Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-23
HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT or VERMONT,
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLiC.
RunI CrnN Nf Eel, l. L. \
GENERAL ORDER, No. l.

GENERAL ORDER, No. |.
The following officers elected ~ thr Department
Encampmcnt, hold at Burlington, January 2ith,
lS1s, are hereby announced
4 3 PEcK, Burlington Department Commander.
e. -. Williams Mortified, sen. Vice Department
Commander.
Ii. s. Hard, Arlington, Jun. Vice Department
Commander.
Dr. c. p. Thaver. Burlington. Medical Director.
Rev. N. NJ. Glszier, Montpelier. CHAPLAIN.
Council of Administrations. Ii. GOuiding Rut
land P. L. Pitkin. Montpelier; A. j Noyes, North
bennington; j. W. Newton, 81. Adams Eli
Wales, BrattlebOrO.
Representative at Large to tho National Encamp-
ment-Georgo Grenviile Benedict. Burlington. Al
ternate, Fred 4. Smith, Montpelier.
Delegate to the National Enc smpment-J H.
Goulding. Rutland. Alternate willard Holden,
I'd, Arlington.
The following comrades sreannounccd as Depart
ment staff: Eben Tablin, Burlington. Assistant Ad-
jutan General, Ed. L. Greenleaf, Burlington, As
slstant Quartermaster- General. LOOMS J. Smith,
Burlington, Assistant InspectOr-6eneral; Henry
Ballard. Burlington. Judge Advocate; X. J. CoHee
Montpelier, Chief Mastering Officer.
Ades-de-Csmp-F. stewart stranahan, Senior
-deCamp, st. Albans: Thomas B. Kennedy,
Fairfield Georss II. Bselow, Edmond o'Nel, Bur
Sneden, Weybrdge, Cornelius II. Forbes, q. W.
Carr, Brandon S,muel E. Burnham, Rutland
Jacob c. Mansur, Hinesburgh; a. d. White Hunt
ingtons Mark Ii. Wooster, Factory Point; Charles
A. Bundy, Arlington; A. Il. Valentine, Benning-
ton; Roswell Farnham. Bradford; T. A. Howe,
Ludlow Geor % T. Selleck, Brattleboro ;: Richard
Smith, Tunbridge; A. A. Hicks. Readsboro; Charles
Wells. W. Corners, Montpelier; John L. h.osely,
Mortified; Lemuel Hutchinson Worcester: ID. $.
s'odnard, Waltsdeld; John II. Stafford, Cambridge;
Darius S:fford. Morrisville; r. W. harrington,
st. Johnsburv; Fred Walker. Springfield o. son
Wnodcock, West Randolph; Frank r. Ray, VIII
minston; W. J. Howe. jamaica.
Existing orders will remain in force.
Having the honor of reelection to the command
OF this Department for the coming year, the un-
dersigned hopes and expects to receive tie hearty
cooperation of every courade in the order. You
who have worked so nooly and well IN the past are
again called upon To use extra exertion now and
year will be to re-orsani.s every Post that was
once alive and active in our State, and with your
asst lance this can be done. Every cOmrade has a
duty to perform; is to consider himself special
recruiting tticer. and 10 make it mis- duty To
tinue as such until every honorahly discharged
soldier or sailor 10 a member of the order. The
'bus-bear' o! politics haI gone, and the world
Knows We arc non-partisa1 in every sense Of the
word and that our fundamental principles
fraternity, Charity and 10y atty With such
creed, coupled with energy and perseverance,, our
Department will increase moro rapidly this year
than last, and instead of a gain in membership OF
32l, (last report IL can be ever ND,
Louk after the Widows and Orphans and our dis
abed comrades; guard jalousy the Charity
Fund" that none MAJ DO allowed to suffer from
our inattention.
With firm trust in God who will guard US and
our country now, as he did n years gone by, which
were iull of sorrow and troIblo, leave our iu-
ture TO Ills kindly keeping,relyins wholly on HIM
for the result.
T. s. PECK, Dept. Comi'r.
EDEy TAPLIy. Asst. Adjt Cent.
Y. STEWART STRAsAHAa, SEN A. i. G..