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Chickamaima 
 
 /T\emorial flssociation. 
 
 PROCEEDINGS 
 
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 Chattanooga, Tenn., AND Crawfish Springs, Ga., 
 
 SEPXErvlBBR lO AND 20, 1881 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE 
 
 Chattanooga Army of Cumberland Reunion Entertainment Committee. 
 
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 .^^ CO|MTENTS. ^^- 
 
 History of Natioqal Park Project 3 
 
 Proceedings First Meeting iq Chattaqooga 5 
 
 Address Geq. W. S. Rosecrans 5 
 
 Address Ger]. H. V, Boyntoq 8 
 
 Address Ex-Gov. A. S. Marks 14 
 
 Address Geq. Heqry M, Cist, 18 
 
 Address Hoq. W, A. Henderson 21 
 
 Proceedings at Crawfishi Spriqgs, Ga 24 
 
 Grand Barbecue at Crawfislq Springs 27 
 
 Address Gov, Johq B- Gordon, of Georgia 28 
 
 Response of Gen. W. S. Rosecrans 31 
 
 Proceedings of ex-Coqfederate Veterans 33 
 
 Cl^arter Cf^ickamauga Memorial Association, 39 
 
THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE PARK 
 
 PROIECT. 
 
 ^\ VISIT of a number of Union officers to the Chickamauga 
 
 ^^ battlefield in June, 1888, led to the publication of a series 
 
 I of letters in the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, in which the 
 
 suggestion was made -that the field should be secured and 
 
 preserved, and all the lines of battle be permanently marked. 
 
 In September following General Henry M. Cist, Secretary 
 of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, offered the fol- 
 lowing resolution at the meeting of that Society in Chicago : 
 
 "I move that a committee of five be appointed by the Chair for the purpose 
 of taking the necessary steps to inaugurate a mo\ement for the purchase uf the 
 ground on which the battle of Chickamauga was fought ; that monuments be 
 placed thereon to mark the location of the troops that fought there, and that it 
 may be preserved similar to the plan of the battlefield of Getty, burg." 
 
 In presenting the resolution General Cist said : 
 
 "There is no battle of the late war so little understood as Chicknmauga ; 
 none so important in all its bearings and in all its results as that of Chickamauga. 
 I think it is due to the Society, and to the old Army of the Cumberland, that some 
 steps be taken to preserve the field of the greatest engagement fought by that army, 
 if there is nothing that would make the movement an improper one, any intimation 
 of which, of course, would come up belore the committee and the committee could 
 then investigate and report to the Society. I, for one, would like to see a plan 
 devised for the purchase, if it could be done, of this battlefield, so that it would be 
 preserved for all time, and if possible, that the several positions occupied by the 
 different organizations in the battle should be marked upon the field." 
 
 The resolution was then adopted, and General Rosecrans 
 appointed as members of this committee : General Henry M. Cist, 
 General C. F. Manderson, General Russell A. Alger, General 
 Absalom Baird, General Henry V. Boyntox. 
 
 General Cist called his committee to meet in Washington 
 F'ebruary 13, 1889. General Manderson presided. After a brief 
 discussion it was agreed to ask for a conference with such Confed- 
 erate veterans of Chickamauga as were in Washington, with a 
 view to invite their co-operation in forming a Joint Memorial 
 Battlefield Association. 
 
CHICKAMAUGA MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. 
 
 This conference was held next day, in tlie room of the Senate 
 Committee on Militan- Affairs. There \\ere present Generals 
 RcsECRANS, Baiki), RiaxoLDS, Cist, Mandkkson and Rovnton 
 and Colonel Kellogg, of the Union officers, and Cenerals Bate, 
 of Tennessee; Colquitt, of Georgia; Walthall, of Mississippi; 
 Wheeler, of Alabama; Wright, of Tennessee; and Colonels 
 Baxkhead, of .Alabama, and Morgan, of Mississipj)i. 
 
 The plan of preserving and marking the field of Chickamauga, 
 under the auspices of a joint memorial corporation representing 
 all the States that had troops there, patterned in general after the 
 Gettysburg Association, was cordial]}' approved. 
 
 Generals Cist and Colquitt were appointed a committee, 
 with power to add four to their number, to prepare an act of in- 
 corporation and correspond with leading officers from each State 
 whose troops fought at Chickamauga, with a view of securing a 
 proper list of incorporators. A number of officers on each side, 
 members of either the House or the Senate, who are greatly in- 
 terested in this project, were detained from the meeting b)' debates 
 in which they were engaged. 
 
 Generals Cist and Colquitt completed their sub-committee 
 by adding Generals Baird, Walthall, Wheeler, Wright, 
 BoYNTON and Colonel S. C. Kellogg. It was agreed that each 
 side should name fifty of the leading veterans of that field and 
 some civilians. North and South, who have prominently identified 
 themselves with the project, as incorporators of a Joint Chick- 
 amauga Memorial Association, for preserving and marking the 
 battlefield. 
 
 At a subsequent meeting a 'list of incorporators, and the 
 outlines of a charter, were agreed upon, and Senator Colquitt 
 was appointed to take the necessary steps to secure the incorpo- 
 ration. He placed the mattter in the hands of Julius Brown, 
 Esq., of Atlanta, who gave the matter prompt attention and pre- 
 pared and advertised a petition for a charter which will doubtless 
 be granted at the December term of the Superior Court of W'alker 
 county, Georgia. 
 
 On the 19th of September, 1889, a joint meeting of Union 
 and Confederate veterans was held at the tent in Chattanooga 
 erected for the meetings of the Society of the Army of the Cum- 
 berland. The meeting was under the auspices of the following 
 local committee : 
 
ORIGIN OF THE PROJECT. 
 
 Oil Chickamanga Memorial Association. 
 Adolpk S. Ochs, Chairman, W. J. Colburn, 
 
 A. G. Sharp, H. S. Chamberlain, 
 
 S. R. MoK, C. W. Norwood, 
 
 J. F. ShIPP, J. B. NiCKLIN. 
 
 On Chickamaitga Baiinxuc. 
 Gordon Lek, Chairman, W. P. McClatchey, Sec'y- 
 
 THE FIRST MEETING IN CHATTANOOGA. 
 
 The big tent wore a pretty aspect when the immense throng- 
 of old soldiers assembled there for the purpose of organizing" the 
 Chickamauga Memorial Association.- 
 
 There were the soldiers of the Blue and the Gray, the veter- 
 ans of both sides, the brave men who fought beneath the stars 
 and strips and those who battled under the stars and bars There 
 they were, seated together side by side, all intent upon one 
 great purpose, and the heart of each one swelling with love and 
 good feeling for the other — all blessing the day that has bound 
 together the North and the South and finally welded the hearts of 
 the Blue and the Gray. 
 
 Every one was earnest and every heart seemed to be fully in 
 the matter. It was truly a movement and an assemblage that 
 would cry aloud, 
 
 " Blot out the lines that would divide 
 And desecrate our sod !" 
 
 The big tent Was handsomely decorated. Upon the center- 
 pole numbers of flags hung upon which were inscriptions of vari- 
 our sorts. From this pole wide bands of bunting were drooped 
 in graceful festoons, and the side poles were completely covered 
 with the national colors. 
 
 From the dome on the west side of the tent swung an im- 
 mense canvas sign, bearing the inscription : 
 
 "The Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall 
 not perish from the earth." 
 
 • On the east side of the tent was the large raised platform, 
 handsomely decorated, indeed Flags and streamers were hung 
 gracefully from front to rear, and draped in pretty folds round the 
 stand in the front center of the platform In the exact center and 
 on the right and left front corners were large pyramids of ferns, 
 cactus, mosses, youpon, wysteria, smilax, etc. 
 
CIIICKAMAUGA MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. 
 
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 The first to march into the tent were the Union Veterans, 
 headed by the Fort Payne Band. The column was headed by 
 General \V S Rosi ckans and General Cist. As they marched 
 into the tent the crowd thronged upon the outsitlc and cheered 
 lustily 
 
 I"\)l lowing this came the Confederate Veterans, headed by the 
 Fourth Unite J States Artillery l-5and, and as the)' marched under 
 the vast can\as the band struck up " Dixie " In an instant a 
 thousand men were on their feet waving their hats and cheering 
 loud and long. Nor did those cheers come alone from those 
 who revere the memory of a dead Confederacy as they would that 
 of a dead mother, but from men upon whose breasts gleamed the 
 badges of the arm}' of the Cumberland, and who wore the blue 
 with so much honor. 
 
 At 3 o'clock Mr. Adolph S. Ochs, on behalf of the Local 
 Committee, called the meeting to order, and, on behalf of the 
 people of < hattanooga, wishing a hearty God-speed to the grand 
 movement, and extending a heart}' welcome both to the l^lue and 
 the Gray. 
 
 A beautiful praj'er was then offered by Rev. Dr. Hachman. 
 
 Captain J. F". Shipp, of N. H. h\:)rrest Camp, No. 3, Confed- 
 erate Veterans, put in nomination for Chairman the name of 
 General W. S. Rosecrans, prefacing the nomination with several 
 complimentary allusions to the General, and designating him as a 
 man admired by both the Blue and the Gray. 
 
 This nomination was greeted with much enthusiasm, and 
 General Rosecrans was elected to the chairmanship by acclama- 
 tion. 
 
 Captain J. F. Shipp, General John Glynn, Jr., and General 
 T. Van Derveer were appointed a committee to escort General 
 Rosecrans to the chair, which the\' did amul deafening 
 applause. 
 
 • After quiet had been restored General Rosecrans spoke as 
 follows : 
 
 Address of Gen. W. S. Rosecrans. 
 
 Ladies ami (ioitlcntoi, and Connades of the Blue and the Gray : 
 This occasion is one of which you will look through history 
 in vain to find a second. Today twenty-six years ago began the 
 great bloody battle of Saturday, the 19th day of September, 1863, 
 within twelve miles of this place, and the survivors of that battle, 
 
ADDRESS OF GEN. ROSECRANS. 
 
 both Blue and Gray, and the people who today enjoy the fruits 
 which grew out of that battle, are assembled together to consider 
 how they shall make it a national memorial ground, which people 
 of all time shall come and visit with the interest due to the great- 
 ness of the events which occurred on that battle ground. One of 
 the most noble features to me of this occasion is this : it is very 
 difficult to find in history an instance where contending parties in 
 after years meet together in perfect amity. It took great men to 
 win that battle, but it takes greater men still, I will say morally 
 greater, to wipe away all the ill feeling which naturally grows out 
 of such a contest. [Applause.] 
 
 To me there is another feature of peculiar interest, and that 
 is that there has been no time since the war when the noble senti- 
 ments of the survivors and respect felt by the people of the South 
 for the men who fought and fell in their cause, could systemati- 
 cally undertake to commemorate the deeds they performed and to 
 keep alive their memories by the erection of monuments, without 
 incurring the complaint of the newspaper press that they were 
 keeping up the memories of the war and the feelings of hatred 
 which ought to perish as peace returns. 
 
 On the soil of Georgia both the Blue and the Gray can unite 
 in obtaining control over the grounds, laying out the roads and 
 marking sites where the men entitled, in their opinion, to special 
 respect and special veneration may have monuments erected to 
 their memories, where the organizations who choose to do so can 
 put up monuments to the heroism displayed on those fields, with- 
 out criticism and with rather the feeling of comradeship. That 
 to me is a very noble thing, and I believe that the spirit which 
 brings you here on this occasion, and the foundation upon which 
 your views of that thing rests, conspire to produce a result very 
 wonderful indeed. 
 
 You will be told a great many things by those who will follow 
 me to show how strong the foundation of our expectation is that 
 we are commencing a national event at this meeting this afternoon. 
 
 As I am c^uite unfitted for public speaking and heartily detest 
 the task, I think what I have said will be enough to show to you 
 how thankful I am to be with you and to be called upon to preside 
 over this meeting. 
 
 The first exercise in order will be some remarks from General 
 H. V. BoYNTON, who deserves the thanks of everybody, and es- 
 pecially of the comrades of the Army of the Cumberland, for 
 his work in studying up this subject, and he will tell you a great 
 deal more than I can about it. 
 
 I have the pleasure to present to you General H. V. Bovnton. 
 
 General H. V. Boynton appeared on the platform and was 
 greeted with much enthu siasm. He spoke as follows : 
 
CHICKAMAUGA MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. 
 
 Address of General H. V. Boynton. 
 
 Mj' Friends : 
 
 I have been asked to make a statement of tlie objects wliicli 
 those members of the Society of the Army of the Cumberhind 
 who conceived the idea of a Joint Chickamauga Memorial Asso- 
 ciation have in view, the motives which actuate them, and the 
 methods by which they hope to attain the desired ends. These I 
 will attempt to set forth in brief form. 
 
