Journal of the ... National Encampment, Volumes 28-29 |
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Adams Adjutant adopted Aides-de-Camp appointed Assistant Inspector-General C. C. Jones Carpenter & Wood Chaplain-in-Chief Charles Chas Chicago citizens City Commander Senior Vice-Commander Commander-in-Chief Comrade Council of Administration Dakota Department Encampment Department Headquarters discharge duty elected flag Fund George George W Grand Army Henry Home honor Illinois Indiana Infantry inspection Iowa James John June Junior Vice-Commander Junior Vice-Commander Assistant Kentucky Lawler Louis Louis Wagner Louisville Lucius Fairchild Massachusetts Meech members Dec membership Memorial Day ment Michigan National Encampment Number of members Ohio Order organization PAST DEPARTMENT COMMANDERS patriotic Pennsylvania pension Philadelphia Pittsburgh Post Potomac present public schools Quartermaster-General received recommend Republic resolution Rhode Island Rockford Rules and Regulations Senior Vice-Commander Junior Senior Vice-Commander-in-Chief Sons of Veterans South South Dakota Street Thomas tion Twenty-eighth National Encampment Union Union army Vice-Commander Assistant Adjutant-General Vice-Commander Junior Vice-Commander Washington William Wisconsin Woman's Relief Corps York
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Page 1 - Liberty first and union afterwards"; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!
Page 62 - That this section shall not apply to an alien who volunteered or who was drafted into or who served in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States during the World War...
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Page 2 - Peace in the quiet dales, Made rankly fertile by the blood of men; Peace in the woodland, and the lonely glen, Peace in the peopled vales! Peace in the crowded town, Peace in a thousand fields of waving grain, Peace in the highway and the flowery lane, Peace on the wind-swept down!
Page 1 - ... title-deeds recorded in Heaven ! It is, therefore, with a kind of exultation that I fling open the gates of this gateway to the South ! I bid you welcome in the name of the people whose voice is the voice of God. You came, and we resisted you; you come, and we greet you; for times change and men change with them. You will find here scarcely a sign of the battle; not a reminiscence of its passions. Grimvisaged war has smoothed his wrinkled front, and whichever way you turn on either side, deepening...
Page 286 - The people of this great state thank you for the honor you have conferred upon me in making me your Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief.
Page 392 - Past Department Commanders who have served for a full term of •one year, or who having been elected to fill a vacancy shall have served to the end of the term, so long as they remain in good standing in their several Posts.
Page 281 - Persons honorably discharged from the military or naval service by reason of disability resulting from wounds or sickness incurred in the line of duty, shall be preferred for appointments to civil offices, provided they are found to possess the business capacity necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of such offices.
Page 5 - North and South, we are met as brothers; East and West, we are wedded as one; Right of each shall secure our mother's; Child of each is her faithful son. We give thee heart and hand, Our glorious native land, For battle has tried thee, and time endears. We will write thy story, And keep thy glory As pure as of old for a Thousand Years! MAN SUPERIOR. HENRY DAVID THOREAU, American author and naturalist. Born in Concord, Mass., 1817; died in 1862. From his "Excursions