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+ as per last report, in $84,- SOME NATIONAL OFFICERS. Jepartment bax been honored in the dis tribution of national officers as follows: Rus sell A. Alger, commander-in-chief, 1889- Detroit, H. M_ Duffield, senior rice commander- in-chief, 1591-2, Detroit: C. V.R Pond, junior vice commander-in-chief, 1881-82, ¢ Rev. T. M. Shanafelt, Three Rivers: 0. Uss4 85, Hilledale. The twenty-fifts annual national encam tot Detroit Angust 3-8, 1891. oie Prevent department officers are: Depart ment commander, HS. Deanzsoster vise Sepert- commander, James A Crozier. Junior vice department cominauder, T. M. Wiley; medical director, 5. M. Wilkins; department chaplain, Henry S White; assistant adjutant general, C. ¥. RK. Pond; asestant quartermaster general, W. K. Childs; inspector, H. A. Chapin advocate, R. R. Pealer; chief mustering officer, W. W. Cook. ‘The headquarters of the department are lo- ested at Ann Arbor. inues, inspector general, known as the «ilver | Potiowing are the t officers: Com- | mandgr, Henajah E. Smith, Willimantic; senior } vice commander, Wilbur P. Rogers, Meriden; | Junior vice commander, Selah G. Blakeman, Shelton; assistant adjutant general, John H. Thacher, Hartford. Nepresentatives, Thos. J. Gill (at large), Hartford: Henry R. Jones, New Hartiord; Jus. N. Coe, Noroten; Frank Miller, 1. Baxton, Norwalk; W. N. ; A.J. Smith, Danbury; W. 8. Simmons, Central Village. Alernates, m Cilley (at largo), Norwich: Hobart W. Demin; | Hartford: John F. Simmons, Winsted; John G. Packer, Mystic; Thos. A. Smith, Litchfield; Wm. H. Lyon, Bridgeport: H. F. Northrop, Waterbury; D. 'W. Grosvenor, Westbrook. | i MISTANT ADJUTANT GENERAL POND. | Comrade C. V. BR. Pond. the assistant adja- tant general of the Department of Michigan, was born in the state ork May 30, 1 Moving to Cons and engaging in the manufacturing b was so engaged when the war of th proke ont. ceiving a commis quartermaster of the t unteer infantry September I, 1 bis regiment to New Orleans a in the Department of the ¢ department of th INTs he was mander of the with bis ? uary, 1579, he 400 port comrades are Comrade t te commander and in onal encamp- ment at Indinnepolis w ted junior vi commander-in-chief. At the Denver € ment Comrade ta candi thengh x . h igan is 2 earnest mrade Pond. ed in state affairs g public men, Col. Whose heart is in than much inte and extensively known am: Pond is best k elonest touch with f the G. ALR. He is proud of the au lepartment be- enuse of the lovalt « members to the f them to MENT OF MINNESOTA. ‘The Veterans Were Delayed in Their Arrival, veteran ine ns, passed the Sabbath very micer & to the delay ir trains. The « * rush of visitors to the capital » Op.) the tome mu te my im the city waite f the ni the railroa Mi ption comm ing at th bt. Whe: 5 resented an eh barkets. ta department shar with th Ds noon and part finally ar: mpty tu The Min tral High Seb tt and the city hall. have made complete comfort of their northwest are italities of Washingt. os Bart rand wa of b Minnesota i an old cam- ewd enough to do his sight- + m after the encamy week au of in They Department Commander L. M. Lange of the Department of Minw wta was born in Norway ever forty-eight years ago: at the age of @ighteon he came to this country gr the pur- Pose of entering the northern army which he @id four days after landing in New York city eplisting in company ( of the one | red and etxty-fifth regiment, New York voluntecrs (second battery, Duryee’s Zousves). wi Fegiment wae then (the fail of | 16!) being « gaomed. His regiment was sent south in Dy cember, IM. and served in the department of the gulf until i864, and afterw apdouh valley, He wis with b ll tts engagements, at Port Hudson, Vermillion Roads, Pieasant Hill and Cor tana; at Deep Bottom. Va. aud in the b @ valley under Sheridan, The regis m part of the third brigade, tiret divis e Was master bas been con of Stodined Post, No. 34, Department of Minnesota, judge advocate of Kansas and also | of Mianeseta, sid-ie-camp to Commanders-in- ebief Beath and Kea. juuior vice departmen commander “of Depariment of Mi 380 aad senior vice department ec im 1891. He was elected comman Department of Minnesota February 8. 1892, He wat present residing im Marstall. Mian. Demg the register of the Uuited States land Office located at that place. DEPAKTMENT OF CONNECTICUT. About 4,000 Nutmeg Veterans WHI March Under Commander Smith. Connecticut sends about 4,000 veterans to the | eighteenth A. C. BENAJAN E. SMITH OF CONNECTICUT. Renajah E. Smith, commander of the De- partment of Connecticut, G. A. It.. enlisted Angust 2. 1862, in company A,twenty-first regi: ment, Connecticut volunteers. and was dis- charged June 18, 1865, at the close of the war. The regiment was assigned to the Army of the Potomac and jater to the Army of the James When army corps were established, the twenty- first was in the ninth and afterward in the the regiment Hospital, Army the James. Point of Rocks, Va., from) which was discharged, le was at the battles of Fredericksburg, Drewry’s E and ¢ her minor engageme Long Po: . 