The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-03-13
GRAND ARMY OF TIE REPUBLIC.
THE DEPARTMENT OF MONTANA PER-
MANENTLY ORGANIZED.
A Magnificent Camp Fire Under the Aus
pieces OF wadsworth Post.

pieces Of wadsworth Post
In pursuance Of orders issued by Provi-
sional Department Commander Thomas Z.
Fuller, the Representatives Of the Grand
Army Pests in Montana assembled in en-
campment in Helena March 10th, for the
purpose Of permanently organizing the De-
partment of Montana. The following were
the authorized Representatives of Posts
responding to roll call:
Post No. 2, Fort Custer, I. T. Rowe, Henry
Frederick, c. Z Price, J. II Macomber.
Post No. 6, Butte, p. r. Dolman, FL. q.
Kessler. Levi E. Holmes.
Post No s, Helena, G.. w. Shaw, J. G.
Sanders, II. q. Wallace.
Pest Nos Deer Lodge, d. J. Mcmillan,
Fl. H. Zenor, Lew Coleman, James III. Mills;
alternates, Geo. G. Houck, s. Glover.
Post No. 10. Virginia City, Fl. S. Howell,
J. Z. Galloway.
Post No. 10, Livingston, T. w. Wright.
Post No. II, Billings, FL. NJ. Kane, w. III.
Norton.
Post No. IS, Bozeman, J. NJ. Lindley, w.
+. Sanders.
Post No. 10, Nissoula, John L. Sloan, w.
II. FL. Dickinson, VIII Kennedy.
Post No. q, Glendive, Pierce Hopes, M.
P. Wyman, c. E. Waters.
(The abeve Post numbering is as existing
under the Department of Utah. The Posts
will be remembered in due time as the De-
partment of Montana.)
Arter preliminary business the Depart.
ment Encampment proceeded to elect ON
GERS for the ensuing year, and the apPointive
Offices were filed by the Department Com
mander, resulting as follows:
Department Commander-Thos. p Fuller,
Post No. s.
Department Senior Vice Commander
James II. Mills Post Noe.
Department Junior Vice Commander
G. Z. Price, Post No.2.
Department Medical Director-Levi Z.
Holmes, Post Noe.
Department Chaplain-L. e. Hanna, Post
No.13
Council of Administration-H. p. Wyman,
Post q; 2. r. Dolman, Post 6; d. J. McMil-
Ian, Post 0; w. H. II. Dickinson, Post 10;
Eddy s. Ferris, Post IS.
Post 8.
Department A. Q. NJ. General-Charles s.
Warren, Pest 6.
Department Inspector General-Horatio
s. Howell. Post u.
Department Judge Advocate-J. r. Goss,
Post II.
Department Chief Mastering Officer
James E. Galloway, Post IL.
Aides-de- Campo. s. Dickinson, Post 10;
Pierce Hopes, Jr., Post 81; Lester S.Wilhon,
Post 10; Ohio KLEIN, Post 10; Will Ken
nedy, Post 10.
Comrade G. z. Waters, of Post q, was
elected Delegate Of the Department of Mon
tana to attend the next National Encamp-
ment at Portland, Maine.
The requisite action was taken to entitle
Past Post Commanders to voice and vote in
Department Encampments.
After numerous ballots, including Butte,
Missoula, Helena, Livingston, and Billings,
1t was finally determined to hold the next
Department Encampment at Bozeman, the
time to be designated by the Department
Commander.
At the evening session the elective officers
were duly installed by installing officer j. G.
Sanders, and there was lighted
CAMP FIRE,
under the auspices of Wadsworth Post, r. G.
Wallace, p. c., around which all Comrades
of the Department were invited to assemble,
and no excuses accepted. "Coffee and hard
tack" was there in abundance, and the Com
rades fell upon and devoured these ratisns,
and typically drank from the same can
teen," until 1t seemed some great Magician
had passed the enchanted wand above the
old.time flashing faggets, and each seemed to
be one Of a vast throng seated at tables Of
illimitable length where choicest edibles and
viands, here and there interspersed with
huge punch bowls, 'shado we'd the linen"
where toasts were given and responded to by
lips made eloquent by wonderful reunion,
and hearts filed with the emotions that can
only survive in those who touched elbows
under the old flag in the fierce conflicts of
the greatest war Of the century; where the
old songs were sung and where the magnii
cent Apollo Club kindly appeared and in
better tune and time alternated with the
Comrades; where wit, sentiment and rhyme
flowed with the wine, and Renaissance, re-
eegnItion and repartee went to make up
doubtless the happiest reunion of Comrades
Of the Grand Army that has ever taken place
in the Rocky Mountains. And from that
enchantment there was no rude awakening.
The camp fire was lighted at 8 p. m, and it
was A. m. when, with almost every Com
rade yet present, Department Commander
Fuller gave the order to fall into line, and
by a countermarch each Comrade shook
hands with the other "until we meet again"
tas,
reproduce, the speeches of the evening-a
number of them, impromptu as they were,
being gems of eloquence and humor But
some features we notIced-the drift was
strongly toward pathos aud sentiment
number OF Comrades now we'll advanced in
life told how they enlisted in their "teens,"
and there were few indeed upon whom the
frosty hand of Time has not been laid. The
Comrades are growing old, and the express
sion of one speaker was suggestive: How
long will 1t be until the last Comrade of the
as we remember those who have already
been transferred, and answer to roll-call in
the Grand Encampment beyond the River?
The incidents of the organization were
most happy throughout. Doubtless some
Posts fsund 1t difficult this time to secure
the attendance of Re representatives, but there
will not be that difficulty again. We doubt
IL there was a member present at this En-
campment whs will not be only too glad to
70 again. With Montana established ~
separate Department, interest will and
should be renewed, and every eligible old
soldier ought to avail himself of the oppor-
tunity he has to re-establish Comradeship
through the G.. A. r.
Hucklen's Arnica Saive.