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In a tender tribute to the memory of her noble father his daughter, May Sherwood Simpson, testifies to the fact of the love her father had for his old comrades of the Ninth
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Indiana. Almost from the organization of the Veteran As- sociation, Capt. Sherwood has been a member in good stand- ing, sending almost annually a cheery letter to the com- rades, and often expressed the hope to be able to meet them face to face in this world. May God deal gently with the loved ones of our good and gallant comrade,
DAVID H. MILLER.
Born at Perrysville, Ind., in 1836. Died at his home in Onward, Cass County, Indiana, April 11, 1898. . Comrade Miller enlisted in Company K for three years service in Sept. 1861, but owing to disability contracted in line of duty and from which he was a sufferer to day of his death he was dis- charged on surgeon's certificate of disability. Jan. 22, 1862. Comrade Miller was a quiet earnest unassuming and indus- trious man, when able to work at his trade, a carpenter, and for 25 years was an active member of the Odd Fellow fra- ternity. His widow survives him and with his son and four daughters live at Onward, Ind.
JOHN M. SCHLAY.
Born, Aug. 25, 1845. Died Nov. 21, 1900. Comrade Schlay enlisted in Company K. of the Ninth from Cass Coun- ty, Indiana and was mustered in Sept. 5, 1861, re-enlisted as a veteran and served till the muster out of his regiment, Sept. 28, 1865. He was an excellent soldier and severely wounded in the battle of Chicamauga and as a recognition of his soldierly qualities was made a corporal. He was a good citizen and not only his old comrades, but the good people of his home town, Royal Center, Indiana. deeply sym- pathize with his widow in the hour of her grief for the "good man gone."
SERGT. JOIIN STEWART.
John Stewart was born near Harrisburg in Dauphin Coun- ty, Pennsylvania, Feb. 2, 1839. At the age of 12 years he removed with his parents to Cleveland Township, Elkhart County, Indiana, and there grew to manhood. Enlisted Aug. 15, 1861, in Company C, Ninth Indiana Infantry and re- enlisted in the veteran service Dec. 12, 1863, and was mus- tered out with the rank of Sergeant with his company and regiment at Camp Stanley, Texas, Sept. 28, 1865, hav- ing served a little over four years and four months and
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was a faithful and gallant soldier. On his return from the army to the old homestead he resumed farming and May 14, 1871, married Eva E. Alcorn, who, with four sons, sur- vive him, an only daughter died May 9, 1894, one of his sons serving in the United States army returned from Ma- nilla to be at the bedside of his soldier father, when he passed to the Grand Army above. Sergt. Stewart partici- pated in all the battles and skirmishes in which his regi- ment took a part and received a slight wound in the head at Mission Ridge. He suffered from a severe attack of scur- vey, while in the service, that caused him to lose his teeth and made him a sufferer for nearly all of the remainder of his life. About seven years ago Comrade Stewart removed to the city of Elkhart and was engaged in the grocery busi- ness with his brother, Samuel, at the time of his death. He was a member of the G. A. R., and a quiet, useful citi- zen, widely respected in Elkhart County. His widow and family reside at No. 801 Beardsley Avenue, Elkhart, Ind. His death occurred at his residence above stated on May 13, 1900, after nearly six months of almost constant suf- fering.
WILLIAM ROSEN.
William Rosen enlisted in Company C, of the Ninth In- diana Infantry, Sept. 5, 1861, and was honorably discharged Sept. 15, 1864, serving his country faithfully for over three years. Comrade Rosen passed unscathed through many battles and skirmishes, and lost an arm about six years after his muster out, while in employ of a railway company. He never married and was a quiet, unassuming gentleman, devoted to duty and as a boy soldier in the old 9th made many warmhearted friends. He died at Elkhart, May 17, 1900, and was tenderly laid to rest in Grace Lawn Ceme- tery, Elkhart, by his loving comrades of the Ninth Indi- ana and the Grand Army Post at Elkhart, of which he was a faithful member. Aged 57 years.
