The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEER,
GEN. Howard to Lecture on That Theme
in This City Tomorrow Evening-He
Also Lectures Tonight Before the
Christian Endeavor Society.

in This City Tomorrow Evening-He
Also Lectures Tonight Before the
Christian Endeavor Society.
Those who have not secured tick
cts for Gen. Howard's interesting talk
should do so, for the number issued is
limited, owing to the. small seating
capacity of the hall. Not only will Gen.
Howard entertain his hearers on this
very attractive topic, but Hon. Rufus
b. Dodge, Jr., and other interesting
speakers will respond to sentiments
appropriate to state of Maine re-
union. Vocal and instrumental music
of high order has been secured. The
evening exercises are to close with
dancing.
Gen. Howard is too Tavorably known
as public speaker to use space in
complimenting him, for our people must
remember that but a few years ago
Mechanics Hall was not large enough
to accommodate those who sought to
hear him when he gave his memorial
ADDRESS before Post 10, e. "A X. n1,st
OF Cen Towards life has been spent
as a soldier of the regular army and
only terminated recently by reason of
age limit. He passed through the civil
war with brilliant credit to himself
and country, leaving his right arm on
the field at Fair Oaks.
Immediately after the surrender of
the army of northern Virginia by Gen.
Robert E. Lee, Gep. Howard was called
10 the national capitol by President
Lincoln and assigned to duty as COM
missioner of the bureau of refugees.
freedmen and abandoned lands. CONT
nung at the head of this important
work as long as the commission was in
existence. In 1872 Gen. Grant sent Gen
howard to New Mexico and Arizona to
make peace with the powerful chief
| Cochlse of the Apache tribe of Indians.
! ana THIS he successfully ACCOMPLISHED
| The command of the department of
Columbia was given him In 1874. and
In 1877 he had changed his role of
peacemaker to that of fighting gem
eral, this time with the hostile Nee
Perces band Of Indians, then on the
warpath.
Again in 1878 he successfully fought
IN eastern Oregon and Idaho the
Pfute Banack war which resulted in
the capture of the sheep eating Indians
the following year.
His present wish is to end his credit
able mes work in founding what Is
known as the Lincoln Memorial Uni
Nersity located at Cumberland Gap,
Tenn. for instruction in practical
knowledge the loyal youth of that Sec
ton, spot thoroughly known during
the war of the rebellion by both federal
and confederate, and the aim of this
school is so liberal that all the youth
of the country are eligible to its mem
bership, and it Is proposed to have the
different halls in the university named
after Grant, Thomas, Lee Jackson and
others, uniting in the strongest possible.
ties the two sections of the country.
This address on THE American vol
unteer," before the Natives of Maine
and others, at Horticultural Hall. to-
morrow evening, should not be asso-
ciated in the mind with the lecture to-
night before the Christian Endeayor
Society, as the subjects are widely air
ferent, and both are entitled to a full
a~andanco.
Gen. Howard will be entertained
while in the city by ex-Mayor Charles
G. Reed and Mr. H. A. johnson.