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SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE.

SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
MADISON, WIS., July 3, 1872.

The Society met pursuant to adjournment at the last meeting and the following notice of the President, viz:

SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE. )
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 25, 1872.

To the Members Society of the Army of the Tennessee:

The sixth annual meeting of the Society will be held at Madison, Wisconsin, on the 3rd and 4th days of July next, convening at 10 o'clock, A. M. on the 3rd inst.

Major-General M. D. Leggett will deliver the annual address. All arrangements for the meeting, reunion, banquet, etc., will be fully provided by “the Local Executive Committee" of Madison, due notice of which will be given. Officers who have at any time served with honor in the Army and Department of the Tennessee are, by our Constitution, entitled to membership, and are specially requested to attend.

Members of kindred Societies are cordially invited to participate.
W. T. SHERMAN, GENERAL, U. S. A.

COLONEL L. M. DAYTON,

Recording Secretary.

GENERAL A. HICKENLOOPER,

President.

Corresponding Secretary.

And assembled in the Senate Chamber of the Capitol. In the absence of the President, the Society was called to order by General J. R. Slack, First Vice-President, who, after appropriate remarks, and saying that he would tend strictly to business so soon as the meeting should be regularly opened, requested the Rev. General Fallows to invoke a blessing by prayer.

The first in order was the reading of the Secretary's records of the last meeting. When called by the chairman, on motion:

Resolved, That the records of our last meeting, as made by the Secretary, be adopted as published, and their being read to this meeting be dispensed with.

On motion of Colonel H. E. Jones:

Resolved, That a committee of seven be appointed to recommend officers for the coming year.

The chairman announced said committee to consist of Colonel Jones, Colonel Markland, General McGinnis, General Spooner, Captain Hancock, General Buckland and Colonel Loomis.

On motion of General Hurlbut:

Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to recommend the place and time of holding our next (seventh) annual meeting. The chairman announced the said committee to be composed of the following gentlemen: General Hurlbut, Major J. E. Simpson, Colonel Macfeely, Captain Spear and Major Henry.

On motion of Colonel Markland:

Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to recommend to the Society an orator for our seventh annual reunion.

The chairman announced the committee to be composed as follows: General Belknap, Colonel Oliver Wood, General Rusk, General McCook and General Force.

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A letter from General Sherman, the President of the Society, dated at Constantinople, was read by Colonel Dayton, saying he regretted that he could not be present, suggesting that the next place and time of meeting and the selection of orator be definitely settled while all were together, and closed by I hope you will have a splendid gathering at that most beautiful spot on the four lakes of Wisconsin. Give my best love to all old comrades, and tell them I will try to make up at our next annual for my absence at this meeting."

In the general course of business the Treasurer, General Force, read his annual report as follows:

TREASURER'S REPORT.

SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE.
July 3rd, 1872.

I have the honor to report as follows:

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At the date of my report to the last meeting, the Permanent Fund consisted of thirty-five hundred dollars in Government Bonds and three hundred and one dollars and ninety-nine cents cash. The receipts since have been, five hundred and one dollars received from Colonel L. M. Dayton, Recording Secretary; three hundred and sixty dollars gold interest on bonds, and forty dollars and eighty cents premium on gold interest. The expenditure has been for two five hundred dollar bonds, one bought at a premium of twelve-and-ahalf, the other at a premium of fourteen, costing together eleven hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty cents. dollars Government Bonds, and seventy-one dollars and twenty-nine cents This fund now consists of forty-five hundred cash.

The General Fund, at the date of the report to the last meeting, consisted of three hundred and eighty-five dollars and fifty-two cents cash. The receipts have been three hundred and sixteen dollars from the Recording Secretary. The expenditures have been two hundred and three dollars and ninety-eight cents for printing the report of the last meeting, and two hundred and fortyone dollars and sixty-nine cents for stationery, postage, printing, advertising, freight and express; leaving now in this fund two hundred and fifty-five dollars and eighty-five cents.

In my report at the Chicago meeting, December, 1868, I called attention to the Permanent Fund, and by careful nursing it has steadily grown, though the annual fee in our Society is only one dollar, while in the other societies it is five dollars.

Our meetings are expensive to the members living in the city where the meeting is held. As years roll by and members drop off there will be fewer to bear the tax, and probably the meetings will be simpler, having less the character of a public celebration.

I have kept in view the design of raising the fund to at least ten thousand dollars, so that when enthusiasm shall have somewhat abated there will be an income to meet the expenses other than the cost of the dinner. In furtherance of this view I suggest that life membership be recognized, and that any member, by payment of thirty dollars into the Permanent Fund, life member, free thereafter from the payment of annual dues. such payment all money previously paid, by way of entrance fees and annual may become a dues, should be taken as a credit and part of the thirty dollars. In making

I annex a condensed tabular statement of the funds, and present herewith vouchers for expenditures, certificates of deposit of the bonds and the cash on hand, my book of accounts and my bank account as Treasurer.

M. F. FORCE,

Treasurer Society Army of the Tennessee.

TABULAR STATEMENT ANNEXED TO TREASURER'S REPORT AT THE MADISON, WIS., MEETING, JULY 3, 1872.

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On motion of Colonel Markland:

Resolved, That the annual report of the Treasurer be accepted and spread upon the records of this meeting.

The Recording Secretary, Colonel Dayton, presented his report as follows:

RECORDING SECRETARY'S REPORT.

SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
CINCINNATI, July 1, 1872.

Members Society Army of the Tennessee:

GENTLEMEN:-In accordance with the provision of your By-Laws I beg

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This money has been duly transmitted to your Treasurer whose receipts for same have been filed with my papers.

At your meeting in April, 1871, and to this date the Society's membership has increased forty-two (42) in number, the amount paid by them on that account being four hundred and twenty ($420) dollars, eighty one ($81) dollars was paid in on the same account by members who had not before paid up in full. You now have membership list numbering, 754, not all of them however have paid up their full membership fees or dues. Full notice has been given to all who are in arrears and they will no doubt respond. When we consider the large number of officers who served in the Army of the Tennessee, we may well feel that our roll-call should be much larger. It is to be hoped that another reunion will show it largely augmented.

At your last meeting no provision was made to have the proceedings of that meeting printed, as they had been for all other meetings, but feeling it best to continue the plan adopted, and having many inquiries from members for the printed report, I concluded to get it out, taking the responsibility of doing so, and trusting to your approval. My own occupation was such that I could ill spare the time required for preparing the manuscript-it was December of last year before I could accomplish getting it into the printers' hands. Unfortunately again, he delayed me a long time and it was not till April of this year that I could place the thousand copies in possession of your Corresponding Secretary for distribution. It would have been better if you could have received this report while the meeting was still fresh in your minds, but the best was done that could be, and I trust you are satisfied.

With this report I hand in to your charge all the books, papers and records of the society in my possession, for my successor in office.

I am, etc.,

L. M. DAYTON, Recording Secretary.

On motion of Captain Lanstrum:

Resolved, That the annual report as made by the Recording Secretary be accepted and spread in order upon the records of the Society.

General Hickenlooper read his report as Corresponding Secretary, as follows:

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY'S REPORT.

MADISON, WIS., July 3, 1872.

Mr. President, and Members of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee: GENTLEMEN:-As Corresponding Secretary, I have the honor to submit the following report:

During the year I have received from the Recording Secretary and forwarded to members of the Society receipts for dues, Certificates of Membership,

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