The National tribune., 1883-02-22
VERMONT.

Department Commander 4. B. Valentine has
issued General Order. No. /. announcing his
reelection and making the following appoint
ments: Comrades C. c. Kinsman, re-appointed
Assistant Adjut& ~ General; w. l.. Greenleaf,
re-appointed Assistant QuarteTmaster-G General; /;
G. A. Bundy, re-appointed Assistant Inspector
General H. L. TAYLOR, re-appOinted Chief Mus
teleg Officer: kittredge Haskins, re-appointcd
eAdyOcate-General.H Headquarters are con-
#fed at Bennington. - For the past year." says
OmmandeT Valentine, " our increase has been
more than seyenty-fve per cent. If we all
work with a will, the increase of 700, large as
it is, will be equalled before the seventeenth
annual Encampment convenes. In accordance
with orders from national headquarters, each
Post In the Department will keep a record Of
the comrades who bring recruits into the Post,
and report the name of the comrade securing
\ 4he greatest number Post Roberts of Rutland,
Eas the banner Post for 1882, having mustered
he most recruits, and shown the largest per-
centage Of increase. Post Sedgwick, of Brat
tleboro. and Post E. HI. Stoughton, of Bellows
Falls, were not far behind, and the same can
be said of other Posts. Let healthy spirit of
emulation exist for the honor of showing the
largest increase in numbers and percentage for
the present wear. 1t is computed that there
st are least 5000 veterans in the State and they
all ought TO be numbered with the Grand
Army of the Republic before January 1st 1884.
Il
Posts of the Department have regular meetings
once week Ii is none too often to become
familiar with the work, and the interest is
augmented by having frequent meetings. Let
Camp-ires, TO which all veterans and the
public are invited, be held often.
The address of welcome delivered by Dept
Com. A. B. Valentine at the recent Encampment
, of the Department of Vermont shows that
the Order in that State is up and doing In the
course of il he said - know the difficulty at
tending a large increase in our mountainous
and sparsely settled State We scarcely boast
of city, and of but few villages of more than
one thousand inhabitants. Many veterans
have gone 10 Western States and there swelled
tbs number of recruits TO the Grand Army
Comparatively few centres in our State call
many old soldiers together. But twenty years
ago these same difficulties stood in the way of
recruits for the Grand Army about to march
against the foes of our country: and did that
prevent the noble sons of Vermont from COM
ing TO the rescue? BY no means From noun
tains and valleys they came. Thousands
walked miles to enroll their names in some
company about TO march. Many were added to
the quota of adjacent States, because there
companies were being organized nearer their
homes or perhaps were more nearly ready to
march 10 the front. And so it has been in this
Department the past year. In towns too small
to have soldiers enough for Post they have
gone 10 neghboring towns, and gone on foot,
too, miles and miles away, for the sake of join
ing their OLD comrades"
Cummings Post, No. 81, Hinesburg. Vt. are
making arrangements with the Burlington
Philharmonic Society TO give one of their musi-
cal entertainments at that place The recent
Campfire of the Post was held at Hinesburg,
not at St Georges Mrs. J. S. Patrick was the
orfranief uuon that occasiou