Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-16
NOBLE SENTIMENTS

Uttered by Rev. DR.. Paxton at the Army OF
the Potomac Reunion-A Monument for
Sherman-The Cficers Chosen for the
Ensuing Year.
SCRANTON. June 15.-There are more
men of titles than privates registered at the
hotels to attend the Society of the Army of
the Potomac reunion which began here to-
day. General Butterfeld presided at the
business session, and Treasurer Trues-
dale's report of the year, showing q
very small expenditure, was submitted.
After the selection of Boston as the next
place of meeting and amending the consti-
tuition so members the of navy who acted in
conjunction with the Army of the Potomac
might be admitted as members, the election
OF officers occurred.
For President there were presented Gen.
eral Edwin S. Osborne, of Wilkesbarre.
Pa; General Horace Porter General David
McMutrie Gregg, Auditor General of
Pennsylvania; and General Calvin Pratt, of
Brooklyn. The vote was: Porter, 76; Pratt,
10; Gregg, II, and Osborne To- Other officers
elected were: Vice President, Brevet
Major General E. j. Molineux, of the Ninth
Army Corps; Secretary, General Horatio
G. King, OF Brooklyn; Corresponding Sec
retary, General G. II. Sharpe, of Kingston,
N. Y; Treasurer, Colonel Truesdale, of
New York. The different army corps
elected Presidents as follows:
First, Major j. H. Slime, of Washington;
Second, Colonel F. L. Hitchcock, of ScrantO
Third, colonel William L. Gambler: Fifth,
Colonel W: R: Smediing; Sixth F. D. Butter
field; Ninth, Major James Wren; Eleventh,
General j. 7. Lochman: Twelfth, Brevet
Maj Edwin p Graves, Nineteenth, Brevet
Major General R. L. Molineux: Cavalry,
Major General C. n. Smith; Signal Corps
Lieutenant Colonel c. Paine.
On motion of General Mcmahon the
presidents of the different corps were Sc
lected to secure funds to erect a monument
in honor of General William T. Sherman.
At the campfire this evening the Rev. Dr..
Paxton delivered mastery address eulo-
CYSTIC of the Army of the Potomac In the
course of his remarks he said:
Some beneficiaries of out deeds seem to
think that societies of old soldiers and re-
unions of armies and corps mean only one
pensions. l wish to heaven the Gov
ernment had never paid one surviv-
ing soldier pension; that every regiment
was its own pension bureau; that it did
not scruttnize any paper of want from
manned soldier or poor widow, and taxed
its members for its comrades in need just as
we taxed health and blood and risked our
lives to save this country. But all the same
the soldier broken by hardships, MANNED for
life or disabled by disease contracted in the
army, deserves his pension and shall have it
or we'll know the reason why.
We do not come together for pensions,
but because we have lived and want to live
again as in the brave days of old. That
brings US together, not politics, OF the
bloody shirt, or any hope of gain
them Confederates. We made that odius,
and now let the word "Rebel" die in our
vocabulary. Acknowledge the honesty and
strength of their convictions as to the JUS
tice OF their course, or frankly admit that
they were valiant soldiers in the fray up
to the last ditch in which their cause was
buried.