Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-09

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Elks' Quartet and Society
During the banquet whaley's orchestra
viii render the following program.
. March-Stars and Stripes Forever.
q Observation-Disclosures Of the South.
d Selection-It Happened IN Nordland.
/ Patroh-Blue and Gray.
! SeleCtion4-ToYland
! Novelette-Dainty Danes.
/ Medley-is63.
March-General Mixup. L. s. A.
sideIights of the Reunion
While the Society Of the Army of the
! Tennessee is ostensibly an organization Of
commissioned officers Of that division Of
the western armies the meeting at Council
Bluffs is more in the nature Of reunion
and hosts Of old Veterans of the Army Of
! the Tennessee were present to pay rever-
ential tribute to their surviving command
ers in the persons OF Generals Howard and
| Dodge. The reception at the Grand hotel
was teplete with many interesting incidents.
Here we're gathered old Veterans from New
/ York TO oregon to avail Of the privilege of
shaking hands with their old army COM
mar ders, and with the beloved wife Of Gen.
/ eral Logan, and with the son of General
Grant in the person Of Major General Fred
| Grant General John C. Black was not in
/ the receiving line, but some OF the old boys
/ learned that he was up in the reception
room. and they trooped upstairs to shake
hands with him.
! q General Howard is holding his years well
and does not look materially older than
/ he did nearly twenty years ago when he
was in command OF the Department of the
| Missouri ut Omaha. There may be a few
more gray hairs in his beard and hair, but
I he Is the same General Howard that tho
| old boys knew on the March to the Sea-
end through the Atlanta cafnbaigns. Gem
eral Dodge is a trihe more feeble with
years than at the last meeting OF the So
ciety Of the ARMY Of the. Tennessee twelve
years ago at Council Bufsl yet he is the
same old soldier Of the shil5ha Cerinth and
Atlanta days Of nearly half century ago
and It was genuine joy for the old boys
to meet both him and General Howard
And the happiness Of the meeting was mu-
tual.
General Fred ID. Grant bears striking
resemblance to his father General T. S.
Grant during the days Of his great achieve
ments at Donolson. Shiloh Mission Ridge.
the Wilderness and Appomattox. Many Of
the old veterans remembered General Fred
Grant Of those days at his fathers head
! quarters when he was mere boy and re-
called pleasant incidents OF those bygone
days.
Mrs. Logan FaVOrite. a
The presence of Mrs Logan in the receive
ing line was an inspiration to many Of the
old Fourteenth and Fifteenth corps boys
who knew General Logan only to love him
and who had followed his gallant lead on
many bloody battle field. God Bless
YOU" was the most frequent expression as
the old veterans grasped her kindly hand,
and many could scarcely say that from
emotion arising from the recollection that
General Logan was no more. No person
in the line was more warmly greeted than
she and surely none more lovingly.
After the afternoon reception groups Of
the grizzled old veterans assembled in the
lobby of the Grand hotel or over at the
park and lived over the old days again
In story and "Reminiscences. Generals How
ard. Dodge and ]. II. Wilson Of the west
ern and Dan SiclSles OF the Potomac army
are all that are left of the old corps COM
mandors of the civil war period and this
sad fact suggested to the old boys that
they too, are Of rapidly vanishing gem
GRAFTON. However, there is a joy in these
gatherings that can be only appreciated
by the men Of battle days OF forty-hVe
years ago. with the vanishing years the
tie that binds these men becomes stronger
and It needs but the Loyal Legion or Grand
Army button TO call forth the warm clasp
of the hand. Whether Of the western,
Potomac or Gulf army or the Atlantic or
I Mississippi nayies the knowledge that they
were comrades OF the great struggle of
1875 needs but the introduction or the
corps badge or Grand Army Insignia 10
make strangers the warmest friends And
20 it was at Council Bluffs yesterday and
will be today and will ever be where vet
Grams of the old days meet.
some of the visitors.
Among the members Of the society
present yesterday were:
Captain George Ady, Denver Colo. Cen
! eral $. y. Atkins, Freeport, Ill: Colonel
! w. l.; Barnum and wife, Chicago, Ill;
/ cago, Ill; General John c. Black Wash
ington, d. G; Colonel Wells II. Blodgett,
I Carbondale. NE Captain G. A. Busse ana
Cadie Cincinnati, o.; Mr. Henry cadie,
/ Peoria, H.; Captain II. A. Castle, ST. Paul,
/ MINI; Captain John b. Cotton, Kansas
CITY CITY M Mo G Gsner%I g n Dodge, New
/ MoineS; General +. d. Grant Governors
leland. n. Y; Captain A. j. Harding,
! Chicago ILL.,; Colonel w. r. Hepburn,
Clarinda. Ia; Captain W. r. Hodges, So.
/ Louis Mo-. General George f, McCinnis
! indianapolis. lnd,; captain ID. a. MulVano,
Boston. N y; Major ]. A. Picker Faux
| ton. $. D.; CAPTAIN Charles f. Putnam
CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia; Major Leo Rassieur
| n. Reed Council Bluffs; Captain George
| II. Richmond, Council BLUFFS; Captain !.
! p. Rumsey. Chicago, III; Mrs. Jas A.
Sexton and daughter Chicago, III; Rev
T. THOMAS r. Sherman, Chicago, Ill: Captain
F. b. Soper Chicago, ILL.,; Captain d. b.
/ Spalding, Sioux City; Captain N. T.
/ Spoor, st. Louis, Mo; Lieutenant Thomas
/ Swobe, Omaha Mrs o. c, Towne, 81.
/ Louis No. Major William f. Ware, ST
Louis. Mo-; Major Vespasian Warner.
! Washington, ID. c.. Edward f. webster
/ Kansas City, Mo; Major A. Williamson
! erosion. Ia Captain John Y Stone. Glen,
/ wood. la. Mrs. Mary Z. Latey. ST. Louis,
/ Mo. Miss Bessie q. sry, Cincinnati o.;
/ Tenant ~ r. Vail, ST Paul, MINI; Gen
eral T, j, Kinney, Table Grove, an, Lieu
| tenant Frederick Mott Winterset Ia
/ Captain. T. ~ Stevens, Stanton, Mich;
i Mr.. r w. Prentiss., b Bethany, Mo- Surgeon
! o. W. Gordon, COUNCIL Bluffs, la Captain
/ J. c. Everest, Chicago III Mrs. Douglas
HaPeman, Ottawa, III General Samuel
Fallows, Chicago. III; Captain John g.
/ Nelson, LOgansport, Ind; Captain Lyman