Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-24
THE U, Y. U.
General Patrick Hayes,
Commander -in-Chief,
Issues General Order Naming
Additional Staff Appointments.
Steady Gain In Membership Is
Reported in Order.

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! General Patrick Hayes of Chelsea
commander chief Of the Union Vet
Grams Union, has issued General Or.
der, No. 2, announcing appointment:
of assistant generals and aides-de
camp on his staff, the text of which il
as follows:
/ Headquarters National Command I'm.
| ion Veterans Union
| Chelsea, Maine, April IA, 1909.
General Order, No. 2
LIST. 1t is with a great deal of pleas
ure that I am able to announce, that
since the last general order was issued
our order has made a steady gain in
membership, and that we are in much
better standing than at the last an
nual meeting. One command has been
| re-organized, at Wichita, Kans., with
excellent prospects, the comrades seem
ing to be thoroughly interested, and ]
feel confident that by all working to-
gether we may see a still larger in
crease during the last half of the
year.
| End. The following named comrades
have been appointed assistant generals
on the staff of the commander-in-cbie
with rank of colonel. They will COM
municate Immediately with Brig. Gen
eral Charles J. House. inspector gen.
eral, Augusta, Maine, from whom they
will receive instructions as to their
duties:
A. w. Moore, w. r. Sherman Com
| mand No. 2, Rochester, N: Y. Address
"Municipal Building" Rochester,
| Arthur Smith, General Terry Com
| mand No. /, New Haven, Ct.
A. J.. Weaver, George H. Thomas
Command No. 2, Wichita, Kans. Ad-
| dress, Mona avenue.
Wainwright Cushing, Custer Com
mand, No. 16, Foxcroft, Maine.
! p Evans, Henry Booth Command No
3, Fort Dodge, Kansas.
3rd. The following are appointed
| aides-de-camp on the staff of the COM
mander-in- chief. with rank of colonel:
William P. Crane. w. S. Hancock
Command No. /, Chelsea, Mass.
Roscoe Doble, General Burnside Com.
mand No. z, Georgetown, Mass. Ad-
dress, Lawrence, Mass, Box Is.
| John P. Gilman, Elisha N. Jones
Command, Brewer, Maine.
H. III. Pigott, w. +. Sherman Com
mand No. 2, Rochester, N. Y. Address
105 Troup ST., Rochester.
c. Van Zant, w. T. Sherman Com
mand No. 2, Rochester, N. Y. Address
| ia Gregory ST., Rochester.
Charles II. Welsh, General Joseph
Hooker Command No. 8, Boston, Mass
Address, ISL Washington ST, Boston
Jabez Weaver, General Terry Com
mand No. l, New Haven, Conn.
o. P. Ballard. George H. Thomas
Command No. 2, Wichita, Kans. Ad-
dress, 243 Lawrence Ave, Wichita.
Delaney Young, SedgewicS Com
| mand No. 5, Auburn, Maine
Frank Wing. Abraham Lincoln Com
| mand No. 10, Skowhegan, Maine.
Charles E. Turner, General Beale
Command No. %, National Home
Maine.
Joseph A. Glazier, Calvin Boston
Command No. s, Gardiner, Maine
A. B. Perkins, Warren Cox Command
No 8, Augusta, Maine.
F. NJ. Frear. Frank Rowley Com
mand No 16. ST. Louis, Mich.
4tb. I wish to announce that the
| committee appointed at the 21st annual
Encampment held at Boston last Sep
TENDER to issue new Burial service
for the Union Veterans Union, have
through their chairman, General D. r.
Gould, attended to their duties and sent
copy of the new service to these
| headquarters for acceptance, and as
soon as they are printed they will be
sent out at simply the cost of printing
and postage to the several commands
The departments will be notified of the
cost, etc, in the next general order
sent out from these headquarters.
5th. I wish to say that through
stress of circumstances, over which ]
mad no control, there has been an an
parent negligence in replying TO COM
munications, but I am now in a posi-
| ton to attend to the duties Of the Of
flee. and will endeavor during the bal
anca of my term to give them nv
prompt attention
9Th. l wish to call the attention of
all comrades, in all the Jurisdictions
to the advisability of individual work,
toward the building up of the order
both in numbers and in interest. 1t
is personal work that counts
7th. 1 again call the attention of
adJutants and quartermasters, to the
desirability of sending in their reports
promptly. Also that all officers, either
elected or appointed should purchase of
Quartermaster General Charles O.
Wadsworth, Gardiner, Maine, commits
sions and rank straps, as the proceeds
will greatly help in advancing the
order.
By command,
PATRICK HAYES,
COMMUNICATIVE Chief.
Official: J. w. P. JOHNSON,
Adjutant General