| Show STORY OF A R AS TOLD IN LIVES OF ITS LEADERS DERS r B 0 7 4 O i I Y r Z I i K 4 Y t n 1 L Lr I r O av 3 Q o B dR Ga Y NS p d 0 Q P FIl Sll r r rr r o 4 Q D o G G J P o o G P c o Q o 3 o q Dp Y o nD a r dt Q n 3 ter R Rt LZ t i iI I R 4 41 r 4 ios iosi if I i a t Y F t y xi g r a 6 E x 2 n 1 I 4 I Imi T I I 47 i 4 E a a FMc F o w g L o S 8 1 mi OLI R F G O Or 3 D rr i 5 Q r j jr i 1 j r r 2 d rw O b a ff t F 0 s R WG YF zi 4 p Li G Wf ss R T TG B ADAMS 93 y d 0 v r Q ti p pr pi c i f d a b e d 4 a tai D o Q 0 r Q fl i f d Y O 40 r i lilt e O o oD o I 7 D i IW J 1 I x F i ip tn t n p r 1 1 V r 1 t T w i T t 3 rY i w w i U s F 4 o a C CM r I 1 ff 1 M E i 1 I 41 S 1 r Sll u lC I Ir Ij jr j 0 t 1 r 6 o h J S 00 J Jr Jc JH d s t r ti r 90 o c i d D cD rn i r R I 0 0 AK y 0 R H o IRAN Q TA s sr jJ l J r W JW i J 0 I Ilor F r First Time in History of the tile Organization Photo s of All I I II III I Have Been Assembled the first drat Un time Ume j jn in the history J F 1 Grand Irand Army Anny of or the th Ihre u has haa h been collected the thEof th 4 graphs of tto the commanders j of the thc or I Liv Ih lv r ri r dad i al ad they the 1 IA r f collecting this group has hils hasI d I 1 lt of labor and no end nd of im i t Colonel F M of Sterrett 0 I executive exec uthe director of the therm th ii rm to be held in III inu k tie f r u I Y from 9 to Au b encampment has bus succeeded in getting together sether to the th likenesses of those who have been at atthe atthe atthe the head of or the great society of federal veterans and Is quite well satisfied w with the result of his bis efforts The head headquarters headquarters quarters quarteTs of the G A R E encampment in the Commercial club building are decorated in appropriate manner Among the wall hangings are arc the en enlarged enlarged n la d photographs in suitable frames frame of the men whose photographs phs art an herewith reproduced Even Een in the crowded arrangement arran the array of notable men of the organization tion presents a striking sight Those Tho who ho are art familiar with the war var of the thc states and the tm stirring times of the days of the early earl 65 will recognize In fn Inthis this company some of the most renowned re rP renowned j DOwned generals wh led the Union j forces to victory When the old sol soldiers soldiers diers come hither a few months henr hemf hensn I they th will see th the men under nn ier er whose di direction diu direction u Uon they did th their ir best beet t Some SemI ot of ott them n are arc deed dead indeed half hilI of them are t i S St I I I t ki kia a v J y t ll i J 1 Collection Will Be One of the tIle Interesting Features of if 4 the tile Encampment t to Be Held in zu Salt alt lf j Lake in in August I Following his efforts to collect coiled the photographs of the tile past commanders j Colonel Sterrett sought Ought also al o to assem assemble assemble assemble ble complete data datil respecting the lives Jives j of Qt all of or those thOM who at one time or an another another another other have hae been at the head h d of the I Grand Army In thi this h ho hI has mot met with i much mu h difficult for the th reason roa on nn that hat I in Inmany many Inan cases tv th r nr were v or fr o fn a d j the accurate f F str r rf rIt na tahi ahir i inaccessible b f t s ti t ng rg I the It H v i i I Sterrett hofs ho t I IrI n l tc h IH he at st t w tb th I ing ng a short time there are lacking now few fen if It any Natural Naturally noth nothing nothing ing t g will be Inserted in th the biographical f ical summary that is clouded In date or detail It Is one of ot the things that has hasto hasI hasto I to be bf guarded d against the unwitting I entrance into history hi tory of anachronism m i I So u far aR as a the biographical al alI I i k f hf of nr th rat past commanders command r i ir ar irTH TH Mi d ir i Th th r r n u c ce TIl i t I I IL r i th 1 n r Tl r rt r re e t t r marr ge f h had rr TT n ad aId n u some s mc instances death t st sr S c cion of or the greatest tragedy that t any aft na nation i ion tion on earth has hall ever i j pa t I WHO THEY WERE T The following is II a nC ris ea 8 of brief sketch rf d f the men who ho haw have bran boon n in hn f of the l r r MTV IT Arm A Army rm j i G Stephen A Hurlburt 11 LY LYlo r c i lo f a j tf Si n i art hr i N Ny It 4 If r rag J l i JL 1 ii c cy I 1 y Q Qa Qa a Q a J STORY OF GAR GA rl AS TOLD IN INTHE INTHE THE LIVES OF ITS LEADERS L f t Continued C from fr rn ll Page 1 i i 1 6 t fIt poI S ind md d He was w 11 rn in I hion 1 S C X Nov n v t L i W He Jo dirt of paralysis in Chile March 27 1 1882 His HM body was w brought to hie hI i home at Belvidere HI ni for interment oj d John A Logan Elected at the thes second cond s national encampment at Pa Jazz Jan 15 S reelect reel t eat at Cincinnati 0 O May 12 1 13 S el eted at Washington D C G May 11 12 1 1818 He lIe was waa as born near Murphys Murphysboro Murphysboro boro Jackson county Ill III Feb 9 1826 1 idled Died in Washington D C Dec 2 1886 At the Metropolitan church chunh in Wash Washington ash ington Inton of which General Logan was WR a member a memorial tablet has been be n erected bearing hearing the inscription 1 To the deathless memory memo of Major general eral John Joint Alexander Io Logan an Six SL ears In the th ih house of representatives bree times elected to the senate erate s hate of the United Stales forty years in official ife Great statesman of the mighty rest est commander of the tb Army Arm r of th the e and volunteer g gun n nral 1 rat ral of the republic he loved so 80 u well Welt Victorious in III arm illustrious in coon II 11 worthy worth the th highest highet hon hen henr booM rs M r of his type of American merican manhood generous frank rave ve incorruptible patriot honorable fal ul friend frimd devoted df hue hua and beloved parent sincere elnere Christian ChristianI I J humbly trust truIt in God If this is le the Mid Dd I am ready leady Ambrose E Burnside Elected commander at Boa Ros Roson ion on on Mass Mae at the national en May 10 18 11 1871 1171 reelected at it t the tM sixth national encampment held beld heldt beldt Lt t Cleveland land 0 O May S 9 1872 He Henas HeU nas U ae born in tn county Indiana May lay 24 1 4 He died quite suddenly t his lite home borne Bristol R I wept pt 13 ISM 1881 The governor of the state staten n maid ag official ement of his hie eath Mid iid His eminent services ers Ices to toJ toI J I the he stat and to the country countr his noble 4 of f character r and the universal 1 in rn in which he was waa heM held combined k ft make the loss a public calamity i Charles Devens i t I Q Elect I at the national encampment held at atS t S cw ew HB HavEn Hann n fonn May 14 13 Iii 1 1873 re at it Harrisburg Pa PL May ay 13 1 1874 t i 4 wa a born at Charlestown Mass Maa Ma MaIll April ADrIl Ill 4 l O He HI dod ded Jan 7 IIII He lie HeA Heas A as general of the United States tates luring the th administration of J Ha Hayes Haye es He served from rom j to the t con of or th the war and andose andlee lee ose from the rank of major to that of general and temporarily com corn commanded a corps J John Frederick Hartranft K Elected lee ted at the national encampment held at III In May 12 1 13 1875 and was at Philadelphia Pa at the i nth national encampment held June Junet t 1876 Tie Tic va wa was born in Montgomery count Pennsylvania PenD S Dec 16 1840 1820 and 17 11 i 1899 19 He rose roseW r setu to the Ute rank of brigadier general In the army and after att r the war served as governor of the state of Pennsylvania John C Robinson Elected at the eleventh national encampment held at Providence R n I June 26 6 27 1377 1877 and reelected at Springfield Mass Mam Juno June 4 1878 He lie was a graduate graduato of the United States Military academy and was major general United a States vol volunteers for meritorious services He lie Hell ll lied d Feb 18 1891 William Earnshaw Elected at 21 at the thirteenth national encampment held