66 of "Old Probabilities," flags are displayed from almost every house in town: one flag meaning, "How do you do, soldier friend;" two, Step in and take a cup of coffee;" three, "Walk right in," (a voice-"that means every house in town"), “and make yourself at home." Comrades, you are welcome to our city, as is abundantly attested by the large audience present, and the unrivaled interest manifested in our reunion and memories it is designed to keep green and perpetuate by all our people. The audience was still quite unwilling to relinquish the oppor tunity to hear the other distinguished gentlemen present, but a motion to adjourn prevailed, and as they left the building there was but the one expression of pleasure and gratification with the evening's entertainment. WHEELER'S OPERA HOUSE, The Society met as per the adjournment of yesterday, and was called to order by the President at 10 o'clock. The record of proceedings of yesterday's meeting was read by the Secretary, and accepted. General Rice, on behalf of the committee appointed to make a recommendation of place where next annual meeting should be held, made a verbal report, stating that it was the opinion of the committee that the meeting should be held at Springfield, Illinois. On motion of General Spooner: Resolved, That the report of the committee be accepted, and Springfield be selected as the place in which to hold the next annual meeting. The committee was discharged. General Slack, for the committee appointed to name the time for holding the next annual meeting, reported as follows: TOLEDO, October 16, 1873. MR. PRESIDENT:-The committee appointed to select the time of holding the next reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, would respectfully report that a majority of the committee have fixed upon Wednesday and Thursday, the 14th and 15th days of October, 1874, as the time for holding the said reunion. JAMES R. SLACK, Chairman of Committee.. On motion of General Hickenlooper: Resolved, That the report of the committee be accepted, and their recommendation adopted. General Force made a report for the committee appointed on Memorials for deceased members: The committee appointed to record the death of the past year, respectfully report that the list is long, the loss heavy. General Edwin S. McCook, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society, whose genial presence has enlivened every meeting, will be with us no more. He was killed in Yankton, Dakota Territory, on the of last According to reports received, he was assassinated. Born in Steubenville, Ohio, he moved to Illinois. At the breaking out of the war he hastened to the first conflict, and was present at the first battle of Bull Run. He returned at once to Illinois, and raised a company at Pekin, for the 31st Illinois. He was engaged at Belmont and Fort Henry. At Donelson, the field officers being disabled in the course of the engagements, he was left in command of the regiment. He took part in the battle of Pittsburg Landing, in the Vicksburg campaign, and the Atlanta campaign, and was brevetted Brigadier-General for gallant service. After the close of the war, he was appointed Secretary of State of Dakota Territory, and while holding that office met his death. No family in the country contributed more largely of its members than his to the war. His father, six brothers, four cousins, and two uncles served in the army. His father and three brothers were killed in the service. General L. E. Yorke, another Vice-President, died at his residence in Cincinnati, on. the 1st of July, in the forty-first year of his age. Born in Salem county, New Jersey, where his family have had a homestead nearly two centuries, he was educated at Rensselaer University, Troy, N. Y., for the profession of civil engineer. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted as a private in the 71st, one of the noted New York city regiments. At the battle of Bull Run, it so happened that he, though a private, assumed command of the company, and led it with gallant coolness, that the company soon after presented him with a massive gold medal, struck in recognition of his service. He was soon after appointed Captain in the 13th Regulars, and commanded his company at Vicksburg. On July 31st, 1863, he was appointed Commissary of Musters, and remained on the staff of the 15th Corps till the close of the war. Accompanying that corps in all its campaigns, he was afterward appointed Assistant Inspector-General, aide-de-camp to General Logan, and finally, General Logan's chief of staff. At the close of the war, he was brevetted Major in the regular army and Brigadier-General of volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services. After the close of hostilities he resigned, settled in Cincinnati, where he had married and gathered warm friends, and remained there till his death. Colonel John H. Howe, of the 124th Illinois, died at Laredo, Texas, on the 3rd of April last, in the fifty-first year of his age. He was born at Riga, Monroe county, New York, September 12th, 1822; was admitted to the bar in Ashtabula county, Ohio, and moved thence, in 1855, to Kewanee, Illinois. He was Lieutenant-Colonel of the 124th Illinois at its muster into the service, September 10th, 1862, and was in command of the regiment during the greater part of its service. He took the field in General Grant's march into Northern Mississippi, in December, 1862; served through the Vicksburg campaign, and in Sherman's expedition to Meridian; in General McArthur's expedition to Yazoo City, in May, 1864; General Slocum's expedition to Jackson, Miss., in July, 1864, and in General Canby's Mobile expedition. When the regiment was mustered out in May, 1865, Colonel Howe returned to the practice of the law, and was appointed Chief Justice of Wyoming when that territory was formed. His health failing under the inroads of consumption, he was, after