 Perhaps if I take a few moments in going over the path which 
 led some of us to a deep interest in this project, it may suggest to 
 you strong reasons in support of it. 
 
 A year ago last summer it was my privilege to revisit Chick- 
 amauga in company with my old commander, General VanDek- 
 VEER. The ride was the more impressive because the day was 
 Sunday. On reaching the Cloud House, on the northern bounda- 
 ry of the field, there came to us from a country church near by 
 the voices of solemn song. 
 
 The last music which had fallen on our ears, as we left that 
 field a quarter of a century before, was the screech, the rattle, 
 and roar, and thunder of that hell of battle which had loaded the 
 air with horror through all that earlier and well remembered 
 Sabbath. 
 
 In a moment, as with a flash, memory peopled those scenes 
 for us with the actors of that other day. We gloried in Rose- 
 CRANS, and mourned that Thomas did not still live to enjoy his 
 ever increasing renown. 
 
 We saw Baird's, and Johnson's, and Palmer's, and Rey- 
 nolds' immovable lines around the Kelley Farm. We recalled 
 Wood on the spurs of Snodgrass Hill, and Brannan and Grosve- 
 nor, and Steedman under Granger, on the Horseshoe. 
 
 There rolled back on the mind the unequalled fighting of that 
 thin and contracted line of heroes ; and the magnificent Confed- 
 erate assaults which swept in upon us time and again, and cease- 
 lessly, as that service of all- the gods of war went on throughout 
 those holy hours. 
 
 Then — thinking of our Union lines alone — we said to each 
 other: "This field should be a Western Gettysburg — a Chick- 
 amauga memorial." 
 
 •It was but a flash forward in thought to our present plan, and 
 the proposition became — "Aye, it should be more than Gettys- 
 burg, with its monuments along one side alope ; the lines of both 
 armies should be equally marked." 
 
 We went over the ground where Forrest's and Walker's 
 men had marched on Saturday into the smoke of our rifles, and 
 the very flame of our batteries. Again we saw their ranks melt 
 as snowflakes disappear over the heat of conflagration. 
 
 We stood on Baird's line, where Helm's brigade went to 
 pieces, but not till three men out of every four — think of that ! — 
 
Gen, W S Rosecrans. 
 
ADDRESS OF GEN. BOYNTON. 
 
 not till three men out of every four — were dead or wounded. 
 
 We saw Longstreet's men roll in on the difficult slopes of the 
 Horseshoe, dash wildly and break there, and recede, only to sweep 
 on again almost with the regularity of the ocean surges, and ever 
 marking a higher tide. 
 
 We looked down again on these slopes, slippery with blood, 
 and strewn thick as the leaves with all the horrible wreck of battle, 
 over which, and in spite of repeated failure, these assaulting col- 
 umns still formed, and reformed, and came on. 
 
 And then, thinking of this as fighting alone— grand, awe- 
 inspiring, magnificent fighting— the project of a Joint Chickamauga 
 Battlefield Association was born in the mind. 
 
 I stood silent and thought reverently of that unsurpassed 
 Confederate fighting, and in my heart I thanked God that the men 
 who were equal to such endeavors on the battlefield were Amer- 
 icans. Behold the essentials and the essence of our project ! 
 
 Let all the lines be marked. Let the whole unbroken history 
 of such a field be carefully preserved. 
 
 So thinking, on my return home I wrote of Chickamauga to 
 the Cincinnati Commercial Ga.:;cttc, o( August 17th, thus publicly 
 suggesting the scheme : 
 
 " The survivors ot the Army of the Cumberland should awake to great pride 
 in this notable field of Chckamauga. Why should it not, as well as Eastern fields, 
 be marked by monuments, and its lines be accurately pre.served for history? Ihere 
 was no more magnificent fighting during the war than both armies did theie. Both 
 sides might well unite in preserving the field where both, in a military sense, won 
 such renown " 
 
 The idea received much and only favorable comment in the 
 North. 
 
 Gen. Cist, the Secretary of the Society of the Army of the 
 Cumberland, was the first to take a practical step in the matter. 
 On Chickamauga day, September 20, of last year, he introduced 
 a resolution at the Chicago meeting for the appointment of a com- 
 mittee to consider the question of securing and preserving the 
 field, and marking all the lines upon it. Our meeting today, pre- 
 paratory to formally organizing our association, is the direct out- 
 growth of General Clst's resolution. 
 
 Twenty-six years ago today the thunders of the deadliest 
 battle of modern times were rolling over the low lands and re- 
 echoing from the mountains which look down upon Chickamauga. 
 Many great fights shook our continent and attracted the attention 
 of the world as our war went on; but the splendid facts of the 
 bitter, stubborn and desperate contest along the unknown stream, 
 in the thick forests which lined it and on the ridges which domi- 
 nated them, were, for years, almost as completely hidden from 
 
 the public as were the armies which operated over this obscure 
 
 and tangled field. 
 
 But as the publication of the official records of both armies 
 
 has progressed, and made intelligent study of the strategy and the 
 
 fighting of Chickamauga possible, the battle has been gradually 
 
CHICKAMAUGA MEIVTORIAL ASSOCIATION 
 
 unrolled before the public until it stands today where those of us 
 who participated knew so well that it deserved to rank — for both 
 armies — as the most stubbornly contested battle of the war. And 
 not only this, but the percentaj^e of its casualty lists are found to 
 exceed those of Napoleon's most noted battles, as well as those 
 of all the later fields of modern ICurope. This conclusively ap- 
 pears from some facts which I haxe heretofore presented in print 
 in rei^ard to Chickamauga, and which are pertinent here. 
 
 The marvel of German fighting in the great battle of Mars 
 la Tour was performed by the Third Westphalian regiment. It 
 suffered the heaviest loss in the German army during the Franco- 
 Prussian war. It went into battle 3,000 strong, and its loss was 
 49.4 per cent. There was nothing in the campaigns of which 
 this formed a part which exceeded these figures, and they became 
 famous throughout the German army. And yet in our war there 
 were over sixty regiments whose losses exceeded this. Seventeen 
 of them lost above 60 per cent. , and quite a number ranged from 
 70 to 80. There were over a score of regiments on each side 
 at Chickamauga whose loss e.Kceeded that of the Westphalian 
 regiment. 
 
 The battle was desperate frcMii the moment it opened till its 
 close. I'or the most part the lines fought at close range, and, in 
 the countless assaults, often hand to hand. On the first day there 
 were no field works of any kind. On the second, Thomas was 
 protected on the Kelley Farm, by such rude log works as could 
 be hastily thrown together. Brennan, after the break on Sunday, 
 and Steedman were without a semblance of works. The battle, in 
 the main, on both sides, was dogged, stand-up fighting far within 
 the limits of point-blank range. For the second day, on the Con- 
 federate side, the contest was one continued series of brave and 
 magnificent assaults. 
 
 A reference to the losses on each side will show that there 
 has been no exaggeration in the description of the fighting. 
 RosECRANs' loss was 16,179. Tliis included 4,774 missing, of 
 which a large number were killed or wounded. Bragg's losses, 
 as compiled and estimated at the war records office, were 17,804. 
 Thus the total loss for each arm\' was over 25 per cent, of the 
 entire force of each, and it will be found to average about 33 per 
 cent, on each side for the troops actually engaged. 
 
 Long.street'.s wing of the Confederate army lost 44 per cent., 
 nearly all of this on the second day, and the largest part of that 
 in an hour and a half on Sunday afternoon. 
 
 Steedman's and Brannan's divisions, which confronted a por- 
 tion of Lon(;street's assault, lost, the first, 49 per cent, in four 
 hours, and all these were killed or wounded but one, and the 
 second an average of 38 per cent., while one brigade — VanDer- 
 veer's, of Brannan — lost only a fraction less than 50 per cent. 
 
 I^'or the entire Union army the losses ranged from these max- 
 
ADDRESS OF GEN BOYNTON. it 
 
 imum figures down to 33 per cent., a terrible minimum of one in 
 three. 
 
 BusHROD Johnson's division lost 44 per cent., Patton An- 
 derson's brigade, of Hindman's, 30 per cent., and most of this on 
 Sunday afternoon. Bate's brigade, of Stewart's division, lost 
 nearly 49 per cent. Prp:ston's division, in an hour and a half be- 
 fore sunset on Sunday, lost 33 per cent., and Gracie's brigade 
 nearly 35 per cent, in a single hour while assaulting Brannan's 
 position on the Horseshoe. The brigade losses in Cheatham's 
 division ranged from 35 to 50 per cent. The aggregate loss in 
 Breckinridge's division was 33 per cent., while Helm's Kentucky 
 brigade lost 75 per cent. Cleburne's loss was 43 per cent. 
 
 These figures become the more significant when compared 
 with the statement of losses of the world's noted battles. General 
 Wheeler, the distinguished Confederate cavalry commander, thus 
 vividly presented this question at the gathering of the Society of 
 the Army of the Cumberland and Confederates at Chattanooga in 
 1881 : 
 
 " Waterloo was one of the most desperate and bloody fields chronicled in 
 European history yet Wellington's casualties were less than 12 per cent his losses 
 beinfj 1.432 killed and 9,528 wounded out of 90,000 men, while at Shiloh, ihe first 
 great battle in which Gen. Grant was engaged, one side lost in killed and wounded 
 9 740 out ot 33,000, while their opponents reported their killed and wounded at 9,616, 
 making the casualties about 30 per cent. At the great battle of Wagram, Napoleon 
 lost but about 5 per cent. At Wurzburg the French lost but 3^ per cent., and yet 
 the army gave up the field and retreated to the Rhine At Rancour Marshal Saxe 
 lost but 2.]/^ per cent At Zurich, Massena lost but 8 per cent At Lagriz Fred- 
 erick lost but 6^ per cent At Malplaquet, Marlborough lost but 10 percent., and 
 at Ramillies the same intrepid commander lost but 6 per cent At Contras, Henry 
 of Navarre was reported as cut to pieces, yet his loss was less than 10 per cent. 
 At Lodi, Napoleon lost \\i per cent At Valmy, Frederick lost but 3 per cent , 
 and at the great battles of Marengo and Austerlitz. sanguinary as they were. Na- 
 poleon lost an average of less than 14^ per cent. At Margenta and Solferino, in 
 1859, the average loss of both armies was less than 9 per cent. At Worth, Speche- 
 ran. Mars la Tour, Gravelot'e and Sedan, in 1870, the average loss was 12 per cent. 
 At Linden, General Moreau lost but 4 per cent., and the Archduke John lost 7 per 
 cent, in killed and wounded. Americans can scarcely call this a lively skirmish. At 
 Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Atlanta, Gettysburg, Missionary Ridge, the 
 Wilderness and Spotlsylvania, the loss frequently reached, ana sometimes exceeded. 
 40 per cent , and the average of killed and wounded on one side or the other was 
 over 30 per cent." 
 
 And when it is considered that this degree of bitter fighting 
 was persistently maintained by both sides throughout two days, 
 without any defensive works deserving of the name, and for 
 the most part without any at all except as the natural features ot 
 the ground supplied them in part to the Union side, it is readily 
 seen that there is no other field of the war which more fully illus- 
 trates the indomitable courage and all the varied fighting qualities 
 of the American veteran. A large number of organizations on 
 both sides in that battle came out of it with a loss of every other 
 man who entered it, killed or wounded. 
 
 The assaults on the Confederate side were without parallel in 
 the war. I^icKfrrr's charge at Gettysburg was a single effort. 
 
CHICKAMAUGA MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. 
 
 But Longstreet's entire wing at Chickamauga assaulted time and 
 again on more difficult gl'ound than the slopes of Cemetery Hill. 
 There were three general assaults which each deserved to 
 rank with Pickett's charge, while the Union defense of the 
 Horseshoe Ridge is without parallel in the war. So thin a line 
 of heroes never before successfully withstood such tremendous 
 assaults. Of the whole battle, from opening to close, there was 
 never truer thing written than General Hjndman's words in regard 
 to his conflict with Gr.angek'.s troops: "I have never known 
 Federal troops to fight so well. It is just to say, also, that I 
 never saw Confederate soldiers fight better." And Kershaw, of 
 LoNSTRbET's Virginia troops, who had seen all the fighting in the 
 Army of Northern Virginia, said of one of the Confederate as- 
 saults which Brannan repulsed : " This was one of the heaviest 
 attacks of the war on a single point." 
 