30, Department of Connecti- cut, at Willimantic, as a charter member an mmmander. Having served th at twice as assistant inspector, he | f mustering officer im 1885, jw rtment commander 9). senior vice 91.and his popniarity asa comrade is shown | from the fact that he was the unanimous choice | of the department for commander at its last en- campment DEPARTME ‘T OF MISSOURI. psts and the Officers Already in This City. ‘The headquarters of the Department of Mis- anged from the Ebbitt to the ool building, corner 13th and K. ling ix also the headquarters of Blair Post of St. Louis; that claims the largest | following of the seve about 250 men with them, and y in company with Department Commander W. Whitehead of Kansas City, chartered the steamer Iver Queen and spent the day on the member of this post ia Alex. stail of Commander- jdsmnith is also one of sof the nineteenth n organization tha officers of the Ilinois volun! priqet of the The regiment was comman¢ g Touching and gained their title by the the oughress with which they foraged when ordered to do sa. | officers are as follo THE EVENING Se STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, MO noky, SEPTEMBER 19, 1899. membership of about 25,000, of 21,000 fare reported in guist im every county of the state but, two, The dey it is always well represent | the, satlowal es ‘the three | posts of St. Louis, ‘Hopendi Ransom, having made national reputations for the number of comrades they turn out for ‘and for their soldierly appearance. The quarters of the at have been at St. Louis since 1885, aud are established there until the year 1900. The department com- i | mander and assistant adjutant general have | headquarters at the Ebbitt House during the encampment. WILL HAVE 700 arex. Past Department Commander Geo.W. Martin of Missouri, when seen by a Stan reporter at | the Ebbitt, He is an enthusinst on G. A. R. matters in his state and said: “Missouri will sent an aj nee that ai le might feel proud of. Manson and Blair poste are tro at fine bodies of men as will be found in the Union. In addition to the posts from St. Louis will come two more from Sedalia and Trenton. Missouri has no candidate for commander-in- chief and will do her own thinking on the sub- ject when the time comes for the selection. Among the prominent men with us is Judge Chas. C. Burton of Sedalia,who will probably be « candidate for department commander at the next state encampment.” ASSISTANT ADJUTANT GENERAL RODGERS. ‘The assistant adjatant general is Thos. B. Rodgers of St. Louis. The other department Louis Benecke, 8. V. D. C.; Jno. P. Platt, J. V. D. C.: E. F. Lane, med cal director: Rev. Thos, H. Hagerty, chaplain Chas. G. Burton, jndge advocate; Wilber F. inspector; ‘S. D. Webster, . M. 0. council of administration—Francix’ P. Becker, A. B. Parkell, Jno. K. Tracey, B. Knoepfel, W. B. Rodgers. ‘The department has twents to representatives and thirty-four votes in the national encampnient. DEPARTM T OF MAINE. The Pine Tree State Representatives Are Now Here. The Department of the State of } opened this morning at the Morton b ment Commander Isiac Dyer. ‘The hendquar- ters delegation consists of sixty-five, twenty-five of whom are ladies from the Woman's Relief Corps, while the whole state sends a grand total of about 1,500. Skowhegan on Saturday, but was dela: Highlands, N.Y. The posts from i: Bosworth from Portland, Russell from Skow- hegan, Burnside from Auburn, Chas. A.Warren from Standish, Chas, Keizer from Waldboro’, Thompson from Cornish, Vincent Mountford > Post. | som, No. 131. th them and are John’s College, near | re representative bu: natural pride in thei This post is known the ceneral never se it when he removed t intion of Rai . and at his de ard of honor at . Ha BANS Another Sj. Louis post is They have ab beadquart Thomas ¢ 3 ness men and feel magnitice «i Harry P. Harding. om Post gives a reception and hop at wrters Wednesday night. Tonight n. B.A. Carr asa through from St. | ing of ten cars. They | at Gettysburg and viewed that Maj. O'Brien, one of rtin the awful charge on | Fighty per cent of the men engaged were killed, the largest lors in any tingle action during the war. For bravery on that occasion the Major wears a medal voted him by Congress, Too FEERLE TO TRAVEL. ‘There is some talk of the presence in the city of Capt. Haine lair Post, and a member of wo claims to be 105 yeurs of age. The old kentleman ix not here, b feebled_to ave. He ix now in tor the 1, placed there by the generosity of Ran . The United al band of Jeffer- | son barracks, durty pieces, are with Ransom, Secretary Noble is a member of blair Post of yesterday morning in | membersbi men had arrived by th cial departmental train will tive at noon today. Commander Whiteh been in the city sev days making tions for the incoming of his followers, Nearly all the comrades are accompanied by | their wives and receive all visitors to their | various camps with true stern hos- | pitality. CHARLES W. WRITENEAD OF sissoURr. Charles W. Whitehead, department comman- | der of Missouri, enlisted at the age of nineteen as a private in company H, one hundred and twenty-fourth New York volunteers, It was | raised at Goshen early in J} tame diate went to the fr mained unti when it was mus-| tered out at Washi ¥. His regiment attached to the third corps, mubse- to the se rps, commended by Remaining with the Army of nm of Richmond, + of Gi at Appomattox and back to Washington, was in the ently ud review of the Army of the Potomac in | Washington, and witnessed the review of Sher- man's army the day following. oue hundred and twenty-fougth partici- 1 in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chan- Brandy Station, _ Gettysburg, e, Wilderness, Po River, North ts at Petersburg and cements. It had 149 killed | | and lost 232 by death, and 11 men died in rebel | priso member of Geo. H. Thomas Post of as City, and was its secomd commander, In 1885 he was elected sentor vice department | commander and has served on the staff of the commander-in-chief as wid-de-camp and assist- | SBE inspector respectively. | ONE OF THE LARGEST DEPARTMENTS. ‘The Missouri department of the Grand Army &. With their wives und families |°f the Kepablic is one of the largest in the | Gey casi stock good-cieed western tone | COUR, ranking seventh in number of mem- im oopebene here and mumbet of ports It waa organized | ‘0 eee 22, 1882, starting with ni ts. Mi Admiral Foote Post, No. 17, of New Haven. | Wm. Warner of Kansas City, the?precene ot. lone sends 700 men. Comfortable quarters | publiéan candidate for governor of Missouri, | have been provided for them in the eit bel | wes first a, cmmeenoe, and | a , D. CN. G. | served for two years, havi n re-elected. | eee ene. < | He was succeeded by W. P. Chamberlain of Some of the Connecticut men were expected | Hevnibal in 18sh, Neon ‘Cele oem tran of yewterday, but they did not get in. and the first | js36 and 1886, E. E. Kimball of Nevada in 188 of them mace their appearance bright and | Hiram Smith, jr. of Cameron in 18, John E. early this morning. They kept coming during | Phelps of Springfield in 1889, Leo Rassieur of the day. and for awhile it looked as if every | Bt Louie in 1800. Geo. W- Martin of Brookfield ther man in the depot was from Connecticut. | the present depariment commander OY # A THE MOTEL RANDALL ‘THE FST POST ORGANIZED. Headquarters of the Department of Connecti-} Frank P. Blair Post of St. Louis, the first @at were opencd this morning at the Hotel | post, was organized in December, 1879. Since Bandall, corner 15th and Pennsylvania avenue. | then 588 posts have been mustered, with » total from Lrunswiek, Daniel A. ‘Bean from Brownfish, C. L. Stevens from tine, Sedgwick from Bath, Edwin Libby from Rockland, Frank Hunter from Cary, Bates from South Norridgewood, George Goodwin from St. Albans, Grover from Fryeburg, W. 8. Heath from Waterville, Ex Parker from Kitter 3 Gilvery from Searsport, Calvin y from Unity, Thos. H. Mar- Bélfast, E. H. Bradstreet from Lib- : ge C. Davis from Brooks, Warren from Winterport, Ezra M. Billings from Mon- roe, Dana B. € r from Freedom, Claudran from Westbrook, Knox from Lewiston, U. 8. Grant from Biddeford, Austin from Lewiston, W. 8. Hancock, Sherman Mills, Charles I. ‘tevens from Castine, Seth Williams from Ai gusta. ~\ GEN. ISAAC DYER OF MAINE. Gen. Isaae Dyer of Skowhegan, the com- mander of the Department of Maine, was born in Skowhegan November 1, 1820, and received education at the public schools and at Bloomfield Academy. His early life was spent upon the farm, a part of which he has since seen laid out in streets and covered with fine resi- dences, His father was also a brick manufact- urer and these oceupations Gen, Dyer still pur- sues, For thirty-three years he was also in the rug and book business. He has held several municipal offices, was a member two years of the state senate, inspector general on the staif of Gov. Dingiey two years aud also trustee of the Bath Military and Naval Orphan Jum. He hax been at the head of De Molay Commandery. Kmight Templars, and senior ¢ department, ax well as of the council. He has always taken an active interest in Grand Army tatters and in the welfare of the soldier, He was mustered into the service of the United States ax lieutenant colonel of the fif- teenth Maine in December, 1861. Their first service was at Ship Island aud Gen, Butler's New Orleans expedition, In September, 1862. the regiment was ordered to Florida. The onel resigning ordered to report for duty on the Missi Col. Dyer succeeded “him in command, In June, 1863, he was ordered with his regiment to reinforce Col. Cahill in Louisi- aua iu defending the Opelousas country. On returning to their old quarters at Camp Para- pet Col. Dyer as senior officer assumed com- mand of the fort, “The regiment then did pro- Yost duty i New Orleans, afterward gomg to ‘exas, joining the forces ‘besieging Fort Expe- ranza, Which the rebels evacuated after blow- ing it'up. ‘On returning to New Orleans Col, Dyer was ordered to join the Red river expedition. At » battle of Sabine Cross Roads, in common with Gen. Emory’s division, his command bore the brunt of that sharply contested field, At other engagements Commander Dyer was con- stantly in command, sharing with his men their fortunes and “reverses. For awhile he was in command of the second brigade, nine- teenth army corps, Afterward the regiment served under Gen, Sheridan in the Shenandoah, In June, 1865, he was placed in command of the first subdistrict of South Carolina, subse- quently taking command of the whoie district, In March, 1365, he wae promoted brevet briga- dier general and was mustered out in Septem- her, 1863, having seen nearly four years of con- stant service. He was universally beloved und ever had the respect of his superior officers, He certainly retired with a proud record, ab- solutely untarnished. ORGANIaED IN 1867. This was the organization of the Department of Maine. In response toa call previously issued a con- vention of the soldiers and sailors of oC county assembled at the common cout in Bath on Friday, May $1, 1867. ‘The object was ‘to organize ‘an associntion “whereby the true interests of the soldier may be protected by united effort in that diree- Gen. T. W. Hyde was called to preside and he and Ma). Shorey, now assistant quartermaster general of the were. the, principal movers in starting the enterprise, ‘The later was secretary meeting. A\ meet q in res} to an invitation, Gen. Wm. Schmidt of Quiney, I, formerly colonel of the was ‘ippi, i twenty-seventh Illinois, who in Maine, have about 700 men in line, and they will pres ‘The commandery started from | Jane 28, 1867, but subsequently was disbanded and afterward reorganized as Post 4. Post 2 of Portland was mustered the following autumn and is now the renior post of the department. In December, 1867, John C. Caldwell was ap- pointed provisional commander. The first ‘* nt convention” was held at headquarters of Post 2, January 15, George L. Beal was elected * com- mander,” with Charles P. Matiocks as aseist- antadjutant general. The first records are menger. ‘There are now nearly 10,000 comrades in good | standing in the 165 posts of the state. The following are the offiters: isaac “ department commander; Charles Folsom Jones, sistant Q.M.G.; A. E. Nickerson, senior vice de- partment commander; Jethro