GEORGE W. BLACKMAN,
Was born in Adams County, Ills., June 5, 1841, and re- moved with his parents Hiram and Clarissa Blackman to La Porte County, Ind., about 1850, and while a boy learned the trade of a printer and was a compositor on the West- ville Herald when he enlisted in Co. B of the gtf Indiana
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Infantry in Sept., 1861. Was severely wounded at Shiloh, April 7, 1862, and was discharged on account of wound July, 1862. Reentered the service in Sept., 1863, in Twelfth Indiana Cavalry and was promoted to Orderly Sergeant of Company A and mustered out with his regiment. After his return from the war was married and in the early part of the seventies took up a soldier's homestead of 160 acres in Furnas county and after proving up on same removed to Chicago, and took up his trade of printer and was so employed at the date of his death, Jan. 31st, 1901, on which he died from pneumonia, at his home, 517 Marshfield ave. Comrade Blackman was a quiet, unassuming, earnest gen- tleman, well respected by his former comrades of the 9th Indiana, he being one of Vice-Presidents of the Veteran Ass'n of the regiment at his demise and was an esteemed member of Grant Post No. 28, of Chicago, Ills., which Post conducted the G. A. R. burial services. Five com- rades of the Post, including Past Commander Sinclair and Comrade Whitehall of the 9th Indiana, acted as pall-bear- ers and accompanied the widow, three sons and daughter to Hanna, Ind., and his pastor, Rev. Meeker of the Ewing Street Congregational Church assisted by friends at Han- na, in the midst of a blinding snowstorm, Comrade Black- man's body was laid to rest by the side of his pioneer father and mother. He will be sadly missed at future reunions of both Ninth Indiana Infantry and the Twelfth. Indiana Cavalry.
MILROY MONUMENT.
The following clipping will be read with interest by our comrades of the Ninth and we hope the committee will be able to report substantial progress at our next Reunion :
"Reunion of the Ninth Regiment .- At the last reunion of the 9th regiment Indiana Volunteers a committee was appointed to memorialize the commissioners of Jasper county on behalf of that regiment to suitably mark the resi- dence and grounds of the late Maj. Gen. Robert H. Milroy at Rensselaer, Ind. The committee consists of Lieuts. John. M. Helmick, B. R. Faris; Sergt. Robert S. Dwiggins; Capts. M. F. Chilcote and W. H. Rhoades.
. "The committee met per call of the chairman at the office of Capt. M. F. Chilcote Tuesday, and started a movement
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on foot looking to have the city of Rensselaer purchase the site for a park to be known as Milroy Park and learn that $600 had been subscribed and a liberal offering from the city expected, and that the place would beyond doubt be purchased by the city, when the committee expected to formally ask the commissioners to suitably erect such a marker as shall do honor to the county and keep in mem- ory the name of the grand old war eagle that led Jasper county's boys to the front. While he was the 9th Indiana's colonel, he was Jasper county's general, and in due time a petition will be sent out to each township for signatures, and we know the mettle of Jasper county well enough to predict a spontaneous response from all the people. The veterans who were Milroy's boys want it done while they are here, and now is the opportunity. That Rensselaer will have a fine park, and Jasper county will do honor to her old hero is not doubted.
"J. M. Helmick, Chairman. "M. F. Chilcote, Secretary."
JAMES K. POWERS.
Comrades of the Ninth will be pleased to know that Com- rade Powers of Company H, who lost his right arm in the battle of Shiloh, was through the efforts of Congressman Hull of Iowa appointed last fall by Quartermaster General Ludington, Superintendent of a National Cemetery. Pow- ers has been for several months instructed in his duties at Ft. Leavenworth, Kas., and will be assigned to the charge of one of the National Cemeteries in the South early in April.
OUR REUNION AT MISHAWAKA.
Sergt. H. O. Kremer and his Confederates (not John- nies) captured the Reunion of 1901 for Company I and Mishawaka, and while I have been patiently waiting its turn to entertain the comrades of other companies the secretary bespeaks for the regiment a most hearty reception by our comrades of Co. I and a well attended and successful re- union. Mishawaka has good railroad facilities and is a central rallying point for Companies I, B, C, D, E and F, and a handsome, thriving city in the very heart of the
manufacturing industries of northern Indiana, and we feel assured our forthcoming reunion will be thoroughly en- joyable and successful. It is to be sincerely hoped that the old commander of Company I will be able to be present on that occasion and the following letter from him will be read with interest.
