Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-22
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! ter General This viii please all the comrades
in the departn lent.
THE fifth an nual meeting Of the Command
| ery-in-Chief OF the Loyal Legion will be held
| in Philadelph ia, at the Union League Club
| House, on the 10th of next month.
MRS. ANN MURPHY, mother of Jerome T.
| Murphy, la se private of Company G, Sixty
sixth Regin nent, New Y ork Volunteer Infantry,
| is redueste to call at the Pension Office, l54
Third aven ne.
THREE Ell ncampments of the q. v. L. are
being orga nized at Brooklyn and one at
Greenbush, New York. Colonel Grifiths, for
merly of Ma ], is actively engaged in pushing
the good work.
In general orders No. 8 National Commander
Pearson, of the Union Veteran Legion, calls
attention to the encampment inspections dur
ing next m onth. andsurges increased activity
among the N embers.
COLONEL Ohm A. DANKs, ,Chaplain-in-C Chief
q. V. L., win visit JohnstoYn on Tuesday to
relieve nu mber of old soldiers who were
| sufferers by he late flood. He goes on behalf
| of the Union Veteran Legion.
SECRETARY BENGoUGH will. by direction of
| the general committee, compile the proceed
| ings Of the committee and Grand Army Day
| for publication in pamphlet form and distribu-
| tion among the posts and comrades.
| CoMRADE EoRGE s. WOOD, of Post Al, re-
turned last W edn esday from Springdale Pa,
J where he had been spending his vacation at
tending the sessions of the PlLtsburg Annual
Conference. to which he was delegate.
THE reunion of the One Hundred and First
and One Hundred and Third Regiments, which
occurred last Tuesday, on the steamer May
flower, was successful. but wet, affair, as rain
fell nearly all day. The reunion and excursion
were com bined.
DUoUEsNE PosT No. 259 will hold its regular
Meeting on next Tuesday evening. A muster
count of his sojOurn in North Carolina in which
he will compare the Governors CT North and
South Carolina. All comrades are invited.
BETHLEHEM, Mauch Chunk and Wilkes
barre, Pa. will have encampments of the u. v.
l. in a few days, and Canton, o. land Wheeling,
W. Va, will follow. Adjutant General Short
is preparing papers for encampments at Proyi-
dence, r. L, Bangor, Me-, and Boston, Mass.
MAJOR GEORGE F. MORGAN. formerly of
the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth P. ". and IL
others were mustered into Encalnpment No. /,
u. V. l., just before leaving to take part in the
Gettysburg monumental meeting The Major
will organize an encampment at Chicago, Ill,
where he lives
THERE will be lively but fraternal contest
among the posts to secure the American flag to
be presented by Captain W. R. Jones, of Brad
dock, to the post turning out in the parade on
Grand Army Day the largest percentage OF
membership in good standing. Visiting posts
will be in the contest.
THE annual memorial services of Encamp-
ment No. /, u. V. L., will be held at their
headquarters on Monday night, September
80. Chaplain In Chief Danks will deliver
the address, and the boy choir from st.
Peters Episcopal Church will sing number
of appropriate pieces.
CoMRADE W. ]. PATTERSON, OF Post l57, by
request, will deliver before the post on next
Thursday evening his Grafton at the dedication
of a arroon of ha Sirtv-SonOnd
vania Volunteers at Gettysburg. Commander
Askin, of Post ISL, extends fraternal invita-
tion to comrades Of other posts to be present on
this occasion.
THE Department of Ohio has lost about 30
active members by the surrender of the charter
of George Harlan Post No. 80, of Alliance, on
account of the alleged interference on the part
of department officials with the internal work.
lngs of that post. 1t was in a very fourishIng
condition. The members reorganIzed, with all
the old officers, as the George Harlan Veteran
Battalion"
THE "Sickles Excelsior Brigade Association
has issued invitations to all members of that
famous organization to meet in reunion at the
City Treasurer's Office at o'clock p. NJ, Oc-
tober (Grand Army Day.. Supper will be
given at Baird's at 7 O'clock P. N. ALI persons
connected with the brigade during the war are
invited to attend, whether they receive an in
vitation by mail or not, as the addresses of
some of the comrades change from time to
THE seventh reunion since the war of the
| Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers will
| occur at Punxsutawney, Pa, on Wednesday,
| October 10 next. This organizationSwas re-
| cruited at Camp Orr, Kituanning. and left this
city in September, ISL, for Louisville. KY, Dy
boat, under command of Colonel VIM. Sirwell,
with the brigade commanded by General James
8. Negley. The regiment did gallant service in
the Army of the Cumberland. Captain r D.
| Elwood, of this city, Is President OF the regi-
mental association, and II. 81. Bengough, of
this city and Win A. Lowry, Of Butler, Secre-
taries.
VERY interesting memento Of the Battle
of Gettysburg was unearthed on Pennsylvania
Day. At the Bloody Angle U. W. Bishing,
private in the Fifty-third Pennsylvania, was
severely wounded in two places, disabling him
| so that he could not leave the field without
| assistance. Comrade Bishing managed to dig a
| hole large enough to bury his musker. There it
| remained until he visited the field on Pennsyl-
yania Day, when he hunted for the spot and
| found the gun. 1t was much diapidated, the
| stock falling from the BARREL which was covered
with rust. Comrade Bishing prizes it highly.