Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-16
Notes of the G. A. II.

TIE sixty-hrst Regiment will hold re-
| union at Rock Point on Grand Army Day at
| IL O'Clock A. NJ.
! MASSACHUSETTS had the largest gain In the
| number of recruits last year. The increase
was five posts and /, ,S2l members.
THE Executive Committee met at the Pen
sion Office on Thursday afternoon and per-
fected arrangements for Grand Army Day.
THE One Hundred and Second Regiment
will hold two meetings at Rock Point on
Grand Army Day, one at 10 A. M. and one at
2P.M.
CoMRApE GEORGE 8. wooD brought home
sick wife from Detroit. She has improved
since coming homo ana is now recovering
slowly.
ANY person desiring to send supplies to
Rock Point for the Subsistence Committee
should report to Comrade j. C. Hill, corner
Anderson and Church avenues, Allegheny.
1t has been learned recently, at the head
quarters of the Grand Army, Department OF
West Virginia, that some of the posts have
been admitting Sons Of Veterans to their
musters.
COMMANDER JOHN 6. LAMB1H, Of Post g. has
directed that the members assemble on the
grounds at Rock Point Grand Army Day at
$50 P. NJ. in full uniform, to take part in the
dress parade.
ROBERT SMALL, the colored pilot who dis
tinguished himself by delivering the Con-
federate steamer Planter" to the Govern
ment, will arrive in the city tomorrow morn
ing and go to Rock Point on Tuesday.
CoNRADE ADoLPHE b. ROCKING, Of the Allie
gheny County Bar, was granted two weeks
furlough by Post IS, and left Tuesday night,
accompanied by his wife, to visit their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Steve Irwin, in Madison county,
Ind.
COMRADES Of Post l2s say that the reason
Detroit newspapers did not compliment the
Grand Army Band was because at the Elzs'
convention at Cleveland the Allegheny
band carried off the honors in the contest
and left the Detroit band far behind
DEPARTMENT COMMANDER BOYER and staff
will arrive in the city tomorrow morning at
o'clock and establish headquarters at the
Seventh Avenue Hotel where local comrades
may shake hands. A committee will meet
the party at the depot and escort the mem
bers to the hotel.
REPRESENTATIVES Of the ladies of the
G. A. R. Women's Relief Corps and Ladies'
Aid Societies met the Executive Committee
on Thursday and gave assurance that the
larders would be filed to overfiowing at
Rock Point and that the stock of provisions
would be inexha austible.
THE Grand Army Band, which went with
Post l2s, attracted much attention in Detroit
by its excellent playing. 1t drew about 8 900
people about when it serenaded the head
quarters of the department on Tuesday
evening, and did the same at the headquar-
tiers of the Ladies of the G. A. R.
The ten largest departments, as regards
membership, as reported at Detroit by the
Adjutant General, are as follows: Ohio,
Posts, 7Ss, members, 46, ,552; Pennsylvania,
594, 43 1l6; New York, 631, 40 IA; Illinois, 600
%, Isl; Wisconsin, AS, 20s22; Iowa. 40, 20 ia,
Michigan, 3s3, $3.50; Kansas, 49,, 17.5l6
THE old soldiers of Indiana county purpose
holding grand reunion August 2S One of
the main features of the parade will be the
cavalry command under charge of Captain
J. S. Hilberry, late of Company B, Seventh
Pennsvlvania Cavalry. The Eleventh Penn
sylvunia Reserves and old Eleventh, General
Richard Coulter, will hold a reunion the
same day.
IT has been suggested that next years
National Encampment at Washington be
made an encampment in fact as well as in
name, and that the old soldiers live in tents
instead of hotels and boarding houses.
1t is said that the War Department will
he asked to supply the tents and make
through the commissary department.
arrangements to feed the veterans rs was
done % years ago.
THE Sixteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry As
sociation will hold its ninth reunion at
Scottdale on Wednesday, Aug. 26. General
D. Mem. Gregg, John Irwin Gregg and John
K. Robson will be present. This regiment
formed part OF the Second Brigade of the
Second Division Cavalry, Army of the Po-
tomac, which command was led by General
d. Men Gregg. For orders for tickets and
other information apply to Major Charles
II. Miller, Hamilton building.
THE joint reunion of the Seventy eighth
and One Hundredth Infantry and the Fourth
Pennsylvania Cavalry, at Butler on the 26th
inst, promises to be one of the grandest
affairs of the kind ever held in Western
Pennsylvania. The various committees are
composed of 800 of the leading citizens of
Butler, and they are hard at work Ex-Gov.
ernor Curtin and Generals Rosecrans and
Wilcox are expected, and arrangements are
under way to have Battery on hand. But
Ter has had several famous reunions, but this
will surpaSs all others.