Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-01
GRAND ARMY.
The New Department Commanders
General Orders.

w. r. Smedberg, the Department Com
mander of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie for California, has issued the following
general orders:
|. The department Encampment at its nine
teenth annual session in Sacramento having
elected me Department Commander, and hay
Ing been duly installed. hereby assume COM
mand.
II. Headquarters are continued at room T.
No. 4l9 California street, San Francisco. All
communications VIII be addressed to the Assist
ant Adjutant-General.
III. Existing orders will remain in force until
countermanded.
". My thanks are due to my comrades for the
confidence reposed in me, as shown by their
action in eecting me to the chief office in their
gift.
Fully sppreciatiug the high honor that has
been conferred upon me- and realizing the grave
responsibilities of the position, enter upon my
duties in the confident expectation that l shall
have the hearty support and cordial c0-opera-
ton of every comrade in this department, and
pledge my bess efforts towards making the en-
suing year the equal of, if not superior to, pre-
ceding ones. in progress for the Department of
California, Grand Army of the Republic.
This will be a noteworthy year in the history
OF our department; the occasion of the Twen-
tieth National Ercampment being held in San
Francisco viii bring to the coast many thou
sands of Eastern comrades. Let us show them
that California is not behind in love for the
principles of our order, and that the spirit of
our Western home as IN any State OF our glorious
Union.
V. The Nineteenth Annual Encampment, held
in Sacramento Cal, February Is, 10 and %, 1885,
elected the following officers
Senior Nlce-Commander. George Z. Gard,
Frank Bartlett Post, No. G. Los Angeles.
junior Sice-Commander, s. f. Daniels, Lyon
Post, No 8, Oakland.
Medical Director. n S. Hamlin Corinth Post,
No. 50, Mafysville.
Chaplain, w. L. Stevens, Kirkpatrick Post, No.
IS, ST. Helena.
Council of Administration j IT, Barbour,
John A. Dix Post, No. AZ. San Jose !; George l..
Harris, George II. Thomas Post, No. ?, San Fran
cisco G. Z. Royce, George H. Thomas Post, No.
2, San Francisco; Al en- z. Bird, William II.
| Seward Post, No. Co. Woodland Frank D..
Sweetzer, Lincoln Post, No. l. San Francisco.
| delegates to National Encampment-Stuart
| Taylor, George II. Thomas Post. No., San Fran
! CISCO w. II. L. Barnes, George II. Thomas Post,
No. 2, San Francisco; T. T. Laycock, o. N.
| Mitchell Post No. 9, Reno, New; General n. z.
| Chapman, Sumner Post, No. ., Sacramento; Ed
ward S. Solomon, James A. Garfield Post, No. "a,
| san Francisco; George Babcock, Lincoln Post,
| No. l, san Francisco Alternates-A. G. Ben
nett, John A. Dix Post No. A., San Jose; F. b.
Edwards, Lyon Post, No s, Oakland; P. H. Nc
Grew, Lyon Post No S. Oakland; T. H. Allen,
Appomatox Post, No, 50; Oakland; |, S. Moore,
| F. Reynolds Post. No. 81, Santa Cruz.
| Members of Veterans Home Association-M.
| A. Mclaughlin lincoln Post, No. l, San Fran
cisco, H. n. Goldsby, J. T. Reynolds Post No 9S
| Santa Cruz l. S. Ioyenthal, Grant Post, No. 9,
Modesto: Joseph Simon, Lyon Post No. s, Oak
| land.
! VI The following staff appointments are
| hereby announced:
Assistant Adjutant-General,T Thomas S. Taylor
| George ii. Thomas Post No. 2. Sau Francisco. z.
| Assistant Quartermaster-Genefal, K. II. orion
Lincoln Post. No. l, san Francisco.
Department Inspector, r. 6. Johnson Rawlins
i Post, No D. Stockton.
Judge Advocate, w. II. L. Barnes George II
Thomas Post, No. 2, San Francisco.
Chief Mastering Officer. f. d. Edwards, Ap.
pomattoX Post No. 80, Oakland.
Senior Abide Camp. VIII II. Voorhees, Lin
coin Post, No. | , San Francisco
They will be obeyed and respected accord
ingly.
VII. The Department Encampment increased
the per capita tax from 10 TO ID cents per quarter
| commencing with the quarter ending March
| 81 1856. special attention of Post Quarter
masters is invited to this fact.
VIII. Posts are requested to at once send il
to these headquarters the names of two com
| rades for appointment, one as Abide Camp and
one as Assistant Inspector upon the Staff of tho
Department Commander.
| only such should be selected for these an
4 pointments as are full of earnestness and en-
| ihusiasm for the advancement of the interest:
of the department.
TX. All orders and acquisitions for Post sup
plies should be sent to these headquarters.
| y. The attention of Post Commanders is
called to the circular of the General Committee
| of Management in regard 10 department
| roster: they Will at once instruct their Adju
tants to forward roster of their Post in con
| tormiJy with said circular. in order that visit
ing comrades during tn National Encampment
| will be enabled TO locate their friends.
! W. K. SMEDBERG, Department Commander.