The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-27
LOYAL SOLDIERS CONVENTION.
Unprecedented Enthusiasm.

exchanges OI yeSleIudy CoHIdiu SACOH-
sive telegraphic reports of the doings
of the Pittsburg Convention The
Indiana delegation held a meeting at
the Monongahela House and perfected
their permanent organization as fol-
lows: H
Chairman-General Milo S. Has
call.
Vice Presidents - Colonel A. d.
Streight and Private William War
ren.
Secretaries-General Dan. Macau-
ley and Major S. e. Armstrong
Committeeman ON organization of
Convention-G L. j Brady.
Committeeman on Resolutions
General t. w. Bennett and Colonel
S. p. 0yler.
bag aln9ea MAN. aa1HiJd 9BaGA
General Brady, the Committeeman
on Organization Of Convention, was
instructed to cast the vote of Indiana
for General Burnside for temporary
Chairman, and for General John A,
Logan for permanent President.Hop
General Fremont was present with
the New York delegation. The Con-
vention was temporarily organized by
|, the appointment of Edwin Dudley, a
private soldier, as Chairman. ~
ne WISCONSIN DELEGATION rofGa.
] The entrance of the Wisconsin
! delegation caused much excitement.
/ Right In front of their procession,
borne by private Mcdonald, was the
splendid bald eagle old Abe" who
accompanied the 9Th Wisconsin in
fantry through all the five years of
/ war; sl.51 i,-T. rfdI . Im il ~
On motion of General John Coch-
rane, of New York, the gallant old
bird was greeted with three tremen-.
dous cheers, to which he responded
by raising himself to his full height
kand tapping his spreading wings. He
was accommodated with a place on
the stage at the left of the Chairman,
from whence ne gazed proudly upon
the vast throng below him.
The Ohio delegation, FIVE hundred
strong, was led by General Cox. y.
| Among the delegates present were
the following old veterans, of the war
Of 1872: John NJ. Conley, aged 80
years; Captain Jacob Campbell, rs
years; John Taylor, aged n years
Luke Loomis, aged 73 years; nj. S.
! Johns, aged 69 years; f. A. Kerby,
! aged 70 years; Joseph Henderson,
aged SO years, and Samuel B. Cooper,
! aged GA years. They each wore an ap-
propriate badge, and attracted mach
attention. Robert Henderstall, the
drummer boy of the Rappahannock,
4 who crossed that river with the for
lorn hope at the attack on Fredericks-
burg. was here introduced, and played
the long roll amid long applause, and
at half-pas one the Convention
adjourned till three o'clock.
Gen. Cox, of Ohio, was appointed
Permanent President. Two Vice
Presidents from each State were ais 0
, appointed.
Those from Indiana are private
VIM. Warren and Col. A. ID. Streight
When the States of Alabama and
Texas were announced, the applause
was long continued. Gen. Cochrane
. announced that none of them were
absentees. Every one answered tC
: the sauster roll.
The list of Secretaries, two from
each State and Territory, was read
Those for Indiana are Gen. Dan. Ma
, cauley and Major S. E. Armstrong.
COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
, A delegate from New York moved
that the chairman of each delegation
give in the names of two gentleman
the whole to compose a committee OF
resolutions, was adopted, and in thl
q course of half an hour the committee
: men had been reported. Those from
Indiana are Gen. T. w. Bennett anC
= Col. S. P. Oyler. There are strong
names upon the Committee, such a
4 General B. F. Butler of Massachu
= setts, General Franz Sigel of Mary
! land, Gen. G. N. T. COLES of Penn
sylvania. and Gen. j. f. Farnswortl
4 of Illinois.
n THE ToRCHLIGHT PROCESSION.
e The Grafton and procession to-nigh
in honor of the Soldiers and Sailors
d who had come from all the loya
+ States to meet in Convention, was be
yond all comparison the grandest. al
y fair | ever saw. No sooner had nigh
is come on, than all Pittsburg was bla
zing with illumination. Chinese Ian
" terms of all the hues of the rainboi
); were displayed by thousands; the
hung from every window; they shon
le from roofs and chimneys; they fe'
as tooned the fronts of great building;
a, they spanned the streets in curves an
al arches, and covered over the carriage
c. like fiery roses, l+