The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-03
TINE STATE REGIMENrAL FLAGS.
Committee In Charge OF their Reception,
July 4, IS66-CalI for n Meeting Of the
Committee of Arrangements


INDIANA Pa, MAY |, lS66.-His ExCellency
A. q. Curtin, Governor OF Pennsylvania
AT the meeting of those members and officers of
the Legislature, at its late session, and ot officers
in the Executive Department at Harrisburg
who have lately been in the military service OF
the United States, held in the Capitol at Harris.
burg, on the 10th ultimo, at the instance of
your Excellency, to adopt measures in aid of
the reception, tor preservation among the
archives of the State, OF the flags that were pre-
sented by the State to and carried by the differ
rent regiments Pennsyl lvana gave to the army
that suppressed "the Rebellion" it was
"ResoLUed, That the ceremony of the reception
for the preservation among the State archives the
ags that presented by the State to the Pennsvl
wanna Regiments in the late war against the Rebe-
liou, be conducted by His Exceency Governor A.
q. Curtin on the fourth day of july A. ID. 1866 in
Independence Square, Philadelphia and the Chair
man of this meeting snail appoint committee, re.
presenting the different military divisions OF the
Commonwealth, OF persons who have lalely been IN
the military service OF the United State to assist
Ills Excel ency the Governor IN lnaugurat ng and
conducting the ceremony OF the flag reception"
In pursuance Of the foregoing resolution,
have the honor to suggest TO your EXcelency
the following persons as a committee
First DIVISION General Hector ryndal of Phia.
delpma; General j. ". Homann, Philadelphia;
General G. II. T. Colhs Philadelphia; General
Joshua L. Owen, Philadt lphia; COlonel Peter A.
Lyle, Pblaoephia; Coonel Peter e. Il lmaker,
Fhiladely Ina; CO.onel W. McLandless, Phladel-
pha; Colonel Chapman Bidde, Philadelphia;
Colonel +. X. 81 es PnadephIa
Second Division General John II Brooke Potts
town; General w w II Davis DoylesiOwn; Gene
raj N. Il. Met cClennan, NoristowI; Colonel William
G. Talley Media.
hind Diyison..General G.. Pennypacker, West
Chester; Colonel f. 'ankIin Lancaster
Fourth DWsIon-Co one Jonn w. Schall, York;
Major X. IL. Bell, Getty sburg.
Filth Division. .-General Thomas j. jordan Har.
rsburg; Eol0nGI u. W. Alexander Reading; Major
John Gctshall, Harrisburg,
SIKH Division James Nagle POttsville;
seventh DlvlsOn.-Ueneral j. L. Selfrldge, ,Bethle-
hem; Colonel William II Armstrong Easton.
Eighth DiyiSion.-General g. McCormick, Mil.
Ninth DiyislOn.-ColOnel n. NJ Hoyt, Wlksbarre;
Colonel ". IL Ent, Bloowsburo
Tenth DivlHon.-Colonel G. W. Ty'or, Monrose;
Captain Joseph Atkins, Hawey 2 o..
Eleventh Diyislon.-Coonel G. A. Lyman Lock.
haven; Major Thomas Chamberlain, auncy.
Captain Warren Cow eS SmethpOrt.
Thirteenth Di,sion - General II. l. Madill,
county.
Fourteenth Division General James A. Beaver,
Be leionte; Colonel Thomas f Mccoy LUwIstown;
Cantain Blice Blair Huntingdon:
Fifteenth Divlsion.-.Olonel X. M. Henderson,
Carhs e; CO.onel w. u. Dickson ST. Thomas,
Sixteenth Division Colonel John r. Linton,
JohnstOwnj Colonel John,H Filler Bedford.
Seventeenth Division.-General Richard Coulter,
Greensburg; Colonel T. 4. Gallagher New Alex
andria, Westmore and county; Captain A. ). Full
Eighteenth D1vision.-GeneralJ j. s. Negley, Pitts.
burg; General L. A. Rowey, PIttsburg; General
Pittsl urg; Colonel John p. Glass, Pitsburg;
Colonel W. SIrwell, Kitanningj Colonel d. S.
Porter, Indiana.
Nineteenth Division.-General John s. Little
Beaver; Chaplain r: AudlCy Browne, New Caste;
Colonel Adoniram j. Warner, West Middlesex,
Mercer county,
twentieth DivIsion.-General j. L. Brown Erie;
General John Walker Erle; General A B.
McCamont, FranklIn Colonel Ii. ). HIdeRooper,
MeadVIlle.
have the honor to be your obedient servant,
HARRY WHITE,
HEADQUARTERS PENNsYLvANIA MILITIA, HAR-
RIsBURG, May 2, 1866 The committee representing
the several Military Divisions of the Commonwealth
appointed to assist the Governor in inaugura ing and
conducting the ceremony OF the Flag Reception on
the fourth of July next, will meet, at the County
Court Room, in the city OF PHI adephla, on Satur
day the 18th OF May, instant, at II O'CLOCK, NJ for
the purpose OF making definite arrangements for the
occasion. BY order of the Governor.
A. T.. RUSSELL, Adiutant- General of Penna