Hamilton, Ohio, Aug. 23, 1900. Alex. L. Whitehall, Chicago, Ill .:
Dear Sir and Comrade-Your kind invitation to attend the annual reunion of the Ninth Indiana Infantry at Hobart, Ind., to be held on the 27th of this month, was received in due time. I highly appreciate your desire to have a full attendance, and nothing would afford me more pleasure than to meet my old comrades at this reunion and did ex- pect to attend, but from circumstances beyond my con- trol, it will be impossible for me to be with you on that oc- casion. Please remember me to all, with my compliments to the officers and men of the old Ninth. Yours as ever, JAMES NUTT.
ALMON STUART.
A venerable veteran of Company I, whom we addressed as "Almon W. Stewart," drops into verse in sending his re- grets to the secretary after the following fashion : Minden, Neb., July, 1900.
Dear Comrade-
For your kind invitation many thanks, How fickle Memory plays old comrade's pranks, Where that w and ew comes in I must confess, I can't conjecture and shan't try to guess. You got in my name as if u thought u knew W stood for wanted and s-t-e-w spelled stu. I should much like to meet our boys again, Recount our losses, figure up our gain, But good excuses I can well assign, Half deaf, half blind and nearly seventy-nine, Like some old dog can only kick and whine. To all my comrades please give my best wishes, And hear them cry: "Great God and little fishes." Yours in F. C. and L., ALMON STUART.
Formerly of Company I, 9th Indiana Vol. Inf., now of Min- den, Neb.
ON TO SHILO
MAJ. GEN. WM. B. HAZEN.
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Reunion of Nineteenth Brigade (GEN. HAZEN'S) Court Room 427, Court House, Chicago, IlI. August 28th, 1900,
Pursuant to a call of acting Secretary Whitehall a large number of officers and men of the 9th Indiana and 4Ist Ohio regiments assembled. The meeting was called to order by Gen. Suman, and he was chosen to act as chair- man and F. MacDonald of the 4Ist Ohio to act as secretary until Comrade Whitehall, who had not returned from the parade, should report. Comrade MacDonald at once pro- ceeded to enroll those present which he had very nearly consummated on the arrival of Comrade Whitehall, the latter read letters from Gen. Wiley, President Ford, of the 4Ist Ohio and others, and inasmuch as the hour was grow- ing late Gen. Suman suggested that the matter of procuring a statue of Gen. Hazen to be placed on the Hazen Brigade Monument. at Stone River be taken up and discussed in an informal way by the members of the 9th Indiana and 4Ist Ohio present.
Unfortunately no members of the 6th Kentucky re- ported. Mrs. Gen. Whittaker, widow of the late Colonel of the Sixth Kentucky, and her daughter were present and were warmly greeted by many of the Veterans and ladies present.
Major Johnson of the 4Ist Ohio at request of the chair- man stated that his Regiment as indicated by the letter of General Wiley, had appointed a committee with General Wiley as chairman, to solicit subscriptions and obtain esti- mates of the cost of a statue of Gen. W. B. Hazen, to be placed on the monument at Stone River and the regiment, so far as he knew were quite favorable to the project but desired the co-operation of the 9th Indiana and other com- mands who served under Gen. Hazen to join the 41st Ohio in the work .. He regretted the absence of Gen. Wiley, and President Ford' and Secretary Smellie as they were best prepared to report just what action had been taken, what funds subscribed.
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Gen. Suman said, to be frank, he was obliged to state that the men of his regiment seemed averse to contributing money for a statue of Gen. Hazen but were apparently willing to contribute and work for a statue that would rep- resent a common soldier. He also stated he had many talks with Gen. Hazen at time monument was built and knew that Hazen's own idea was to surmount the shaft with the bronze figure of an infantryman in recognition of the heroism of the rank and file of his brigade on that key position of the great battle, and he really felt the placing of the bronze figure of a common soldier on the monument was not only just to the brave men who fought there so stubbornly and to their comrades who died there, but would be carrying out the idea of their old brigade com- mander.
Major Johnson said that the 4Ist Ohio realized the ex- pense would be considerable and had expected Mrs. Hazen to contribute liberally especially if a statue of her husband was chosen to crown the shaft and in view of the fact that there was objection to using the figure of a general offi- cer it might be well to appoint a conference committee to consider the matter and report at some future meeting of the brigade and he hoped that some action would be taken. to insure brigade meetings at subsequent encampments, and he moved that an executive committee as suggested by Comrade Whitehall be named by the President to provide for a meeting next year, and that the chair appoint a com- mittee to consider the subject of placing a statue on our monument at Stone River.
