columns, one of which advanced down the pike from Murfreesborough, another to their right, and the remaining troops to the left and on or near the Fairfield pike. The saber was picked up on this latter line about one mile from Shelbyville, at a point near some cedars about one hundred yards from the pike and to the left of the advancing troops. This will serve, I think, to locate the point and the command which I want to know, and if you know the names or addresses of these men I will be greatly obliged if you can furnish them to me, as well as any other suggestions that you can make which will aid in locating the history and ownership of this interesting relic. If you know of a paper where the publication of this may find the missing link,' I should be glad to have this communication handed to it. The opinion prevails here that the saber belonged to an officer of the Union forces. This may or may not be true, I can not say; but I am rather inclined to that opinion. Hoping to hear from you at your earliest convenience, and as fully as your time will permit, I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. R. BAULLS, Shelbyville, Tennessee. I have presented this matter fully, so that it will go in on the records of the Society, and if there is no one here able to give any information about this sword, we may be able, by the publication of this letter in our report, to find some person who knows to whom this sword belongs. LIEUTENANT RHUM: As no action is to be taken on that, I would be glad to state that last week, on Lookout Mountain, in the place where they keep the relics, I found a sword with this inscription on it, "Presented to GENERAL AUGUST WILLICH," but I was unable to obtain any information about it. It would certainly be a very interesting relic if the Society of the Army of the Cumberland could own that sword. LIEUTENANT COCHRAN : Willich was a member of the Society. GENERAL CIST: He died a member of the Society. LIEUTENANT RHUM: I am very anxious to find out the name of the giver of the sword, and it seems to me that I am on the track. GENERAL FULLERTON: How did it get there? LIEUTENANT RHUM: I don't know. The girl in charge did not know much about it. I spent some time up there on the Mountain, and spent a good deal of time in that place looking at the relics, and in searching I discovered that. THE PRESIDENT: GENERAL WILLICH never dropped his sword on the field. LIEUTENANT RHUM: Well, sir, I don't know how it is. There was just the inscription, 'Presented to GENERAL AUGUST WILLICH," and nothing more. LIEUTENANT COCHRAN : I would suggest, Comrades, that if any of you have any thing of that sort, and don't know how to dispose of it, we have a place right here for them. On motion by GENERAL THRUSTON, the meeting adjourned. Memorial Hall, Wednesday, September 17. EVENING SESSION. LIEUTENANT COCHRAN : The audience will please come to order and remain seated while we are led in prayer by the REV. DR. WILLIAMS, of this city. DR. WILLIAMS offered prayer as follows: O Thou, who art the Great Jehovah, now may we see that if the Lord had not been our help when men rose up against us, then would their hosts have overpowered us; the waters would have overwhelmed us. We thank Thee, O God, that Thou art our help in the day of our trial; that Thou didst inspire the hearts and strengthen the hands of the men who gave themselves to defend our country; that Thou didst give wisdom to their counsels and success to their efforts. We thank Thee that so many of them remain to us at this present time, and that their representatives are gathered together here to acknowledge Thy goodness and recall Thy mercies, and thus to deepen our gratitude to Thee and inflame our patriotism. Grant, O God, that this Reunion may be blessed by Thee to the enhancement of our appreciation of the great blessings in this goodly land Thou hast given us, and we pray Thee that it may never lack defenders in any hour of danger or time of trial, and this we ask, O God, for Thy Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. LIEUTENANT COCHRAN : Mr. President and Members of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland--Ten years ago our Local Executive Committee, as you will see in the report of that meeting, expressed an earnest desire that you would soon meet with us again. Many bright memories of that meeting hover over us and remain with us as a benediction, and the forty thousand people who have been added to our numbers in those ten years have been taught to cherish those memories almost as dearly as we who were present cherish them. What busy years those have been. The Gleaner has gathered a rich harvest to the ranks on the other shore. Great events have transpired, and many who were then with us in health and vigor are gone. I recall that among those who have gone, some of whom were with us ten years ago, are the names of GARFIELD, LOGAN, GORDON GRANGER, STEEDMAN, STANLEY MATTHEWS, WILLICH, JOHN F. MILLER, HAZEN, DURBIN WARD, CRUFT, BANNING, EARNSHAW, OPDYCKE, DONALDSON, BROOKE, and hundreds of others, warm spirits, brethren of ours, who have been on many occasions with us to cheer and to encourage. But as the ranks diminish we are taught the more highly to appreciate the merits of not only those who are gone, but of those who yet remain with us. The Army of the Cumberland has a record bright as any ever written by any army. Those who are with us to-night are the survivors of one of the greatest armies of one of the greatest commands that was ever recorded in all time. It is not my province to dwell upon this. That remains for others. I can only express the welcome of the citizens; and oh, that words could be coined to express the impulses and tender throbbings of our souls that go out with this welcome! But with WHITTIER we cry in the heart's fullness at the inadequacy of words. "Not by the page word painted |