Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-12-03
LOYAL LEGION HOLDS
BRILLIANT BANQUET.
Business Session Held in Afternoon
And Feast and Smoke Talk in Eve
ming at New Augusta House.

March %, 1865; mustered out with regi-
ment at Trenton, N. j., July 80, 1865.
Served in the Sd Corps, Army of the
Potomac. and i'll the 18th and 18th
Army Corps in the Army of Tennessee.
DR.. Alfred Mitchell, Jr, of Portland,
older son of Original Companion Assist
ant Surgeon Alfred Mitchell of Bruins
wick. was elected a Companion of the
second class
| Announcement was made of the follow
ing elections.
| Elected Sept. >. 1908. an hereditary Com
| panion of the first class by Inheritance
| from deceased original Compa MON,
George Fletcher West, Portland. and I'D
ward Ellis Hastings, Flyeburg.
Elected Sept. ,, 1908. a Companion of
| the second class, Frank Welch Cobb,
Portland.
The death was announced of Compan-
ion Sidney w. Thaxter, late major of the
LIST Maine Cavalry, in Portland Nov 10,
| 1903.
1t was announced that the following
additions had been made to the library of
the commanderN since the last meeting:
Journal of the Congress of the COnfed-
crate States of America 1S6l-1Si5. seven
volumes, to take the place of set pre-
sented ty Hon Eugene Hale. anG which
was destroyed in the bindery at the burn
ing of the store of Loring, Short e Har-
mon. From the library of the war de-
partmont.
Personal Recollections of Cen William
r. Sherman: Sketch of the Military Ser
vice of Major General Wager Swayne;
Address to Army Associations and Mis-
Spanish Wars; Biographical Sketch of
James Bridger, Mountaineer, Trapper and
Guide: Address on the Life Of Mr.. An
drew Carnegie delivered at the dedca
ton of the Free Public Library of Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Iowa, Sept. -, 1905, all by Ma
ior General Grenville NJ Dodge From
General Dodge. Also from the same,
Short Sketch of the Services Of Major
ed from "a History of Pottawattomie
County, Iowa. A Brief Biographical
Sketch of the Life of Major General
General Grerville M Dodge, by James r.
Granger.
Proceedings of the Forty-first Annual
Encampmcnt Department of New Jer-
sey. G. A. r., 1908.
The Lyon Campaign and History of the
First Iowa Infantry. BY Z. Il. Ware. By
purchase.
History of tho 45th Massachusetts Vol
unteers. BY purchase.
Minnesota in the Red River Expedition,
1854 and the Campaign of Mobile, 1866.
BY Gen. l.. F. Hubbard. From Gen. Hub
bard.
Report of the characterization Monu-
ment Commission. From the commission.
A Calendar of Confederate Papers Pre-
Iiminaiy Report of the Southern l1istori-
cal Manuscripts Commission. BY pur-
chase.
Proceedings at the First Annual Meet
ing and Dinner of the Lincoln Fellow
ship, New York Feb. IL, 1908. From Re
corder Burrage.
The Sword of Dundee. BY Miss Theo-
dora Peck. From Gen. r. S. Peck.
Recollections of a Varied Career BY
Bvt. Brig. Gen. William f. Draper. By
purchase.
The skilled force at the Augusta
House had worked overtime to pre-
pare the best possible viands for the
visitors, and the motto of Landlord
Emerson was, Nothing is too good Tor
| the soldier The many warm words
of praise extended were ample proof OF
| the success of the occasion from the
standpoint of cuisine and service.
1t was little past o'clock when
cigars were lighted and Commander
John O. Johnson of Liberty raped for
| order and made d witty Introductory
| address, after which he introduced the
speakers of the evening.
| Chaplain John S Sewall of Bangor
read a paper, Some Battles We Saw
| in China" which was very much en-
| loved. In 1853 he was aboard ship IN
the harbor of Shanghai during the
! Tai ping rebellion. The description
the speaker gave of the Chinese I'M
perial army of that day was entertain
| ing. There were few fatalities. If
any connbatant bit the dust it was
usually because his pursuer could run
| faster than he
Among the interesting events sketch
ed by the speaker were visit to the
rebel stronghold and battles on the
! river and on land.
| In February, 1854, the speakers per-
! sonal knowledge of the war ended, he
being ordered elsewhere. From notes
of friends, he described further events
resulting in the landing of 400 COM
bined English and American forces
which put to rout an army OF 15,O0o
| celestals. The speaker next compared
the TAPPING rebellion with the Civil
War 1t is estimated that 20.000.00O Of
Chinese lost their lives during this
war This figure was contributed to by
the bursting Of the bikes combining the
HOang-ho river, the catastrophe being
indirectly due to lack of attention 10
the river on account of the war.
OF the late Empress Dowager the
speaker said that she was undoubtedly
the equal of any of the great queens
of history. China is being slowly revo-
lutionized III many ways. The old-fash-
toned arms have been sent to the scrap
heap or to the Western museum, and
modern guns and ammunition have
taken their place.
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