Comrade MacDonald of the 4Ist Ohio moved to amend by making such Conference Committee also an Executive Committee with power to call a meeting next year of the brigade. Amendment accepted and motion as amended prevailed, and the president named as such Committee, Gen. Aquilla Wiley (4Ist Ohio), Wooster, Ohio; S. L. Swinney (9th Ind.), Kankakee. Ill., and Capt. J. L. Chilton (6th Ky.), Louisville, Ky.
On motion of Major Johnson this Committee Were em- powered to appoint additional members from any other command that served in Gen. Hazen's Brigade.
The hour being late and the comrades, many of them tired from the participation in the parade, the meeting took a recess until 2 p. m., 29th inst.
Adjourned meeting at 2 p. m. was so slimly attended by 41st Ohio and none of the 6th Ky., it was moved and car ried to adjourn sine die.
THOSE IN ATTENDANCE. (Forty-First Ohio.)
Major H. W. Johnson, Michigan City, Ind.
E. B. Atwood, Capt. K. 4Ist Ohio, now Lt. Col. U. S. A., Pullman Bldg., Chicago, Ill.
Band, M. L. Prentiss, Bell Plain, lowa.
Co. A .- F. A. MacDonald, Chicago. Sergt. G. F. Hayes, Chicago. Co. B .- Thos. A. Scott, Welshfield, Ohio, L. A. Chamberlain, Aurora, Ill. M. D. Latham. Scotia, Neb. Henry Hotchkiss, Burton, Ohio. Lewis Fuller, Fullerton, Ohio. H. H. Her- rington, Hilton, Iowa.
Co. C .- Charles Mitchell, Gibsonville, Ohio. Thos. Cully, Dalton, Ohio.
Co. D .- William Diceman. Bedford, O. Wm. C. Wood, Wil- liamstown, Mich.
Co. E .- E. D. Fitzpatrick, Columbus, Neb. R. L. Rossiter, Co- lumbus, Neb. J. B. Canfield, Columbus, O.
Co. F .- Charles Edney, Salem, Ohio. R. Shoemaker, North Bal- timore, Ohio. J. H. Bellard, Colebrook, Ohio.
Co. G .- H. G. Griffin, Akron, O.
Co. 1 .- A. W. Miller, Spokane, Wash. Elmer Wilkinson, Chicago. Co. K .- Alonzo Bain, Kenselly, N. Y. B. H. Lake, Cortland, Ohio. Ben Wood, Palestine, Ills. Wmn. P. Rodeck, 3948 Dearborn St .. Chicago, Ill. S. A. Barnes, Huntington, Ohio.
(Ninth Indiana.)
Genl. I. C. B. Suman, (late Col. 9th Ind. Vet. Infy.) Valparaiso, Ind.
Maj. James D. Braden, Elkhart, Ind.
Quartermaster, Washington Kelly, Plymouth, Ind.
Co. A .- Capt. Thomas Madden, Indianapolis, Ind. Lieut. Jas. M. Wharton, Bringhurst, Ind. A. S. McCormick, Lafayette, Ind.
Co. B .- Capt. Jas. R. McCormick, Huron, Ohio. Geo. W. Black- man, Chicago, Ills.
Co. C .- Sergt. A. Dils, Elkhart, Ind. Sergt. A. C. Cleveland, Cali- fornia, Mich. S. I. Kessler, La Porte, Ind. Saml. Swine- hart, Huntsville, Ala. H. G. Vanalstine, Silver City, Wis. A. B. Chapman, Highland. Iowa. Jacob Wolf, Cleveland, Ohio. A. E. Salisbury. Constatine, Mich. B. A. Dunn, Waukegan, Ills.
Co. D .- Lieut. Alf. Allen, Girard, Kas. John D. Goddard, Moroc- co, Ind.
Co. E .- Sergt. G. N. Kingsbury. Norton, Kas, Zeph. Walker, Chestnut, Ill. A. R. Castle, Hobart, Ind. Wm. H. Rifen- burg. Hobart. Ind. John Stewart, Palmer, Ind.
Co. F .- Capt. Wm. H. Merritt, Elkhart, Ind. Lieut. Sam Dustan, Wheeling, W. Va. Sergt. John McLane, Arcola, Ill. Sergt. J. W. Field, Bethany, Mo. Cal C. Brown, South Bend, Ind. I. Ladauer, Valparaiso, Ind. A. L. Whitehall, Chicago, Ill. E. R. Niles, Goshen, Ind.
