The Washington times., 1902-03-16
THE GRAND ARMY.

The finance committee of the G. A. R.
Encampment will meet next Monday at
the Riggs House. The committee has had
excellent success in raising funds for the
eacampment, and there appears to be
every reason for believing that the nee
essary funds Will be secured. Frank X.
Raymond, the chairman of the committee,
is great hustler. He is member Of the
Masonic fraternity dodge, commandery,
and chapter), the knights. of Pythias. and
the Odd Fellows, and several other organ
ifations He is actively identified with
the Shrine, being now iilustrious poten-
tate of Almas Temple. He is an indefa-
tigable worker for the success of the en-
campment, and is also a great hustler in
the insurance business Mr.. Raymond
was born in 1856, in Champaign county,
Ohio, where he was educated in the COM
mon schools. graduating later from the
academy. His father was dry goods
merchant at Urbana, and Mr.. Raymond
spent his vacations in the store. where
he became familiar with mercantile meth
DDS. After graduating at the academy he
located at Cambridge, where he estab-
lished a large business in dry goods and
carpets. which he sold in 1888 to good ad-
vantage. He then moved to this city and
snsaged in life insurance work. In 1897
Ne was appointed general agent by the
Union Central for the District OF Column
bia.
The G. A R. veterans appear to be get
ting after" Congressman Thaddeus M:
Nahou of Pennsylvania. The National
3ribuue" says: THE veterans Of the
Eighteenth Congressional District OF
pennsylvania-compr the counties OF
Union, Snyder. Huntington, Mifdin, Junl-
ata Fulton and Frankiin-have now a
Candidate for Congress to pit against Thad
NJ Mahon, the present Representative,
and a defender of Henry Clay Evans II
Is DR.. A. NJ Smith. of Adamsburg, Snyder
eounty and at present member OF the
Pennsylvania Legislature He served
through the war in the splendid old For
fy-ninth Pennsylvania-one OF the SOo
Ashting regiments, and which belonged TO
Wright's Division of the Sixth Corps. 1t
began its fighting at Yorktown, and kept
Il up till Sailors Creek. 1t had 1.3l3 men
on its muster rolls, of whom 1873 were
killed 54s wounded. and "a died in rebel
prisons. 1t distinguished itself at VIII
Namsburg, and again at Rappahannock
Statien. where Ii made brilliant bayonet
charge over the rebel works. At Spottsyl-
vania 1t was one OF the twelve selected
regiments which Upton led to the success
ful assault. and lost 260 men, its colonel
and lieutenant colonel being among the
the $50 who crossed the Rapidan. DR..
Smith is held in high esteem by the COM
rades. and will make frst-class Repre-
sentative in Congress-
The Grand Army committee on PEN
sions has closed its work SO far as the
personal examination of cases submitted
to them are concerned. II was simply i'm
possible for the members to take up cases
for investigation. nor did they feel it right
TO make request for special action on
these ever many thousands OF cases, no
doubt equally deserving. The report of
the committee will in due time be submit
ted to the President.
Ex-Coagressman Edward W. Bragg. OF
wisconsin. the famous former general of
The Iron Brigade, has settled the Ques-
Zion of the organization and command OF
that celebrated body. A claim was re-
Gently advanced by Captain Samuel D.
eotts, of the Thirtieth New York. that
to the brigade composed of the Thirtieth,
Twenty-second Twenty-fourth New York,
Fourteenth Brooklyn (Red Legs. and
Second Berdan ShS-. -.lshooters belongs the
title of Iron Brigade This induced
Hamilton C. Colby. Co. l. Seventh Wiscon-
sin, Nerth Loup Neb., to undertake to
substsntiate the right of the brigade COM
posed of the Second, Sixth, and Seventh
Wisconsin and Nineteenth Indiana, and
Tor time including the Twenty-fourth
eiichigan, to the title of Iron Brigade"
Comrade Colby served thirty-seven
months in the Seventh Wisconsin. and
holds that the title Of Iron Brigade"
was conferred on the organization by
General Mcclellan at the battle Of South |
Mountain, September II. 1852.