record at all. They are not in the official record, the list of the volunteer soldiers of the State of Ohio, and it will be necessary to depend upon something of that kind.

GENERAL FULLERTON:

It is my custom every year to send out circulars to members who are in arrears for dues. I send them the circulars, with my name on the back of the letter. Wherever the letter has been returned, I know that the party has not been found, and the name is scratched off of my book. The persons whose names are on that book receive those letters and accept those addresses, as their names. Now I don't know how we shall arrive at the correct names, if they accept them as their own.

THE PRESIDENT :

I think the Society does not care how they arrive at it. What they want to do is to confide in the ability of the members they appoint to take hold of this business, and leave it to their good sense to find out the correct names.

LIEUTENANT COCHRAN:

Mr. President-I would ask GENERAL FULLERTON what he expects a man to do when the name comes written like he generally writes, so you can't read it?

THE PRESIDENT:

I would say, as to what GENERAL FULLERTON said, that I very often get letters addressed to GENERAL W. S. ROSENCRANS," but that I don't take the trouble to correct it. It is moved that a Revisory Committee, consisting of the Treasurer, Recording Secretary, and COLONEL STONE, be appointed to attend to the correction of the

names, titles, rank, and commands appearing in the membership list of the Society.

The motion was carried.

THE PRESIDENT:

Now, miscellaneous business is in order. If any body has any other business, I am ready to lay it before the Society.

COLONEL LEVERING:

Mr. President-We have learned since reaching here that an arrangement has been made for the Secretary of War to visit the battle. field of Chickamauga within the next few days, or early next month. I think that it is fitting that this Society should take some notice of it-some action. I therefore offer this resolution :

Resolved, That a Committee of five members, of which MAJOR W. J. COLBURN shall be chairman, be appointed in behalf of the Society to meet the honorable Secretary of War at Chattanooga, Tennessee, when on his contemplated visit to the battle field of Chickamauga, and extend to him the courtesy due to his official position and to the occasion.

LIEUTENANT COCHRAN:

Mr. President-Is there any provision made for paying the expenses of this Committee, or is it to be voluntary?

COLONEL LEVERING:

I would say that I mentioned MAJOR COLBURN, who resides in Chattanooga, and I had in mind members who reside near ChattaGENERAL THRUSTON lives in Nashville, and might be a member of that Committee. GENERAL WILDER is there.

nooga.

MAJOR COLBURN:

I feel considerable diffidence in accepting the honor which the resolution confers upon me, and it seems to me that if GENERAL WILDER and GENERAL THRUSTON, and a neighbor of our other comrade who resides near Chattanooga, and nearer them, are appointed, it might be better to have one of them for chairman. I don't want to monopolize all the honors in the premises. I should feel it an honor, of course, to serve on the Committee, but I should prefer to have my name omitted as chairman of the Committee, and let GENERAL WILDER OF GENERAL THRUSTON act in that capacity.

GENERAL THRUSTON :

MAJOR COLBURN is the proper chairman; that's all right. He is entirely too modest.

THE PRESIDENT :

While I appreciate what has been said through the modesty of our comrade, I venture to say to the members of the Society that I think he would be the best person for chairman, because GENERAL WILDER lives at Roane Mountain, and is absent a good deal, and GENERAL THRUSTON is away down at Nashville, while MAJOR COLBURN is right on hand, and I think he is the proper man for chairman. All in favor of the resolution say, "Ave."

The motion was carried, and MAJOR W. J. COLBURN, GENERAL G. P. THRUSTON, CAPTAIN WM. RULE, GENERAL J. T. WILDER, and CAPTAIN H. S. CHAMBERLAIN were appointed as the Committee.

THE PRESIDENT:

If there is no further business before the Society we will hear some announcements from LIEUTENANT COCHRAN.

LIEUTENANT COCHRAN :

Mr. Chairman and Comrades-It is arranged by the Committee on Entertainment that promptly at 2 o'clock to-day, the members, with their wives, assemble at the Boody House to be assigned to carriages for the purpose of a drive around the city. It has grown in beauty and size very greatly since you were here ten years ago. We think the drive will be one you will enjoy. We want you to see where we are, who we are, and what we are.

There are two invitations here.

You are generally invited to

every place in the city, but there are two special invitations that I wish to read:

"The members of the Army of the Cumberland are cordially invited to visit the Toledo Public Library in its new building wheneyer convenient. Very respectfully,

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"W. S. SCOTT."

'The Trustees of the Toledo University cordially extend to the Society of the Army of the Cumberland an invitation to visit the Toledo Manual Training School during their Reunion.

That is in the building next to this one. We pride ourselves that we have the most interesting Manual Training School in the United States. If you will go over there you will see the girls engaged in carpenter work and the boys baking-I am not sure about that, but every proper attention will be shown you, and MR. SCOTT will explain things. I wish to say that the members of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland have the first choice of seats at the Banquet on to-morrow evening. We have tried to prepare a Banquet creditable in all respects and that you will enjoy. While the Banquet tickets cost the Local Executive Committee a little more than $5.00 we are putting the price at $5.00, and we desire to know as early as

possible how many will want to be supplied with these tickets, so that those who are citizens who want to attend may do so, after the members of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland are supplied.

You are cordially invited, among other invitations, to visit the Ohio Yacht Club at their headquarters. We have been unable to assign any particular time for this in our programme owing to the press of other engagements, but if it should be your pleasure to go any time we will make arrangements. We didn't know how long a time the work of the Society would occupy us, and we were unable to define that portion of the programme.

We have a Commitiee on Membership here. MAJOR ALCORN is kindly aiding us, and if any member of the Army of the Cumberland has not been able heretofore to join the Society we would be glad to have him do so. The officers of the Society will meet MAJOR ALCORN bere, and will give every information they can afford. Every honorably discharged soldier of the Army of the Cumberland is entitled, upon payment of $5.00, and stating what his position was in the army, to join this Society, and that will entitle him to a copy of this volume, of which GENERAL CIST has spoken, giving the entire proceedings of the Society, including the speeches at the Banquet.

To-night there will be a meeting in Military Hall, above this room, where we can comfortably dispose of some twenty-five hundred people; enough seats will be reserved in the front for the members of the Society, and after that the citizens who have contributed liberally to the Committee and have aided us, will be seated immediately in the rear of the Society, and after that the others will be seated.

CAPTAIN DOWLING:

I understand that arrangement includes the wives and daughters.

LIEUTENANT COCHRAN :

Yes, the space reserved for the Society includes the members, their wives, and daughters, and as CAPTAIN DOWLING hesitated, I

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