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Co. G .- Sam H. Howe, Dwight, Ills.
Co. H .- David L. Bryant, Elk City, Kas. Dan Lynch, Lowell, Ind. Geo. Post, Hammond, Ind. A. H. Glover, Cleveland, Ohio.
Co. I .- John Lundy, 837 E. 139th St., New York City. Wm. Mar- kel, Goshen, Ind. John N. Holliday, Mishawaka, Ind. Wm. Bonney, Mishawaka, Ind. Melville J. Mosher, Pillsbury, Minn.
Co. K .- Lieut. John Banta, Logansport, Ind. Sergt. Sam Landis, Carroll, Ind. Wm. Banta. Curveton, Ind. Sam L. Swinney, Kankakee, Ill. Jerome Martin, Wakarusa, Ind. Jacob Mil- ler, Braidwood, Ills.
(Sixth Kentucky.)
Notwithstanding the fact that no one from the 6th Kentucky Infantry reported at the reunion, the secretary secured the follow- ing names of officers and men of the Sixth, and feels constrained to publish them in order that comrades of the 9th Indiana and 4Ist Ohio may correspond with any whose names are given if they recall old-time acquaintances in this list:
Lieut. Col. Geo. T. Shakelford. Denver, Colo.
Capt. J. L. Chilton, 450 West Main Street, Louisville, Ky.
Capt. Isaac Johnston, Pleasureville, Ky ..
Dr. W. A. Jenner, Eminence, Ky.
Capt. D. W. Owens, Bagdad. Ky.
Capt. Aug. Stein, Board of Trade Bldg., Louisville, Ky.
Aldridge Joseph, Bethlehem. Ky.
Blackwell, J. S., Eminence, Ky.
Bryant. Noble and Blackby James, both Franklinton, Ky.
Clubb W. E. Sergt .. Eminence, Ky.
Clubb Barton K. N .. Pleasureville, Ky.
Clubb Humphry, Hillsborough. Ind.
Hartford. W. S. Sergt., Arcola, Ills.
Hall I. W .. N. Pleasureville, Ky.
Hall Sam'l, N. Pleasureville. Ky.
Hall S. S .. Bethlehem, Ky. Hullman Jacob, Eminence. Ky. Hythern. Robt., Gratze, Ky. Jones John. Franklinton. Ky.
Lindsay Albert, New Castle. Ky.
Kelley, N., New Castle, Ky.
Pearce William. New Castle. Ky.
Roberts Willis. Lockport, Ky.
Roberts John N., Eminence. Ky.
Russell Will, Gratze, Ky. Shannon Wm., Bethlehem, Ky.
Sutherland George, Lockport. Ky.
Sutherland Will, Lockport, Ky. Natter Phil, Louisville, Ky. Welch Joseph. New Castle. Ky.
Washburn James, Bethlehem. Ky.
Wentworth Jos .. Pleasureville, Ky.
Young Chas. W .. New Castle, Ky.
No one reported at reunion from the noth Illinois.
BREVET BRIG. GEN. A. WILEY.
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ESER.CO CHI.
COL. WM. H. BLAKE.
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HISTORICAL.
NINETEENTH BRIGADE.
Was first organized in January, 1862, under order of Gen. D. C. Buell in the formation of the Army of Ohio, which afterwards became the "Army of the Cumberland:" It was at first composed of the 41st Ohio, 46th and 47th Ind. and 6th Ky. and the 9th Ind. was added to the Brigade at Nash- ville, Col. Wm. B. Hazen of 41st Ohio being in command of the Brigade. In the Battle of Shiloh the Brigade con- sisted of 41st O., 9th Ind. and 6th Ky., and was in Gen. Wm. Nelson's Division (4th) and were the first troops of Gen. Buell to cross the Tennessee River to assistance of Gen. Grant's Army, evening of first day's battle. At Stone River Hazen's Brigade consisted of the three regiments that fought at Shiloh and the 110th Ill. and Battery F, Ist O., Art. Capt. Cockerill. It held its position on the left of the Union line when all the troops to its right were forced back. The brigade did heroic fighting, suffering heavily, and was supported by the 36th Ind. and 100th Ill. Confed- erate generals in their reports admit a fearful loss in at- tempting to dislodge the brigade from its position. At Chickamauga the Brigade still under command of Gen. Hazen, was composed of the 4ist Ohio, 9th Ind., 6th Ky., 110th Ill. (Battalion) and 124th O., and as a Brigade and as individual regiments when temporarily loaned to other commands behaved most gallantly. After Chickamauga the regiments were assigned to other commands in the re- organization of Sherman's Grand Army and in time Gen. Hazen was given a division.
