A. Bently Chas. Schonberg Richard Holden Edward Lafay Nathan Munn Theo. M. House Francis Flynn James Wright F. M. Bartholomew George Markle John H. Bunzey E. A. Stacey R. C. Phillips D. Hedger Wm. T. Peel. ... ... Wm. H. Wood Edward Smallman Albert H. Terry 604 609 613 619 623 623 623 623 624 627 628 ... 628 ... 630 630 ... 644 646 647 649 649 652 654 .... VIII. The Fifty-third National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held at Columbus, Ohio, September 7 to 13, 1919. Department Headquarters will be established at the Hotel Deshler, Rooms 310, 311 and 312, and will be open for business Monday, September 8, at 10 o'clock a. m. Delegates and Alternates will report, with their Credentials, to the Assistant AdjutantGeneral immediately upon their arrival. All Comrades, their wives, widows, sons and daughters, are fraternally invited to make use of Department Headquarters during their stay in Columbus. Comrade B. Franklin Raze, of Post 9, is appointed Acting Assistant Adjutant-General in charge of Department Headquarters during the National Encampment. Registers will be open to all Comrades who desire to make their presence known. A Caucus of the Delegates to the National Encampment will be held Monday evening at 9 o'clock; as very important business will come before this meeting all Delegates and Alternates are urged to be present. The Camp Fire will be held Tuesday evening at 7:30 in Memorial Hall. The parade will take place Wednesday morning, September 10, at 10 o'clock. The formation will be under the direction of Comrade Henry L. Keene, Senior Aide-de-Camp and Chief of Staff; Commanders in charge of Posts or County Organizations will report to him at New York Headquarters, Tuesday at 5 p. m., for instructions as to place in line. Transportation The United States Railroad Administration has made the liberal rate for the trip to Columbus, Ohio, and return, of one cent per mile. This rate is, however, strictly limited to Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic and to members of its related societies, and to their " families." The details of these arrangements are contained in the accompanying circular No. 1, to which special attention is called. IX. Department Headquarters, Capitol, Albany, will be closed Saturday noon September 6, and remain closed until Monday, September 22. X. The following resolutions were adopted at the Fiftythird Annual Encampment, held at Elmira, June 24-26, 1919: 1. Resolved, That the Department of New York earnestly but respectfully petitions the return of the National Soldiers' Home at Hampton, Va., to the purpose for which it was erected, that of providing a home for the volunteer veterans of the Civil, Spanish and other wars. The emergency of the World War required the transfer of this home to The War Department during the continuance of the struggle; but now that peace is returned it is earnestly believed that the home should be given back to its former use with the least possible delay. The members of the Hampton Soldiers Home were almost wholly Eastern men, and at Hampton they were in easy touch with their homes in New England, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia. They could go back to their homes for visits or long stays with the least effort or expense, and their relatives could visit them. Information as to any crisis in their lives could bring these relatives at once to their bedsides. Furthermore, the climatic conditions at Hampton were much better suited to them than those of the distant homes in Tennessee and Ohio, to which they were mainly transferred. Those formerly members of the home long to return, and their days will be prolonged and filled with much more comfort if they are brought back to the scenes where many of them have spent several years and to which they have become deeply attached. 2. WHEREAS, This Nation has on all occasions responded to the innate desire to perpetuate the names of her illustrious soldiers and sailors and have their names emblazoned on monuments of marble, AND, WHEREAS, The one name that stands in the front rank of the World's Naval Heroes has thus far, in the metropolis of the nation and his adopted State, failed to have erected to its memory a permanent and suitable stone on the ground where the hero lies buried, AND, WHEREAS, The stone erected at Woodlawn Cemetery by his family displays the sign of decay, Therefore, be it Resolved, That the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of New York, in Encampment assembled at Elmira, N. Y., on this 26th day of June, 1919, recognizing the great name of Farragut, petition the Legislature of his adopted State to appropriate a sum sufficient to erect a suitable memorial to the Hero of New Orleans and Mobile Bay. Resolved, That the Department Commander be instructed to carry out the intent of this resolution by seeking the cooperation of the New York State Memorial Commission, with a view of causing such statue to be erected at Woodlawn Cemetery. England has her Victory and Nelson, cannot America have her Farragut and Hartford? 3. WHEREAS, The rapidly decreasing numbers of the membership in the National Encampments of the Grand Army of the Republic make such action proper and advis able, therefore be it Resolved, That the Senior and Junior Vice Department Commanders of the various Departments be made Life Members of the National Encampment, the same as the Department Commanders. Resolved, That our delegates to the National Encampment to be held at Columbus, Ohio, in September, be directed to present this resolution to the National Encampment, with the request that such action be taken by the National Encampment. 4. Resolved, That it is the unanimous sentiment of this Encampment that the proper steps should be taken by the |