 Surely the ground of such fighting deserves to be preserved 
 for pilgrimages and historic study. To illustrate the attainments 
 of soldiery endeavor with which the veterans of each army distin- 
 guished themselves in our war, there is no spot of fighting ground 
 in which each can take a greater pride, or where each can lay 
 stronger claims to victory. While the Confederates secured and 
 held the field, General Rosecrans gained his objective — Chatta- 
 nooga. 
 
 Chickamauga is, then, beyond question, the most noted bat- 
 tlefield of modern times when measured by the stubborn and 
 undaunted fighting done upon it — a standard whose fairness there 
 will be none to dispute. 
 
 We meet here, surviving veterans of that field, ranged once 
 in confronting lines, fringed with all that made war horrible or 
 gilded its horrors with glory. We, who fought as iron veterans 
 fight, gather here today under one flag, citizens of one country, 
 to celebrate and take measures to perpetuate the memory of the 
 fighting which will cause Chickamauga to take first rank among 
 the battles of the world. 
 
 So far as I understand it, this is in no sense a political move. 
 Nor need it be regarded as non-partizan. Speaking for myself, I 
 do not desire to be misunderstood. I yield to no man an iota of 
 my convictions. They are as dear to me, and as clear to my 
 mind, as when we fought for them. On the other hand, for the 
 purposes which we seek here, I ask no one of the brave men who 
 fought for their convictions under a different flag to yield them in 
 any degree to me. These differences we do not discuss, nor do 
 they properly enter into our project. 
 
 That contemplates mainly American fighting as fighting — the 
 celebrating in enduring bronze and marble the achievements of 
 American manhood as illustrated in the unsurpassed pluck and 
 endurance, the stubborn, desperate, and magnificent fighting per- 
 formed by each side on this field of Chickamauga. 
 
 We propose to take a very important, very necessary and 
 
ADDRESS OF GEN. BOYNTON. 13 
 
 eminently practical step be}^ond the far-famed Gettysburg Memo- 
 rial Association, and ascertain and permanentl}' designate all the 
 lines of both armies, and set up tablets to mark the lines of ad- 
 vance and the extreme points reached by each squadron, battery 
 or regiment, be it Union or Confederate, and to state their strength 
 and losses, to the end that the ordinary visitor and military stu- 
 dent shall be able, one and all, to understand our great object 
 lesson of American prowess on the field of battle. 
 
 As to the ways and means of our project, we propose to go 
 before Congress at its coming session and ask it to appropriate -a 
 sufficient sum to buy the entire field from Rossville Gap to Craw- 
 fish Springs, or so much thereof as the directors, when our organ- 
 ization is complete, may deem expedient to secure. This purchase, 
 of course, must be contingent upon the State of Georgia ceding 
 jurisdiction to the Government for the sole purpose of maintaining 
 a National Military Park. 
 
 There is no intention of dispossessing the present owners and 
 occupants of the field. It would be better that they should 
 remain, upon conditions advantageous to themselves, to preserve 
 its roads and its outlines of field and forest, and its farm houses, 
 as they were at the time of the fight. But these things belong to 
 the details of the project, and it will doubtless be easy to arrange 
 them all so as to give general satisfaction. 
 
 Eleven Northern and eleven Southern States had organiza- 
 tions in the battle, and Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee had 
 troops on each side. The United States were represented by nine 
 organizations. The General Government will without doubt ap- 
 propriate liberally, as it has done for the Gettysburg field, to mark 
 the positions of the Regular regiments and batteries. The pur- 
 pose is to ask each State to erect monuments to mark the ground 
 where its troops distinguished themselves. There must, therefore, 
 be a joint management of the Park by the Government and the 
 States interested, the manner of which must be left to Congress 
 and those charged with working out the details of the plan. 
 
 To our proposed Park, ending at Rossville Gap, the city of 
 Chattanooga and its immediate surroundings, Lookout, Orchard 
 Knob, and Missionary Ridge, properly attach themselves and en- 
 large the dimensions of our scheme and make it unsurpassed and 
 unsurpassable as a place for interesting pilgrimages or military 
 study. Here the natural features, which for all time will clearly 
 mark the lines of battle, are such that scarcely anything is needed 
 except tablets to mark the position of forts and headquarters, to 
 complete it as an addition to the project we are here considering. 
 The roads now exist leading from Rossville to the extreme north 
 point of Missionary Ridge, and from Chattanooga to all other 
 points of chief interest in the noted fields- about the city. 
 
 No words from me to you who can, with vivid memory, re- 
 people the fields and the surroundings of Chattanooga with the 
 battle pageants which will make them illustrious for all time, are 
 
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 necessary to enforce our project, or make it clear that when once 
 establislied it must excite universal and continuing interest. 
 
 Address of Hx-Gov. A. S. Marks. 
 
 When General BovntoN concluded his remarks ex-Go\'ernor 
 Albert S. Marks, of Tennessee, was introduced and spoke as 
 follows : 
 Ladies and Gciitlciiicii and Old So/d/f;s UV/o ITo/r the Blue and 
 
 t/ie Gray : 
 
 In the name of the soldiers of the South, soldiers of the 
 North, I salute you and welcome you among us — welcome you to 
 the fields of Chickamauga. 
 
 It has been a long time ago since the men of the North fronted 
 the men of the South on the heady, stricken field of Chickamauga 
 By a common impulse — with one mind and one heart — the men of 
 the South and the men of the North have here met again today to 
 unite in celebrating the twenty-sixth anniversary, and to unite in a 
 testimonial to posterity, that both have a common interest and a 
 common heritage in the glories of the field of Chickamauga. 
 
 When we met before thousands of men. from Maine to Texas — 
 from every State of the Union — came to Chickamauga and heard 
 the long roll beat off for the last time. They died that Chickamau 
 ga might live forever, and so it was twenty six years ago — in the 
 blood of tens of thousands of brave m.en — Chickamauga was bap- 
 tized into immortality. 
 
 Where we stand today, then the firm earth trembled with the 
 roar and crash of the great Lutzen of the civil war. That day when 
 the guns were sounding and blood was running, was heard the 
 Rebel yell, ringing out as clear and sharp as the bray of ten thous- 
 and trumpets. Up from the field of Chickamauga it rose and rolled 
 up the mountains, and now but a memory — now Jike an echo which 
 has lost itself amid distant hills — it has gone forever sounding down 
 the ages of history, poetry and song. From the same field today 
 rises the sweet anthem of peace. It swells up and away from the 
 field of Chickamauga, swells over the sentineling mountains — and 
 floats away to the lakes and oceans, its sweet strains telling that the 
 men of the North and of the South will learn war no more ; telling 
 that the battle cloud of Chickamauga has lifted, and above that 
 glorious field the bow of promise and concord is gently bending, 
 telling that peace, like a sweet benediction, shall rest upon the 
 land forever 
 
 When we met here before we saw the rude, red hand of war 
 work universal desolation upon the lovely plain of Chickamauga. 
 Returning today we see that nature, the gentle priestess of a loving 
 God, has painted out with, her sweet and beautiful colors the last 
 vestige of war's desolation. We see that she has reclothed its 
 naked, war- plowed fields with her verdant robe, and over them the 
 
ADDRESS OF EX-GOVERNOR MARKS. 15 
 
 gentle flocks and herds roam again unvexed. We then saw its 
 forests — leafeless, branchless — tossed and torn by the hurricane of 
 war, but feeling her touch again they lift aloft their leafy crowns. 
 Again she has made the beautiful flowers bloom and laden the air 
 with their sweet perfume. She has brought the song bird back 
 and again its sweet notes fill its forests with melody. Again she 
 has restored the crystal waters to its streams and now they flow so 
 pure and limpid they give no sign they once ran red with the blood 
 of the brave. 
 
 Since we see that the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, 
 and the inanimate earth heard her gentle voice and obeyed her 
 sweet influence, can we wonder that when the soldiers of the North 
 and the South meet again today on the field of Chickamauga and 
 look down into their hearts that there, too, they find she has paint- 
 ed out every enmity, every resentment, every vestige of war, and 
 deep down in the rich soil of mutual respect planted a concord and 
 friendship which must endure as long as the men live who made 
 the field of Chickamiuga immortal. 
 
 Speaking for my comrades, we frankly declare that we now re- 
 gret, and have always regretted, that in the fertile soil of the tremen- 
 dous differences between the North and the South the horrid seeds 
 of war were ever sown. All our dead are buried and all our wounds 
 are healed. Our backs are to war and our faces to peace. We 
 recognize the sovereignty of the constitution, of the Union. We 
 esteem, respect and honor you men of the North. With you we 
 have one common country — a common destiny. Still we have 
 memories which are surprisingly dear to us as a people. 
 
 We glory in the recollection that when hope was dying in the 
 great Revolutionary heart our ancesters with their sabers in their 
 tteth climbed King's mountain, and on its summit raised Inde- 
 pendence to its feet, placed on its head the crown of political free- 
 dom and put in its hand the scepter of American destiny. 
 
 We glory in the recollection that in the second war for inde- 
 pendence on the plains of New Orleans that our ancestors with their 
 bayonets dug up by the roots the willow of defeat and planted the 
 oak of victory so firmly that since that day the foot of a foreign 
 enemy has never polluted the soil of the Union. 
 
 We glory in the recollection that when in the fullness of time 
 we came to fight out the great quarrel of North and South, which 
 came to us by inheritance, fronting conditions which, in the judg 
 ment of the world, made miraculous success alone possible, we 
 boldly threw down the gage of battle in the face of a people among 
 the most powerful, the most courageous and most warlike of all 
 the peoples under the sun, and for four long years waged the un- 
 equal conflict, and by our sublime courage and fortitude, in the 
 the very teeth of fate, time and again moved up and stood in the 
 very shadow of triumph. 
 
 When you remember that the Confederate soldiers marched 
 and fought for four years in hunger and rags, you will not be sur- 
 
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 prised when I tell you that we, too, are drawing a pension. It is a 
 pension which costs no man anything, and the man who would 
 take it away from them is too low to aspire to the dignity of being 
 contemptible. The pension they draw is a proud consciousness of 
 sttrn duty ddne in the light the great God gave them to see and the 
 undying love and reverence they bear to their dead comrades — 
 their glorious dead who never heard of the lo.st cause — who never 
 saw the fallen banner, for when they fell it was floating proudly 
 over them — who never surrendered — who never passed under the 
 yoke — but caught up from the field of their glory — now beyond 
 the river — under the martial trees, 
 
 " On fame's eternal camping ground. 
 Their silent tents are spread, 
 While glory guards with solemn round 
 The bivouac of the dead." 
 
 Men of the North, we stand face to face with you today. We 
 will not speak to each other with forked tongues. There has been 
 much babblement about whether the South was right or wrong. I 
 take leave to say in this presence it is still an open question. Ac- 
 complished facts put it in the power of the North to decide it. If 
 the event shall prove that the fear of the people of the South was 
 groundless that the people of the North meant to take away from 
 them their country and their government, inherited from their 
 fathers, and to rule and ruin them through the agency of an alien 
 race, then it will follow that the people of the South were in the 
 wrong. But as certain as the sun shines and the grass grows, if 
 the time shall come, which God forbid ! that the people ot any 
 one of the Southern States shall be discrowned by the North then 
 the eternal verdict will be that the South was right when she struck 
 in defense of the birth right ot her people 
 
 This occasion affords me a fit opportunity to say what I think 
 about your distinguished Chairman. In my judgment, in compar- 
 ison with his merits, he is the most underrated of all the Federal 
 generals We now have ail the evidence before us, and when we 
 impartially measure him in its light we cannot fail to see that he 
 is entitled to stand first among the Federal generals. 
 
 Reviewing the summer and fall campaign of 1862 we find the 
 general result was disastrous to the Federal armies. Aside from 
 the repulse of Price and Van Dorn by Rosecrans at Corinth, the 
 Confederate armies suffered no material reverse. 
 
 The result of those campaigns had the effect to bring more 
 than one of the foreign powers to a serious consideration of the 
 question of recognizing the Confederacy. It had the further effect 
 of so alarming the people of the States of the Mississippi Valley 
 as to the final result of the war that they were considering whether 
 the time had not come for them to surrender the Union to se 
 cure the free navigation of the Mississippi. Both Governments 
 were apprised of the probable action of the foreign powers. We 
 now know that in the month of October, 1862, General McCler- 
 
Gen, Braxton Bragg 
 
ADDRESS OF EX-GOVERNOR MARKS. 17 
 
 NAND went to Washington and acquainted the General Government 
 with the fact that the States of the Mississippi Valley were ripe for 
 a revolt, and that it would inevitably come unless that Government 
 imnfiediately manifested its ability to overthrow the Confederacy. 
 The Federal Government saw its danger 
 
 To prevent the recognition of the Confederacy and the revolt 
 of the States of the Mississippi Valley it determined to press a 
 winter campaign from Virginia to Vicksburg. McClellan was re- 
 lieved and BuRNSiDE pushed on to defeat at Fredericksburg in De- 
 cember, 1862 In as many days sixty new regiments were raised 
 in the States of the Mississippi Valley and pushed on to Grant 
 and Sherman, and they were ordered to move on Vicksburg and 
 take it. Their army was divided, Sherman to move by the river 
 to Vicksburg and Grant to support him by moving on a parallel 
 line. The Confederate Government, seeing the crisis, took order 
 accordingly About the middle of December Forrest penetrated 
 West Tennessee, and blazing like a meteor so dazed and paralyzed 
 General Grant that General Sherman was left to move unsupport- 
 ed to an overwhelming defeat at Vicksburg on the 25th of Decem- 
 ber. 
 
