The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-06-12
THE z LEGION.
The Minnesota ~Commandery Organized
with Fitting Ceremonies.

With due ceremonies the Minnesota State
commandery OF the military order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States Of which Gen. W.
s. Hancock is president was formally organized
at st Paul The acting commander n-chief.
with a good number of visitors, prominent Off
GERS during the war, and as a rule moro or less
well known in civil life were present
The twenty nine member whose applica-
tons for membership had been favOrably con
sidered were elected in due form aud vested
with the ribbon of the order, a somewhat elabO-
rate re9alia in the national colors, worn
around the neck. The members elected were
the following:
Capt Edward Simonton, late Fourth q. S.
infantry; Col. and Brit Brig. Daniel Leasure,
100 Pennsylvania infantry: Col Glover Perrin,
assistant surgeon general u. S. A; Capt
Charles Kittelson, Tenth Minnesota infantry;
Capt Edward Corning, captain assistant quar-
termaster. .. s. volunteers; Lieut Cushman
Kellogg Davis, Twentv-eighth Wisconsin in
fantry; Captain Harvey, Officer First Minneso-
Ia artillery; Capt John Wander Houck,
Veteran Reserve corps; Col. and Brit Brig.
Gen. W. Il. Marshall, Seventh Minnesota in
fantry: 1t William II. Dixon, Second u. s.
calored artillery; Lieut.. III. M. Blaisdell,
Twelfth y. S. colcred artillery; Brit. Maj
John Kelliher, u As army, retiredl;
Maj. Frederick Won Baumbach, ThIrty-ffth
Wisconsin, infantry; Lieut.. Col William L.
Gentry, Twenty-ffth U. s infantry; Capt
Chester G. Higbee, Twelfth Wisconsin,; Capt.
u. M. Gilmore, Third Pennsylvania cavalry;
Maj. J. IL Murphy, surgeon Eighth Mime
sofa i"fantry; Capt. E. M Wilson, First
Minnesota mounte rangers; Col Charles d.
Kerr, Sixteenth Illinois infantry; Col. and
Brit. Brig. Gen. r. NJ McLaren, Second Mime
sofa cavalry; Dir. Charles S. Gilbert, son of
the late Col. Samuel A. Gilbert, colonel Forty
fourth Ohio infantry; Lieut. Alfred Il. john
son, lieutenant 1wenty-f fifth y. s infantry, son
AF T1r.-.~,.1- DIT ~ - n EU 49,
u. =. A. Gen. H.. II. Sibley, Gen. s Appleton,
Gen. w. Smith, Capt III. A. Castle, w. r..
Brown, Rev. Clay McCauley, Capt ]. A. Reed.
All were present except Gov. Hubbard, ex-
Gov. Davis and Maj Won Baumbach. After
election to membership the following officers
OF the Minnesota commandery were elected for
the ensuing year:
Commander, Brit Maj. Gen. John B. San
born, U. s W; senior vice commander, Brit.
Brig L. +. Hubbard, u. s. ". ;iunior vice com
mander, Brit Brig, Gen. J. w Bishop, Y. s ";
recorder, Brit Maj GeorgaQ White, u. s. A.;
registrar, Capt G. w. hackett, q. s. W;
treasurer, Lieut.. Albert Scheffer, u. s, ";
chancellor, MAJ. G. W. Baird, u. S. A.; chap
lain, Edward d. Nell, u. S. "; council,
Brit Maj Gen. r. W, Johnson, u s. A.;
Col. Charles Bentzoni, q. 8 A.; Mai Charles
J. Alien, u. s A. Capt W. w. Braden, q. s.
A banquet followed at the Metropolitan Hotel,
at which the visitors anil membeTs-elect
enumerated above Gen. Terry, Col Alden and
Capt J. A. Reed, were among the gueetA Lck-
tiers and kilograms were read from the COM
mander-in-chief of the order, w. s. Hancock,
Gen Joseph r. Hawley, Rear Admiral 1enkins,
Gen. Stewart Van Vliet, Gen. nj. G. Meigs, Gen.
s p. iiiiais5iraa, Gen. Charles 81 Henderson,
Gen. O. M Poe, Wisconsin; also from the COM
manderies Of Massachusetts,, by Charles r.
Goldman of Boston; the commandery Of Ohio
by its commander, r. B. Hayes, and from the
commandery of New York, by its commander,
Gen. II. s. Grant
Speeches were made by Gen. Sanborn, Gen
A. X Chetlain Of Chicago, Hon i. M. Wilson
Of Minneapolis, Ex- Gov. Fairchild Of Wiscsn-
sin, Capt. P. ID. Keyser Of Philadelphia, Gen
=. H. Thomas Of Chicago, Gen Stephenson Of
i'll. etc.
On the day after Lincoln was assassinated,
ON the 18th Of April, in 1866, the order had its
origin, when q little party of officers in Wash
ington met to talk over the sad event and pass
appropriate resolutions. Then and there IL
was resolved 10 form an organization
that should perpetuate, If nothing else,
at least the feeling Of loyalty to the
government 1T was founded ON the
same ideas as related to the war of the rebel
lion as was the order Of the Cincinnati to the
revolution. Starting then, it has gradual
" increased until now there are com-
nlanderies in Massachusetts,, New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wis
cnnsin, Minnesota California. and the Dis