H. Sweet, junior Southard, department chaplai M.D., medical director; spector: Samuel D. Leavitt, Elisha S. Coa ASSISTANT ADJUTANT GENERAL JONES. Charles Folsom Jones, assistant adjutant gen- resided in Skowhegan since childhood. In enlisted in the second New +York heavy artil- lery, and in the second corps in Grant’s campaign through nin. He was fifteen years old when he enlisted and ex Petienced army life in nearly a year of sexvice las occupied various fiduc civil life and an almost cont tion during his service in the educated and cultured gentleman, he is “popu: lar among Grand Army men of the state and makes the exacting and important office which he holds, DEPARTMENT OF RHODE ISLAND. al rand Army. Though the State is Small She is Well Rep- resented. Yesterday evening the Rhode Island veterans began coming in on the Baltimore and Ohio | railroad. The department commander, David | 8. Kay, and the headquarters delegation, how- | ever, did not arrive till late last night. Rhode | 1,000 and 1,500 men. chusetts, New York, Missouri, Pennsylvania, posta reported: Prescott, from Providence; Burnside, from Shannock; Charles E. Lawton, from New York; Reno, from East Greenwich; ‘Thomas. from Apponang; C. C. Baker, from Wickford: Budlong, from Westerly; Bucklin, from East Providence; Lincoln, from. Hope Vailey; John A. Logan, from Ash: Ballow, Central Falls: Smith, from Woonsocket MeGregor, from Phoenix: Babbitt, from Bris- tol; Slocum, from Providence; Ives (colored ) m Providence; Tower, from Pawtucket; Ar- nold, from Providence. DAVID 8. RAY OF RHODE ISLAND. David 8. Ray, commander of the Department of Rhode Island, is fifty-one years old. At the time of the breaking out of the war he had mastered his trade (carriage maker) and was in business for himself. Feeling that his coun- try had aclaim on him, Conimander Ray left his work and enlisted in troop C, first Rhode Island cavalry. October 1, 1861, Having en- listed as a private he was promoted to corporal and sergeant. On the 4th day of October, 1864, he was mustered out as sergeant at Har- risonburg, Va. He served his e three years without the loss of a single d service un’ command- ing the Army of the Potomac, Sheridan in the | Shenandoah valley, and participated in the bat- | tles and vietories of that famous general. | In 1569 he became a member of Prescott Post, No. 1, Department of Rhode Island. G. A. R., of which he was a member until transferred in | September, 1886, to Bucklin Post, No. 20, which | Was instituted at that time, He was elected its first commander and served three successive terms in that capacity. ‘1 he heid the position of aid-de-camp on the department commander's staff, and for the years of 1854 and 1885 he held’ the same appointment on the commander-in-chief'« staff. The Depart- ment of Rhode Island retained him two terms, 1889 and 1890, a8 quartermaster general, and in February, 1891, he wax elected senior vice de- partment commander. At the encampment | held February 20 of that year he was elevated to present position off department com- mander by the unanimous vote of the dele- gates. For seven years Commander Ray was con- nected with the state militia, holding respect- ively the commissions of licutenant and cap- tain of cavalry. SKETCH OF THE DEPARTMENT. The provirional department of Rhode Island was formed in Rhode Island some time in 1867, and on March 24, 1868, was permaner, ized. Ex-Gov. Wi epartment was | ro didate for defeated b rly formed he was nt cofhmander, can- but was Ambrose E. Burnside. There seven posts in the depart~ ment, with a membership June 20 Inst of 2,338, ‘The officers of the department are as follows: Geo, David 8, Ray, commande | senior vice commander; Chas. H, Baker, junior vice commander. ‘The department staf? con- sists of Edmund F. Prentiss, astistant adjutant general; Herbert F, Bennett, assistant quarter- master general; Wm. F. Comrie, inspector; Geo. N. Biins, judge advocate; Jus. A. Abbott, chief mustering officer; Thos. C. Bawton, medi- cal director; Forest F. Emerson, chaplain. T. Cranston, i 17 ASSISTANT ADJUTANT GENERAL PRENTISS. Assistant Adjutant General Prentiss enlisted in company C of the second Rhode Island in- fantry June 5, 1861, for three years. He was one of the color guard at the battle of Bull Run, having been promoted to 1868, and | assistant adjutant general; H. A. Shorey, as- | vice department commander; Rev. Chas. A. | M. Brown, in- | Judge savocate; Albe D, Russell, chief mustering officer. | eral. was born in Holden, neat Bangor, but has ™anders W. D. Wilie, W. 1864, however, he was in New York, where he | rried a musket | tend the meeting of sitions in | Pan | epartment an efficient officer in the | Austin; Samuel Hurst Post, 19 Island is well represented, having sent between | ©, In April, 1938, he was sent to the senate | The headquarters are es- | tablished at the Ebbitt Honse, where the com-| the delega mander-in-chief, the delegations from Masta- made of solid gold, but he is v Texas, Kanas and Towa also are. The following | May 18. 