The writer is unable to make a reliable statement of the losses up to and including the battle of Chickamauga. The Brigade suffered very heavily in all three of these bloody battles, but most severely at Shiloh. Gen. Nelson reports that out of 4.541 officers and men his division loss-killed 6 officers, 84 men, wounded 33 officers, 558 men, missing 58 men. A total of 739, and more than half of his loss fell upon Hazen's Brigade as it was hotly engaged from day break till the enemy had been driven off the field in pre- cipitate retreat, the brigade will live in history as one of the best in the Army of the Cumberland.
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Gen. L. H. WATERS.
Reunion of Third Brigade (GEN. GROSE,) First Div. 4th A. C. Held at Room 427 Court House, Chicago, Ills., August 29th, 1900, at 2 P. M.
Meeting called to order by Comrade Alex. L. White- hall, Sec'y of 9th Indiana Veteran Association. On mo- tion of Gen. I. C. B. Suman (late Col. 9th Ind.), Gen. L. H. Waters, of Kansas City, late Col. of 84th Ills., was unani- mously elected President. On motion of Alex. L. White- hall, Capt. J. N. Ohlwine, Sec'y of 30th Indiana Veteran Association, was elected Secretary and at his request as- sistant secretaries were chosen as follows: Alex. L. White- hall, 9th Ind., Capt. John C. Livezey of 36th Ind., Capt. George R. Shaw of 75th Ills., Sergt. J. S. Walker, of 84th Ills.
Gen. Waters on taking the chair said he was pleased to meet so many surviving officers and men of the old 3d Brigade and thankful for the compliment of being called to preside over this reunion. He had come all the way from Kansas City to be present, and important business required
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he should take the train for home as soon as the meeting closed. He called attention to the fact that he had learned that over 950 survivors of the Brigade lived in Kansas alone and more than half west of the Missouri River and he felt that Kansas City was about centrally located between the East and West wings of the Brigade. Our Brigade was always at the front and did some of the hardest fighting and marching done by the troops of the famous army of the Cumberland. He called attention to the fact that the Division in which the Brigade served lost more men in killed and wounded at Chickamauga than the whole U. S. Army lost in the late war with Spain, in Cuba. The losses in the Battle of Stone River exceeded that of an'y battle fought by Napoleon. Third Brigade developed some of the best fighters in the Army. Col. Lawton was a con- spicuous example and he was proud of the fact that he rec- ommended Lawton for Colonelcy of the 30th Indiana.
Referred to the conduct of the 3d Brigade in the Atlanta campaign under the admirable leadership of General Grose, who has recently died at his home in New Castle, Ind. Gen. Sherman wisely chose for the center of his grand army, the Army of the Cumberland under com- mand of the unconquerable General Thomas, and history must accord to the Army of the Cumberland unstinted praise for the stubborn fighting and brilliant maneuvers executed by its soldiers in the Atlanta campaign. Sher- man's Memories show that the Army of the Cumberland lost 38 per cent., the Army of Tennessee 36 per cent. and the Army of the Ohio 30 per cent. in that campaign. No Brigade in Sherman's army possessed a braver or more soldierly Commander than did ours. From long service and close observation, I cannot compliment too highly you men and your comrades as fighters, and I am more than proud of your honorable record as citizens since the close of the great Civil War.
Gen. Suman said he felt that Gen. Waters had simply told whole truth and nothing but the truth about the 3d brigade and he felt sure that every man who carried a rifle and fought under Gen. Grose and with Gen. Lawton, then for the most of the time known as "Capt. Lawton," enter- tained a profound respect for these two officers and as a tribute to the bravery and worth of our deceased comrades Gen. Lawton and Gen. Grose, I move the chair appoint a Committee of 5 to draft suitable resolutions of respect
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and have the same engrossed and sent to the widows of both these comrades.
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