always filled it brimfull. General Logan as a fighting general had qualities that were unsurpassed. We had no general officer, whatever may have been his education or advantages, that excelled General Logan in battle. When General Grant would ride down our line he commanded the most thorough respect and confidence from all of us, and it was the same when General Sherman rode down the line. But when General Logan rode down the line, every voice was heard and a shout. He seemed to have a power to awaken all the enthusiasm that was in the troops, to the extent that no other officer in our army seemed to possess. He would stir up the blood in battle. The manner in which he sat his horse, the manner in which he would hold his hat-it was usually in his hand if he had it at all, often it was in the brush— seemed to have the power to call out of the men every particle of fight there was in them. I recollect well at Champion Hill he had no hat on, but was swinging the half length of a barrel hoop.

General Logan also differed from the rest in the fact that as a civilian he rose to the highest point as a military man. I recollect in reading the address delivered by Mr. Grady, of the Atlanta Constitution, at the meeting of the New England Society last winter, that he spoke of the future of America, and he suggested that the Northwest probably to-day possessed nearer the type of the future American than any other section of the country. You may remember how he analyzed the character. He thought in Virginia and the South that chivalry was the predominating characteristic, that in New England the stern character of the pilgrim entered into its composition, and both, going to the West were commingled, and in the Northwest we had the chivalry combined. with the sternness of the pilgrim. I could not keep it out of my mind that there was not living in America a man that was nearer the embodiment of the idea of Mr. Grady's future American than John A. Logan. He was one of the Prince Ruperts which was referred to last night, with all his chivalrous feeling, and that army never had in it one single knight that was more chivalrous than was John A. Logan. That old Plymouth Rock was never trod by a Puritan that was more sternly true to his own convictions of what was right than was John A. Logan.

We may take the risk of subscribing for the raising of a monument to the memory of General Logan without ever having any fear that another man like him is going to take his place and make

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a similar demand upon us in our day. I hope the resolution will pass, and that every member of the army will feel himself fully authorized to solicit subscriptions and send them to the committee in charge. At the present time there is a feeling all over the country, even among those who were never in the army, to do something to aid in the perpetuation of the memory of Logan.

The question upon the adoption of the report and resolutions was then put to vote and was unanimously carried.

General Atkins:-As the report provides for a committee of five, I move that the same gentlemen who made that report be appointed the committee.

The President:-I believe the report carries with it the proposition that the committee shall be named by myself.

General Raum:-I believe not.

The President:-I had proposed to appoint identically the same

men.

General Atkins:-I take great pleasure in withdrawing my suggestions.

Captain Tuttle:-I wish to suggest that General G. M. Dodge be added to that committee.

The President:-Is it to be a committee of six?

General Henderson:-To relieve the situation, I would ask leave to withdraw my name.

General Dodge:-I was a brother commander with him during the campaign of Atlanta, and while sometimes he growled at me, I never had to ask twice for assistance. He not only sent his troops, but he came himself; and afterwards in civil life, when he went into Congress and the Senate, I had sometimes to go there myself to defend the properties that I was connected with; and I might ask Logan to do anything that was honorable and right, and he would stand there remembering always old associations. But when the gentleman from Iowa asks me to take his place, I cannot consent to it. He is a member of the House of Representatives, a place from which we expect aid in erecting this monument; and it is more proper that he should remain on the committee, and I will do all I can.

The President:-I so understand that every member of the

Society will give all the assistance in his power; but, of course, we must have an agent between the other Societies, ourselves and Congress, and this committee that has just reported is so well calculated to perform its work, that I cannot see any reason for making a change.

Captain Tuttle:-With the leave of the Society, I will withdraw my motion.

The President:-The motion is withdrawn, and I will name the members of the committee, and take the action of the meeting on it. I therefore name for your approval the same committee that have had charge of the subject up to this moment; General Raum, General Henderson, General McNulta, General Leggett, General Calkins. If that committee be satisfactory to you,

I would ask you to endorse it.

The appointment of the committee was concurred in.