1864, by®a piece of hell and was sent to Douglass Shere 40 Bhode Inland and then, to hospital ot Annapolis, Md., where he was ie received & commission as captain October 14, 1864; was made brevet captain United States yolunteers July 23, 1868, to rank from May 18, 1854, for it and meritorious conduct at the | batties of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania, Va. « DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS. An Enthusiastic Delegation From the Lone Star State. After a continuous ride of exactly four days the Texas delegation reached the city yes- terday morning at 9 o'clock. The train left the Grand Army headquarters at Dallas on ‘Thursday morning at 8:50. ‘The Texans had an enjoyable ride, and there were no accidents to mar the pleasure of the trip. Connections were made on the schedule time, and all plans were carried out to the letter. ‘Two tourist cars were chartered for the trip, | and the long journey was made in them. Be- fore leaving the state the cars were gorgeously decorated with an abundance of flags, bunting and patriotic emblems. On each side of the first car was a large sign bearing the inscription: “Headquarters Department of Texas, G. A. R.” The party proceeded by way of the Texas Pacific and Iron Mountain rafiroad to St. Louis, thence via the Ohio and Mississippi and Balti more and Ohio railroads to this city. party, and while the headquarters of the de- partment will be at room 160 of the Metropoli- tan Hotel the majority of the party will sleep hin the coaches in which they came. Among the | party are Commander of the Department of Tease 0. G. Petorven, Senior Vice Commander W. ly Kitchens, Assistant Adjutant General J. C. Bigger and Quartermaster General John I Boyd. In addition to these there were Past Com: r,0.T.Lyon, | F.C.De Grasse, A.G. Mallo Taylor and M. |W. Mann and wife. C. B. Stoddard, a membe of the national council of administration, was with the party, and he arrived in time to at- the council called by | Commander-in-Chief Palmer, Atthough the entire Texas delegation num- Post, 2, of Gi San iveston, Téx.; Ford Post, 3, of Clellan Post, 9, of Houston; Joba | 11, of Dallas; James A. Mower Dix Post, Post, 10, of of Terri; Ella | worth Post, 18, of McKinney; Emmett Craw- ford Post, 19, of El Paso: Ed. Sturling Post, 21, of Temple; Joe Hooker Post, 22, of Laredo; Wright Post, 26, of Paris: Custer’ Post, 32, of Barnham; Putnam Post, 38, of Marsha side Post, 56, of Springtown, and Lytle Post, 63, of Greenville. Any one of the entire party can be distin- tished by the badge he wears. From « cross far, bearing the letters “G. A-R.,” are sus- pended two small chains, holding at'the bottom head of one of the celebrated long-horn Texas teers. steer’s head a lone star is suspended, One ot on.has a badge of t ¥ cautious | about wearing it, fearing that it will be either | lost or stolen. One of the party who journeyed part of the ‘ay with the delegation is Gen. A. B. Norton, who is a well-known man in Texas, He is com paratively short, of medium build, with a gray beard, and is conspicuous on account of his flowing locks of gray hair. When Henry Clay was running for the presidency Gen. Norton declared that if Clay was defeated he would never shave or have his hair cut until he was elected to that exalted position. feated and never became the President of the United States. ‘The has kept his vow clarea that his hair will never be cut e he is alive, From his watch chain is suspended a coin which was uved as a badge of old ‘Tippecanoe in the campaign of 1840. The badge is of copper, and the old log house of the grandfather of the resent President stands out in bold relief. He uses a cane, which has been in his posession for nearly forty-eight years. It hasa silver head and has engraved upon i Hesry Cay To A.B. Nortox, Oct. 2, 1844. He has been prominent in polities since Hs rison’s campaign in 1840, and today is an ar- dent adherent to the republican platform, He was the adjutant general of the state of Texas der Sam Houston, and just before coming to Warhington he was at Buffalo, N. Y., where he attended a convention of the national republican Teagues as delegate-at-large from the lone star state. Altheugh the general is nearly seventy-five years of age, as he expresses it, “as lively ‘as any young man.” The Texans came here for more than simply | toattend the encampment. They say that Texas has never been honored by having the name of a Texan upon the lists of national officers. The Department of Texas has fifty-eight posts,with a membership of over 2,000, and they see no reason | why they should not have one of their number | a national officer. They intend to place the name of the present adjutant of the ment, J. C, Bigger, before the conve andidate for the position of junior mander, and . they have him elected, c will do all in their power to DEVAMIMENT COMMANDER PETERSEN. 0. G, Petersen of Dallas, commander of the Department of Texas, was born in Johnson county, Ills. At the age of fifteen he enlisted in the 120th Ilinois and served as a drummer boy for company C, Mr. Petersen served with this regiment for three years, being mustered ont in 1865, After leaving the army Mr. Peter- sen re-entered the public is, and_ after three years hard study was graduated. He was elected assessor of the county, serving one term. During his incumbeney of the office of assessor Mr. Petersen studied medicine, and after receiving his diploma left his native state, settling in the lone star state. Dr. Petersen, who had always taken great interest in Grand Army affairs, organized a post in Dallas, and his executive ability at once placed him in the front ranks, and ‘several years ago he was elected commander of the Department of Texas, “ASSIBTANT ADJT. GEX, BIGGER. John C. Bigger, assistant adjutant general, was born at Mansjllon, Stark county. Ohio, April 11, 1844, and moved to Freeport, Illinois, in 1852, where he resided until August 10, 1 when he enlisted in company F, ninety. iment, Illinois volunteers, in which organi- zation he served during the war, being most of that time in the first bri Wilder's mounted infantry), fourth division and fourteenth army Atter the war he entered the University ———eEE——————_——_$—$_—_—_— ‘There are sixty men and four ladies in the | bera but sixty, yet they represent Hancock | tonio: Lyon Post, 5, of Denison; George | Thomas Post, 6, of Dallas; George B. Me- | 1; Burn- | Between the chains and above the! description | ship of 240. | of Sfey-ats Fests and 1,618 comrades in good | ng. | __ The officers are as follows: Department com- | mander, 0. G. Petersen; senior vice