The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-28
aud Charles Walker, Seattle, No. 6, and J. o.
Bowen. otiand. Nh 50. La Conner, Wash. The
following programme was rendered:
Grand Army OF she Republic.


The following order has been issued by Com
rnander John &. Jsuicke. of General Hovey
Post, No. 20, OF snoquaimie, under date OF Au-
gust "A:
HEADQUARTERS GENERAL HoyEY Posi-, No. 70.
sNoouALMIg, Wash, Aug. a, 1892.
Comrades: / have the honor to acknowledge
tnereeeipt OF circular letter from General III.
v. Boynton, acting corresponding secretary of
the society of the Army Of the Cumberland,
dated Washington, h. e., August II, 1S9a-
am Instructed 10 inform you that the twenty
third annual reunion OF the society will take
plac. on the battlefield of Chickamaugs with
headquarters ut the Park hotel at Crawfish
springs and in Chattanooga, on September Is
and IL next, being the week before the national
encampment at Washington, ID. C.
All OF YOU are cordially invited and earnestly
requested to extend this invitation TO such COM
rades a. you may mcet.
The surviving officers and non-commissioned
ofilcers OF the Army Of the Cum berland number
2o.uu). most Of whom will be pre- sent at this
union. Half-farc arrangements have been Sc
cured with the leading railroads. OF the country,
aud negotiations are in progress to procure tic.-
cts which will allow attendance upon both our
reun on and the national encsmpment
Captain Charles f. Muller. OF Chattanooga. is
the chairman to write to for reduced hotel and
Logging rates; also for transportation TO and
about the various battefields.
The business meetings aud the orations of the
society VIII be in Chattanooga or at the PARK
hotel.
The Chickamauga park commissioners have
on the ground printed copies of the historical
tablets which are TO be erected to set forth the
operations OF each corps, division and brigade mt
the sevs raj positions occupied by them IN that
great battle.
The famous Wilder brigade of mounted in
faatry-the first TO provide u monument in the
Nationa parK-viu he present. |, 201 strong, 10
lay the cornerstone Of their imposing structure,
which latter is to nc 10 feet high. The Ohio
commission VIII be present with a committee
from each organization TO locate the positions of
their ffiy-tiye regiments and batteries which
fought on that memorable l9th-23d of Sep
tember, 1868, ut Chick naagua.
1t is hoped that n number of prominent ex-
Confederate officers viii b. present to explain
the positions and movements along General
Brags's lines. All such will receive u hearty
welcome.
To obtain the advantage of haif-fare rates it
is necessary to take certificate OF purchase
on the blanks furnis he'd by the railroad company
from the ticket agent at the point OF starting.
This, when certified at Chattanooga, will make
the return ticket good.
Note-Membership III this society Is open to
all officers and privates of honorable service i'll
the Army of the Cumberland, or in the army of
Ohio. Send your name and rank to the treas
urer, General J. $. Eu.lerion. war department.
Was hington. ID. G.. enclosing the initiation zee
oi$j.
earnestly recommend that Commander Rob-
ert PicSerrei call II special meeting and that
General Hovey Post send a committee to the
great battlefield OF Chickamauga, and also to
the great reunion at the national capitol. Fra
ternGliy III r. E. and L., JOHN q. JANICKE,
Acting Officer of the Day.
An open meeting will be held by John F. Mil
Ter Post. &. A. r., on Tuesday evening next in
Frye building at p Ill. A paper will be read
by George A. Hawley and an address by Gilbert
F. Little, esq, interpreted with music and
singing. The public is cordially invited.
Stevens post had a well-attended meeting on
Tuesday night. Speeches were made by Hon.
J. W. Langley, s. ". Clark and Others.
At the September meeting of the Union
Veteran Club W. II. D0oittle of Tacoma, can
didate for congress, will deliver an address.
All ladies who wish to become charter men,
bers OF Miller Post corps please be at the open
meeting Tuesday evening, as that will be the
last opportunity.