Records of Members of the Grand Army of the Republic: With a Complete Account of the Twentieth National Encampment ... A History of the Growth, Usefulness, and Important Events of Te Grand Army of the Republic, from Its Origin to the Present TimeWilliam H. Ward |
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... June 26 , 1877 . General John C. Robinson , of New York , was elected Commander - in - Chief ; General Elisha N. Rhodes , of Rhode Island , Senior Vice - Commander - in - Chief . and William Earnshaw , of Ohio , Junior Vice - Commander ...
... June 26 , 1877 . General John C. Robinson , of New York , was elected Commander - in - Chief ; General Elisha N. Rhodes , of Rhode Island , Senior Vice - Commander - in - Chief . and William Earnshaw , of Ohio , Junior Vice - Commander ...
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... June 3o , 1884 , 4,325 , with 253,895 members in good standing . The amounts expended during the year for relief reached the large aggregate of $ 153,364.30 . John S. Kountz , of Ohio , known as “ the Drummer Boy of Mission Ridge ...
... June 3o , 1884 , 4,325 , with 253,895 members in good standing . The amounts expended during the year for relief reached the large aggregate of $ 153,364.30 . John S. Kountz , of Ohio , known as “ the Drummer Boy of Mission Ridge ...
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... June 3o , 1886 , $ 23,864.09 . There was on hand June 3o , 1885 , $ 12,006.46 , The net receipts for the year are therefore $ 11,857.63 . The presence of this very considerable surplus fund , and the stability and present certainty of ...
... June 3o , 1886 , $ 23,864.09 . There was on hand June 3o , 1885 , $ 12,006.46 , The net receipts for the year are therefore $ 11,857.63 . The presence of this very considerable surplus fund , and the stability and present certainty of ...
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... June 3o , 1886 , there were issued 81,422 pension certificates , that for the month of June alone there were issued 1o,375 certificates , and that for the same fiscal year the payments were $ 65,747,380 . The new names added to the ...
... June 3o , 1886 , there were issued 81,422 pension certificates , that for the month of June alone there were issued 1o,375 certificates , and that for the same fiscal year the payments were $ 65,747,380 . The new names added to the ...
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... June he received information that a state of war existed between Mexico and the United States ; that he sailed on the following day , the 8th , for the coast of California to carry out the orders of the 24th of June , 1845 , leaving the ...
... June he received information that a state of war existed between Mexico and the United States ; that he sailed on the following day , the 8th , for the coast of California to carry out the orders of the 24th of June , 1845 , leaving the ...
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Page 34 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 49 - Dear girl, her name he dared not speak But, as the song grew louder, Something upon the soldier's cheek Washed off the stains of powder.
Page 96 - Persons honorably discharged from the military or naval service by reason of disability resulting from wounds or sickness incurred in the line of duty shall be preferred for appointments to civil offices, provided they are found to possess the business capacity necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of such offices.
Page 34 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 380 - He is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Page 8 - Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond mourners. Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
Page 571 - Military Division of the Mississippi," comprising the Departments of the Ohio, the Cumberland, and the Tennessee, and telegraphed...
Page 107 - The object of the United States has reference to ultimate peace with Mexico; and if, at that peace, the basis of the uti possidetis shall be established, the government expects, through your forces, to be found in actual possession of Upper California.
Page 110 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 7 - To maintain true allegiance to the United States of America, based upon a paramount respect for, and fidelity to, its Constitution and laws, to discountenance whatever tends to weaken loyalty, incites to insurrection, treason, or rebellion, or in any manner impairs the efficiency and permanency of our free institutions; and to encourage the spread of universal liberty, equal rights, and justice to all men.