874. Columbus, O............COLONEL STANLEY MATTHEWS. 9th-1875. Utica, N. Y...........Colonel GEORGE I. WATERMAN. 10th-1876. Philadelphia, Pa............... COLONEL W. C. WILSON. 11th-1879. Washington, D. C.....................................GENERAL A. G. McCook. 11th-1879. Washington, D. C.....COLONEL STANLEY MATTHEWS.2 12th-1880. Toledo, O................GENERAL BENJAMIN HARRISON. 13th-1881. Chattanooga, Tenn.... ..LIEUTENANT R. H. COCHRAN. 14th-1882. Milwaukee, Wis............ GENERAL C. H. GROSVENOR. 14th-1882. Milwaukee, Wis...................... 15th-1883. Cincinnati, O..... 16th-1884. Rochester, N. Y...............MAJOR W. H. LAMBERT. 17th-1885. Grand Rapids, Mich............GENERAL R. D. MUSSEY. 18th-1887. Washington, D. C......LIEUTENANT H. M. DUFFIELD. 18th-1887. Washington, D. C........GENERAL J. WARREN KEIFER.* 19th-1888. Chicago, Ill.... .COLONEL HENRY STONE. 19th-1888. Chicago, Ill...... ........GENERAL RUSSELL A. Alger.3 20th-1889. Chattanooga, Tenn...... COLONEL WM. MCMICHAEL, 21st-1890. Toledo, O.....................................GENERAL GATES P. THRUSTON.

1 On MAJOR-General GeoRGE H. THOMAS.

2 At the unveiling of THOMAS Statue.

3 On PRESIDENT JAMES A. GARFIELD.

At the unveiling of the GARFIELD Statue.

5 On GENERAL PHILIP H. SHERIDAN.

TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REUNION.

INTRODUCTORY.

TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND;

The Executive Committee, appointed by you to arrange for the meeting of the Society at Toledo, Ohio, on September 17 and 18, 1890, and for the entertainment of members and invited guests in attendance, beg leave to submit the following report:

Soon after receiving notice of their appointment, that Committee met and organized by electing LIEUTENANT R. H. COCHRAN, Chairman: COLONEL H. S. BUNKER, Secretary; and GENERAL C. C. DOOLITTLE, Treasurer, and at once sent a special invitation to the President of the United States to attend the Annual Meeting, and began to cause occasional notices of the coming meeting to be published in our city papers and through the Associated Press, and early in August the work of preparation was actively begun.

Special letters of invitation were again sent to PRESIDENT HARRISON, also to GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN and others, from

whom letters of regret were received, the President replying by his Secretary.

On September 11th, the Committee wired PRESIDENT HARRISON, at Cresson Springs, Pennsylvania (where he was taking a vacation), as follows:

GENERAL BENJAMIN HARRISON:-Ten years ago GARFIELD and you were here. He fully purposed meeting us at Chattanooga the next year, had he lived. GENERAL GRANT met with us when he was President, and I fully voice the Executive Committee and the Society of the Army of the Cumberland in expressing the most earnest desire that our meeting and history shall be enriched and rounded by one of our members meeting us here while he is President of the United States. We can not surrender the hope that you will not fail us. R. H. COCHRAN,

Chairman.

To which he replied, through his Private Secretary, that it was impossible for him to be present.

Many letters of regrets were received by the Committee, from those who were unable to attend the meeting. These letters, so full of heartfelt regrets and tender sentiments of affection for comrades living, will be published in full in the forthcoming volume of reports of the meeting of the Society.

The following invitation was sent to each member of the Society, to Cabinet officers, to members of the Supreme Court, to Governors of states, and to many comrades and distinguished soldiers who served in armies other that of the Cumberland:

The citizens of Toledo, Ohio, cordially invite you to be pres ent at the Twenty-first Reunion of the Society of the Army of the

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Cumberland, Wednesday and Thursday, September 17 and 18, 1890.

JUDGE R. H. COCHRAN,

GENERAL C. C. DOOLITTLE,

CAPTAIN P. H. DOWLING,

CAPTAIN H. W. BIGELOW,

MAJOR W. H. McLYMAN,

CAPTAIN J. KENT HAMILTON,

A. M. WOOLSON,

COLONEL H. S. BUNKER,

Local Executive Committee and Committee on Invitation.

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The Twenty-first Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland will be held at Toledo, Ohio, September 17 and 18, 1890.

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