New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-25
GRAND ARMY BUGLE NOTES
THE ORGANIZATION IN THE SOUTH.
v,R1ors Subjects WHICH VETERANS ARE DE-
CussING- CoMMANDERIN-CHIEF ADAMS
EXPECTED HERE.

| VARIOUS SUBJECTS WHICH VETERANS ARE d.
cussING- CoMMANDERIN-CHIEF ADAMS
EXPECTED HERE.
| po,. nonartment Commander A. f. Sholes Of
| coorgia has been visiting comrades In the East
| recentIv In some of the posts by which he has
been welcomed he has narrated the experiences of
an ex-Iynion soldier in the South. Comrade Shola
| has had abundant opportunity Tor forming nN ,
conclusions during the last twenty-odd yeaA
| during which he has visited every southern De.
| partment He believes that IT would nave been
| rucb better for the comrades living in the South
| ~ the National Encampment at Detroit had carried
| out Past Commanderdn-Chief |eazeys recon-
| mendation, and had created separate departments
! in the South for colored veterans He related
| MANY instances which came under MS personal OBJ
| servation showing that the present system worked
| badly for both white and colored veterans
| Comrade Shoes mustered in the first g. y. x. post
| IN Augusta Ga There now nine posts In that
CITY The condition OF the order VI the south
| ought to receive more attention in the stronger
DEPARTMENTS of the North 1t has taken constant
effort to keep the campfres burning. In the depart.
ments of Georgia and South Carolina there are less
| than coo members.
| As an illustration Of the vast amount OF work 70
| be done by the members Of the Grand Army on
| Memorial Day. he remarked that there were eighty'
| three National cemeteries in the South containing
2g3 900 graves OF Union soldiers, $4,000 Of them I'M
| named dead In the department Of GeorFia there
were o. 600 graves to be cared for and decorated.
| which are situated eighty miles from Augusta
| The post in Augusta has only twenty ccnlrahes 70
| do the work. There 1900 graves IN south
| Carolina sixty miles from the nearest q. A. X"
| most Last Memorial Day service was held at
Andersonville which contains 1900 graves
| Only 1000 fags-half of the number needed
were received from the Quartermaster-Gen'
| eral He hoped that another Memorial Day "oua
! not be allowed to pass without seeing neglect HAs
this remedied Nearly every grave in the soldiers
| cemeteries of the South was filed by conrahe
who left his Northern home to fight for the stars
and Stripes. He surely worthy OF equal hohor
| with those more fortunate defenders OF the Chon
| whose bones repose on their native SOIL
PLAN FOR PENSION PAYMENTS.
In tho sentember number OF Home and Country"
| comrade Joseph W. Kay advocates the proposition
| TO liauidate in payment to the pensioner 'he
| total amount of his claim upon the Government
| one plan is that the pensioaer should cancer MS
claim on the receipt of United States bonds equaihe
ten times the sum OF his pension for one year In
discussing a scheme of this kind Comrade hay
writes:
1.-TWO things only are absolutely necessary to
make this feasible all else is matter OF detail
! They
.First-The authority OF Congress and the Presi-
dent for the issue and sale OF bonds to raise the
money required.
| ..Second-That a surrender value be placed on
| every pension now in force or hereafter to be
| granted SO that the certificate may be Cancelled
! by n single payment.
II am well aware that persons lacking In patriot
ism will disapprove anything which will require
| the pavment Of large sums of money TO the PEN
| sioners; and the same principle that those VINO
favor the issue of wildcat currency by state
banks such as preceded the present system VIII
| not favor what is here proposed
| ION the other hand. every veteran, every
patriot every one interested in the success or the
! National banking system, every merchant, every
advocate OF tariff reform and indeed all the peops
| of the present generation will welcome the rehet
| from taxation which a solution of the pension
| problem in the way herein suggested must as
| natural consequence. bring about
REUNION OF SCOTS 900"
| Commander Thomas W. Smith. Of Alexander
Hamilton Post. No 1872 wants all mis- old comrades
| OF the lth New-York Cavalry, better known as
| SCOTS &c.," to remember that the next reunion
| will be held at Peekski Thursday, October 10
| Men who served in the regiment are requested "
| communicate with Comrade Smith. No. 800 Thra.
ave. The 18th had numerous adventures on laha
and water. 1t served in the Armies of the Potomac
| the Gulf and the Cumberland. 1t lost more men
ut sea than any other regiment Its service IN 'he
lowlands Of Louisiana increased its record OF DEAD
| which was exceeded by but one mounted regiment
from the State.
| l. formerly Noah ) Farnham Post. No. 49, aN
interested in movement looking 70 the organizs'
ton of the post part OF the Grand Army
Many members do not sympathize with the at~
tude OF the majority on the pension question anu
want to resume relations with the order. Conn
rades with blank applications for "A new charter
will be present at the next meeting of the associa'
ton and If there enough signatures the papers
will be forwarded to the department headquarters
at Albany. The proposition has the sympathy VI
prominent Grand Army men. and an application
would doubtless be promptly acted upon by Inv
Department Commander
TIE vosBURGH ASSOCIATION FORMED
a meeting was held on Thurs lay evening last I"
No 625 East Observation-Disclosures by COM
rades and friends of Colonel A. S. Vosburgh. VINO
recently died, and an organization was formed "
be known as the a. S. Vosburgh Veteran Assoc@'
ton A. f. Miller, formerly captain OF COMPANY
II, list Regiment was elected president; > :.
Sentis corporal of Company +. secretary; H. f.
Liebeman, sergeant major OF the regiment. treas.
urer. Comrades OF the list Regiment who ser'oA
under Colonel Vosburgh and desire to associa'e
themselves with the organization. whose opJeO'
will be to perpetuate his name, will address >
sentis secretary. No. 7l2 East One-hundred-aho'
sxty-ifth-st., New-York
There is talk of forming a club in this city OF
veterans of the who are willing to band the"'
selves together and form a permanent orsanA
tlon whose object will be- first TO gather togethe.
IN the band of brotherhood every true defender "
the Republic and work to increase such MEMBER
ship; second. to secure to members e'e''
right and privilege TO which they may DC e"
titled and third, to vote for those who respect anu
honor them. 1870,
Senior Vice Department Commander Il. J. AtA
son. of this city, Past Commander Joseph W. NM
OF Brooklyn. and Comrade John Schotts OF IL
kers, a member of the Department Council OF Az
ministration, are having their claims to the o"
OF department commander discussed by their eo
don Latin La ntl sIx utnnfhE OIL. tne