depart- ment commander, W. T. Kitchen: junior lepartment commander, W. H. C ; medi- | director, John Morgan; chaplain, James | Hickey; assistant |. E. G. Bast; assistant adjutant potcoty Fc Bigner: nssist- | tant quartermaster general, John 1. Boyd; in- | ‘tor, Julius Alvord; judge advocate, A. E. ‘lkinson; chief mustering officer, W. fi. Har- vey: chief of staff, W. F. Wieland. DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS. Fifteen Hundred Veterans Come From the Sucker State. Tllinois sends about 1,500 veterans to the en- campment. Accompanying them, however, until it may be safely said that the old sucker | state is in the first rank of states in the propor- tion of its representatives at the encampment. ‘The first of the Illinois men arrived yesterday | j morning. There were but a few of them, a | | | mere corporal’s guard, but they made their | | presence known and planted the flag of their | department, around which their comrades will | rally in great force. The first arrivals were | members of Seth C. Earl Post, No. 156, of Ot- | | tawa, seven strong, and they were quartered in | barracks A at Camp Alger. They | immediately checked their baggage and | started out to “do” the town. Soon afterward | another group of travel-stained veterans dropped in at the assignment office at Camp Alger and asked for bunk tickets. They were ten men of | Hennepin Post, No. 231, of Hennepin, and they | immediately proceeded to follow in ‘thé foot- teps of their predecessors, getting their gait | | very quickly. | | | Other Lilinois posts are expected to arrive | during today and several train loads will come | in over the Chesapeake and Ohio this evening. This latter party left Chicago Saturday and | ed ax follows: | L. Nevins Post, No. 1, of Rockford, about | 100 men, Abbott School building, 6th street and | New York avenue. H | Anrora Post. 20, of Aurora, about 60 men, | at the Abbott building. Ulysses 8. Grant Post, No. 8, of Chicago, about 200 men, at the Banneker School build. ing, 3d and K streets northwest. Stephenson Post, No, 30, of Springfield, about | 115 men, at the Lenox ‘School building, 5th street between Virginia avenue and G strect | southeast. Columbia Post, No. 706, of Chicago, 100 men, at the Lincoln. John W. Watts, No. 218, of Sumner, 50 men, at Camp Alger, James F. Burke Post, No. 625, of Hopedale, 15 men, at Camp Alger. Philadelphia Sheridan Post, No. 615, of Oak Park, 50 men, at € Lyon Post, No. 9, of Chicago, 50 men, | Threlkeld School building, 36th and Prospe: avenue, Georgetown, Charleston Post, No. 271, of Charleston, 40 men, at Randall School building, Ist and I streetk southwest, L. W. Myers, No. 182, of Lincoln, 30 men, at Camp Alge Charies Pryor Post, No. 650, of Hamtetsburg, 5 men, at Camp Aly Eph. Scott Post, p Alger, Post, No. 68, of Streator, 75 men, at Webster School building. 10th and if streets, Geo. G. Meade Post, No. 444, of Chicago, 65 men, at Corcoran School building, 28th and Kennesaw Post, No. 77, of Danville, 50 men, at Force School building, Massachusetts avenue between 17th and 18th. Wm. A. Webb, No. 657, of Peotone, 15 men, at Camp Alger. Delevan Post, No. 155, 20 men, at Camp Alger. Mattoon Post, No. 404, of Mattoon, at Force School building. McLeansboro Post, No. 483, of MeLeansboro, 100 men, at Hillsboro School building. Bartleson Post, No. 6, of Joliet, 100 men. The headquarters of the Department of Ili- nois were established at the Metropolitan Hotel this morning, at ct No. 464, of Mahomet, 16 men, DEPARTMENT COMMANDER HARLIN. Edwin Harlin, commander of the Depart- ment of Illinois, was born in Illinois in 1838, When the war broke out he was working on his father’s farm in that state. At the first call for volunteers he enlisted in the twenty-first regi- ment of Illinois volunteers (Grant's first com- mand) asasecond lieutenant, and served con- tinuously until the 5th of October, 1865. Com- mander Harlin participated in the battles of Frederickstown, Corinth, Chaplain Hills, Stone river, Knob Gap, Chickamauga and in all bat- tles “in which the Army of the Cum- Derland took part. At Chickamauga he was badly wounded, receiving an ounce ball inthe back, the Dall passing through his body. Commander Harlin was mustered out as a captain and com- mixsary of subsistence after having served more than four years. He is now a special agent of the treasury. He has always taken great inter- est in G. A! R. matters, and has never been ab- vent from a Decoration day service. He in a loving husband and father, and gives liberally of his slender means, Excepting when wounded | during the war he has never been sick a day, CLAIMS SENIORITY. The Grand Army of the Republic was or- ganized at Springtield, UL, in the month of April, 1866, and the Department of Ilinois claims existence from that date. At the twenty-sixth annual encampment of the Illinois G. A. R., held at Springfield last neil, the following ‘was adopted: Whereas the fact that the Grand Army of the Republic was originated in the state of Illinois, and that the Department of Ilinois ‘was organized in the month of April, 1866, at Springfield, which has been heretofore univer- rally acknowledged from the time of ite first organization. is now called into question by the claim of the Department of Wisconsin; and Whereas it is understood that the national committee on seniority of departments is about to report to the national encampment that the Department of Iilinois was not the first depart- ment of the Grand Army of the Republic; fore Reeolved, That the t commander is requested to appoint a committee of five members to present the case 0 this ment at the national encampment at Wi @ ton. ‘The commander appointed as the committed provided for by the resolution the f comrades: Richard J. Oglesby. James A. Con- nolly, Robert M. Woods, Thomas G. Lawler and H. H. Thomas, and