The age-herald., 1898-09-09
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WILL NEXT MEET
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 traced to a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
 When a motion was made to accept and adopt the report, Corporal Tanner of New York arose and denounced in unmeasured terms the unfair and iiberal spirit in which the rulings of the pension depart ment were made. The matter was disposed of finally by postponing it until after the report of the committee on resolutions is received. It is understood that a number of resolutions have been sent into the com mittee looking forward to some amicable adjustment.
 A rather dramatic episode arose at this $ time by the appearance of colored woman on the platform bearing a small photograph of the monument to Colonel Shaw, the ne- gro officer who was killed at Fort Wagner. The bearer of the photograph was Mrs. Scott, of Lathrop, Mo. She proceeded to explain what had been done to honor the memory of this negro officer and made an earnest plea for a recognition in a broader way of his bravery and efficiency She urged that some provision be made by which the colored soldiers could unite in an organization similar to that of the Grand Army of the Republic but made no specific suggestion
 The Next Encampment
 The choice of the place for the next en- carApment was taken up. Commander May, of Denver, spoke for his locality, saying that SO,G coo had already been pledgcd Tor sle entertainment of the nca;npment He Was folio we'd y dele,ato whJ mad. an equally eloquent plea for Philadelphia. balancing the seashore against the Dem Yer mountains and naming all the natural advantages of Philadelphia. The vote re- sulted Philadelphia. S95; Denver, 295.
 A motion was made immediately after ward to go into the election of a new commander-in-chief. The motion was adopted and the name of Albert D. Shaw, of Watertown, N. r.. was presented by a New York state delegate.
 General Black, of Illinois, in placing the nomination of James A. Sexton, of Chicago. called attention to the fact that Illinois was the foster mother of the organization and in that way had the first commander
 Sexton Commander in Chief
 The Toll of states was then called and the vote was announced, showing the elec- tion of Sexton, who received 424 votes, while Shaw received 241. Comrade Shaw, in well worded speech, moved the unani- nous election of Sexton, and the motion was carried.
 Sexton being called, returned his thanks in a brief form, and the encampment was adjourned until o'clock tomorrow.
 Colonel James A. Sexton, of Chicago, the new .commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the republic, was born in Chica- go, January 5, 1874. When Lincoln, in April, 1861, issued call for 75,Oo0 volun- teers, Colonel Sexton enlisted as private. He was then only IT years of age. After three months service he re-enlisted in the Sixty-seventh Illinois infantry, volunteers, and was commissioned a first lieutenant. He was later transferred to the Seventy second Illinois, volunteers, and was made captain of Company D. As regimental commander he fought his regiment in the battles of Columbia, Duck River, Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville, and through out the Nashville campaign. Upon the as- sault and capture of the Spanish fort at Mobile, Ala, April 8, 1865, he had his left leg broken below the knee, being struck by piece of shell weighing r ounces. He . was wounded at the battle of Franklin and at the battle of Nashville. After the war, he remained two years in Alabama, work ing a plantation near Montgomery. In 1867, he returned to Chicago and went into the stove manufacturing business.
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