 It was on the 30th of December that Rosecrans formed his 
 line in front of Mur/reesboro. Up to that hour every battle fought 
 in that winter campaign to prevent the recognition of the Confeder- 
 ates and to prevent the revolt of the Mississippi Valley had resulted 
 in the overwhelming defeat of the Federal armies. Events had 
 made Murfreesboro the hinge upon which the fortunes of the Con- 
 federacy must turn That battle won by the Confederates, the 
 paper blockade would be torn to tatters and the independence of 
 the Confederacy assured. General Rosecrans understood far bet- 
 ter than the Government at Washington the gravity of the task 
 assigned him. But a few days before his march began General 
 Rosecrans had given his deposition in the Buell commission case, 
 in which he had said upon oath that Bragg's army, for its numbers, 
 was the best army he ever saw. It was flushed with its brilliant 
 victory at Perryville. He knew that in a fair field, man to man, 
 the defeat of that army was impossible. His plan of battle was to 
 move a heavy column upon his left, push it over Stone's river, turn 
 the Confederate right, divided as it was from the Confederate left 
 and center by Stone's river, and occupy Murfreesboro in the rear of 
 the Confederate center, and by this manoeuver win the battle. 
 While this movement was in progress Hardee, with the Confeder- 
 ate left, struck his right and ground it to powder. His center 
 could not gain an inch of ground, and all it could do was to hold 
 its ground by the most desperate fighting. His whole right was in 
 full retreat, and Hardee driving to his rear like a tempest. By all 
 the rules of war the Confederates had gained the day. They had 
 raised the blockade. They had won the independence of the 
 South 
 
 At this supreme moment the genius of Rosecrans struck 
 
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 the fatal blow to the Confedenrcy. He • immediately recalled his 
 left, formed it on a line perpendicular to his center, and there he 
 stood with a line of battle the like of which had never before been 
 seen on land or sea, waiting for Hakdee and the Confederate left 
 When at last it fronted his new line it had been cut to pieces by a 
 half day's fighting. Its ammunition was spent. The men were 
 worn down by a rush over two miles of fighting ground. Thtir ar- 
 tillery was far in their rear. They threw themselves upon the new 
 line with the fury of heroes. The struggle was terrific, but the 
 genius of Rosecrans had assigned them a task impossible for men 
 to perform, and so it was not written in the book of fate that the 
 Confederate left should have the g'ory of crushing both the right 
 and left of the Federal army on the same field. 
 
 On that field the genius of Rosecrans turned the paper block 
 ade into one of adamant and doomed the Confederates to fight on 
 to the end in hunger and rags, without pay and without the appli- 
 ances for war On that field his genius destroyed the Confederacy 
 and re-established the Union. While on the arrow that struck us 
 down we see the feather of Rosecrans. yet there is not a Confed- 
 erate in the South who does not honor him for while in war he 
 was our deadliest enemy, in peace he has beeii our constant, unfal- 
 tering friend. 
 
 General Rosecrans, with one voice, the soldiers of the South 
 welcome you among them and salute you as first among the Federal 
 generals. 
 
 Address of Gen. Henry M. Cist. 
 
 General Henry M, Cist, the Corresponding Secretary of the 
 Society ot the Army of the Cumberland, was then called on by 
 General Rosecrans, who said : 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen : 
 
 I now desire to present to you General Henry M. Cist, 
 who, as you have heard, is the gentleman who presented the reso- 
 lution for the appointment of the committee in our Society to 
 devise a plan for obtaining the battlefield of Chickamauga and 
 marking the positions of the troops who fought on the same, and 
 under which resolution this meeting has been brought about. We 
 will be glad to hear from General Cist. 
 
 General Cist coming forward, responded as follows : 
 
 Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen : 
 
 After the remarks and the beautiful address which you have 
 heard this afternoon I do not know that there is anything that I 
 
ADDRESS OF GENERAL CIST. 19 
 
 can add or say to lend interest to this occasion. It is getting a 
 little late and I will not take up much of your time. But I want 
 to make a suggestion or two before we separate ; and, first, let me 
 say that when I offered the resolution in the Chicago meeting of 
 our Society, the outgrowth of which is this meeting held here 
 today, I said for one I would like to see the battlefield of Chick- 
 amauga redeemed from the every day use it is now put to — taken 
 from the present owners by proper means, say by purchase — and 
 made for the coming generations of American youth the Mecca 
 where patriotic devotion to duty and love of our native land would 
 be worshiped for all time. My idea is that the field should be 
 marked as the battlefield of the war ; that it should be preserved 
 as no other battlefield in history is marked : With monuments 
 commemorating the heroic deeds of both of the contending armies, 
 on the lines held by each on those three days in September, 1863, 
 of the most terrific fighting the world ever saw. 
 
 That was my interest in this movement at that time. I am 
 glad, nay, I am more than pleased to see today that you here pres- 
 ent are all in hearty accord with the spirit of that resolution, and I 
 trust that every one of you may live to see the completed realiza- 
 tion of that wish. 
 
 But to carry out that resolution to a perfect success is no light 
 undertaking. You must all make up your minds that there is to 
 be an immense amount of very hard work done before we can see 
 the full fruition of our hopes. That you may appreciate just how 
 much hard work is before us let us glance for a moment at what 
 has been accomplished on the battlefield of Gettysburg toward 
 securing that field and marking the Federal line, showing the posi- 
 tion of the several commands who helped to hold that line. The 
 plan of securing the battlefield of Gettysburg was started some 
 twenty-five years ago. With all the interest taken in the plan at 
 the North and with all the money — aggregating in the hundreds of 
 thousands of dollars — there have been only some five hundred and 
 fifty acres of land secured, which leaves the greater portion of the 
 country fought over outside of the land controlled by the Gettys- 
 burg Association. 
 
 In certain portions of the East it is generally supposed that 
 after Gettysburg there was not very much fighting done anywhere 
 "along the line." That there might have been a skirmish in the 
 woods somewhere south of Chattanooga in September of 1863, 
 they are willing to admit, but that a greater battle than Gettysburg 
 was fought at Chickamauga they will not admit, nor do they pro- 
 pose so to believe under any circumstance. 
 
 There is no battle of the last war so important in its results or 
 so pregnant with what might have worked the destruction of the 
 nation as Chickamauga, and no battle is so little understood at the 
 North Upon no field where Northern troops met those of the 
 South in deadly conflict was there more heroic fighting, or a finer 
 display of the courage and endurance of American manhood. 
 
chiCkamauga memorial association. 
 
 Upon that field George H. Thc^Ks showed his staying quah'ties in 
 their finest light, and with the most magnificent defensive fighting 
 of the war saved the Army of the Cumberland and the life of the 
 nation. One of the four causes of the failure of the Southern 
 Confederacy, it has been said, was "General Thomas at Chicka- 
 mauga, " 
 
 Now, the plan proposed for our Association contemplates the 
 taking of the entire field of Chickamauga, including the historic 
 points on the North of Rossville Gap and McAfee Church — from 
 the latter point Gordom Granger started to the assistance of Gen- 
 eral Thomas — to Crawfish Springs on the south; with Chickamauga 
 on the eastern boundary, where Reed's and Alexander's bridges 
 cross the stream, to the Dry Valley Road on the west. This, you 
 see, is a very large tract of land, and to secure it we will need the 
 combined efforts of all the friends of our enterprise. I trust every 
 one present will unite heartily, cordially and fully in the plan to 
 carry to complete success our project and in developing it to the 
 extent that there will be no such word as fail with reference to it. 
 
 Now, one other suggestion. What I said to the gentlemen at 
 our meeting held in the Military Committee room of the United 
 States Senate, in Washington, at the time of our conference in 
 February last. I wish to repeat to you now, and that is this : The 
 plan proposed for the Chickamauga Association provides for a 
 united movement, participated in by the members of both armies 
 that fought in that engagement, thus differing from Gettysburg 
 Association, which is confined exclusively to the one army. I 
 want to impress upon you that above everything else this is to be 
 borne in mind : That this movement is not intended to simply 
 commemorate the old Army of the Cumberlantl, nor is it a move- 
 ment started by the Society of the Army of the Cmberland for the 
 purpose of bringing that Society or any individual prominently be- 
 fore the public This is a movement started by the Society of the 
 Army of the Cumberland on the inspiration of the moment, as it 
 were, without the suggestion of any one, in which the heroes of 
 both sides are asked to join and co-operate, that the plan may b^ 
 fully consummated. 
 
 There is nothing in this project of special benefit to the Society 
 of the Army of the Cumberland ; nor should there be to any one 
 individual. It is a plan ot general interest to the entire nation to 
 mark for all time as a shrime for patriotic devotion for the future 
 generations of American youth, who may be able to proudly point 
 to marked positions upon the battlefield and say here my worthy 
 sire shed his blood on that fateful day that the nation might live 
 Here a great object lesson in the art of war, with the actual posi- 
 tions held by the troops defined, together with the movements as 
 made by them, can be traced by the student of history and the 
 pupil in military science. 
 
 In this movement you gentlemen of the South are not only 
 asked to co-operate but you are most earnestly invited to join and 
 
ADDRESS OF HON. W. A. HENDERSON. 
 
 aid to the fullest extent — by membership, by all proper influence 
 you can bring to bear upon the legislatures of your Spates to ad- 
 vance the enterprise by appropriations to secure the proper mark- 
 ings of the positions held by the troops from your several States, 
 and thus to make Chickamauga the most unique battlefield of the 
 world, by showing the lines of each of the contending armies with 
 monuments raised by each, marking the deeds of the heroes of 
 both armies. 
 
 And now, Mr. Chairman, with the foundation of facts as given 
 to you by General Boynton, and the beautiful structure of rhetoric 
 as raised thereon by Governor Marks, before you, I do not know 
 that there is anything more for me to say, and, thanking you for 
 your kind attention, having said this much, I will close. 
 
 Address of Hon. W. A. Henderson. 
 
 Hon. W. A. Henderson, of Knoxville who was observed to 
 be present, was next called upon by the Chairman, and after re- 
 peated calls for him he came on the platform and spoke as follows: 
 
 Ladies and Comrades of both Annies : 
 
 I am of the opinion that the good people of the North 
 will never cease to have an interest in endeavoring to look at, and 
 hear, and "sit upon" Rebel soldiers. [Laughter.] 
 
 I recollect one time during the war I spent a summer, for my 
 health, up at Elmira [Laughter] and an enterprising Northern 
 man built a section of sheds, at which he made many an honest 
 penny, by allowing those good people of the North a glorious 
 opportunity of looking at those wild animals [Laughter] and I 
 am persuaded that it is from some such sentiment that some gen- 
 tlemen here in my rear (Northern officers on platform) have 
 pointed me out and dragged me forth as a fair example. [Laughter.] 
 
 However, I might say that I am proud to be selected for such 
 an occasion as this. I came to listen and not to speak. I stopped 
 on my way from my work in the mountains to my home in the 
 hill country, to see what was being done, and hear what was being 
 said in this city of Chattanooga. 
 
 I have been impressed with thoughts and facts which the 
 gentlemen who have preceded me have given to you and to me, 
 and for the first time since this subject has been agitated, it has 
 occurred to mc that this plan that has been inaugurated by General 
 Cist was possible. It seems to me that it is now almost alive. 
 The grand central thought that will carry it to success is the fact 
 that he has made it a pride to both sides. I remember having 
 heard a little incident that occurred during the war up at a young 
 and growing city called Johnson City, in the upper end of this 
 State. A young officer had gone out on a scouting expedition. 
 
