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PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING

OF THE

NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT

GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC,

HELD AT

NATIONAL SOLDIERS' HOME,

DAYTON, OHIO, JUNE 8-9, 1880.

The members of the National Encampment assembled on
the Campus Martius of the Home, June 8th, at 9 o'clock A. M.,
and were escorted through the principal avenues to Phoenix
Memorial Hall in the following order:

Col. E. F. Brown, Governor of the Home, Grand Marshal.

HOME BAND.

GRAND MARSHAL AND AIDS.

BROWN GUARD ESCORT.

GOV. CHARLES FOSTER, OF OHIO, AND STAFF.

GOV. HENRY M. HOYT, OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND STAFF.
VETERAN POST No. 5, G. A. R.

HOME DRUM CORPS.

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC AND STAFF.
PAST OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT.
DEPARTMENT OFFICERS AND REPRESENTATIVES.
E. A. KING POST No. 23, G. A. R., OF DAYTON, O.
VISITING POSTS OF THE G. A. R.

VETERANS OF THE MEXICAN WAR.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.

GERMAN VETERAN ASSOCIATION.

HIBERNIAN BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
LOOK-OUT LODGE No. 560, I. O. G. T.
VETERANS OF THE HOME.

While the procession was moving a national salute was fired by the Home Battery.

The column reached the hall at 11 o'clock A. M., and after a selection of music by the Home band, the assembly was called to order by Commander-in-Chief Earnshaw, who spoke as follows:

MEMBERS OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC-Comrades: This is the annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic of the United States. There is no pleasure without its disappointments. The first thing I would propose would be to hang the Chicago Convention. But the great difficulty in my way is that they hang on so long up there. One of the results of the Chicago Convention is the inconvenience felt sorely by us on the present occasion. Governor Foster had kindly consented to be present to welcome the Grand Army. He telegraphs us that it is necessary for him to remain at Chicago. Governor Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, had kindly consented to reply. He is sick abed, I am sorry to hear. General H. A. Barnum, of New York, who was to reply to Governor Brown's welcome, will be here, I presume, in half an hour, but we propose to go right on and press substitutes into the service. Governor Foster telegraphed me to call on General Gibson to take his place. Any soldier of Ohio knows just what that means. I now have the pleasure of introducing to you General W. H. Gibson, Adjutant General of the State of Ohio.

General Gibson said:

SOLDIERS, COMRADES, AND REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GRAND ARMY: His Excellency, the Governor of Ohio, is absent without leave, [applause] and I, as the largest military man in the State, propose that he shall be brought before a court of discipline. [Great laughter.] However, while he is in Chicago trying to pick out some chap that shall rule the country, it is my supreme pleasure, as well as my duty, to stand up here today in the name of the commonwealth, and welcome to this place, to this Home, and to our soil, the survivors and representatives of that grand army who, by their courage, their valor, and their daring, have made a government possible in this country.

I come to welcome this grand body to the State of Ohioa State which within the memory of living men was one vast wilderness, an unbroken solitude undisturbed save by the whoop of the Indian-the commonwealth to-day which bids