Show I ANNUALENCAENT ENCAMPMENT + i Of the Utah Department of the Depatm G A R I t n ELECTION OF OFFICERS I 4 WHO WILL SERVE POB TH coamra YEAR r Large Gathering Including Visitors From Ogden Colonel Xaighn I Commander Da Witt C McGill Senior Vice Commander and G H Chappell Junior Vice Commander 4 The annual department encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic department I de-partment of Utah occurred yesterday at the G A R hal About seventy visitors both ladies and gentlemen from Ogden came down and were entertained en-tertained at luncheon and dinner bj the local comrades comre The feature of the encampment was the election and installation of officers to serve during the coming year They are as follows Department commander command-er 1 1 Kaighn senior vice commander com-mander De Witt C IcGlll junior vice commander George H Chappell chaplain chap-lain Rev F G Crandall medical di 7y 31 M KAIGHN Department Commander G A R rector Dr H J Power representative to national encampment Benjamin F Bair alternate Allen Allensworth A A G F M Bishop A Q 1 G R G Sleater judge advocate M A I Breeden department inspector S I r Richardson department mustering officer of-ficer F H Clark The ceremonies were very Interesting Interest-ing and were performed in the nres ence of a large number of comrades and friends Colonel M M Kaishn the new department commander on behalf of himself and the other new officers made a brief address a follows ADDRESS OF ACCEPTANCE Ladles and GentlemenThe Grand Army thanks you for eem honor you do us by your attendance here at this our annual meeting I warms the hearts of the old soldiers when they are made to feel as they do tonight that tho services they a rendered their country in her hour of need are not forgotten and that they have a place in the affectionate regards of their fellow citizens regrds It is titling and proper that at this time and place t should in behalf of all the comrades of the Grand Army pay a grateful grate-ful tribute or thanks and praise t tne I nooio anu patriotic women who make up i the Womens Relief Corps auxiliary to thc various posts in this department They are tho very right arm of the Grand Army Without them hat the works of charity and fraternity whch It is our duty to perform must have ben left undone They assist up in our Socials our camp fires our entertainments and our memorial services And better than this minister ing angels that they are whenever and wherever disease or want attacks an old soldier or his widow or orphans there these good women are to be found sooth ing pain and bringing happiness and com fortGod God bless tho good women of the Grand Army Relief Corps and may they con < j tinue in their noble work until the last of I the old l soldiers are mustered out of their I I earthly service and into the Grand Army t beyond the dark river And may a Kind I providence give them the linal rward I I which they so richly merit I I Comrades and old solders a word to i I you No more do our bayonets glisten In I the sunlight No more do our sabers Hash I in the air No more do our bugles wake I the echoes in the sunny southland The rebel yell and the northern cheer have alike faded into silence The hot lips of our cannon have grown I cold and our battle flags are furled Iown hot passions of the war have also cooled and veterans of both the blue and the I gray fraternize ds brothers and alike re I joice that slavery is abolished and that I we have but one country and one flag But when wo meet as wo do tonight I memory touches us with I her l magic wand and transports us back across a full generation gen-eration of departed years to the memorable memor-able years of the civil way I Can you forget how scattered on the farm in the shop in the store in the school room and in the office we received the news that the southern states had i risen in rebellion becauso a president had been legally elected and inaugurated who was not acceptable to the slave owners I How we left our homes and friends kissed ourmothers and sweethearts good by an4 went forth to light and die if need be to put down rebellion and save the nations lfe How we marched under blistering sun through soaking rain through stifling i dust and through almost bottomless mud i How wo experienced the baptisms of fire t1e dbr trl and blood the rumble and roar and rattle tho smoke the confusion the hell of battle and then victory or defeat continued con-tinued fo four years until treason and rebellion was crushed the Hag triumphant and the national authority restored Then the gathering at Washington and tho grand review Then the discharge and the return to friends and loved ones Yet I not all went home with us for Tom and Joe and Bill and Jim and Charley who had marched and slept and fought with I us we had left behind sleeping their final sleep on southern battlefields In soil that they had hallowed with their blood and eanctilled with tho sacrifice of their bright young lives And now we boys who hammered and pounded Lees army from tho Potomac hark step by step to beyond Richmond and the James who hurled back the red tide of war and rebellion at Antietam and Gettysburg who stood with Thomas I tal Chickamauga with Granfat Vlcks i i burg who plirabcil Lookout mountain with Hooker who marched with Sherman from Atlanta to the sea who sailed with Porter and Farragut are now men all I past middle life with our faces turned I I not to thb rising sun liking our ease ana needing our regular rest and sleep We the survivors of the Grand Army are banded together as brethren to heip each other and the widows and orphans of I our dead comrades to see that our comrades com-rades as they drop out of our ranks are laid away with reverence and honor due to a soldier more than this we endeavor by our lines and our teachings to inspire tho boys and girls growing up around us with a lofty patriotism a love of government country and flag of freedom and good i That our lessons have not been In vain that the fires of patriotism etill burn brightly in i the hearts of the American people the recent magnificent response po magifcent respnse to tho countrys call for men to fight her battles and the records made by our ga Kant boys at Santiago and Manila abund antly demonstrate And proud are we here In this statethat our Utah boys covered themselves with glory Utah added fresh luster to record of the American soldier And now comrades for the honor you comres have done me an honor that comes more from your kindness than from my deserving deserv-ing I gratefully thank you I shall servo InS to gatefuly of my ability and I rely on your kind consideration and your loyal support BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Colonel Maurice M Kaighn was born on March 30 1S44 In Camden N J He received an academic education and in reived aeic cuct0 a 1861 commenced the study of law with of Camden N Hon James M Scovel of J He lot his studies to enter the army and served through the war in the Sixth corps of the army of the Potomac with the Fortyfourth and One Hundred Hun-dred and Ninetyseventh Pennsylvania regiments After the war he entered the Columbia university of Washington D C and graduated from the law de guated T > nitmf nt in 1SK9 and waa admitted to i LU amite the bar of the supreme court of the District of Columbia For seven years he was law clerk of the interior department depart-ment resigning that position in January Jan-uary 1877 to engage 11 the practice of eng law in Salt Lake He was commander of Maxwell post in 1892 and junior vice department commander in 1SD3 On elected and installed Feb 23 he was eleted department commander department of Utah G A R Senior Vice Commander De Witt C McGill was born in Duchess county New York on Dec 6 1S34 He served through the war in the Thirtysecond New York infantry and the Twenty first New JTork cavalry and was discharged dis-charged on Oct 20 1SG5 at Denver Colo He came to Utah in IS90 and has been engaged in real estate and merchandising mer-chandising in Ogden Junior Vice Commander Chappell was born in New York state and served with 3 New York regiment in the army of the Potomac through the war He is about 56 years of age |