22 CHICKAMAITGA MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. 
 
 niks al 
 
 He had been searching for Yanks all day long, and as you know 
 they generall)' "sought" for them a great deal harder than they 
 found them. [Laughter.] (^n his return from the scout he saw 
 a lot of them seated at the depot over in the hollow, with their 
 legs dangling ov^er the platform. He deployed around and hid 
 his men in the pine bushes and thought he would gobble a few to 
 take to camp like a string of fish ; but on approaching the depot 
 he ascertained, to his astonishment, that there was a flag of truce 
 down in the depot, so he went down and found that the occasion 
 was the meeting of our Major General George B. Crittenden with 
 his brother, your [turning to General Rosecrans] Colonel Eugene 
 Crittenden, and they were welcoming and hugging and crying 
 with each other until some one produced that old canteen which 
 you all have drank out of, and they mustered up some cups, and 
 some bright man proposed that a toast should be drank, and an- 
 other very promptly suggested that they drink to the health of 
 "the President," and they were about to do so, in loud acclaim, 
 when some foolish and unwitting fellow asked "which president?" 
 [Laughter]; immediately there rang out "Jeff Davis," defiantly 
 replied to by "Abe Lincoln," and that occasion of merriment 
 was almost wrought into an occasion of blood. Now, if our 
 friend General Cist had been there and said " Boys, drink to both 
 Presidents" [Laughter], that tangled knot'might have been pleas- 
 antly untied. 
 
 Now, if there is any man in the North who would like to 
 carry back with him an absolute knowledge of what a Rebel 
 soldier thinks of that question, representing that class which is 
 the class that carried a musket and smelled gunpowder. I will tell 
 you what the main body of them think on this subject. I don't 
 speak for all, for in a pile of apples they aint all sound [Laughter] 
 but I can tell you what, in my opinion, a backbone of the South 
 thinks about this question, and you may carry it home with you 
 and it will be verified. That is this: I believe it as strongly as 
 anything that was ever written by St. John, that, in my opinion, 
 the South, in material progress, has made more by the war than 
 has the North. [Great cheering.] Some people thought the 
 question of slavery was the bone of contention which brought on 
 and which carried out the war. Rather in apposition than in 
 opposition to what General Marks has just said, that question is 
 settled now, and settled forever, and in that settlement of the 
 question the South has gained more than the North. While those 
 men who wore the blue were settling that question against us. in 
 our teeth, I am of the opinion that they themselves did not 
 know, and may not now know, how much good they were doing. 
 [Applause.] 
 
 While it is true that they set 4,000,000 of slaves free, they 
 did not know so well then, as we know now, that they also set 
 free four millions of the young white men of the South [Great 
 applause] whose hands were bound down, chained by the preju- 
 
ADDRESS OF HON. W. A. HENDERSON. 23 
 
 dicies that wc were then living under. It may have been involun- 
 tarily done, but they have, for us, made it respectable to work, 
 and it is this work b}' the young white men of the South, the 
 mixing ot brain with muscle, which never could have been done 
 by slave labor, or her cousin-german, convict labor. It is that 
 which is rebuilding our temple more glorious than that which was 
 originall)' constructed by King Solomon. [Applause.] 
 
 In the providence of God this thing never could hav'e been 
 done in an)' other way. It was not a question for argument. It 
 was not a question for lawyers or courts. It was a question for 
 the sword, and shot, and shell, and bayonet. [Turning to Gen- 
 eral RosECRAN.s] You, sir, won the lawsuit, but we got the mule. 
 [Great and prolonged applause and cheers.] 
 
 This is what you can tell them when you go back to your 
 homes, and you can tell them you have seen the facts of it work- 
 ing now. Look around you where we now stand. What old 
 soldier who was here twenty-six years ago can go without the 
 greatest difficulty around this city of Chattanooga and find the 
 place even where his camp stood. He is looking for a mud hole 
 and he finds a palace there. He is looking for an old field, and 
 he finds improvements there. You find that the rock has given 
 way to the vineyard, and the thistle is gone in the presence of the 
 roses. 
 
 The young white men of the South have done this and will 
 do more. They never could hav^e done it had it not been for the 
 war. Now, this enterprise of yours, in attestation of this idea, I 
 heartily bid God-speed. If heartily pressed it will be a success be- 
 yond question. Let this Chickamauga of yours and ours be made 
 eternal and holy as the Mecca of the Musselman and the Jerusalem 
 of the Jew, where both sides can come and where the descendants 
 of the gray and blue may look upon it with mutual pride ; where, 
 as it was before stated, the coming young man may stud}' the art of 
 war with the proudest battlefield before his face that, in my 
 opinion, is on this round world of ours, and these coming young 
 men from both sides, standing side by side on this historic place, 
 will become cemented firmer and stronger as the days go by ; and 
 let me give warning to my friend, the Chairman of this meeting, 
 that the }'oung men of the South are watching their opportunit}', 
 day by day, to show to the world liow true the Southern man is to 
 the Constitution and to our flag of the stars and stripes. I am 
 persuaded that the\' are watching national issues, which w ill lead 
 to disrupti(m witli other countries, closer than are the men of the 
 North. 
 
 The farmers talk to each other about the fisher)' question with 
 ■ England, and the internal policy of F^rance, and the national ques- 
 tions that are involving other countries. If a foreign government 
 should break the confines of the soil of the United States, I give 
 you warning to look well to your laurels that the men of the South 
 don't outstrip you in the contest in devotion to our L^nion. They 
 
24 CHICKAMAUGA MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. 
 
 look upon this flag as their fla^^s it is their flag, because while 
 this war ended as it did, we left the questions that were inv^olved in 
 it behind us and have returned to our own country. You may 
 trust the man of the South as he trusts you. He will be hand to 
 hand with you in other questions as, when he thought he was 
 right, he was bravely face to face against you. When such a time 
 comes then they will stand hand to hand and side by side. God- 
 speed your Chickamauga enterprise. I foretell that it will be suc- 
 cessful, and we on our side will further its interests as far as it will 
 be in our power to do so. 
 
 On the 20th of September, a quorum of the incorporators 
 met at Crawfish Springs, Georgia, and elected officers and author- 
 ized them to accept the charter upon its being granted, and to 
 proceed to act under it as the officers of the Memorial Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 The full action at that meetingf was as follows : 
 
 CHICKAMAUGA MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. 
 
 (OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS ) 
 
 Church on the Battlefield of Chickamauga, 
 Crawfish Springs, Walker Co., Ga., 
 
 September 20, 1889. 
 At a joint meeting of the Veterans' Associations of the Blue 
 and the Gray, held this date, as above designated, Mr. Adolph 
 S. OcHS, chairman of the Local Committee on the Chickamauga 
 Memorial Association, called the meeting to order and suggested 
 the election of a Chairman. So ordered. 
 
 " General Henry M. Cist was unanimously elected, and Gen- 
 eral H. V. BoYNTON and Colonel T. M. McConnell appointed to 
 escort him to the chair. 
 
 On motion, Mr. Ed. T. Manning was unanimously elected 
 Secretary. 
 
 The Chairman stated the object of meeting, and in connec- 
 tion therewith Mr. Adolph S. Ochs read the petition for charter 
 which would be shortly granted ^ 
 
 On motion of Mr. Ochs all members present were enrolled as 
 members of the Chickamau<ya Memorial Association. 
 
Gen George H. Thomas. 
 
CHICKAMAUGA MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. 25 
 
 General Grosvenor spoke advocating the immediate election 
 of officers. 
 
 General Fullerton coincided in such action. 
 General Grosvenor then placed in nomination for the first 
 President of the Chickamauga Memorial Association General J. 
 T. Wilder, of Tennessee. 
 
 Seconded by Captain J. F. Shipp 
 
 General Wilder was declared the unanimous choice of the 
 associations present and represented 
 
 General Wilder being present accepted the trust. 
 Captain Shipp placed in nomination for Vice President Gen- 
 eral Jos, Wheeler, of Alabama. 
 
 Seconded by General H. V. Rovnton. 
 General Wheeler was declared unanimously elected. 
 Captain Geo. B. Guild nominated General Marcus J. 
 Wright, of Washington, D. C, as Secretary, who was unani- 
 mously elected 
 
 General Grosvenor nominated General J. S P^ullerton, of 
 St. Louis, Mo , who was unanimously elected Treasurer 
 
 Secretary Manning then read the list of Directors submitted 
 by the ex-Confederate Veterans' Associations : 
 Alabama — General Jos. Wheeler 
 Ai'ka)isas — Captain C. R. Breckinridge. 
 Florida — General T. P" in ley 
 North Carolina — General D. H. Hill. 
 South Carolina — General PL M. Law. 
 Tennessee — General Marcus J. Wright. 
 Texas — General Roger Q Mills. 
 Virginia — Hon. Geo D. Wise. 
 Georgia — General Alfred H. Colquitt. 
 Georgia — General James Lo.vgstreet. 
 Kentucky — General Jos. H Lewis. 
 Louisiana — General Randall L Gibson. 
 Mississippi — Colonel Chas PI Hooker. 
 Missouri — General P". M Cockrell. 
 General Bovnton then submitted the following list of Direct- 
 ors, submitted by the ex-Union officers: 
 
 Kentiteky — Colonel G. C. Kniffen. 
 Minnesota — General J. W. Bishop. 
 Ohio — General Henry M. Cist. 
 OJiio — General C. H Grosvenor. 
 
26 CHICK AM AITGA MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. 
 
 Ohio — General Fred ^I^n Deveer. 
 
 Tennessee — General Gates P. Thurston 
 
 MissciD'i — General J S P^ullerton. 
 
 Indiana — General J. J. Reynolds 
 
 Tennessee — General J. T. Wilder. 
 
 Illinois — General A. C. McClurg. 
 
 L. S. Army — General A. Baird. 
 
 U. S. Arnty — Colonel S C. Kellogg. 
 
 Washington, D. C. — (General W. S Rosecrans. 
 
 \Vashi)igton, D. C. — General H. W Boynton. 
 
 On motion of Mr. H. S. Chamberlain, seconded by Colonel 
 J. H. Duggan, the election of Directors. t\\'ent\'-eit^ht in number, 
 as herein named, was made unanimous. 
 
 ( )n motion of General Thurston, the two officers present 
 were authorized to call a meeetinij of the Board of Directors at 
 such time as the)' think best and to take such other action as they 
 may deem necessar)'. 
 
 General Wilder then stated that the Superior Court would 
 soon issue the charter, and if authorized he would accept the 
 same. He was duly empowered. 
 
 On motion, the associations of the Blue and the Gray then 
 adjourned. 
 
 Henry M. Cist, Chairman. 
 
 Va) T. Manning, Secretary. 
 
 In makini^ up the list of incorporators the selections from 
 each State were made as nearly as practical in proportion to the 
 troops each had in the battle. 
 
 After the Association has been incorporated there will be an 
 opportunity for all who choose of the veterans of either army, or 
 of those interested in the project, whether they served in either 
 army or not, to become members upon the payment of a mem- 
 bership fee of $5, which is to be paid but once, no subsequent 
 fees of any kind being contemplated. Tliis will entitle the sub- 
 scriber to a certificate of membership and to one vote at all meet- 
 ings of the Association, either in person or by proxy. 
 
 The Union arm}' had 195 separate organizations on the field, 
 of which thirty-six were batteries. The Confederate arm\' had 
 274 organizations, of which fift)' \\ere batteries, and six belonged 
 to the Confederate rei^ulars. These were thus divided among the 
 States : 
 
THE GRAND BARBECUE. 27 
 
 Union — Illinois 36, Indiana 42, Kansas 2, Kentucky 18, 
 Michigan 8, Minnesota 2, Missouri 3, (^hio 56, Pennsylvania 7, 
 Wisconsin 9, Tennessee 2, U. S. regulars 9. 
 
 Confederate — Alabama 43, Arkansas 17, Florida 7, Georgia 
 35, Kentucky 7, Louisiana 13, Mississippi 21, Missouri 2, North 
 Carolina 4, South Carolina 18, Tennessee 68, Texas 18, Virginia 
 7, Confederate regulars 6. 
 
 Thus, eleven Union States and the regular army were repre- 
 sented by troops in the battle, and all the Confederate States, 
 with Kentucky and Missouri, and the regular arm\- of the Con- 
 federacy. 
 
 The Grand Barbecue at Crawfish Springs, 
 
 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1889. 
 
 There being no other business the meeting adjourned, and 
 those present went back to the big spring where the speaking was 
 to take place. 
 
 Here the immense crowd had already assembled. There was 
 not less than 10,000 people gathered about the stand, while fully 
 as many more were scattered about in various quarters, walking 
 or sitting in the shade of the giant trees It was estimated b}- the 
 best judges that there were at least 12,000 people on the grounds. 
 
 The stand was built alongside of the .stream that flows away 
 from the giant spring, and just close enough for the creaking 
 music of the old wheel and the sweet bubbling of the water as it 
 passed over it to be heard distinctly. 
 
