The National tribune., 1886-09-23

and Artnitsge. oil Post II Mackie Connolly.
Roberts. Ferguson. Home. Iirsi Maginniss May
berry and Simmons, OF Post tD.
OHIO
G.. l.. Frost, New Lisbon: Starr Post. No. Iss.
which was organized in September. ISL with "a
members. has now q mcmbefship OF ITO The Post
owns frame building. 80 by 30 feet which con-
tsins Stage % by 10. supplied with appTopriate
scenery, that lectures entertainments Camp
hres, Theatre representations, etc, be held
there.
A r. Mullen, Van Vert w G. Sco,t Pos, No
100 of this place, is still ouri-hing but not TO such
an extent and degree ii Was previous To the or
ganizhiion OF the Union Veterans Union. The
comrades seem 10 be taken with the new organi-
KRiion and become careless about the Grand Army
We are afraid that our Post will soon become
badly crippled. a number of veterans have de-
cared their intention Of giving up the Grand Army
and taking 90 the new Order
H. w. Phelps. Columbus; GAR. work Is pro-
crossing finely. Two Posts were organized in this
County since June. We have two grand workers
here: Commander Carl y. Bancroft aud his estin-
ape vile, Mrs. Mary Il. Bancroft, of Columbus
Mrs. Bancroft Is Senior Vice President of the
Womans Relief Corps. Department OF Ohio while
Comrade Bancroft Is Past Department Inspector
They both went TO the National Encampment Mt
san brancisco, and can always be found working
In the interest Of the GAR. We have some
very active workers In our own Post and
Relief Corps, who will go 10 to Is miles to help
a suffering comrade or widow and orphans of
those who died that the Nation might live. There
was general disapproval by the members of our
lost oi the action taken by ex-members of the
Fifth Corps at San Francisco indorsing the action
OF Congress In reinsating Gen Fitz-John Porter to
rank and pay and retiring him a Colonel, while
SO many OF our comrades who suffered terribly
while serving under Gen. Porter go unrewar,ed
and pension Claims are vetoed. We have men here
who served M Gen. Porter's command.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Visiting Comade." French Creek: A strong
aud enthusiastic feeling has been awakened in the
breasts OF the hardy mountaineers of this region in
favor of the GAR, the consequence being that
Posts being organized at every available place
mo
sinians are becoming ardent in the cause of the
L. X as they were for that of the Union in the
trying times of 1861, when they sacrificed homes,
friends and everything that men hold dear TO show
their featy 10 the Government and never faIter ed
IN iheir devotion even when their homes were in
Naded and everything they were possessed of was
destroyed or carried away. II was my pleasure to
assist at the organization of Post at this place on
sept 4. III started with Fl charter members, who
were mustered ia 10y the Mastering Officer, Writ
Phillips, gallant member of the 10th w. Va. and
one whom the writer has been with in what the
boys used to call hot places. The comrade although
novice, did his work splenddy and in the in
stallation of officers lie was as thoroughly posted
a. any OF our old leaders in the GAR. This Post
has the prospect of recruiting every soldier in the
neighborhOOd. and everything has a bright and
suspicious outlook. The ladies are as jealous for
Us as IN the days when their loyalty tested as
Dy hre-and with them working with aud for us
how can the Posts here fail to succeed? Walter
Phillips a brave soldier of the Sd w. Va has been
elected Commander, and in honor OF the memory
oi one OF West Nrginia's soldiers IL will be called
the Caudius IL. Lee Post 80 many of the 10th w
Va are living IN this locality that the selection of
one of the com mis- stoned staff of that regiment
John i. Phillips. for q. NJ. :. would seem a very
thing. The good work is progressing
ana the Department of West Virginia has evidently
determined TO place itself ia the front il energy
and vitality as well as determination will suffice to
place il there.
The Council Standardization ofthis Department
met AT Madison on the 9th inst, when Gen. Lucius
Fairchild rendered his resignation This action
was neeessltated by his election as Commander
in Chief Of the Grand Army of the Republic at san
Francisco recently. His resignation was accepted
aud Senior Vice Commander Henry T. Fischer. OF
succeeded to the vacancy Junior
Vice Commander Briggs. OF Wausau became Senior
Vice Commander, and J. II. West of Evansville
was elected Junior Vice Commander Phillip
Cheek, jr., who WAS placed in nomination for In-
surance Commissioner. rendered his resignation as
assistant Adjutant-General, but Commander
Fischer declined to accept it,