on’ motion thé commander was added to the committee. ‘The following are the officers for 1892: _ Department commander, Edwin Harlan, Senior vice department _ Wr Junior vice department commander, Albert L. Schimpf. Chay . W. G. Cochran, Me director, J. R, Corvus. Council of administrafion, A. D, Cadwallader, T. W. Cole, William Vé 0. F. Avery, Louis Krughoff. Official staff—Aseistent adjutant general. Fred. W. Spink; ausistant quartermaster gen- : Welshimer: ; chief x. aid-de- muriering ng oftcer, NB. ; camp and chief of staff, E. A. Nattinger. ‘DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND. Many Posts Coming From the Neighbor- ing State. ; Located so conveniently to the city the va- Teason for coming some days before the parade, and some will make such a short stay as to pre- clude the necessity of quarters, The head- of the department is located at 626 ‘The growth of the department | Antieta Hospital in Washington and from has been healthy and steady and it now consists | 25, | will be Indies and other members of their fami- | | lies, which will swell the number considerably, | | tant general. 14, Sharpsburg, Camp Farragut, Wingate, 9, North East, Pagragut, 40, Gosnel, 39, Glyndon, oz. it. 10, Hicks, 24, Easton, Camp Farragut, 40. Charles Sumner, 25, Chestertown, Camp Par- it, 25. Garfield, 18, Rising Sun, Camp Farragut, 25. Beattie, 15, Street, Camp Farragut, 35. Joba A. Logan, 2, Baltimore, Camp Farra- it, 108. "Deaton, 8, Baltimore, Monroe School build- ing 100. nu 16, Baltimore, Lincoln School building, Thad Stevens, 40, Westminster, Garnett School building, 50. tetra, 16, Westminster, Curtie Schoo! build- ing, 75 Adm'l John Rodgers, 28, Havre de Grace, Randall School building. 96. sspemnee. 3, Baltimore, Business High School, Reno, 4, Hagerstown, Van Buren Annex Schoo! building, 100. Peckett, 17, Winfield, Van Buren Annex School building, 50. Col. Grover, 78, Warrensburg, Camp Farra- gut, 18, qWatking, 58, Federalsburg, Camp Farragut, F. C. Chonte, 55, Ridge, Birney School build- ing. 30. _ Lincoln, 7, Baltimore, Garnett School build- ing, 150. ison, 1, Baltimore, Berret School building, Sheridan School b (col. Garrison a, ant, 10, Elkton, Webster School aa building. 20. About as many more posts will participate in the procession. ‘The Department of Maryland was organized by Maj. Gen. Andrew Denison (now deceased) 4 provisional commander about November, 1865, with Chas. H. itichardson as assistant adjuz department organization was maintained until 1872. After that time but one post, Gen. J. F. Reynolds, No. Fred- erick maintained its relations with the order feline bear Gs Ck 2 2 in | S24 that post reported to national headquarters | _It ix expected that all of the Dhiois posts |“ jncomplete. i | will arrive during the day and they will be as- | partment was reorganized and Gen. E. pointed provisional commander 1 manent department With six poste in good standing. that time the department has been increasing in the number of poste and in membership until now the number of posts is fifty-one, with 3,155 members in good stand- ing. The past department commanders living con- sist of some of the Kin Marylan Gold+borough, King, Capt. . Gen, Koss, Capt. Graham Dakebart, Cap ter, Capt. Frank M. Smith,Gen. John W. 6 Col. W. F. Vernon, Col. Theodore F. Lang, ‘apt. Geo. F. Wheeler, Dr. Geo. I. Graham a Col. Joseph C. Hill. The present department officers are: Col. Wal- A. Bartlett, department commander; Com- rade John Bowers, senior mander: Comrade Lewix Delmater, junior vice department commander: Dr. J. E. Prichard, medical director, and Kev. E, C. Allard, depart” plain, The official staff of the department are Capt. Lewis M. Zimmerman, aseisiant adjutant gen- eral; Capt. John W. Worth, assistant quarter- master general; Capt. Wm. I. King, inspector; Col. Wm. A. Mekillip, judge advocate; Capt. Myron L. Rose, chief’ mustering officer, and Col. Theo. F. Lang, chief of staff. ‘The department is in excellent working order and expects to march in the grand parade and review, with full ranks, 2,500 strong. B. Tyler was aj February 15, 1 was organize a r, WALLACE A. BARTLETT, Wallace A. Bartlett, commander of the de- partment of Maryiand, was born in Warsaw, N. ¥., in 1844, When the war broke out he was “junior devil” jn the office of the Western New Yorker, then and’now a flourisuing country newspaper. Young Bartlett enlisted the day he was eighteen in the eighth inde- pendent company of New York sharpshooters The company was attached to the “Iron Brigade” of the Army of the Potomac. Mr. Bartlett was always with his command, rank- ing as “high pri until he was wounded at Spottsylvania. in’ May, 1864," and while in hospital in Washington was one of the “hos- brigede” who took muskets and went out advance on Washington, in _ Returning to his command gin August, 1864, in less thanea week the entire Company (twenty men at that time) was captured while on skir- mish line in front of Petersburg. Mr. Bartlett was a prisoner until February, 1865. While in prison he was commission second lieutenant, third United States heavy artillery. As soon ashe was exchanged he Was promoted to the nineteenth United States colored troops, a Maryland regiment, and served with his regiment in Texas until 1867, when he was discharged at Baltimore with the brevet of captain. Returning to Corpus Christi, Texas, he es- tablished a republican newspaper there. Dur- ing the reconstruction excitement the news- Paker office was burned in the night, and tlett found himself “out of a job.” He went to Chicago and from there knocked round the west some time as newspaper cor- respondent. In 1863 he came to Washington, and went to work as & compositor in the gov- ernment printing office, was soon made fore- man of the specification room, and in 1873 went into the patent office under the civil