 It was a lovely sight, and what a contrast to the time when 
 the men in the Blue and those in the Gray met upon this field 
 twenty-six years ago. The old spring runs just the same, but its 
 waters now, as they pass on to the sea, are not dyed with blood, 
 and in their cr}'stal tones they sing a sweet song of peace. 
 
 The birds have become tame again and found their way back 
 to the trees from which the}' were frightened by the roar of the 
 cannon and the crack of the gun, and the long ferns, no more 
 trampled under foot by the marching regiments or long lines of 
 skirmishers, wave a glad welcome with their plumes of lace to the 
 
28 CHICKAMAUGA MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. 
 
 men who invaded this spot lon^^ears a<jo deahn^- death and de- 
 struction on every liand. 
 
 There stood the platform upon which a hero of Bkie and a 
 hero of Gray were to tell of their undyint^ love and eternal friend- 
 ship each for the other ; it was beautifully draped in the national 
 colors. In front stood the thousands of people eager to hear what 
 those great and noble men would say, and the clear running stream 
 and the large green hill just beyond, formed a beautiful back- 
 ground to the picture. 
 
 After the band had played the "Star Spangled Banner," 
 Governor Gordon, of Georgia, was introduced amid tremendous 
 cheering, and made the address of welcome, as follows : 
 
 Address of Governor Gordon. 
 
 Mr. Chairnum and Fclloiv Soldiers of both Armies : 
 
 On this anniversary morning the South salutes you with un- 
 covered heads, with open arms and earnest, honest hearts. 
 
 She cannot receive you with costly and imposing ceremonials, 
 but with simplicity of speech and patriotic purpose she gladly 
 greets the brave and generous of each army and of every section. 
 
 To this renowned battleground, made memorable by your 
 prowess and hallowed by American blood, she bids you welcome. 
 The South congratulates the whole country that these historic 
 plains, where twenty-six years ago you met in deadly sectional 
 conflict, are now to become the scene and witness of your joint 
 pledge of restored and enduring fraternity. She congratulates the 
 Republic that here where the North and the South marshalled 
 their hosts for battle, these hosts now meet in living, lasting 
 brotherhood, united in the bonds of mutual respect and confidence 
 — a brotherhood made better, braver and grander by mutually 
 cherished and imperishable memories. 
 
 The people of this section hail with pleasure the coming of 
 all men who have borne themselves bravely on any field of duty, 
 but they fling wide their open doors and greet with a thousand 
 welcomes those who in war were brave, and in peace are both 
 generous and just. 
 
 True courage, always and everywhere, challenges the respect 
 and homage of mankind ; but the truest and highest courage is 
 that which is born of lofty convictions, and is elevated in its as- 
 pirations, gentle, loving and tender. 
 
 True courage cherishes generosity as its noblest character- 
 istic, conquers prejudice and passion as its highest achievement, 
 and thus brings to the victor the greatest possible glory, to the 
 vanquished the least possible detriment, and to both the utmost 
 possible harmony, happiness and peace. 
 
 To you, General Rosecrans, and soldiers of the Army of the 
 Cumberland, I come with a soldier's greeting on my lips, and a 
 soldier's sympathy in my heart. 
 
ADDRESS OF GOV. GORDON. 29 
 
 Speaking of those whom I am called to represent, I pledge 
 their earnest co-operation in the sacred mission which convenes 
 you, and in all things whieh pertain to the peace, welfare and 
 unity of the American people. 
 
 In their name I proclaim their eternal fealty to the American 
 Constitution, which is their protecting shield ; to the American 
 Republic, which is the joint work of the Father's hands, and to 
 the American Union of States, from which they withdrew for 
 their safety, but which, now that the causes of dissensions are 
 gone, they woulci loyally and bravely defend for their future pro- 
 tection. They rest in the assurance that the Union, though re- 
 stored by arms, is to be preserved and made stronger and perpet- 
 ual by universal amity and impartial laws. With a love for this 
 whole country which no power can destroy ; with a title to its 
 freedom which none will dispute ; with ancestral traditions which 
 are dearer than life, we are here to unite with you in the final and 
 eternal sepulture of sectional hostility. The causes which pro- 
 duced alienation were long since engulfed in the vortex of revolu- 
 tion beyond the power of resurrection. Let us therefore bury 
 the passions which these causes evoked in a still deeper grave. 
 
 Let us bury the foul spirit of discord so deep that no blast of 
 partisan political trumpet, however wide-sounding and penetrat- 
 ing, can ever wake it to service again 
 
 Gainsay it who will, since slavery is abolished, and the Chi- 
 nese wall along the line of 36° 38' is broken down, there is abso- 
 lutely no legitimate barrier of separation and no cause for strife. 
 
 Why may not the wide waves of sympathetic Continental 
 patriotism roll from sea to sea, and from Maine to Texas, without 
 a break or a ripple, or a single obstruction ? God speed the day 
 when this truth shall command recognition throughout the Re- 
 public. God speed the day when unworthy doubt shall give 
 place to universal trust ; when unstinted faith in the unimpeacha- 
 ble honor and patriotism of the whole American people shall be- 
 come an essential passport to public station ; when he who fights 
 least for party and most for country shall be proclaimed by press 
 and people as the wisest statesman and the truest friend of lib- 
 erty. 
 
 At the conclusion of the Governor's address the band played 
 " Dixie. " 
 
 ResDonse of Gen. Rosecrans. 
 
 A mighty cheer went up from that assembled throng which 
 must have sent its echo far, far away, when General Rosecrans 
 was introduced. The old General bowed his acknowledgments 
 gracefully and, when quiet was restored, said : 
 
 Comrades : 
 
 How strange it seems that I am called upon by every reason 
 and every sentiment to call you comrades, to call you fellow citi- 
 zens. I never was in a condition to fail to do it — to call the men 
 
30 CHICKAMAUGA MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. 
 
 comrades who, t\\cnt)'-si.\ }'cai^^t;"o t()-da\', and at this hour, were 
 in deadl)' conflict with m\' Northern soldiers over in those fields 
 \onder. I see that I shall not be abl-e to reach the crowd yon- 
 der ; 1 see that my voice will be as inadequate to reach this vast 
 cr(n\cl as ni}' words will be to express the gratification with which 
 1 return thanks to the Governor of this threat State — to this <^al- 
 Jant soldier who has yiven us such a splendid welcome, and in so 
 doin^" has uttered such noble, patriotic and far-reach in<;" senti- 
 ments. 
 
 Soldiers of the Arm\- of the C"umberland ! See this vast 
 crowd. It greets us thr(Hi^h the (ioxernor of the State to which 
 the}' lielong'. It i^reets us with all this preparation, and I pre- 
 siniie this entire affair was planned and [)aid for by the ver)' men 
 we used to call Confederates. [ A voice — Right \'ou are ! ] 
 What does this signif\-? The eloquent orator who has just taken 
 his seat spoke of the magnanimit)' of the truly brave. What 
 words can express the magnanimity of the Confederate soldiers 
 who fought on this battlefield twenty-six \'ears ago, against the 
 soldiers of the Ami}- of the Cumberland who were here at that 
 time, that great contest for life. Great souls are those who fight 
 for liberty ; \\'ho sacrifice their property, their lives, and every- 
 thing that man holds dear ; but greater souls, still, are they who 
 continue to contest with unrelenting vigor the principles of friend- 
 ship and fraternal greeting. Vour eloquent Governor .says why. 
 I know not ; I am unable to answer. I .say they should frater- 
 nize. We assembled to-day to carr)' out a project for making 
 this a National Memorial Battlefield, a National Memorial Battle 
 Park, dedicated to the bravery of the soldiers of the United 
 States — I wish I had a word that would cover it — American brav- 
 ery. [ Applause.] 
 
 I believe that the work you have begun will be carried aus- 
 piciously through. If it is done, .there will be no equal in these 
 United States, nor w ill there be in the tide of time, fellow citi- 
 zens, a record of such a thing as this grand work which we pro- 
 pose to undertake, and which I have just mentioned. I know of 
 nothing in history comparable to it. I know of nothing which 
 would inspire the soul or fire the heart of an American soldier as 
 much as to see this splendid monument to American patriotism. 
 
 1 am sure that Governor Gorjion has so far expressed the 
 feelings and sentiments of the noble soldiers of the Army of the 
 Cumberland, that it is wasting words for me to undertake to gild 
 fine gold, and I therefore proceed to say this: If we can carry 
 out the purpose for which this assemblage has met here, we can 
 make this battlefield a monument to National courage, pluck, en- 
 durence and bravery We know, fellow citizens that this ground 
 was watered by the blood of twenty-seven of the States of this 
 Union, and I feel that it is the Union that will aid in maintaining 
 this splendid memorial to the bravery of her sons. 
 
 As an eloquent speaker said, yesterday, in the big tent at 
 
ADDRESS OF GEN. ROSECRANS. 31 
 
 Chattanooga, " the project is a good one, if it don't die a-bornin'. " 
 [Laughter.] Now, fellow citizens, I am sorry that I am not able 
 to fittingly express the feelings I have on this occasion, nor to 
 entertain you with the kind thoughts that come before my mind 
 as I stand here. I am sure I have not the words, neither have I 
 the voice, to appropriately do so, but I hope and pray that the 
 future may see the eminent success of our fraternal undertaking. 
 
 At the conclusion of the speaking, and after considerable 
 handshaking by General Gordon and General Rosecrans, the 
 crowd began to surge away and scatter over the field. 
 
 The barbecue was given on the beautiful grounds about five 
 hundred yards west of the Crawfish Springs depot. Thirty tables 
 two hundred and fift)' feet in length had been arranged, making a 
 total of seven thousand five hundred running feet of tables. 
 
 Here was a great and novel sight. Perhaps ten acres of 
 ground had been set apart for the spread. 
 
 At two o'clock in the afternoon, after selections had been 
 rendered by all the bands on the grounds, (jeneral Ro.secrans 
 and Governor Gordon, on full blooded and magnificent horses, 
 rode into the south side of the enclosure accompanied by the 
 Grand Marshal and Aides. Marching around the barbecue 
 grounds to the north side, the military procession formed into 
 line, and the Fourth Artillerv Band struck up " Dixie." Only a 
 portion of the tune could be heard, for the sound of ten thou- 
 sand voices in lusty cheers drowned out the music of the famous 
 Southern battle song, and amid it all were conspicuous the figures 
 of the two great representatives of the North and the South, who 
 sat on their horses with heads uncovered, bowing to the thou- 
 sands of assembled veterans who were wild with enthusiasm. 
 
 It was a scene. 
 
 At this moment a courier came up and handed General 
 Rosecrans a telegram containing a greeting from Indiana Volun- 
 teers. The dispatch read as follows : 
 
 Lebanon, Indiana, September 20. 
 President of The Society of The Army of The Cmnbetland : 
 
 The Tenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry in reunion 
 assembled send fraternal greetings to you, and wish you a suc- 
 cessful and happy reunion. 
 
 By order of the Regiment, P. M. Miles, President. 
 
 The order was given to dismount, and the party, together 
 with the accredited members of the Chickamauga Memorial Asso- 
 ciation, took positions at the centre tables. Then the bugle 
 
32 CHICK AMAUGA MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. 
 
 sounded tlic order to cut the ^wj:)es and let in the tremendous 
 crowd that stootl witliout. And }'et there was no need for liaste, 
 for there was room, and plenty, for all. 
 
 Many men, women and children pressed around the two he- 
 roes of the da\'. Men embraced each other. Old \-eterans cried 
 like infants as they clasped the hands of the men who had led 
 the war in this section, and the sturdy old " war horses " who 
 were the recipients of this heartfelt coni^ratulation could not re- 
 press the moisture that involuntarily arose to their eyes. 
 
 In a moment of intense enthusiasm the Boys in Blue and the 
 Boys in Gray seized General Rosecrans and General Gordon, 
 and by " force of arms " lifted them over the heads of the crowd 
 and placed them on top of the barbecue table. The scene chal- 
 lenged description, and all that Governor Gordon could say, was: 
 "This is the most successful charcre I have ever witnessed ! " 
 
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PROCEEDINGS CONFEDERATE VETERANS' ASSOCIATION. ^3 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 PROCEEDINGS CONFEDERATE VETERANS' ASSOCIATION. 
 
