Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1888 — GRAND ARMY APPOINTMENTS. [ARTICLE]

GRAND ARMY APPOINTMENTS.

Tlio Commander-In-Chief Makes Public His List of Aids. [Kansas City (Mo.) lolegram.] General order numbered three has been issued from the headquarters of the G. A. R. in this city. It announces the following additional appointments on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief: Assistant Adjutant General, E. G. Granville, of Kansas City. Mo.; Senior Aid de Camp, Robert F. Wilson, of Chicago. Then follows the long-looked-for list of aids de camp named by the various State Departments: Arizona—George A. Allen, Thomas Hughes. California—A. D. Cutter, O. A. Witherell, H. L. Bissau, J. H. G. Weaves, C. C. Allen, O. N. Kellogg, R. B. 8. York, Lyman Hotaling, It. E. Houghton, J. G. Gerstring. Connecticut—lra E. Forbes, Darwin C. Andrews, Samuel Miller, William 8. Wells, Chas. M. Bowman, Jamas T. Proudman. Dakota— L. K. McGinnis, 8. M. Booth, M. 8. James, E. C. Walton, C. H, Gardner. Illinois—Frederick A. ll ittey, Charles E. Sinclair, R. 8. Thatn, A. 8. Wright, Morris T. Stofford, G. B. Welden, John C. Ward, F. L. Graham, O. P. Cooley, D. C. Brinkerhoff, Holmes Hoge, George O. Spooner. lowa—John H. Woolsou, J. Balyrook, G. W. Chafa, W. C. Steinmetz, H. W. Wilson, R. L. Chase, L. E. Erwin, E. M. Scott, 0. J. Jolly, N. A. Nergley, E. R. Hutchins, George H. Nichols. Kansas—Riohard Blue, A. M. Fuller, A. R. Green, Mark J. Kelley, E. F. Sprague, G. VV. Camp, Murray Meyers, E. J. LI tlewort. Maine—Enoch Foster, Henry A. Sborey, William T. Eustis, Henry C. Levinsaler, Joseph B. Peaks, Augustus H. Printer, Hannibal Hamlin, Samuel L. Miller, Eliphalet Rowell, William H. Fogler, Hehry A. Balcom, Patrick Hayes. * Maryland—Alfreds. Cooper, Edward Schilling, Charles A. Rotan, Thomas H. Coburn. Missouri—John W. Noble, Emile A. Becker, R. D. Cramer, R. H. Wren. W. T. Sullivan, Peter A. Rachroth, H. B. Kerens, J. W. Beach, Joseph L. Moore. New Mexico—Lee H. Rudisllle, J. J. Fltzgerrell, Ed J. Savage. Ohio—A. B. Baldwin, Mark B. Wells, Lot AWfight, D. L. Lee, Charles H. Jones, Thomas G. Herron, A. A. Simmonds, W. B. Shattuc, J. Byron, E. A Scoville, John T. Booth, E. H. Sprague, J. W. R. Cline, James Fitton, L. D. Woodworth. Potomac—James R. Brown, Edward P. Russell, J. H. Stine, James L. Thornton, James L. Davenport. Tennessee and Georgia-J. J. Weiler, P. M. Radford, C. W. Norwood, J. W. Andes, Kemp Murphy, E. D. Smytho. Wisconsin—W. J. Hillman, Charles S. Wicks, John Fletzer, Richard Carter, William Grover, S. C. Prince, O. W. Carison, A. J. Smith, George E. Smith, M. Mongan, K. M. Bartlett, 8. C. McDonald, Thomas Boland. The order then states: The position of Aide-de-Cainp is not to be regarded as a sinecure. The comrade honored in this order by being named as Aide-doJlamp on the naiional staff should bear in m na that be bag been selectid for activo work. He is the immediate representative of the Comrnander-in-Chief, and is expecte i to work, and he is hereby instructed the Ist day of January, lt8), aud the first day of each month thereafter, to make report to these headquarters of the number of posts he has visit d, the number of recruits lie has had mustered in, and such other matters as he may deem of interest to the order. The harvest is ripe; the Aiie-de-Carnp should lead In the work in the field. The amendments to the rules and regulations adopted at Columbus follow, and announcement is made that the revised ritual will be ready for free distribution from the office of the Quartermaster General and assistants after Jan. 1 in exchange for the old ones. The Commander then calls attention to the 33,583 suspensions during 1887-88, and concludes with the remark: “Let us never drive a worthy old soldier out of the Grand Army because he is poor. ” A committee to define and establish relations between the Grand Army of the Republic and Sons of Veterans is constituted as follows: A. R. Conger, Akron, Ohio; Thomas Bennett, Richmond, Ind.; Washington Gardner, Albion, Mich.