at Albany A ny X N Y June 17 Ii IS 18 1879 He was born at Chester Pa May 12 U 1828 1826 and ad a d died July 17 1885 at the military home bome at Dayton Q O 0 He was a chaplain In the t army anny and after the war engaged in superintending the th construction of the tbt National cemetery at Murfreesboro I and at Nashville Ten Tenn He was a sin gln sinter ter tore eno earnest Christian Chri tian devoted I to iRIS calling and profession fored the army arm loved the soldier By Br the fart I die dil charge ch of his Ills duties the urbanity of or his manners and his uncompromising loy by loyalty lOYalty alty he hf gained the and es esteem esteem esteem teem of all who knew him Louis Wagner Elected commande at t the I I fourteenth national l encampment held beld at Dayton 0 O June 8 and ad 9 ISSO l SO He waa was born at n Germany Aug Au 4 38 He lie served under Pope In Vir Virginia VIrginia ginia during the war I and in n this Oils ser service service service vice was badly wounded woun ed and was as assigned assigned signed to the command comman of Camp Wil William 11 liam Penn Pennsylvania for Cor the or organization organization of colored troops where he did most moat effective service In training tr I and forwarding some 1000 colored sol sob soldiers soldiers diers He was brigadier gen general general eral oral in March 6 All of his prude predecessors predecessors censors as of the Grand Army Anny of the Republic are arc dead He is l now no the dean of the order George S 5 Merrill Elected at the fifteenth national encampment held at t Indianapolis Ind md June 15 and 16 1881 He was born in Methuen Mass l SS in 1839 1829 He was the proprietor of the Ole Lawrence American newspaper in n He lie served with ith General Banks In the Louisiana exposition participated in inthe Inthe Inthe the siege of Port Hudson and in other operations in the department of the gulf He died 1101 February 1 17 1900 Paul Van Elected at the th sixteenth national encampment held at Baltimore Md Id June 2123 13 21 1882 He was wae born In Ohio in 1846 18 6 and died in Cuba July 9 1062 He served in the i th Illinois Infantry and the Sixteenth Illinois cavalry cavary during the war He was taken prisoner and con confined confined confined fined for nearly a year car in Andersonville and other southern prisons After Ulf thu war he served over ten years ears in the railway mall mail service Robert B Beath Elected at the th seventeenth national encampment held In Denver Colo Cob July Jul 25 and 26 6 1883 1853 He was born in Philadelphia January 26 6 and served an apprenticeship as asa asa asa a machine blacksmith He served In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Pennsylvania volun volunteers volunteers volunteers and In the Eighth Pennsylvania volunteers He was wounded at Bull Run served as captain of the Sixth U C US CS S colored troops in the army arm of the James JIl was badly wounded in the charge of the brigade on New ew Market Heights Virginia September 29 9 1861 which resulted in the Amputation of or his right leg below the knee was as assigned assigned assigned signed to duty in the bu bureau reau resu in North Carolina For Fot thirty years Jears Comrade Beath Booth has been regard regarded ed as the lawgiver of the Grand Grund Army of the Republic For that length of time he has been on the committee e on rules and regulations and most of the tine as chairman of that committee John Kountz 5 Elected at the eighteenth national encampment held at Minneapolis Minn lInn July Jul 2326 and was the youngest chief ever elected to this position He HewaK was wair born in Ohio March ra h 25 2 1846 1546 and was wal but 15 lii 1 years old when he en enlisted listed as a drummer in company compan C Ohio volunteers In the battle of or Mission III sIon Ridge November 36 5 2 1863 he lie threw away awa his drum seized a musket and joined his company compan as asit asIt asIt it was advancing to the assault and was so severely wounded as to require the ithe amputation of