 Rooms of the Confederate Veterans' Association, 
 Hotel Stanton, 
 Chattanooga, Tenn., September 19, 1889. 
 In pursuance of a joint invitation issued by Major W. J. Col- 
 burn, Chairman Executive Committee Army of the Cumberland, 
 Adolph S. Ochs, Chairman Local Committee Chickamauga Na- 
 tional Park Association, and Capt. J. F. Shipp, Commander N. B. 
 Forrest Camp Confederate Veterans, a preliminary meeting of the 
 Confederate Veterans was held, at which Captain Ship? briefly 
 outlined the object of the meeting and the proposed plan of or- 
 ganizing of the Chickamauga National Park Association — when 
 the following credentials were filed with Captain Shipp: 
 
 Army of Tennessee Veteran Association, Nezo Orleans — Gen- 
 eral Jno. Glynn. Jr.. PI T. Manning, Jno. McCoy, Captain J. A. 
 Chalaron, Lieutenant Jno. B. Ballard, R. D. Scriven, Colonel 
 Fremaux, C. L. Sinclair, Captain Eugene May, Colonel Thos. H. 
 Handy. 
 
 Confederate Cavalry Association, Nciv Orleans — Dr. Y. R. 
 Lemonnier, Colonel Jos. H. Duggan, Colonel Rob't W. Gillespie. 
 
 Washington Artillery, Ainny Norihern Virginia, Neiv Ordeans 
 — General Wm. J. Beham, Colonel Wm. Miller Owen. 
 
 Tennessee State Association Confeder'ate Veterans — Captain 
 Thos. F. Perkins, President, Franklin, Tenn. 
 
 Frank Cheatham Bivonac, NasJiville, Tenn. — Colonel Thos. 
 Claiborn, Major J. W. Morton, Captain Geo. B. Guild, Captain 
 Pat Griffin, Wm. Allen, John Shields. 
 
34 CHICKAMAUGA MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. 
 
 Confederate Wtcraii Assoaafioii, Chicago, III. — Major Geo. 
 Forrester, Captain R. H. Stewart. 
 
 Forbes Bivouac, Clarksville, Tenn. — Captain C. VV. Tyler, 
 Clias. H. Bailey, Clay Stacker, Cave Johnson. 
 
 Frierso)i Bivouac, Shelbyville, Teiui. — Hon. E. Shepard, 
 H. C. Wliitesides, J- L. Burt, Dr Samuel M. Thompson. 
 
 The J. B. Palmer Bivouac, Mnrfreesboro, Tom. — Hon. J, 
 W. Sparks. 
 
 F. K. Zollicoffer Camp, Knoxville, Tenn — Frank A. Moses, 
 Chas. Ducloux 
 
 Veteran Confederate States Cavaby Association, A^'iv Orleans. 
 — Major D. A. Given. 
 
 N. B. Forrest Camp Confederate Veterans, Chattanooga, 
 Tenn. — Captain J. F. Shipp, Captain L. T. Dickinson, Captain J. 
 L. McCollum, Captain M. H. Clift. Colonel T. M. McConnell. 
 Judge W. L. Eakin, Colonel Tomlinson Fort. Captain Milton 
 Russell, Dr. G. W. Drake. 
 
 Upon motion of Captain Shipf, Captain Geo. H. Guild, of 
 Nashville, was named for Chairman of the meeting, which motion 
 was put and unanimously carried. 
 
 Ed. T. Manning \\'as elected as secretary. 
 
 The Chairman stated that the organization of the proposed 
 Chickamauga National Park Association contemplated a President, 
 Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer, and also twenty-eight 
 Directors, and that it was proposed to divide the organization 
 equally between the Blue and the Gray. 
 
 It was moved by Captain Shipp that the Confederate Veterans 
 here assembled name Veterans for Vice President and Secretary 
 and fourteen Directors. 
 
 Moved that General Joseph Wheeler be selected for Vice 
 President, which was seconded and unanimously carried. 
 
 Colonel Tho.s. Claiborn moved that General Marcus W. 
 Wright be selected for Secretary, which was seconded and unan- 
 imously carried. 
 
 At this point of the proceedings General H. V. Bovnton, 
 of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, was invited to 
 the conference. He stated that the organization of the Chicka- 
 mauga Memorial Association (as above proposed) was equitable 
 and satisfactory. He then gave in detail the objects and purposes 
 of the Association, which was to have the Government buy the 
 battlefield, which would require the purchase of about 10,000 
 
PROCEEDINGS CONFEDERATE VETERANS' ASSOCIATION. 35 
 
 acres of land. General Boynton stated that the Association 
 would receive the most hearty co-operation of General Rosecrans, 
 General Cist and others of the Federal side, and Senators Bate, 
 Gibson and Walthall and others of the Confederate side. 
 
 Captain Shipp then moved that a committee of seven be ap- 
 pointed by the Chair to meet a like committee from the Society 
 of the Army of the Cumberland, and the chairman of the Local 
 Memorial Committee, Adolph S. Ochs, for the purpose of agree- 
 ing upon a list of Officers and a Board of Directors for the Chick- 
 amauga Memorial Association, which motion prevailed. 
 
 The Chairman appointed the following committee: 
 
 Captain J. F. Shipp, chairman. Fourth Regiment Georgia In- 
 fantry ; General John Glynn, Jr , of (Legardeur's) Orleans Grand 
 Battery, La.; Colonel Jos. H. Duggan, 5th Co. Battalion Wash- 
 ington Artillery, La., and A.ss't Chief Ord. Officer, Forrest's Corps ; 
 Captain T. F. Perkins, of Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry ; Major 
 Geo. Forester, Third Kentucky Cavalry, Morgan's Command; 
 Captain Jos W. Morton, Chief of Artillery, Forrest's Command; 
 J. L. McCollum, Sixth Regiment Alabama Infantry, " Raccon 
 Roughs;" Captain Geo. B. Guild, Acting Adj't General Harri- 
 .son's Brigade Cavalry ; Ed. T. Manni.ng, of Fourth Louisiana 
 Infantry and Fenner's Louisiana Battery ; Lieutenant J. B. Bal- 
 lard, Company K, Twentieth Louisiana Infantry, was also added 
 to the committee. 
 
 The Chairman requested Captain Shipp to state how far mat- 
 ters had progressed in conference, by correspondence, or otherwise, 
 between the Federal and Confederate Veterans' associations, 
 looking to a permanent organization under a charter already ap- 
 plied for in Walker county, Georgia. 
 
 In compliance therewith Captain Shipp stated an agreement 
 had been reached by which the Federal Associations were to select 
 the President and Treasurer and fourteen Directors, and the Con- 
 federate Associations were to nominate the Vice President and 
 Secretary and an equal number of Directors. 
 
 This arrangement was considered eminently proper and just, 
 and the committee then reported the following comrades of the 
 Confederate Veterans' Associations to be their choice to serve on 
 the first Board of Directors to be hereafter elected by the Chck- 
 amauga Memorial Association : 
 
 For Vice President, General Joseph Wheeler. 
 
 For Secretary, General Marcus J. Wright, 
 
36 CHICKAMAUGA MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 From Alabama — General Joseph Wheeler. 
 " Arkansas — Captain C. R. Breckinridge. 
 
 Florida — General Jesse T. Finlev. 
 " North Carolina — General David H. Hill. 
 
 South Carolina — General E. M. Law. 
 '• Tennessee — General Marcus J. Wright. 
 " Texas — Hon. Roger Q. Mills. 
 
 Virginia — Hon. Geo. D. Wise. 
 
 Georgia — General Alfred H. Colquitt. 
 
 Georgia — General James Longstreet. 
 
 Kentucky — General Joseph H. Lewis. 
 
 Louisiana — General Randall L. Gibson. 
 
 Mississippi — Colonel CiiAS. E. Hooker. 
 " Missouri — General F. M. Cockrell. 
 
 Captain Shipp .stated all the above were duly qualified to 
 .serve as they were charter members of the Chickamauga Memo- 
 rial Association. 
 
 General Rovnton approved the action as taken, and advised 
 that the Society of the Army of the Cumberland would take like 
 action and report their selections at the "Barbecue" at Crawfish 
 Springs, on the 20th instant. 
 
 Mr. OcHS was requested to explain the method of subscribing 
 to the Chickamauga Memorial Association, which was, in sub- 
 stance, that a Life Membership would be issued, on parchment 
 certificate, on the payment of five dollars ($5.00) made by any 
 member of either association of veterans. 
 
 Colonel Duggan suggested that as the charter had not yet 
 been passed upon by the Superior Court of Georgia, that, in his 
 opinion, the joint committees could only recommend confirmator)' 
 action when the incorporators were legally authorized. 
 
 Mr. OcHS stated he was fully convinced that such a course 
 would be cheerfully complied with. 
 
 General Bovnton, in order to finally fix the matter, said he 
 would offer a resolution on the 20th instant covering the recom- 
 mendation from both army organizations to the incorporators of 
 the Chickamauga Memorial Association, and he felt convinced it 
 would be unanimously adopted. 
 
 Captain Shipp suggested the appointment of a committee of 
 an equal number of officers from the Federal and Confederate 
 sides, who participated in the battle of Chickamauga, to examine 
 
Gen. Gordon Granger. 
 
PROCEEDINGS CONFEDERATE VETERANS' ASSOCIATION. 37 
 
 the maps now being made by Major Kellogg, go over the battle- 
 field and endeavor to arrive at correct information, so that every- 
 thing will be in strict accordance with the facts as they existed. 
 
 Colonel Claiborn favored the suggestion. 
 
 On motion of Major Clift, the Chair was authorized to ap- 
 point such committee at some future time, after consultation with 
 General Boynton. 
 
 Mr. OcHS here called on Captain Shipp to explain the object 
 of the committee to examine Colonel Kellogg's maps of the 
 battle of Chickamauga. 
 
 The answer was from General Boynton, to the effect that the 
 object of such committee was to find and determine the exact 
 positions of both armies, and to record the same, by the joint 
 efforts of the commands from the several States there engaged ; 
 and that while Colonel Kellogg was specially charged by the 
 United States Government with making that map, he had shown 
 every desire to serve the Chattanooga Memorial Association in 
 any manner possible. 
 
 Captain Perkins, President of Nashville Bivouac, and Captain 
 Guild invited those present, and all organizations, to join them 
 at their Reunion, at Nashville, on October 3d proximo, and 
 Major Forester, of the Confederate Veteran Association of 
 Chicago, extended a like invitation to all comrades of the Blue 
 and the Gray to visit them at Chicago, during the World's Fair 
 in 1892. 
 
 The Confederate delegates then adjourned, to assemble at N. 
 B. Forrest Camp Rooms, on East Eighth street, at 2 o'clock, to 
 march in a body to a joint meeting of the Blue and the Gray — 
 the Chickamauga Memorial Park Association — where General 
 H. V. Boynton and Governor Albert S. Marks are to deliver 
 addresses. 
 
 Geo. B. Guild, Chairman. 
 
 P^D. T. Manning, Secretary. 
 
38 CHICKAMAUGA MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. 
 
 CHARTKR. 
 
 Chickamauga Memorial Association. 
 
 State of Georgia, ^ ^ .. .. 
 
 ,,. , lo THE Superior Court of said County. 
 
 WALKER County, j 
 
 The petition of 
 Alahama — William H. Forney, J. T. Holt/.claw, W. C. Gates, 
 
 Joseph Wheeler and S. M. A. Wood, 
 .Arkansas — James H. Berry, Clifton R. Breckinridge, Exander 
 
 McNair and L. H. Mangum, 
 Colorado — G. C. Symes, 
 District of Columbia — Absalom Baird, H. V. Boynton and W. 
 
 S. Rosecrans, 
 Florida — Wilkinson Call, Robert H. M. Davidson and Jesse J 
 
 Finlcy, 
 Georgia — Joseph M. Bro\Yn, Alfred H. Colquitt, J. B. Cum- 
 
 mings, James Longstreet, Lafayette McLaws and E. B. Tate, 
 Illinois — S D. Atkins, Lyman Bridges, A. C. McClurg, E. A. 
 
 Otis, John M. Palmer and P. S. Post, 
 Indiana — Joseph B. Dodge, W. O. Gresham, J, J. Reynolds, 
 
 M S. Robinson. G. W. Steele and J. T. Wilder, 
 Iowa — Frank Hatton and W. P. Hepburn, 
 Kansas — John A Martin, 
 Kentucky— C D. Bailey, M. H. Cooper, R. M. Kelly, C. G. 
 
 Kniffin, Joseph H Lewis, Alfred Pirtle and W. J. Stone, 
 Louisiana — Randall S. Gibson and Felix Robertson, 
 Michigan— H. M. Dufifield and A. W. Wilber. 
 Minnesota — J. W. Bishop and R. W. Johnson, 
 Mississippi — Charles E Hooker, J. Bright Morgan, Jacob M. 
 
