PREFACE. The fourteenth annual meeting was called, and the committee of arrangements announced as follows: HEADQUARTERS SOCIETY ARMY TENNESSEE, To the Members of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee: The fourteenth annual reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee will be held at Cincinnati, Ohio, on Wednesday and Thursday, April 6th and 7th, 1881. The annual address will be delivered by Colonel Ozro Dodds. All arrangements for the meeting will be under the charge of the following LOCAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Gen. M. F. Force, Gen. A. Hickenlooper, Col. Daniel Weber, Who will give due and timely notice of the details of their arrangements. Officers who have at any time served with credit in the Army or Department of the Tennessee are, by our constitition, entitled to membership. Members of kindred societies are cordially invited to participate. L. M. DAYTON, Recording Secretary. A. HICKEN LOOPER, Corresponding Secretary, W. T. SHERMAN, President. Cincinnati, Ohio. CINCINNATI, OHIо, April 6, 1881. The members of the Society having assembled at the Burnet House as headquarters, conforming to arrangements made by the committee, they marched from there to Pike's Opera House, and being called to order by the President, he announcing the Society in session according to its rules, and proceeded to call the orders of business. On motion of General Slack: Resolved, That the reading of the Secretary's record of last meeting be dispensed with, and that, as printed in the annual report, they stand approved. In the order of reports, the Recording Secretary presented statement of affairs as follows: REPORT OF RECORDING SECRETARY. CINCINNATI, November 10, 1880. GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN, President: DEAR SIR:-My last report was dated November Sth, 1879, and was submitted to the Society at its last meeting. Since the date of report, to present time, I have received from the members of the Society, under various dates, an aggregate of $2,354.76, which has been turned over to the Treasurer as follows: November 17th, 1879, November 10th, 1880, $2,1S0 00 75 00 99 76 The business of this office has been as usual during the year,-beside the large amount of correspondence pertaining to it, I had a copy of proceedings of last meeting made, and sufficient copies printed to distribute to all the members of record. This action, though not in compliance of any resolution of the Society, has been approved by the executive officers, and I trust will receive the approbation of the Society. The Treasurer has paid the publisher for the amount of his bill. With this report I hand you a full list of all the books of record, papers and other property of this office, and the same are ready to be transferred to my successor. Thanking the members, from whom I have received so much kindness and courtesy, I am respectfully yours, L. M. DAYTON, Recording Secretary. LIST OF RECORDS, BOOKS AND PAPERS, Belonging to office of Recording Secretary, Society Army Tennessee. Nos. 1 and 2. Records of meetings. 46 3, 4, 10, 11 and 12. 5 and 6. 7 and S. 9. 13. 14. 15. Records of money paid by members, memorandums. Ledger accounts of members. Receipt books, for monies paid by members. List of members who have gotten certificates. List of officers (incomplete) who served in the Army and Department of the Tennessee. Letter copy book. Blank certificates, for members. Photograph of General McPherson. Two volumes consolidated report. Stamp-Society Seal. Lot of memorandum and miscellaneous papers. On motion of General Leggett: Resolved, That the report of the Recording Secretary be received. NOTE. Below is a list of names of members who have paid money to the Society through the Recording Secretary during the period January 1st, 1880, to April 23d, 1881, with amounts paid. The Recording Secretary also calls the attention of the members to Article I. of the By-Laws, which states the amount of the membership fee and the dues. The fee of Life Membership is thirty-five dollars, and, in securing one, a member is credited against above sum all he may have previously paid on account of membership and dues. When a member is five dollars in arrears for dues, the rule of the Society makes it the duty of the Recording Secretary to drop such member from the report list published. 1880. Jan. 2, Col. H. Van Sellar, 10, Surg. C. Gladding, Feb. 7, Br-Gen. B. F. Potts, 14. Col. James Kilbourne, 1881. $1.00 April Mch. 7, Capt. F. H. Magdeburg, 18.00 21, Lieut. F. II. Putney, April 30, Capt. J. J. Hinds, May 15, Lieut. F. H. Putney, 15, Capt. J. S. Menken, Sept. 9, Capt. J. S. Menken, 9, Maj. R. M. Thompson, 1.00 |