Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-23
him at Annapolis hospital in the fall of 1854,
while suffering with disability in the side and

him at Annapolis hospital in the fall of 1864,
while suffering with a disability in the side and
back.
THE comrades of Johnstown assem- bled on
Friday evening and held their first meeting
since the food. The Johnstown Band came
over to the headquarters. and. escorted the
boys to the hall. A number of Grand Army
men from the Governors staff attended the
meeting.
THE members of Post l2S are closing up their
arrangements for the trip to the National En-
campment. They have engaged the Grand
Army Band, 80 pieces, to go with them. and
expect to take about 100 of their own members
Their own tents will be taken and they will
camp out on their arrival there.
ENcAMPMENT No. /. o.. ". l., library re-
ceived so volumes last week from Captain Mes
bitt The book case is rapidly filling up. VIM.
Thaw, ESQ.,, furnished the comrades with 40
volumes of standard military works, which are
highly appreciated by the many old soldiers
who meet every night In the beautiful recep
tion room.
GEORGE KAUFMAN, Company K, One Hun
dred and Twenty-third Pennsylvania. East Liv-
erpool, O., desires to learn the whereabouts of
Joseph Tunnicliff, who enlisted in the Fifth
Ohio in 1861 at Cincinnati and was discharged
in 1854. If any comrade knows anything about
him he will confer great favor by addressing
Comrade Kaufman.
CoMRADE SAMUEL A. BARR, of Post l57, has
made an offer of prize of a cake to the men,
Der of the post who will tell the best original
story, based on events that came under his per-
sonal observation during his term of service in
the war. The prize will be awarded on the 18th
of July. This ought to develop all the
Ananiases in Post 157.
FIVE new encampments of the U. V. L. are
under way in New York City and vicinity. Gen.
eral Daniel Butterfield, of that city, who is a
oF NJ sc of H.
candidate for National Commander. The old
General is one of the most prominent of living
Generals, and the old soldiers of the Army of
the Potomac always remember him as one of
the lighting men of that army.
DENVER. Col. is to have gorgeous celebra-
tion of the Fourth of July. gigantic ma
tional flag made of colored electric lights will
appear over the principal street; there will be
a sham battle, procession with floats and other
heart-swelling patriot things for the mount
aineers. General Wager Swayne will he the
orator of the day, and General Sherman will
be present to lend eclat to the affair.
Or June II the Eighth New York Cavalry
held its eleventh annual reunion on the battle
field OF Gettysburg. and the surviving members
of the regiment dedicated their monument
erected there to their fellow-comrades The
Eighth Cavalry claims the honor of having
opened the battle of Gettysburg, and that,
while its loss at Gettsburg was not heavy, it
lost during the war more men than any other
cavalry regiment
CoMRADE HIRAM SMITH, appointed First
Deputy Commissioner OF Pensions, is a one
armed soldier who served during the late war
with the First Vermont Heavy Artillery. He
has good war record, but never reached the
grade of commissioned officer. He went
West after the war, and has lived in Missouri
most of the time since. He has been Depart
ment Commander of the G. A. r. in that State
and is about so years of age.
ONLY about one-half of the posts of ALLIE
gheny county have responded to the earnest call
for aid for the Johnstown sufferers. Small
posts, or those whose funds are low need not
cause other posts, larger and richer than they.
have given 500 or more. The poor mans shill-
ing was as good as the rich mans pound al
ways, and in case like this every man should
do the best he can and as quick as he can
NATIONAL COMMANDER PEARSON, accom-
panied by Adjutant General Short and a num-
Der of comrades from Encampments Nos. and
6, U. ". L., will leave for Butler on Thursday
evening next at o'clock, via pittsburg and
Western Railroad, to muster Encampment No.
IS. Prothonotary Ayres who has been instru-
mental in getting up the new organization, has
made arrangements to give his friends hearty
reception. One hundred and twelve names ap-
pear on the charter of the new encampment,
GOVERNOR AMEs, of Massachusetts,, has ap-
pointed Colonel Higginson State Historian un-
der the recent law providing such an officer to
prepare history of Massachusetts part in the
of the Rebellion. This will include
Of all the regiments. batteries, and
the men who achieved prominence in the war.
The work will be well done if Colonel Higgin.
son lives to finish it. for he is a gifted writer,
with genuine love for his subject. He did
good service during the war, first as a captain
in the Fifty-hrst Massachusetts,, a nine months
regiment, in which he served one month, and
was then promoted to colonel of the First S. c.
(colored,) afterward the Thirty-third U. s.
Q. T., in which he served two years.