his leg He ITo was mustered out by b reason of this dis disability disability ability April 25 1864 1564 He has Ims built up upa a large fire insurance business In Tole Toledo Toledo do where he now no resides Samuel S Burdett Il Elected at the nineteenth national held heldi at Portland Me Ie June 4 1886 He HC was born in Leicestershire England February 21 M 1 1836 and came to the u United States in 1848 He graduated from Oberlin college in Ohio and stud studIed led law at Wilmington Clinton county count of that state He served as judge ad advocate advocate ocate under S R P Curtis in Missouri ouri and Kansas and settled In Missouri af after after after ter the war where he served as United States district attorney in 1874 he was yas appointed commissioner of the general land office For a while he had control of large business interests in South America He has up a large law practice in Washington D C whore he now lives and continues his profession Lucius Fairchild Elected EI t d command at the twentieth twentieth twentieth national encampment held at San Francisco Cal Aug ug 4 I 6 He was aas born in Kent Portage county count 0 O Dec Dee Deci 31 i 1881 1831 and died May Ia 25 2 1 1896 He rose roseto roseto roseto to the rank rani of brigadier general United States volunteers during the war He served as consul at Liverpool England I I and as consul general at Paris France He also served ned as United States Slates minister n I to Spain John P Rea flea v I Elected Elect f at the I national encampment held at St Louts Lout Mo Sept 38 39 1887 He was born in Chester county Pa Oct 13 12 I 1644 In 1 he removed to Miami t fy 0 O and there taught school until April Aprilli li 17 1811 when he enlisted in the Eleventh Ohio Obio infantry He afterwards served in inthe Inthe the First Ohio cavalry and rose to 10 the rank of major Alter After the war he 1 served as internal revenue revern e collector in Pennsyl Pennsylvania vania vanla practiced law Jaw had bad editorial charge of the Tribune newspaper at Minneapolis served as probate judge of Hennepin count county William Warner Elected at the national encampment held at Columbus 0 O Sept 12 I 14 H 1 18 He was bom born in la Lafayette county count Wis Is in 1840 1810 and rose rol e to the rank of o major In a aI Wisconsin I regiment during the war He removed from Wisconsin to Kansas City Mo to 10 to practice law and has been a lead leading leading ing Ins citizen of that city and of or the state of Missouri ever since He has bas occupied practically every ever official position In that city within the gift In of o that people He was representative of the Fifth Missouri district of congress for two tO terms and declined a third term He lie was serving as United States district at attorney attorney torney when elected by the legislature of the state of oC Missouri to the senate of the United State Stat In which capacity he is isnow Isnow now doing such splendid service servie Russell A Alger Elected at the national notional encampment held beld at Milwaukee WIS Aug 23 S 30 He was born in Ohio removed to Michigan rose ne to the rank of brigadier general dur during durIng ing log the war governor of Michigan secre secretary tary tar taI of f war under President McKInley United States senator from Michigan n Died at his home in Detroit Mich Jan 24 4 1907 Wheelock G C Veazey Elected at the rational national encampment held at Boston Mass in 10 1 He was a native na native tive of Brentwood Vt a graduate of Dartmouth college major and lieutenant ant colonel of the Sixteenth Vermont distin distinguished shed himself at the battle of or Gettys Gettysburg Gettysburg Gettysburg burg by changing front and charging on the flank of division practiced law at Rutland Vt after the war was wasa a judge of the supreme court of Vermont was a member of the interstate commerce commission lon in I which capacity he was serving at the time of his death on March 22 2 1896 John Palmer Elected at the tw national encampment |
