Colonel H. C. Warmoth, New Orleans, La. Captain George F. Wheeler, Hotel Albany, Denver; indicating changes in addresses of which we will be pleased to be advised. It also becomes my painful official duty to report the deaths, since our last meeting, of the following named members of your Society: Lieutenant Isaiah C. Worley, Lewistown, Ills., Major W. H. Gibbon, General O. M. Poe, September 29, 1895. Chariton, Iowa, Detroit Mich., Lancaster, Ky., October 11, 1895. Colonel W. J. Landram, General M. D. Leggett, General William R. Marshall, St. Paul, Minn., Chester, Ills., April 13, 1896. Biographical sketches of these deceased members will appear in our next President Society Army Tennessee, St. Louis: I regret exceedingly my inability to accept invitation. My warmest regards to all comrades and companions. CHAS. F. MANDERSON. JACKSONVILLE, ILL., November 18, 1896. GENERAL G. M. DODGE, President Society Army Tennessee, St. Louis: I regret my inability to attend meeting of the Society. Please kindly remember me to comrades present. B. H. GRIERSON. LETTERS. STATE SOLDIERS' HOME, OHIO, November 16, 1896. GENERAL A. HICKENLOoper, Corresponding Secretary: I am buried in the preparation of DEAR GENERAL:-I can not get away. annual reports-reports for the year to our Trustees, to the Governor of the State and to sundry state officers and boards, and reports to U. S. Inspecting Officers all at once; these with a visitation of Department Headquarters of Woman's Relief Corps on the 19th, the very day of meeting, bind me here. I send my report and vouchers by express to you to care of executive committee Society Army of the Tennessee headquarters. Please have the local committee make out a receipt to me for $500 and have it approved by General Dodge and put it with my vouchers. After my report is read, please hand it to Cadle and send to me by express the books and vouchers. Please excuse my asking this, but it is entirely impossible for me to get away. Very truly yours, M. F. FORCE. GENERAL G. M. DODGE, CANTON, OHIO, November 12, 1896. President Army of the Tennessee, 1 Broadway, New York, N. Y.: MY DEAR GENERAL DODGE:-I accept with much gratitude your personal congratulations and those of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, extended through you. It would afford me unusual pleasure to attend your annual reunion at St. Louis; but I must ask you to be indulgent to me and accept my regretful declination. SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND, GENERAL GRENVILLE M. Dodge, President Society of the Army of the Tennessee: MY DEAR GENERAL:-In behalf of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland I sincerely thank you for the cordial invitation to our members to attend your annual reunion at St. Louis. Due notice of your courtesy will be communicated to them. It is a matter of general congratulation in our Society that the relations between the two, as the years go by, are marked by earnest and increasing friendliness. MY DEAR GENERAL:-I thank you cordially for your kind invitation to the reunion of the Army of the Tennessee, but it will be impossible for me to attend this year, much as I would enjoy meeting the veterans of that gallant organization. GENERAL G. M. DODGE. Very truly yours, NELSON A. MILES. WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, CAPTAIN JULIUS PITZMAN, } Chairman Local Committee, Society of the Army of the Tennessee, MY DEAR SIR:—I have had the pleasure to receive from the Society of the Army of the Tennessee an invitation to attend its twenty-eighth annual reunion at St. Louis, Mo., on the 18th and 19th of November, 1896, and I regret very much that it will not be possible for me to attend at that time. Very truly yours, GEO. D. RUGGLES, Brigadier-General, Adjutant-General, U. S. Army. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE Missouri, } GENERAL GRENVILLE M. Dodge, Thanking you very cordially for your invitation, I am WESLEY MERRITT, Major-General U. S. Army. GENERAL G. M. DODGE, President: NEW YORK, November 10, 1896. DEAR GENERAL:-Through General Horatio C. King, Secretary of Society of the Army of the Potomac, I have the pleasure to receive the kind invitation to the meeting of your Society on the 18th and 19th instants. I cordially thank you but deeply regret that I can not be present to enjoy the pleasures of the occasion. I wish you all every pleasure possible and many happy returns of the occasion. Yours sincerely, FITZ JOHN Porter. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PLATTE, GENERAL G. M. DODGE, President Society Army of the Tennessee, No. 1 Broadway, New MY DEAR GENERAL:—Accept my warm thanks for your cordial invitation to the reunion Army of the Tennessee for the 18th and 19th November. I regret greatly that other engagements deprive me of so great a pleasure. How many memories this reunion recalls, of dear and venerated old war chiefs who have left us: of General Sherman, Sheridan, Pope, and Hunt, all have gladdened your hospitable board, they have all gone, leaving us saddened but glorious memories. Believe me Very sincerely, J. H. COPPINGer, Brigadier-General U. S. A. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA, } CAPTAIN JULIUS PITZMAN, SAN FRANCISCO, November 11, 1896. Chairman Society Army of the Tennessee, St. Louis, Mo.: SIR:—I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of the invitation extended General James W. Forsyth, U. S. Army, to attend the twenty-eighth annual reunion of your Society in St. Louis, on Wednesday and Thursday, November 18th and 19th, 1896, and to inform you that the General is now absent from the city on leave of absence, but he is due here on the 19th, which will be at the expiration of his leave of absence. I think it hardly possible that he can arrange in time to reach St. Louis in season for the date of the reunion. J. F. BELL, First Lieutenant 7th U. S. Cavalry, Aid. HON. G. M. DODGE, STATE OF IOWA, EXECUTIVE OFFICE, } President Society Army of the Tennessee, No. 1 Broadway, New MY DEAR GENERAL:-Yours of the 10th is received, inviting me and my staff to be present at the twenty-eighth reunion of your Society. I exceedingly regret that owing to a very severe cold from which I am now suffering, taken during my campaign in the field, and which will require me to be very care ful for the next week or ten days, I am not in a condition to attend with ordinary safety. It would be my greatest pleasure to meet with your Society, as also a great personal pleasure to meet you. Wishing you a very successful reunion, I am Sincerely yours, F. M. DRAKE. GENERAL G. M. DODGE, OFFICE OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, President Society Army of the Tennessee, No. 1 Broadway, New MY DEAR GENERAL:-I am in receipt of your esteemed favor of 22nd inviting me to the annual meeting of the Society at St. Louis, November 18th and 19th. I can not tell you how much I regret my inability to accept your very kind invitation, but I am under appointment at Washington the 19th and New York City the 20th, and I know I should have a most delightful time at your meeting as I had at Council Bluffs two years ago. With assurances of great regret and wishing a grand reunion, I am, General, MY DEAR COLONEL CADLE:-Much to my regret, after making all my plans to be with you, matters came up here that I could not put aside. I telegraphed Captain Pitzman yesterday to this effect. I was especially anxious to meet General Williamson and others of Osterhaus' Division with reference to their lines on Lookout. Please give my regards to General Dodge, General D. B. Henderson, General Hickenlooper and General Williamson. With many regrets and cordial regards, BATH, STEUBEN Co., N. Y., November 12, 1896. GENERAL G. M. DODGE, President Society Army of the Tennessee. MY DEAR GENERAL:-I hoped to be able to accept your kind invitation to attend the reunion of the Army of the Tennessee, but find that my professional engagements will prevent. In accordance with your request I sent out a large number of notices to the members of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, and I presume some have replied to you. |