The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-27
new COMMANDERS AIDS
JUST MADE BY COL.
STARR, OF RICHMOND.
Matters Affecting the Department of
Indiana, Grand Army of the
Republic.

General orders No. 2. Department of In
diana, Grand Army of the Republic, gives
the names of Department Commander
STAIRS appointments with the exception Of
assistant adjutant general and quarter
master general, to which position Richard
M. Smock was named in orders No. 1. The
appointments are as follows:
Department inspector, Jesse H. Carpenter,
Angola; judge advocate William A Ketch-
am, Indianapolis; chief mastering officer,
Daniel White, Wabash; color bearer.
John F. Davenport. Richmond; senior
b. Roach Monticello; chief trumpeter,
Albert A. Jones, Battle Ground. Wis
lting committee Indiana Soldiers and
Sailors Orphans Home: H. A Smith, In
dianapolis; G.. w. II. Kemper, Muncie; AL
Ian II. Dougall, Fort Wayne; James b.
Black, Indianapolis; H. b. Sherman, West
port; Altman Carnahan, Washington; John
w. Ross, Connersville. Visiting committee
State Soldiers Home: John l. Rupe, Rich
mond; George w. Kimball, Mount Vernon;
russell +. Flnney, Jeffersonville; George
II. Clutch, Columbus; George w. Grubbs,
Martinsville; Horace Wardner Laporte;
Tarvin G. Grooms, Greencastle; John III.
Terhune, Anderson; A. B. Champion, Del
phi; Theodore +. Clark, Rensselaer,; Benja-
min G.. Shinn, Hartford City; David n. FOs-
ter. Fort Wayne; Wilbur Z. Gorsuch, South
Bend. Patriotic exercises in public schools:
VIII Cumback, Greensburg; William II.
Fertich, Brazil; A. G.. Compton, Richmond;
Charles B. Brodrick, Elkhart; Timothy E.
Howard, South Bend; George w. Miller,
Terre Haute; David E. Myers, Marion.
Department Commander Starr gives no
tice that he will visit many reunions
and campfires as he can, and he requests
post officers to correspond in reference
thereto with Assistant Adjutant General
Smock He calls attention to and cordially
indorses section of a recent order from
national headquarters relative to flag day,
which is follows:
Pursuant to a commendable custom es-
tablished in many States of the Union, and
the request of Comrade Allan c. Blackwell,
chief aid in charge of military instruction
and patriotic education in schools. it is
recommended that all members of the
Grand Army of the Republic observe Satur-
day, June IA, 1902-the anniversary of the
birth of our fiag-by decorating their homes
and places of business with the stars and
stripes, the emblem Of our country, and
encourage their neighbors to do the same"
The department commander refers to the
exercises of the dedication of the soldiers
and sailors monument in fitting words as
follows:
1.-The dedication of the Indiana soldiers
and sailors monument on May Is was an
occasion long TO be remembered by those
who participated in the services. 1t was
the crowning success of the Grand Army
of the Republics long and steady work
for thirty years. But the event of the
day was the parade of the old battle
Scared flags of the Indiana regiments
and everyone seemed 10 partake of the
sClemnity of the occasion. Promptly at s
o clock :he veterans assembled at the Cap
itol and received their ola colors, and then
formed for the parade, which was made
through crowded streets TO the monument.
where the flags were deposited until the
conclusion OF the veGDer services in the
afternoon. Then the color bearers received
their colors for the last march. AS they
cirCled the monument with the muffied
drums playing and church chimes ring
ing IL was a scene never TO be forgotten
When the Capitol was reached the bearers
with loving hands and with sob-laden
words. babe farewell 10 their dear old
flags. and many tears were shed as they
remembered the dear loving veterans who
had followed the flags IN other days but
who now rest flames eternal camping
ground. Words fail to correctly convey
these parting scenes.