The National tribune., 1885-09-10

terry of artillery sent away to its proper place
and the two companies of cavalry sent off in
another direction. doubt whether you ever saw
them again till you got back home after the war
but the two regiments of infantry, am told formed
the basis of brigadelin the old Fourth Corps, as
good corps trsd sIoeiea her. Applause.
You belonged for a time to Woods Division OF that
corps. j remember wcll the history of that brigade,
for watched it. partly confess, from family pride,
but still more from its own achievements. 1t went
TO Kentucky 1t shared all the battles of the great
Army of the Cumberland one of the finest and best
that was formed during the whole war, and you
went with me from Chattanooga TO Atlanta. There
the necessities of the service DETECTED you off and
you went back to Tennessee 10 fight at Franklin,
battle OF as much lmportanue III the JOINT campaign
If you had been at savannah or Goldsboro. In
deed you were fighting decisive battle at Frank
lin You were fighting, for your country. for your
comrades, for me, your old commander, just
much as if you had been with me at Bentonvlile L
take especial pleasure in meeting you, my fellow
soldiers and comrades for / con you now in
memory on the face of Little Kenesaw, where 5OOW
men were deployed in line ofbatte, when the line of
smo c was seen seven miles to the right and five to
the lett and L beheld the assault which you your
selves made. You now old men, but were
young then. / saw you with my eyes, in the
midst of smoke and carnage, and oh, my God,
how my heart did beat when heard you had failed
But it was so decreed. You could not carry that
point, and never blamed n single man i'll the bri-
gade We lost i'll that charge one of the most gal
liant fellows of my personal acquaintance, Gen.
Harker lapplausel, who had he lived, believe,
would have succeeded. He Colonel of one
of your regimcnts-the 65th.
My whole attention was then taken up in fight
ing so large an army that / did not have time to
look to regiments and hardly to brigades but the
corps commanders and the division commanders
and many of the commanders of brigades were
familiar to me household words Sherman's
Brigade (HarkerS Brigade) was dear to
my own personal escort
Now, my friends, you have returned to your old
home, and look back to the memories OF that war
L hope you Will live many and many a long year
yet, for there still seem goody number of young
men among you, and you will treasure up these
memories. for they priceless, they most in
valuable them down
children to the next and next generation: so that
let what may arise they will be able. willing and
prompt to follow the example of the Sherman Brl-
gade which was organized in this beautiful region
of country in the year 1861.
My friends, of course l am an old man now, pass
ing oil the stage oil life. Ireallze that ana assure
that now think more of the days of the Mexican
war, the old California days and of the early days
of the civil war, than do of what occurred last
week and assure you that let it come when it
may, would be glad to welcome the old Sherman
Brigade to my home and my freside, let it be either
III St Louis or on the banks of the Columbia River
IN Oregon. May God smile upon you and give you
his choicest blessings. You live in a land of plenty
wherever you go, you will find comrades and sol
dIers to take you by the hand and be glad to ad
you as comrades
l thank you one and all for the attention you
have. given me- and assure you have no idea of
saying anything that could be of interest to you,
but we have thus been enabled to look at each
other face TO face, and realize that are the same
fellows who fought at Kenesaw.
Gen. Sherman's speech was received with
great cheering. Short addresses followed by
Adj't-Gen. E. b Finley, of Ohio, and others
The occasion was one of unusual interest, and
was especially appreciated by all the comrades
largely attended Campfire in the evening
and the business meeting on the following day
completed the public exercise. The following
officers were chosen for the ensuing year: Pres,
Hon. John Sherman; V.-P.'s-1st. Capt w. NJ
Farrar, Goth Ohio; I'd, Capt. A. p. Baldwin, 9th
Ohio battery; Sd, Capt 7. s., Marvin, 64th
OHIO; 4th, Thos. Perry, McLaughlin's Squad
ron Treas, w. II. Stadebaker, 9th Ohio bat
terry; Sec, |. N. Thompson, Gath Ohio; Chap,
Rev. Rodebaugh, 65th Ohio. Executive Com
mttee-John Hazlitt, 64th; S. Morton, 65th;
Capt. J. L. Skeggs, Frank Gribbon, Squadron;
Capt. S. Howe, 9th Committee on Neurology
Lieut.-Col. w. +. Human, 65th |. n. Thomp-
son and - McCOys6 9th Capt. A. p Bald
win, Battery; Capt. J. L Skeggs, Squadron.
1t was determined to hold the next Encamp-
ment at Crestline, beginning the fourth Tues
day of August, 1SS6, ndicontinuing four days
There was abundance of excellent music in
strumental and vocal, the former by the Akron
Band and the latter by a splendid chorus of
ladies and gentlemen led by Prof. Parkinson,
Of Mansfield, of the 6ith Ohio.
A very interesting feature on Wednesday
was an exercise in the manual Of arms by CO.
ID, Sth o. N. G., of Wooster. The loading and
firing by company, by rank, and by file, with
brcech- loading musk etsJ was most excellent,
and rarely equaled in skiilfui manipulation.
A large number of. the 125th Ohio, Gen. OPP
dycke'S old regiment, known as the Tigers"
and for more than year brigaded with the
Gath and 65th, were present as guests of the
Sherman Brigade, headed by Col Joseph Bruf.
Col. Brutf made a rattling speech at the close
of the exercises on Thursday. Some 90 mem
bers of the 1st Ohio battery were also in camp.
The great success of the Encampment was very
largely due to the labors of Capt. \. p Bald
win, of the battery, Pres; Sec. /. N. Thomp-
son, Gath Ohio, and Capt. f. MoOres and Capt.
G. o. Tannehill, of the 65th Ohio to whom we'll
merited thanks were voted.-W. +. H., Goth
Ohio.
Reunion of the 93d \. Y.