The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22
ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE.

representing the army of the Tennessee,
was held at Lafayette Hotel, Lake Min
netonka, Minnesota. There were many prom
inent men present, among them Gen. Sher-
man, Gen. Belknap, and Gov. Rusk of VISION
sin, and Gen. Chetlain of Chicago, and a host
of others more or less known to the public.
The hotel was handsomely decorated On the
walls of the rooms were portraits Of Gems.
Sherman, Grant, Thomas and Logon, and also
the national shield enclosed in evergreens bear
ing the inscriptions: "Corinth," Mash
Vile" "~Savannah,n Jackson" "Donelson,"
Belmont " 'fShiloiI, " "Chickasaw, " sport Glib
son." Raymond" champion Hill,n 'Big
Black River" ''Vicksburg, ""Kenesaw, cat
lanta," Missionary Ridge" and k
day Gen. Sherman presided, and Col L.
NJ. Dayton acted as recording secretary.
La calling the meeting to order Gen Sher-
man delivered the opening address and
read a letter from Gen. y. s Grant,
stating that he was unable to be present, on &C
count of his recent injury, and conveying his
best wishes. Gen. Sherman then stated that Ex-
Gov. c. X. Davis, on short notice, had consent
ed to deliver the address. The report of the
treasurer was read, showing the financial trans
actions Of the socisty for the past year, and
its present financial condition was reported
good Gen. Sherman explained that a monu
ment was being erected for Frank p.
Gen. Ransom by his friends. After the
transaction of some routine business, the guests
had an excursion on one of the fine steamers
on the lake.
In the evening, after the assembly, by the
drum corps, Gen. Sherman introduced Gov.
Hubbard of Minnesota to the audience, who
delivered the address of welcome in which he
stated that Minnesota felt an especial pride IN
its record, as she regards 1t a part of her own.
She had a much larger representation of her
stalwart patriotism in this array than in any
other similar organization. Gen. Sherman
responded, and in announcing the piece,
Marching through Georgia" General Sher-
man said it was a piece which had followed
him around the world and he hoped the audi
ence would enjoy it better than he did After
its rendition he introduced eX-Gov. G. K. Davis
to the audience, and explained that Gen. Grant
had been expected to deliver the Grafton, but
he was not able to attend. Gov. Davis deliv-
cred an elaborate and able address, closing as
follows:
l have endeayored to show the mission of
war in general, and this war in particular; that
Its end is not mere conquest, nor personal
glory; that its consequences are never-ending;
that in the great average of human concerns
beneficent; that it extirpates error; that it es-
tablishes what is good that it makes nations.
/ have said little of your battles, nothing of
your personal glory. The battles are known
to the world; your glory is secure. 1t was a
sublime conception of the German poet ZedlltZ,
that before the statute of the great Napoleon
in the Place Vendome the hosts of the empire
muster for review. While Paris sleeps, the
disembodied cohorts of the dead conqueror
break the marble calm of death and are mar
shaled upon the fields of air. The armies Of
twenty years stand embattled on that aerial
plain. They come from the slime of the Nile,
from the sands of Arabia, from the SHOWS of
Russia, from Alpine ice, from German plains,
from the fields of Italy, from Spanish s~ierras,
from the waves Of Trafalgar. The imperial mar
shals are there. Murat, with his squadrons;
Davoust, with the victors Of AuerstSdt; Mas
sena, with the famine stricken defenders of
Genoa; Macdonald, sword in hand, and on
foot at the head of the $4,000 immortals who
broke thesAustrian center at Wagram; slaught-
cred Ney, with the apparition of the despairing
guard which broke in vain In bloody surges
the English squares at Waterloo. The
of auxiliary kings, their brows gold
bound with phantom crowns bestowed by him,
career before their shadowy legions. and far
OF upon the confines of the night the phantas-
ma of yanquished armies in full retreats DIM
ly seen upon a hundred fields. Martial music
family heard beneath the stars, and upon the
spirit banners of the pallid and eyanescent
host, as it sweeps in dark review before the
bronze emperor, who has also taken a ghostly
life, gleanl the words, ave Imperator! MORT
turf te s~alutant, ? and then the armies OF d lost
Il melt into the air, and the emperor be-
bronze again.
The applause which followed the
grafton was long and loud Miss Alice
:. Mitchell, Of Chicago, sang the "Bat-
tie Hymn of the Republic and re+
c cend,aid round aa after round me Of applause n aIss , tor the
impromptu speeches by Bishop Fellows,
Of Chicago, and Others, interspersed with mu-
sic.
On the second day was chiefly given to pleas
ure. The breif business session In the morn
ing simply disposed Of the routine business,
the most important features of which was the
selection Of Chicago as thenext place Of meet
ing, q result fully anticipated and the election
Of officers as follows:
President-Gen. w. Il, Sherman.
Recording sec~retary-Col IL NJ Dayton.
Corresponding secretary-Gen A. Hicken-
Vice presidents-Col John s. Lavender,
Missouri; Gen w. r.. Clark, Dakota; Lieut.
Rood. Iowa; Capt " McCrary, Minneso-
tai Gen. Schuyler, Hamilton, New York; Capt
Riebsame, Illinois; Lieut. s. Stillwel, Kan
sas; Capt George II. Heaford, Wisconsin;
Josiah Barber, Ohio; Capt. Logan H. Roots,
Arkansas.
The feast was ended athalf p~astten, at which
hour the hall was ordered cleared of the ser
wants and the speaking was commenced. Gen
Introducing each speaker in a pleas
ant and characteristic way. The following
were the toaets, and the names Of speakers:
First Toast-sfIhe President of the United
States Response by Colonel G r.. Dyer. In
the absence OF Gen. Gresham, p. M. General
Ihirmew said the committee was obliged to take
the most good-natured man they could find
Gen Dyer from Pike No and Of course all old