Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-09-19
ANNUAL REUNION.
Tho Army Of the Tennessee Meet
ct Cincinnati.
FRED GRANT MAKES an ADDRESS.
h Outlines His Fathers Plan OF Campaign
for Closlns the Wharf.-The Deaths
Reported During the
Past Tear.

ClNCINNATlt bSPt IL Inv
seventh annual session Of the Society
Of tho Army Of the Tennessee began
Of 10 q. m. yesterday with an unusually
large attendance Over 100 officers OF
high rank were registered. The morn
inr session was devoted to reports and
routine business. In the afternoon the
distinguished visitors and their ladies
attended reception at Fort Thomas
In Kentucky, rendered by Comniandant
Cochran and other army officers The
battalion drill was followed by lunch
con, 1t which many women from Gin
cinnati, Newport and Covington as.
sisted. Gen. D. D. Henderson reported
$4,000 secured for the Sherman monu-
msnt At Washington, and 5000 prom
issd by the G. A. r.
The following deaths were reported
during the past year: Lieut. e. p
Toby, Maj. George B. Hogan, Maj C.
q. Dyer, Gen. W. @ Gresham, Chicago;
MAI j. ". Paddock, Omaha; Capt T.
Il. Webster, Denver; Capt T. H.
Griffin, 81. Louis; Cen Mason Bray
mar, Kansas City; Maj. Frank T.
Psats, Rockford, ILL.,; COL y. G Dawes,
Cincinnati; Lieut. oliver Arson, Coun-
oil BlufIs, and Gen. Charles Suther-
land, Washington.
A brilliant array OF decorations in
tho bright Auditorium theater Of Odd
FellowJ tsmplshouse, filed with en-
thusisstic members OF the Army of the
Tennessee and their friends, describes
the beginning Of the night meeting OF
the twenty.seventh reunion. Gov. Nc
Kinley delivered an eloquent welcome
for the state Of Ohio
Ex.Congressman John A. Caldwell,
mayor Of Cincinnati, spoke the wei.
come for the Queen City. The presi-
dent Gen. Greenville NJ. Dodge, re-
sponded for the society, after which
Col. Frederick d. Grant made the ora
ton Of the evening. COL Fred Grants
annual address was unusually interest
Ing. IT outlined Gen. Grants plan OF
campaign for closing the war and
described the order In which Gen.
Grant would have narrated the story
In the second volume Of his memoirs
had his life been spared. Upon being
appointed lieutenant-general and as
suming command, Gen. Grant had an
interview with President Lincoln, who
wanted some one to take the RESPONSE
bility OF action and call upon him for
supplies, the president pledging the
full powers Of the government in rem
derlng all assistance possible.
Gen. Grant then planned movements
for all OF the armies to move at once.
He regarded the army Of the James as
the left wing, the army of the Poto-
mac as the center and the troops ope-
rating under Sherman, of which the
army Of the Tennessee was most i'm
portant part, as the right wing, oil
other troops being cooperative col
umns by continuously hammering
against the confederate armies no pro-
posed to destroy both them and their
sources OF supply
Col. Grant compared the movement
Of the army Of the Potomac to that OF
Napoleon in the Russian campaign,
while the plan in reference to the
whole army resembled that adopted by
the allies In their campaign against
France In 1894 lie outlined how the
confedcrates had concentrated their
troops east Of the Mississippi into the
armies Of Lee and Johnston, how Gen.
Grant placed himself with the army
Of tho Potomac where the greatest
opposition was expected, sent Sherman
against tombstone and Sheridan
through the Shenandoah valley. On
May the army Of the Potomac moved,
and on May 0 all were moving. By
May II the southern troops were forced
to act entirely on the defensive and
the union lines had been considerably
advanced. 1t was at the end Of the
first week OF this campaign that Gen.
Grant wrote; II propose TO fight 1t out
on this line II II takes all summer"
The second phase Of the plan was to
keep the enemy within the besieged
cities Richmond, Petersburg and At.
lanta--and actively engage the outside
troops to drive all the smaller COM
msnds to the south, to devastate the
country from which supplies were
drawn and to destroy those who gath
cred these supplies.
Music was interspersed through the
programme 1t was furnished by an
orchestra, the Loyal Legion quartette
and by Miss Mary Logan Pierson, the
Daughter Of the Army of the Tennes-
see." Her singing Of "The Star Span
gled Banner" was the musical feature
Of the evening
Gov. Mckinley left for Chattanooga
o. soon as soon as he had done speak
ing. Col. Fred Grant met an ovation
when introduced the applause contin-
uing minute or more lie was also
generously applauded at the close of
bis address
Damaging to Durrant
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