The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-23
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HEADQ's, DEPARTMENT OF VERMONT, }
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
BURLINGTON, Vt Feb. 10, 1877. )

HEADQS, DEPARTMENT OF VERMONT, J
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
BURLINGTON, Vt Feb. 10, 1877. )
General Order No. l.
The following officers elected by the de-
partment encampment held at Burlington,
January oath, 1877, are hereby announced
T. S. Peck of Burlington, department
commander.
G. d. Williams of Mortified, sen. vice
department commander.
ii. s. Hard Of Arlington, jun. vice de-
partment commander.
DR.. G. p. Thayer of Burlington, medical
director.
Rev. N. NJ. Glazier of Montpelier, chap
lain.
Council of administration-J. II. Gould
ing of Rutland, p. p. Pitkin of Montpelier,
A. j. Noyes of North Bennington, J. w.
Newton Of 81. Adams, and Elijah Wales of
Braltleboro,
Representative at large to the national
encampment-George Grenville Benedict
of Burlington alternate, Fred Z. Smith of
Montpelier.
Delegate to the national encampment-
]. IL. Goulding, Rutland, Alternate, Will
lard Holden I'd, Arlington.
hC OpilliduCN uiC
&c department staff: Eben Taplin, BurliDg-
ton, Assissistant adjutant general; Ed. Il.
Greenleaf, Burlington, assistant quarter
master general; Looms j. Smith, Burllng-
ton. assistant inspector general; Henry
Ballard, Burlington, judge advocate; X.
j. Coffee, Montpelier, chief mastering off,
Ger.
Aides-de- camp-F. Stewart Stranahan,
senior aide-de-camp, ST. Albans: Thomas
B. Kennedy, Fairfield; George Ii. Bigelow,
Edmond O'Neil, Burlington; A. 3. Tracy,
Middebury; George w. Sneden, Wey-
bridge; Cornelius ii. Forbes, G. w. Carr,
Brandon; Samuel Il. Burnham, Rutland;
Jacob g. Mansur, Hinesburg; A. d. White,
huntington; Mark II. Wooster, Factory
Point; Charles A. Bundy, Arlington; A. B..
Valentine, Bennington; Roswell Farnham,
Bradford; Z A. Howe. Ludlow; George
L. Selleck, Brattleboro; Richard
Smith, Tunbridge A. a. Hicks, Reads
boro Charles Wells, w. II. Conners,
Montpelier John L. Mosely, Mortified !;
Lemuel Hutchinson, Worcester d. S.
Stoddard, Waitsf1eld John H. Stafford,
E. W. Harrington, st. Johnsbury Fred
F. Walker, Springfield Orson Woodcock,
West Randolph Frank Z. Ray, Whining
Existing orders will remain in force.
Having the honor of reelection to the
command of this department for the COM
ing year, the undersigned hopes and ex-
poets to receive the hearty CO operation of
every comraue in the order. You who
have worked so nobly and well in the past
are again called upon to use extra exerton
now and make another advance" The
special work OF the year will be to re-
organize every post that was once alive and
active in our state, and with your assistance
this can he done. Every comrsde has a
duty to perform; is 10 consider himself
a special recruiting officer. and to
| make 1t his duty to continue as
such until every honorably discharged
soldier or sailor Is member of the order.
The "bug. bear" of politics has gone, and
the world knows We are non-partisan in
every sense of the word, and that our fun
damental principles are "Frsternity, Char
ity and Loyalty" With such creed,
coupled with energy and perseverance, our
department will increase more rapidly this
year than last, aud instead of gain in
membership of 32l, (last ieporD it can be
over 1000.
Look after the widows and orphans, and
our disabled comrades; guard jealousy the
''Uharity Fund, that none may be allow
ed to suffer from our iDattention.
With firm trust in God, who will guard
US and our country now, as he did IN years
gone by, which were full OF sorrow and
trouble, we leave our future TO His kindly
keeping, relying wholly on Him for the
result.
T. S. PECK, Dept. Comdr.
EBIN TAPLIN, Asst. AdJ't Genl
f. STEWART STRANAHAN, Sen. A. d. G.