Journal of the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, Volume 48U.S. Government Printing Office, 1915 Vol. 83 contains final report of the finances from 1949 to the closing of the organization in 1956. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adjt adjutant adopted amendment appointed assistant adjutant California and Nevada chairman chaplain in chief Charles Chattanooga Chief GARDNER commander in chief Comrade COLE Comrade KETCHAM Comrade TORRANCE Comrade WETHERBEE council of administration Cries Daughters of Veterans department encampment Detroit duty elected favor flag forty-eighth national encampment general_ George George W Grand Army headquarters Henry honor Hotel Pontchartrain Illinois Indiana inspector Iowa James James Tanner JANES John Junior Kansas ladies Louis Wagner mander in chief Massachusetts membership Memorial Day ment Michigan move national encampment national patriotic instructor officers Ohio organization OSCAR Past Commander past department commander Pennsylvania permanent fund Philadelphia present quartermaster rade recommend Republic resolution rules and regulations Salary say aye schools second the motion second the nomination senior vice commander Senior vice department soldiers Sons of Veterans South Dakota Stowits Thomas tion unanimously vote Washington Gardner Woman's Relief Corps York
Popular passages
Page 142 - But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 55 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Page 55 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night. And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 137 - PREVENT us, O Lord, in all our doings with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help ; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life, through, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 136 - ALMIGHTY God, unto whom all hearts are open, all £\. desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid; Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy Name; through Christ our Lord.
Page 142 - Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
Page 321 - It is the purpose of the Commander-in-Chief to inaugurate this observance with the hope that it will be kept up from year to year while a survivor of the war remains to honor the memory of his departed comrades.
Page 106 - I pledge allegiance to my flag, and to the Republic for which it stands; one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Page 136 - God, the protector of all that trust in thee, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy ; Increase and multiply upon us thy mercy ; that, thou being our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we finally lose not the things eternal. Grant this, O heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ's sake our Lord. Amen.
Page 136 - ... all their consultations to the advancement of thy glory, the good of thy Church, the safety, honour, and welfare of our Sovereign and her Dominions ; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours, upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations.