The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-09
The Fourth Iowa.
BuRTIs HOUSE, DAVENPORT. Iowa, !

BIBTIs House, DAVENPORT. IOWA,
August 4. 1865.
At meeting of the officers of the Fourth
Iowa Veteran Infantry Volunteers, the meet
ing was organized by calling Captain VIM. II.
Campbell to the Chair and appointing Lieut.
l.. Shields Secretary.
Major A. X. Anderson stated the object of
the meeting to be the formation of an organ
ization to preserve and perpetuate the good
feeling which has existed among the officers
and soldiers of the regiment during our asso
citation in the service.
Lieut.. Z. S. Hill moved to appoint COM
mittee of three on organization, to report at
meeting to be held at O. clock p NJ. to-day.
The motion was adopted, and the Chair APP
pointed the following named gentlemen said
committee Lieut E. S. Hill, Capt W. s.
Summons, Capt. J. F. Bishop.
On motion the meeting adjourned to meet
at O clock P. N.
WV. II. CAMPBELL, Chm.
L. SHIELDS, Sec'y.
O'Clock p. N.
The officers of the Fourth Iowa Veteran
Infantry Volunteers met pursuant to adjourn
ment
Capt. Campbell being absent, Major A. r.
Anderson was appointed Chairman pro TEN.
Lieut.. Hill, from the committee on organi-
cation, reported the following:
CONSTITUTION
| ART. l. This Association shall be known as the
| Old Guard of the Fourth Iowa Veteran Infantry
Volunteers.
ART. 2. Every honorably discharged member Of
the Fourth Regiment Iowa Veteran Infantry Vol
unteers shall be regarded o member of the Asso-
citation.
| ART. 3. The objects of the Association shall be
to preserve the good feeling and fraternal regard
with which intercourse has been marked
which has been strengthened by tolls, and under
gone the severest tests to remain only the frmer
for trials, and sacred from the hundreds of cur
comrades who have given themselves glorious sac
rifces beneath the dear old flag Cor the cause of
Liberty and their country. To watch their
interests and defend their regulations shall be the
duty Of each member to every other.
ART. 4. The officers shall consist of President
| three Vice Presidents, one Recording Secretary,
| one Corresponding Secretary, and twenty-five
| sub-Secretaries, who shall De selected as follows:
two from each Company, and two from the field
and staff and on-commissioned staff.
4 Arr. 5. The duty of the Secretaries shall be
to observe the interests of the Society in their
particular locaiities to forward all items of busi
ness information of interest to the Secretary of
the Association, and particularly to preserve and
forward records of deaths, that our glorious dead
may be enshrined in memory wherever their final
resting place may be.
ART. 9. The President may designate the time
and place of all meetings; and every meeting
called as hereinafter specified shall be competent
| to the transaction of any business which can be
done at regular meeting.
| ART. Z. A regular meeting shall be called by
the President with the concurrence of two-thirds
OF the Board OF Officers, responding to the notice
of the President to call a meeting
ART. 8. This constitution may be altered or
amended at any regular meeting at which fifty
members may vote, without notice having previ-
ously been given.
The report of the committee was received
and the constitution adopted.
Captain J. f. Bishop offered the following
resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:
Reso'ved, That before taking the parting
hand and retiring to our homes, We the commis
stoned officers Of the Fourth Iowa Veteran In.
fantry Volunteers, desire to tender to the men who
have 50 nobly made and sustained the reputation
of the regiment, our heartfelt thanks for the ready
cooperation and unhesitAting obedience to orders.
which have won for our organization such proud
| achievements in the field and such an honarahle
record at home.
Resoired, That we will forever cherish the
memory of our brave comrades who have fallen
around us on the field of battle, thereby consecra
ting forever to Freedom the soil on which they
bed.
Resoered, That We will forever foster those
fraternal feelings which have bound us together =
brotherhood-a brotherhood cemented torcther
By long years Of 'trial, toll and danrer-those
ysers Of nnbroken friendship and courtesy; those
years that have found ~ Struggling toeethsr.
shoulder to shoulder heart to heart, with one sisst
aim, for one great end-the perpetuity Of the
Union.
On motion Of Captain Simmons the meet
ing proceeded to the election Of officers for !
permanent organisation, which ssuIfsd =
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