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country the remembrance of GENERAL GEORGE H.

THOMAS:

MY DEAR SIR:

WEST POINT, November 21, 1870.

I have been waiting and hoping to see a movement by some influential loyal association to memorialize Congress for a national monument to that pure patriot, great soldier, and disinterested citizen, the late GENERAL GEORGE H. THOMAS.

The present meeting of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland seems a fitting moment, and that body itself a most appropriate one for inaugurating some movement of this character. Though feeling that I am but uttering what is in the hearts of many members of that body, I have ventured to call your attention to it.

Such a monument seems the more called for from the nation when we contrast the course taken by this noble man with that of the late rebel GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE, for whom the present governor of Virginia, if I am rightly informed, in a special message to the State legislature, has suggested some public monument by the State.

Very truly yours,

D. H. MAHAN.

After remarks upon the subject by GENERALS GARFIELD, WHIPPLE, and the Chair, it was on motion referred to the Committee on Memorials. GENERAL NATHAN KIMBALL offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That a Committee of five be appointed to report to this Society, to-morrow, the proper mode of expressing its sorrow over the death of GENERAL THOMAS, and some suitable plan of perpetuating his memory, and that all correspondence

and resolutions, touching the same be referred to that Committee.

The resolution was adopted.

GENERALS GARFIELD, PALMER, WOOD, GROSVENOR, and CRUFT, were appointed as that Committee. It was stated by the Chairman that this Committee would act in concert with the Committee on Memorials.

GENERAL BARNUM offered the following resolution, which was adopted:

Resolved, That the Treasurer of the Society be authorized to sell at publisher's cost, the remaining copies of the report of the first meeting that he has on hand to the members of the Society, reserving always fifty copies.

SURGEON EZRA READ offered the following resolution, concerning pensions, which was adopted:

Whereas, By the present law of Congress on the subject of granting pensions to persons disabled in the military and naval service of the United States, no applicant can have the benefit of a pension commencing at the date of his disability, except application has been made within five years therefrom; and

Whereas, Five years have elapsed since the close of the war, and there yet remain many meritorious soldiers and officers who for various reasons have not made application for the pensions to which they are entitled; now, therefore,

Resolved, That all pensions which heretofore, or which may hereafter for three years be granted, on account of death accruing, disease contracted, or wounds received in the military or naval service of the United States, should commence from the

date of death or disability, as shown by the proof made on the application for the term of three years, in addition to the five years now expired.

Resolved, That we, the officers and soldiers of the Army of the Cumberland, earnestly recommend this subject to the speedy attention and favorable action of the Senators and Representatives in Congress.

GENERAL H. M. CIST, on behalf of the Committee on Memorials, reported that memorials had been prepared of GENERAL HASBROUCK DAVIS, COLONEL JAMES S. BOYD, CAPTAIN WILLIAM HARMON, MAJOR GEORGE BURROUGHS, and GENERAL S. J. McGROARTY, which were presented to the Society, and the same were, on motion, ordered to be printed in the next annual volume of Reports.

On motion, the Society adjourned till 8 o'clock P. M., to hear at that time the oration of GENERAL GARFIELD upon the character and career of GENERAL GEORGE H. THOMAS.

SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.

Case Hall, Friday, November 25, 1870.

The Society gathered at headquarters, and at 11 o'clock marched to Case Hall.

The Society was called to order by GENERAL W. S. ROSE-
The Secretary submitted his report of Thursday's pro-

CRANS.

ceedings.

The Committee on Nomination of Officers of the Society for the ensuing year, through GENERAL GROSVENOR, their Chairman, submitted the following report:

"We recommend for

PRESIDENT.

MAJOR GENERAL W. S. ROSECRANS.

VICE PRESIDENTS.

GENERAL J. D. Cox, of Ohio.

GENERAL NATHAN KIMBALL, of Indiana.

GENERAL THOMAS J. WOOD, of Kentucky.

CAPTAIN J. P. DROUILLARD, of Tennessee.
GENERAL W. L. STOUGHTON, of Michigan.

GENERAL JOSEPH HOOKER, of New York.

GENERAL W. W. Lowe, of Iowa.

GENERAL G. W. MINDELL, of New Jersey.

GENERAL JOHN A. MARTIN, of Kansas.

GENERAL W. D. WHIPPLE, of the District of Columbia.

GENERAL P. H. SHERIDAN, of Illinois.

GENERAL VAN CLEVE, of Minnesota.

COLONEL R. H. RAMSEY, of Pennsylvania.

GENERAL JOHN C. STARKWEATHER, of Wisconsin.

LIEUTENANT COLONEL CHARLES B. LAMBORN, of Missouri.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

GENERAL H. M. CIST.

RECORDING SECRETARY.

LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN W. STEEle.

TREASURER.

GENERAL J. S. FULLERTON.

GENERAL ROSECRANS called GENERAL NATHAN KIMBALL to the chair.

The report of the Committee was then accepted.

The persons recommended by the Committee were elected by acclamation.

GENERAL ROSECRANS was then conducted to the chair, and in a few remarks thanked the Society for the honor conferred upon him, and recommended as eminently proper, as a respectful, reverential, and fitting tribute to the memory of GENERAL THOMAS, Our first President, that, at all meetings of the Society, a vacant chair, draped in mourning, be placed upon the platform.

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