The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-24
ARMY REUNION.
Annual Reunion OF the Army OF the
Tennessee-A Large and Disting uished
Gathe ring-Gen. LOgan's OratioI--A
GlOwingTribute to the Citizen soldiery.


Tennessee-A Large and Disting uished
Gathering-Gen. LOgan's Oration-A
GiowingTribute to the Citizen soidiery.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. Is.
The exercises of the seventh reunion
of the Army of the Tennessee COM
menced in this city to-day. About 400
officers of the old Army of the Tennessee
and large number of civil and military
officers of the Government, are in at
tendance. Gen. Sherman and staff,
Sheridan and staff, Custer and staff and
Admiral Worden, with other distin-
guished officers, arrived last night or
early this morning, and President Grant
and Secretary Belknap tonight. Ex-
ercises were comemnced this morning by
a business meeting at the Wheeler
Opera House, at which Gen. Sherman
presided, and the remainder of the day
in social reunion.
At 8 o'clock this evening President
Grant arrived, and was escorted by
Myers Cadets to the Opera-House, where
he was received with great applause,
and where the literary exercises of the
society were to be held. The Opera
House had been handsomely draped by
the ladies of the city, with wreaths of
evergreens and flowers, and was, in adj
dltlon, decorated with battle flags OF
veteran Ohio regiments. On the stage
were life-sized oil portraits of Thomas,
Mcpherson and Lincoln.
The exercises of the evening were
opened with the reveille by the bugle
and drum corps, followed by prayer by
Chaplain III. M. Bacon, after which
Mayor w. w. Jones delivered a well
coming address in behalf of Toledo,
who said:
You have met to preserve the
memories of the late civil war, and to
cherish the friendships formed during
that period of our national history.
We greet you in the young city which
collected and sent to the field greater
number than its whole population at
that period. Through all phases of the
war, the Army of the Tennessee won,
by its heroic valor, the respect and adj
miration of grateful country. We
are proud to know our own city con-
tributed to make up this brave army,
and L may further say, shared in the
grief felt at the loss of your dead COM
rades. The fame and glory achieved by
this army has become the Inheritance
OF the country. Its chief worthily oc-
cupies the position once filed by the
Father of his Country. AS hvingrepre-
sentatives OF. that army, we greet you; as
protectors of the Union when assailed,
and whose strong hearts quailed not in
the photographic with secession, we
honor you. The event which first in
troduced us is still fresh in our men,
Dry. We shall treasure these memories
as legacy for our children. To you,
General, to the officers and members of
the Society of the Army of the Tennes-
see, to the representatives of the navy,
and your great captain, President of the
United States, this city tenders cordial,
hearty welcome"
Gen. Sherman then made an adj
dress, giving brief history of the or
of the Tennessee, and appealing urgent
ly to the Government to use the material
in the possession of its departments to
make a complete history of the armies of
the Union in the war of the rebellion.
The poem was delivered by Maj.
G. G. Mayors.
Gen. Logan, the orator of the day,
being introduced by Gen. Sherman, de-
lvered the Grafton. After referring to
the social feature of the reunion, and
disclaiming any intention on the part of
the association to perpetuate the war
spirit, he proceeded briefly to sketch
the history of the Army of the Ten
nessee. With the organization of the
army began the second period of the
war history of the West. The army ex-
hibited the restless activity and uncon-
querable energy of the people of which
it was composed. It's soldiers knew the
full meaning of individual liberty, but
were as obedient to discipline as they
were fearless in danger. Suddenly sum-
moned from the varied walks of civil
life, they soon became an army of vet
Grams. Sympathy between soldiers and
officers was the substantial secret Of
success. The theater of the operations
of the Army of the Tennessee was more
extended than the army of most of the
kingdoms of the modern world. The
Army Of the Tennessee, led first by Gen.
Grant against Forts Henry and Donel-
son, pursued its way through the fear
full carnage of Pittsburg Landing,
passed Iuka and Corinth, Port Gibson,
Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hill, I'M
til Vicksburg, the Glbraltarof the West,
surrendered, and the Father of Waters
was open and free from its source to the
Gulf. The war in the Southwest thus
practically ended, the Army of the
Tennessee had still before it the task of
participating in the greatest military
achievement of any age, the historic
march to the sea. The fate of the re-
bellion was to be decided in the danger
Gus valleys and rugged mountains of
Tennessee. The soldiers bravely did
their part the leaders, in determining
the plan of the campaign, judged well.
The Army of the Potomac forced the
enemy from the front the Army of the
Tennessee turned his flank and attacked
his rear The enemy was bewildered
by our strategy, and vanquished by our
valor. Such stupendous sweep, en-
comprising whole States, was not antic-
ipated. The passage of the Alps by
Hannibal and Bonaparte are the only
historical parallels. AT Chicamauga
the Army of the Tennessee won the first
triumph of the new campaign, to which
we're soon added the victories of Mis-
sionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain.
II nroserved the honor of its name in !