W. P. Sands, National Soldiers' Home. A. L. Woodworth, Norfolk.
E. W. Gurley, Hendersonville, N. C.

Hans B. Warner, Ellsworth.
John Meehan, Darlington.
I. H. Wing, Bayfield.
L. D. Hinckley, Waupun.
A. H. Hollister, Madison.
Levi J. Billings, Rhinelander.
W. H. Rogers, Ft. Atkinson.
H. R. Allen, Merrill.

WISCONSIN.

Edw. McGlachlin, Stevens' Point.
Robert A. Scott, LaCrosse.
A. Erickson, Black River Falls.
Charles A. Carter, Milwaukee.
H. C. Van Vechten, Racine.
Michael Mangan, Fond-du-Lac.
F. Heinemann, Appleton.

II. The following comrades are appointed a committee to act in unison with similar committees from the various societies of women organized for the purpose of aiding any needy and distressed comrades and their families, to effect a union of these societies into one body, in order that their energies may be concentrated and strengthened, and all cause for division among our comrades on this subject may be removed:

Past Commanders-in-Chief S. S. Burdett, William Warner, A. G. Weissert, J. G. B. Adams, Thomas G. Lawler.

III. The National Countersign has been forwarded to the Assistant Adjutant-General of each Department, and will take effect on the 1st of January. Its receipt should be acknowledged at once.

IV. The Executive Committee of the National Council of Administration convened at St. Paul, Minn., December 3, and, after consultation with the local committee, fixed the date of the opening session of the Thirtieth Annual Encampment for Thursday, September 3, 1896, and the

parade for Wednesday. This was conditional upon the completion of the agreement by the railroads to give a uniform rate of one cent a mile to and from St. Paul, which was verbally pledged, and little doubt exists of its fulfillment.

V. E. T. Lee, the Secretary of the Shiloh Battlefield Association, Monticello, Ill., desires the name, company and regiment, with postoffice address of every man living who took part in the battle of Shiloh on April 6 and 7, 1862.

VI. Information is requested concerning the comrades as noted below:

By Mrs. Martha E. Roberts, of the certificate division of the Pension Office, Washington, the name and address of any comrade of Edwin Roberts, Co. D, 7th Ky. Cav.

By William A. Browne, of Racine, Wis., the address of any one who knew Hiram W. Cady, of Co. D. 10th Ill. Cav.

By M. M. Murphy, Post Commander, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, of Rezin Baker, Co. C, 32d Ohio Vols., supposed to be in the West.

By W. F. Montgomery, Post Commander, Canton, Ill., of Francis M. Smith, Battery D, 2d Ill. Artil.

By W. A. Ives, Post Commander, Lockport, N. Y., of William G. Corbin, Co. F, 151st New York Inf., afterwards 2d Lieut. 32d Regt. U. S. colored troops, last heard of in New Mexico.

By Mrs. Sarah B. Hirll, 207 Vet Street, Vicksburg, Miss., of any one who knew Joseph C. Hirll, Sergeant Co. K, 8th Kan. Inf., who was wounded at battle of Chickamauga, and was transferred to 153d Co., 2d Battalion Veteran's Reserve Corps.

By Alex. L. Kincaid, 15 Penn. St., Allegheny City, Pa., of James Kincaid, Co. A, 5th Regt. W. Va. Cav.

By Daniel Buckley, Mt. Pleasant, Mich., of John Backus, Sergt. Kelly, or John Burgeon, late of Co. K, 3d U. S. Inf., Sergt. Mason, Co. C, 37th U. S. Inf., or Rudolph Miller, Andrew Cullen, S. Dickson, or H. J. Hampton, all of Co. A, 37th U. S. Inf.

By W. R. Thomas, 465 Ninth St., Oakland, Cal., of Wm. S. Wilbur, Co. D, 16th Ill. Cav.

By Mrs. Ben. M. Harney, now of Louisville, Ky, formerly Miss Margaret Draffen, living near Lawrenceburg, Ky., in October, 1862, of any one who was with Gen. Sill's Division to whom she claims to have given information concerning an ambuscade by the enemy for the capture of the Division. Any person conversant with the facts above narrated will confer a favor by corresponding with Mrs. Harney on the subject.

IRVIN ROBBINS,
Adjutant-General.

By command of

I. N. WALKER,

Commander-in-Chief.

HEADQUARTERS GRAND ARMY OF THF REPUBLIC,
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., February 28, 1896.

I. The following additional appointments are announced. They will be obeyed and respected accordingly:

Henry S. Dietrich, No. 90 LaSalle Street, Chicago, Ill., to be Chief of Staff.

AIDES ON MILITARY INSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Geo. Brown, Rear Admiral, U. S. N. R. S. Robertson, Ft. Wayne.

David A. Coulter, Frankfort.

Coleman R. Romine, Scottsburg.

C. H. Myerhoff, Evansville.

S. B. Burnell, Broughton.

A. R. McCurdy, Ft. Wayne.

B. F. Havens, Terre Haute.
Allan H. Dougall, Ft. Wayne.

INDIAN TERRITORY.

J. E. Cobb, Muscogee.

Robert Henderson, Junction City.
Timothy McCarthy, Larned,

J. R. Baird, Speareville.

KANSAS.

W. A. Calderhead, Marysville.
Sidney G. Cooker, Herington.
W. C. Scott, Concordia.
A. W. Smith, Groveland.

E. A. Waterhouse, National Military Home, Leavenworth.