service rules, In 1875 he was principal examiner of patents, and resigned in 1888 to practice patent \w in Washington, Mr. Bartlett has invested ty in Maryland rty and lives at Highland,Prince George's county. about fifty rods outside the District of Columbia. Mr. Bartlett joined Lincoln Post, No. 3, De- partment of the Potomac, G. A. K., in 1463, and was adjutant and senior vice commander of that post. He was afterward a member of Farragut Post, No. 10, Department of the Po- tomac, of which post Department Commander Dinsmore isa member. In i887 Mr. Bartlett moved to Maryland and helped to organize Warren Post, No. 45, at Hyattsville. He was twice elected commander of that post. In 1890 he was judge advocate of the departmen: of Maryland and in February of this year he was unanimously elected department com- mander. The headquarters of the department are in Baltimore, where the department commander meets with his staff every Thursday. During the eicampment the Maryland beadguarters have been located ut 626 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, opposite the Metropolitan. mission of the Dakotas in 1889, with George B, | Winship as department commander, Andrew HK. Burke (now governor) os senior vice com- | mander and Wm. A. Bentley as Junior vice commander, who were duly elected in 1890, In 1891 Junior Vice Commander Rentley waa | elected department commander and inst June | Samuel G. Roberts was elected as commander; John D, Binck, senior vice commander, and | Charles Ackley as janior vice commander. The | delegates are James Carpenter and Alexander | Hughes. There are thirty-three posts, with « | membership of $22. The department officers are as follows: De partment commn: S. G. Roberts; senior vice commander, Johu TD. Black: junior vice commander, Charl A. P. Roun it assistant sistant quartermaster general, J. B. Harring. ton; assistant inspector general, BAL, We ster; judge alvocate general, Smith Stimmel, | chief mastering officer, Knsign L. Calkina, Couneil of adninistiation—W, W. Moore, W, A. Power, W. H. Winchester, 8. G. Magill, ML A. Denne} S 6. ROBERTS OF NORTH DAKOTA, Commander 8. G. Roberts of the Department | of North Dakota is a native of the state of Maine, having been born in the town of Brooks, Waldo county, in that state, on the 10th of | March, 1843. When but five years ok he | moved with his parents to Livermore, in the same atate, and went from there to South Dan- | vers, now Peabody, Mass. in the spring of | 1859, and enlisted from that place in company B, seventeenth Massachusetts infantry, on the | 10th day of May, 1861. for three years. He was With that regiment from date of enlistment to the 10th day of August, IN64, at which time he _ | was mustered out by reason of expiration of term of serv He was commissioned second lieutenant of company ¢ regiment, on the 24th day of March, 1863: wounded at Goldsboro’, N. C., Debember 17, 1862, and at Blount's Creek, N. C., April 9, 1363. After being mastered out of the service in | August, I864, he went to Stillwater, Minn, Not | fluding business in Minnesota as he had expected | he became woury of idieness and desired to re- enter the servi again, which he enlisting in company A. mnth regiment of United States | veteran volunteers, known ax Hancock's Corpa, | He served in that organization one year, and w: mustered out at indianapolis, Ind, on the day of February, 1566. || After remaining in Indianapolis until the | following Jaly he returned to Minnesota, where | he studied nw, Having been admitted to the | bar of that state, he went to Fargo im 1871, and | has since resided there. Being # stanch re- publican, Commander Roberts bas served his state and city both in appointive and elective offices, having been the territorial district at- before its admission as = state of the tant General Geary was born at Huson, N. Y., June 11, 1841; entered the service as private in company E, one hundred and forty-ninth New York volunteers, 11, 1862. subsequently became lieutenant thirty-second U. S.C. T., and was mi out as such “by reason @f physical a from wounds recived in action” March, He moved to Minnesota in the fall of 1865. and held numerous minor civil offices, He was for three terms a member of the Minnesota house of representatives, and for four years was Te ceiver of the United States land office at Fargo, N. D. DEPARTMENT OF VERMONT. A Large Delegation From the Green Moun- tain State, The officers of the Department of Vermont, many posts of which arrived last night and to- day, are as follows: Department commander, Hugh Henry; venior vice commander, 8. W. Cummings: junior vico commander, W. HL Humphrey; medical director, R. Sherwood; chaplain, J. ©, Bodwell; assistant adjutant general, B. Cannon, jr.; assistant quartermaster general, Danicl W. Davis; inapector, A. 0. Gates; judge advocate, Hiram A. Huse; chief mastering officer, A. C, Bean; chief of staff, R. E. Hathorn, Adj N. Hugh Henry, department commander, Department of Vermont, was born at Chester, Vt, March 21, 1833; educated at Chester and Westminster, Vt, and Deorfield, Mass, acade- mies; read law. was admitted to the bar May, 1862, and in September following enlisted as Private in company K, sixteenth regiment, Ver- mont volunteers; was made second sergeant and later promoted to licutenant com discharged with his regiment August 10, 1863 bemg in poor health, did not commence prac- tice of law until 1865; th represen from 1870 to 1876, inclusive, and again in and 1585; was member of state senate 1880 1881; was made probate judge of his strict 1884, and has receiv: continnous election since; joined the G. A. I. in 1870; was com- mander of Brook's Post, G. A. B., Chester, one and one-half years, when the post lost all ite iy, by fire and surrendered ite charter; 889° he! institute Henry which hes siose successful: *