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outrank us, but to-day they are no better than anybody else. I used to touch my hat to them, but I shall not do it to-day. We are all brethren-there are no words of command. Let us do what we came for-enjoy ourselves, and have a good time.

GENERALS WOOD and DAVIS excused themselves from making speeches, with thanks in acknowledgment of the calls upon them.

GENERAL NOYES being called upon said:

He had not met the Army of the Cumberland before, since it united with the Army of the Tennessee, near Chattanooga, when they started together on that pic-nic excursion to the sea, by the way of Atlanta. Although he had a wooden leg he was no stump speaker. While Europe was being drenched with blood. and devastated by the horrors of war, we had great cause for thanksgiving that we were enjoying peace and prosperity-distracted by no sectional differences, and having no animosities toward other nations.

GENERAL KIMBALL thanked the Society and excused himself by calling out GENERAL GARFIELD, who said:

It is not my time to make a speech, but you seem determined to make me say something, and I am in the same fix that a detachment of cavalry was that GENERAL SHERMAN once met. He thought they were not going fast enough and told the commanding officer to gallop. "But where shall I gallop to?" said he. 66 Why gallop! Gallop anywhere, but d-n it, gallop!" I will tell you a little story about Chattanooga. One day when we were all hard at work building fortifications, GENERAL ROSECRANS came riding along the lines making short speeches to the men. There was a tall, lank fellow, with the fat all worn off by hard campaigning, sitting upon a log, eating soup out of a confiscated domestic utensil. As "Rosy" rode by, after making a little speech, I heard the fellow exclaim: "Less blowing and more.

sow-belly bacon would suit me a durned sight better!" I am glad to meet you all to-day. How we all felt as we saw GENERAL HOOKER hobbling along, unable to walk without assistance! May it be many years before he goes up higher among the clouds than he did at Lookout Mountain! We are all equal here, as GENERAL PALMER has said. We know each other by our first names, and we call them as we used to in the army, "Bill" SHERMAN and "Joe" HOOKER, and "Tom" WOOD, and “Bob” GRANGER! I gladly join with you in the hope that we may have a good time together.

GENERALS AMMEN, GRANGER, and OPDYKE, each excused himself in a few happy words.

After a few remarks on the business of the Society, by the presiding officer, on motion the Society adjourned to meet at half past three o'clock P. M.

Thursday, November 24, 1870.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

The Society met pursuant to adjournment.

The

presiding officer, GENERAL ROSECRANS, called the Society to order, and announced the following Committees:

Committee on Time and Place of Next Meeting:

GENERAL CHARLES CRUFT, Indiana.

GENERAL WILLIAM L. STOUGHTON, Michigan.

GENERAL B. D. FEARING, Ohio.

COLONEL G. C. WHARTON, Kentucky.

MAJOR L. H. DRURY, Illinois.

Committee on Orator and Alternate:

GENERAL T. J. WOOD, Ohio.

GENERAL NATHAN KIMBALL, Indiana.

GENERAL N. L. ANDERSON, Ohio.

Committee on Memorials:

GENERAL T. F. BROWN, Illinois.

COLONEL HENRY STONE, Washington, D. C.

COLONEL J. E. JACOBS, Missouri.

COLONEL WILLIAM MCMICHAEL, Pennsylvania.

CAPTAIN J. P. DROUILLARD, Tennessee.

Committee on Nomination of Officers:

GENERAL J. A. GARFIELD, Ohio.

GENERAL E. OPDYKE, New York.

GENERAL R. S. GRANGER, Ohio.
GENERAL JACOB AMMEN, Ohio.
GENERAL C. H. GROSVENOR, Ohio.
GENERAL BENJAMIN LEFEVRE, Ohio.
COLONEL J. E. JACOBS, Missouri.

Committee on Publication:

GENERAL HENRY M. CIST, Ohio.
MAJOR WILLIAM D. BICKHAM, Ohio.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM C. BUNTS, Ohio.

GENERAL J. S. FULLERTON, Treasurer of the Society, submitted his annual report, which was accepted, and on motion referred to an Auditing Committee appointed by the Chair, consisting of GENERALS H. A. BARNUM, A. C. DUCAT, and W. D. WHIPPLE.

GENERAL NATHAN KIMBALL, Chairman of the Committee on Publication, reported as follows:

The undersigned, Committee on Publication of the Proceedings of the Third Reunion, held at Indianapolis, on the 15th and 16th of December, 1869, respectfully report that they deemed it best to follow the general plan of arrangement adopted in the first volume published by the Society. The book was published, on contract, by Messrs. ROBERT CLARKE & Co., of Cincinnati, in excellent style. An edition of fifteen hundred was ordered and furnished for the sum of thirteen hundred and thirty dollars and thirty-five cents, being but a fraction over ninety cents per volume. This edition permitted the officers

of the Society to furnish one volume to each member, and still leave on hand about five hundred volumes for future disposition.

NATHAN KIMBALL,

CHARLES CRUFT,

A. D. STREIGHT,

Committee.

On motion, the time in which the Committee of Board of Trustees for the Record of the Army of the Cumberland, of which GENERAL J. S. FULLERTON is Chairman, were to report, was extended.

GENERAL D. W. H. DAY offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That a Committee of three be appointed to examine into the former action of the Army of the Cumberland relating to incorporation of the Army of the Ohio with the Army of the Cumberland, and as to the present status of that Army in this organization.

The motion carried. The Chair appointed GENERALS J. A. CAMPBELL, B. F. SCRIBNER, C. H. GROSVENOR.

The report of the Committee on Certificates of Membership being called for, COLONEL HUNTER BROOKE, in view of the next preceding motion and questions raised thereupon, asked for further time in which to report.

Request granted.

GENERAL J. A. GARFIELD then read a letter, addressed to himself, from PROFESSOR D. H. MAHAN, of West Point, relative to measures to be adopted to properly secure to

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