The President:-That committee can take charge of the whole subject, and can call upon any member of the Society to aid them. The next business in order will be the report of the committee on the election of officers for the next year.

General Fisk:-The committee on nomination of officers beg leave to report that they have selected the following list: For President-why, who?

A Voice:-Sherman.

General Fisk:-I was talking with a lady from Atlanta the other day about old times, she being a resident of the South during those hot days, and she was canvassing the qualities of many of the officers, and I said to her, "What do you think of Sherman?" 66 Oh," she said, "Sherman was a very nice soldier, but she thought though that he was a little careless with the use of fire" For President, William T. Sherman—and knowing how careful Sherman is about the forces around him, we have selected a very choice lot to place with him.

PRESIDENT,

General W. T. Sherman.

VICE-PRESIDENTS,

General O. M. Poe.

Colonel Augustus Jacobson.

Major W. H. Calkins.

Colonel W. J. Landrum.

Major A. J. Harding.

Surgeon J. W. Bond.

Captain J. D. Fegan.

Captain Geo. Heafford.

Captain John Crane.

Colonel Frank Lynch.

Major W. E. Ware.

Lieutenant-Colonel A. C. Fisk.

RECORDING SECRETARY,
Colonel L. M. Dayton.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY,
General A. Hickenlooper.

TREASURER,

Major-General M. F. Force.

Which the committee most respectfully request shall be ap proved.

On motion of General Walcutt,

Resolved, That the report of the committee on selection of officers be adopted.

Captain Tuttle:-I desire to present the following preamble and resolution:

WHEREAS, The present reunion has been one of the most delightful and in every way successful ever held by our Society and, inasmuch as this fact is very largely due to the local committees and to unequaled hospitality of the good and loyal citizens of this beautiful city of Detroit who have spared no expense either of time, labor or money in the elaborate decoration of their public buildings and private residences in order to emphasize their welcome to the old soldiers; therefore,

Resolved, That our heartiest thanks are due and are hereby formally tendered to the citizens of Detroit for their splendid entertainment of our Society at this, its twentieth annual reunion. The memory of it will ever remain fresh in our hearts, indicating

to us and to all men that the achievements of that great army, whose representatives we are, are yet appreciated by our fellowcitizens, though nearly a quarter of a century has passed since the survivors of that army returned to the pursuits of civil life.

Resolved, That the thanks of this Society are tendered to the most efficient local committees who have in charge matters pertaining to our reunion, to whom the greatest credit is due for our most enjoyable meeting.

General Leggett:-Mr. President and Comrades: If it is in order, I would like to say a word on these resolutions. As a matter of course, I shall most heartily endorse the resolution; but I wish to say a word in addition to what our President said last evening before closing. I notice many of the citizens are at this meeting this morning, and I want to say, what I have to say, for the citizens rather than for the Society. Some criticisms have appeared in the papers stating that we regard ourselves as "par excellence," a little above the ordinary run of soldiers; that this was a society of the officers of the Army of the Tennessee, and not of the whole army. Now, I wish to say to the citizens of Detroit who have treated us so generously, so magnanimously, that this Society is not correctly spoken of in some of the papers. The members of the Society have never regarded themselves as superior to the privates in any sense. We are, I think, every member of this association, also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic; and we regard the Grand Army of the Republic as above and superior to any organization of the soldier element in the country. [Applause ] The Army of the Tennessee was peculiar, perhaps, during the war in this respect; that is, it dif fered from the other armies in the fact that there was always among the officers a good friendly feeling. We had no bickerings, no jealousies, no quarrels, and there was no disposition to pull each other down; but there was always a disposition to lend a helping hand to lift their comrades up. [Applause.] When an officer was promoted, it mattered not where he was nor who he was, or under what circumstances it happened, we always gave him the hand of congratulation upon his good luck in his promotion, and we were gratified over it. If he was over us we took our positions under him as cheerfully as if it had been one of our own number. That was always the feeling. The result was, it knitted us together very closely; and when we began to hear that the