 Sharp, J. A Smith and Pklward C. Walthall, 
 
CHARTER. 39 
 
 Missouri — Joseph S. Fullerton, William Henry Hatch, Robert 
 McCulloch, John S. Melton and J. H. Wade, 
 
 New- York— C. A. Dana and A G. McCook, 
 
 North Carolina — William R. Cox, David H. Hill, Charles W. 
 McClammey and Matt W. Ransom, 
 
 Ohio — H. M. Cist, W. F. Goodspeed, Charles H. Grosvenor, 
 P. P. Lane, J. C. Mitchell, J. G. Taylor and Fred Vander- 
 veer, 
 
 Pennsylvania — William J. Palmer, John Tweedale and John G. 
 Vale, 
 
 South Carolina — Ellison Copers and E. M. Law, 
 
 Tennessee — Frank C. Armstrong-, William B. Bate, John C. 
 Brown, S. B. Moe, Adolph S. Ochs, Lucius F. Polk, Alex- 
 ander P. Stewart, Gates P. Thurston and Lucius J. Wright, 
 
 Texas — C. B. Kilgore, Roger O. Mills and William B. Sayers, 
 
 Virginia — R. A. Brock, L M. French and George D. Wise, 
 
 Wisconsin — H. C. Hobart and John Mitchell, 
 
 United States Army — J. M. Brannan, H. C. Cushings, S. C. 
 Kellogg, Frank G.Smith and Thomas J. Wood, respectfully 
 show : 
 
 First — That petitioners and all other persons who may be 
 subscribers, as hereinafter provided, to the funds devoted to the 
 preservation of the Battlefield of Chickamauga, in the county of 
 Walker, and State of Georgia, ex-officio, and the Governors, 
 ex-officio, of such other States as had troops engaged in the Bat- 
 tle of Chickamauga, Georgia, on the eighteenth, nineteenth and 
 twentieth of September, 1863, and which may comply with the 
 terms of this charter, and the President and the Secretary of the 
 Society of the Army of the Cumberland, ex-officio, and the Presi- 
 dent and the Secretary of the Southern Historical Society of Vir- 
 ginia, ex-officio, and the Secretary of War of the United States, 
 ex-officio, and their successors, be corporated and made a body 
 corporate and politic, under the name and style of -The Chicka- 
 mauga Memorial Association. 
 
 Second — The object of this corporation is not pecuniary gain 
 to the stockholders, but is to mark and preserve the Battlefield of 
 Chickamauga, on which were fought the actions of September 
 eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth. Anno Domini, One Thousand 
 Eight Hundred Sixty-three, together with the natural and artificial 
 features, as they were at the time of said battle, by such memo- 
 rial stones, tablets or monuments as a generous people may aid 
 
40 CHICKAMAUGA MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. 
 
 to erect, to commemorate the ^Wor displayed by American sol- 
 diers on that field. 
 
 Third — The particular business of said Association, in order 
 to accomplish its objects, and for which they desire the powers 
 hereinafter applied for, is to have the power to take and to hold, 
 by purchase, lease, devase, i^rant or gift, such real and personal 
 property and effects, and all such portions of said Battlefield, as 
 may be necessary or convenient to promote and accomplish the 
 objects of its incorporation, and upon its own grounds thus ac- 
 quired, and upon private grounds with the permission of such 
 owners as continue to hold any portion of such field, to enclose 
 and perpetuate such grounds, to keep them in repair and a state 
 of preservation, to construct and maintain ways and roads, to im- 
 prove and ornament the grounds and to erect and promote the 
 erection, by the Association and by voluntary contributions, of 
 suitable monuments and tablets. 
 
 Fourth — Petitioners desire that the property and affairs of 
 .said corporation shall be managed by a board of twenty-eight di- 
 rectors, with a secretary and treasurer, and such other officers as 
 they desire, all of whom shall be selected from the subscribers 
 who may be members of such corporation, by a majority of the 
 votes cast, each subscriber who is a member of said corporation 
 to be entitled to a single vote, either in person or by proxy. 
 They desire that said officers shall serve for a term of four years, 
 or until their successors are elected, and that the first election 
 shall be held upon said property of said corporation by those en- 
 titled to vote, and that subsequent elections shall be held each 
 four years thereafter during the existence of this charter, at such 
 time and place as the directors may appoint. 
 
 Fifth — They desire that said corporation shall have the power 
 to issue certificates of membership, to all persons who shall de- 
 sire the same who shall subscribe one or more shares to the said 
 memorial fund of said corporation, the amount of a single share 
 to be fixed by the board of directors, and not to exceed five dol- 
 lars, and all subscribers, upon payment and receipt of such certi- 
 ficates, shall be entitled to vote at all elections of said corporation. 
 
 Sixth — They desire that the President, Directors and Treas- 
 urer shall make reports on the day of each election, to be presen- 
 ted to the members, and read and published, which shall be duly 
 certified, and shall exhibit, fully and accurately, the receipts, ex- 
 penses and expenditures of said corporation. 
 
Gen. Leonidas Polk, 
 
CHARTER. 41 
 
 Seventh — Petioners desire to be incorporated for the term of 
 twent)' years, with the privilege of renewal as often as the same 
 can be done under the laws. They desire the corporation to have 
 the power of suing and being sued, and to have and use a com- 
 mon seal, and to have succession, and to make such by-laws as it 
 wishes, binding on its own members, not inconsistent with the 
 laws of this State, or of the United States, and to alter, amend 
 and rescind the same at pleasure, and to have the power, as afore- 
 .said, to receive, rent, lease, purchase, hold, acc}uire and operate, 
 in any way that a natural person might acquire and operate the 
 same, such real and personal property of all kinds as may be nec- 
 essary for the legitimate purposes of said corporation. Petition- 
 ers do not desire to have any capital stock, or to declare any divi- 
 dends, as said corporation is not organized for pecuniar}- or per- 
 sonal gain. 
 
 P!ighth — Petitioners desire that the chief office and place of 
 business of said corporation, and the place of holding its annual 
 meetings, shall be upon the grounds of said corporation, in the 
 State of Georgia, and county of Walker, and that it have power, 
 also, to establish and remove branch offices at such other place or 
 places within the United States, as b}- a vote of its directors may 
 be deemed of benefit to said corporation. 
 
 Ninth — Petitioners pray that they may be made a body cor- 
 porate and politic, under the name a.s aforesaid, and with all the 
 powers and privileges as aforesaid, that this petition may be re- 
 corded by the clerk of the Superior Court of said county of 
 Walker, and that the same may be published in the Walker 
 County Messenger, a public gazette publishing the Sheriff's sale.s 
 of said county, once a week for one month, and that afterwards 
 the court will pass an order declaring said application granted, and 
 petitioners will e\'er pray, etc. 
 
 JULIUS L. BROWN, 
 
 Petitioners' Attorney. 
 ]-'iled in office August twentieth, IcScSq. 
 
 R. N. DICKERSON, 
 Clerk Superior Court, Walker County, Georgia. 
 
 The petition of William H. F"orney, James Wheeler, H. V. 
 Boynton, W. S. Rosecrans, Alfred H. Colquitt, James Longstreet, 
 Lafayette McLaws, C. A Dana, H. M. Cist and others named in 
 the petition, praying to be incorporated under the name and style 
 of The Chickamauga Memorial Association, came on to be heard 
 
42 CHICKAMAUGA MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. 
 
 in open court, and upon consideration thereof, and beini;' satisfied 
 that the same has been duly advertised, and that the law has been 
 complied with, and no objections ha\inL;' been filed thereto, and 
 beint; further satisfied that the objects of said petition are proper 
 and come within the purview and intention of the code and laws 
 of this State, it is ordered by the court that said petition be 
 granted, and that said j)etitioners and their successors and assit^ns 
 be incorporated for and during the term of twenty years, with the 
 privilege of renewal at the expiration of that time, under the 
 laws, and that said corporation ha\c all the rights, powers and 
 pri\'i leges, as prayed for. 
 
 In open court, this fourth da\' of December, 1889. 
 
 JULIUS L. BROWN, 
 H}- the Court. Petitioners' Attorney. 
 
 JOHN W MADDOX, 
 
 J. S. C, R. C. 
 State of Georgia, I 
 Walker County ) 
 
 I, R. N. Dickerson, clerk of the Superior Court of said 
 county, do hereb}' certify that the above and foregoing is a true 
 and correct copy of the petition and order incorporating the 
 Chickamauga Memorial Association as the same appears of entra- 
 in the minutes of said court and of file in this office. 
 
 Given under ni)- hand and seal of office this 1st March, 1890. 
 
 R. X. DICKERSON, 
 Clerk Superior Court Walker County, ( Georgia. 
 
f (iifl|amaiuia llfcmarial .^ssiutatioii 
 
 PRESIDENT, 
 
 JOHN r. \VllJ)I{k. jolinson Cit\'. Tcnn. 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENT, 
 
 J()S1-:PH WIII'lKLl^R. Wheeler's Station, Ala. 
 
 SECRETARY, 
 
 MARCUS J. WRKxHT, \Vasliinot,,n, 1). C. 
 
 TREASURER, 
 
 J. S. KULLKRTON, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 INCORPORATORS. 
 
 ALABAMA. 
 
 William 11. Forney, J. T. Holzclaw, 
 W. C. Oates, Joseph Wheeler and 
 S. M. A. Wood. 
 
 ARKANSAS. 
 
 James H. Herry, Clifton R. Hreckin- 
 ridge, Evander McNair and I-. H. 
 Mangum. 
 
 COf.OUADO. 
 G. C. Symes. 
 
 I>ISTRICT OF COIil 3rBI.\. 
 AJjsalom ISaird, TI. V. lioyntnii and 
 W. S. Kosecrans. 
 
 FliOniDA. 
 
 Wilkinson Call, Robert II. M. David- 
 son and Jesse J. Finley. 
 
 GEOKCIA. 
 
 Joseph M. Urown, Alfred H. Colquitt, 
 |. H. Ciimmings James Longstreet, 
 Lafayette Mcl.aws and E I!. Tate 
 
 llililNOIS. 
 
 S. D. Adkins, I.ytnan Bridges, A C. 
 McClurg, E. A. Oiis, John M. Palmer 
 and I'. S. I'ost. 
 
 I NO! ANA. 
 
 Joseph r.. Dodge, W. (). Gresham, j. |. 
 Reynolds, M. S. Rohinsun, G \V. 
 Sleel and | T. Wilder 
 
 IOWA. 
 
 h'rank ilalton anil \V. I'. Ilepluirn. 
 
 KANSAS. 
 Jofin A. Martin. 
 
 KFNTIJCKY. 
 
 C. U. HaiJey. J. C. S. Hlackburn, R. M. 
 Kelly, C. G. Kniffin, Joseph H. Lewis, 
 Alfreil Pirtle and W.'j. Stone. 
 
 TiOlIISIANA. 
 
 Randall L. Gibson and Felix kobcrlson, 
 MICHIGAN. 
 
 II. M. DuHleld and A W. Wilber. 
 
 MINNESOTA. 
 
 J. W Hishop and R. W. Johnson. 
 MISSISSIPPI. 
 
 Charles E Hooker, J. Bright Morgan, 
 Jacob M. Sharp, J. A. Smith and 
 Edward C. Walthall. 
 
 MISSOURI. 
 Joseph S Fullerton, William Henry 
 Hatch, Robert McCuUoch, John S. 
 Melton and W. H. Wade. 
 NFAV YORK. 
 C. A Dana and A. G McCook. 
 NORTH CAROLINA. 
 William R. Cox, David H. Hill, Charles 
 W. McClammey and Matt W. Ransom. 
 OHIO. 
 H. M Cist, W. Goodspeed, Charles H. 
 Grosvenor, P. P. Lane, J. C Mitchell, 
 J. G. Taylor and Kerd. Vandeveer. 
 PEXNSYIiVAN lA. 
 William J. Palmer, [ohn Tweedale and 
 John (; Vale. 
 
 SOITH CAIIOLIIVA, 
 Ellison Copers and E. M. Law. 
 
 TFNNFSSt:E. 
 Frank C. Armstrong, William P>. Bate, 
 John C. Brown, S. B Moe, Adolph S. 
 Ochs, Lucius E. Polk, Alexander P. 
 Stewart, Gates P. Thurston and Mar- 
 cus J. Wright. 
 
 TEXAS. 
 C. P. Kilgore, Roger (J. Mills and 
 William B. Sayers. 
 
 VIHfilNIA. 
 R A. Brock, L M. I'rench and George 
 D. Wise 
 
 WISCONSIN. 
 II. C. Hobart and John Mitchell. 
 
 UNITKU STATES ARMY. 
 I M. Brannan, H. C. Cushings, S. C. 
 Kellogg, Frank (!. Smith and Thomas 
 L Wood 
 
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