two years' service in that office, appointed Secretary to the Commission appointed to investigate the Mexican and Texan border troubles, and soon after died at Laredo. Colonel John C. Fry, of the 20th Ohio, died of consumption, at Sidney, Ohio, on the 21st of December last. At the breaking out of the war he entered the 20th Ohio, mustered in for the three months' service, and engaged in the campaign in Western Virginia. When the 20th Ohio for three years' service was organized, he raised Co. B; was engaged at Fort Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, the Summer and Winter operations of 1862 in Southern Tennessee, the Vicksburg campaign, and the Meridian expedition. He served for a time on the staff of General Logan, then commanding the 3rd Division of the 17th Corps, was Major and Lieutenant-Colonel, was appointed Colonel of the regiment January, 1864, and resigned on the 19th of the following October. After the close of the war, he held, for a time, an office in the Internal Revenue Department, and then resumed the mercantile business in Sidney, Ohio, in which he had been engaged before the war. Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel T. Hughes, of the 9th Illinois Infantry, died on the 3rd of this present month, from the effects of a wound received in the war. He was Second Lieutenant of Co. I, at the muster-in of the regiment, on July 25th, 1861; was at Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, and Pittsburg Landing; was taken prisoner at the battle of Corinth, October, 1862. The regiment being mounted in March, 1863, and serving as a mounted regiment subsequently, he received, in the active service in which he was engaged in West Tennessee and Northern Mississippi, in the following Summer, on the 18th of June, at Mud Creek, Miss., the wound which eventually caused his death, though he remained in the service till the close of the war. Lieutenant Edgar P. Pearce, of the 77th Ohio, died at his homie, Marietta, Ohio, of consumption contracted in the service. He was at Pittsburg Landing; was in General Steele's command in Arkansas; was there taken prisoner, with his regiment, at Marks' Mills, April 25th, 1864. The regiment being exchanged in February, 1865, went with General Steele to the Mobile campaign, and thence to Texas, where it was mustered out, March 8th, 1866. The committee, in offering this scanty memorial of our departed brothers, respectfully suggest that hereafter newspaper notices of the decease of every member, with memoranda of birth, death, and military service and civil office, be sent at once to the Recording Secretary. M. F. FORCE, Chairman of Committee. On motion of General Hickenlooper: Resolved, That the report of the committee be accepted and spread upon the records of the Society. General Strong made report for committee appointed to nominate officers, to-wit: TOLEDO, OHIO, October 16, 1873. MR. PRESIDENT:-Your committee, to whom was referred the matter of making nominations for officers for the Society for the coming year, would most respectfully report the following: For President, General W. T. Sherman. For Vice-Presidents, Major-General John A. Logan, Major-General John Pope, Brevet Brigadier-General J. M. Hedrick. Colonel George E. Wells, Major-General John E. Smith, Lieutenant John Crane, Brigadier-General R. N. Pierson, Colonel Frank Lynch, Brigadier-General F. S. Hutchinson, Major J. P. Smith, Brigadier-General John Tilson. For Recording Secretary, For Corresponding Secretary, For Treasurer, Major-General M. F. Force. The committee recommend the election of the same. WM. E. STRONG, Chairman Committee. Upon this report being read, General Sherman said that he had hoped some younger man would have been chosen by the committee in its deliberations to preside over the Society-one that could devote more time to it than his official position would allow. He had to give some of his time to the other societies, yet you know my heart is mainly with you, and I will do all I can, and happily there are no jealousies, as all had and still have a common cause. Though it seemed best at the close of the war to separate the members of the army into different families-our societiesstill now, as when on the march or field, the same flag and hope cheer us. And this unanimity of feeling is certified by the fact that you propose to have a grand reunion of all the Army Societies-the Tennessee, Cumberland, Potomac, James and Gulf— together with the navy, if possible, in 1876. He repeated he would rather have seen a younger man in his place, but a call was made for the report to be accepted, when he said he must put the motion, of course, and it was carried by the following resolution, as none seemed desirous to amend the report. On motion of Major Dunn: Resolved, That the report of the committee be accepted, and the election of the gentlemen it has named be declared unani mous. General Sherman said, on the passage of the resolution, that he would do all he could, and if they would not change, that ended his suggestion, and thanked the Society. General Slack called the attention of the Society to the edition of poems written by Miss Wheeler, who was the author of the poem read at our reunion last year, and stated where it could be purchased, and suggested that every member who could do so should order a copy; such a compliment, in his opinion, being fully deserved by Miss Wheeler. On motion of Colonel Landrum: Resolved, That the Society hereby expresses its most sincere thanks to the Local Committee of Arrangements and their assistants for the great labor they have accomplished in providing for this reunion, making it unusually pleasant and gratifying to all in attendance. On motion of Colonel Weber: Resolved, That the thanks of the Society are extended to the several railroad and telegraph companies for the courtesies they have extended the several committees and the Society. |