CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE I.

The Association shall be known as "THE SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE." and shall include every officer who has served with honor in that Army.

Honorary members may be elected from those who have served with honor and distinction in any of the Armies of the United States.

ARTICLE II.

The object of the Society shall be to keep alive and preserve that kindly and cordial feeling which has been one of the characteristics of this Army during its career in the service, and which has given it such harmony of action, and contributed, in no small degree, to its glorious achievements in our country's

cause.

The fame and glory of all the officers belonging to this Army, who have fallen either on the field of battle, or in the line of their duty, shall be a sacred trust to this Society, which shall cause proper memorials of their services to be collected and preserved, and thus transmit their names with honor to posterity.

The families of all such officers who shall be in indigent circumstances will have a claim upon the generosity of the Society, and will be relieved by the voluntary contributions of its members whenever brought to their attention. In like manner, the fame and suffering families of those officers who may hereafter be stricken down by death shall be a trust in the hands of their survivors.

ARTICLE III.

For the purpose of accomplishing these objects, the Society shall be organized by the annual election of a President and Vice-Presidents. The Vice-Presidents to be chosen, one from each Army Corps of the old Army of the Tennessee, and a Corresponding and a Recording Secretary.

The Society shall meet once in every year, and those officers who, for any cause, are unable to attend its meeting, will be expected to write to the Corresponding Secretary of the Society, and impart such information in regard to themselves as they may desire, and which may be of interest to their brother officers. Honoring the glorious achievements of our brothers-in-arms belonging to other armies, whose services have contributed, in an equal degree, in the re-establishment of our Government, and desiring to draw closer to them in the bonds of social feeling, the President or either of the Vice-Presidents of this Society shall be authorized to invite the attendance of any officer of the United States Army at any of our annual meetings.

AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

FIRST. That the first sentence of the third article of the Constitution be amended so as to read as follows:

'The Society shall be organized by the annual election of a President and six Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, and a Treasurer."

SECOND. That article third of the Constitution be amended so as to read as follows, viz:

"The number of Vice-Presidents shall be twelve, instead of one from each Corps of the Army of the Tennessee.”

BY-LAWS.

ARTICLE I.

All persons applying previous to, on, or after the annual meeting in eighteen hundred and seventy, (1870), for enrollment, shall pay a membership fee of ten dollars, ($10); that the annual dues shall continue to be one dollar, ($1), and persons applying for membership shall pay back dues; that all fees and dues are payable to the Recording Secretary, and all money received by him on account of the Society shall be transferred to the Treasurer; and that all money received as fees shall by the Treasurer be added to the Permanent Fund.

ARTICLE II.

Money for ordinary expenses of the Society may be expended by the Treasurer upon the warrant of the President. All other expenditures, only in pursuance of a vote of the Society.

ARTICLE III.

The Treasurer shall make a report to the annual meeting of all receipts and expenditures with vouchers.

The Recording Secretary shall report to the annual meeting all money received by him, and all transferred by him to the Treasurer.

The Corresponding Secretary shall report to every meeting all correspondence of general interest.

ARTICLE IV.

All questions and resolutions shall be decided by a majority of the members present. But amendments proposed to the Constitution shall be acted upon only at the annual meeting subsequent to the one at which they may be proposed, unless the postponement be dispensed with by a vote of two-thirds of the members present.

ARTICLE V.

The order of Business shall be as follows:

1. Reading of the journal of the previous meeting.

2.

Appointment of committees on business and for nomination of officers. 3. Receiving reports.

4.

Current business.

5. Election of officers.

6. Adjournment.

ARTICLE VI.

If the Society shall, at any meeting, omit to designate the time and place of the next meeting, the President shall, by due public notice, fix the time and place.

SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE, Ì
CINCINNATI, OHIO, April 6, 1871.

At the last reunion of the Society, held in Louisville, Kentucky, it was decided to hold the fifth reunion in this city, the time for the same being left to the decision of your President. On the 15th of February last he issued the following circular, duly transmitted by the Corresponding Secretary, viz:

SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE. )
WASHINGTON, D. C., February 15, 1871. ་

To the Members Society of the Army of the Tennessee:

The fifth regular meeting of the Society will be held in Cincinnati, on the 6th and 7th days of April next, convening at 10 o'clock A. M. on the 6th inst. Colonel John W. Noble, of the 3rd Iowa Cavalry, will deliver the annual address, and suitable arrangements for the meeting will be made by the Local Committee.

Officers who have at any time served with honor in the Army and Department of the Tennessee, are, by our Constitution, entitled to membership, and they, and members of kindred societies, are cordially invited to attend. GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN,

L. M. DAYTON,

President.

Recording Secretary.

A. HICKENLOOPER,

Corresponding Secretary.

On the 22nd of the same month your President issued a circular as follows:

SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
WASHINGTON, D. C., February 22, 1871.

Officers of the Army of the Tennessee:

You are respectfully notified that the following named persons have been selected as the Executive Committee of Arrangements for the fifth annual

reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, to be held at Cincinnati, April 6th and 7th, 1871.

General L. E. Yorke, General A. Hickenlooper, Colonel L. M. Dayton, General M. F. Force, Colonel C. W. Moulton, Major J. S. Wise, and Captain L. E. Mills.

W. T. SHERMAN,

President.

L. M. DAYTON,

Recording Secretary, Cincinnati, O.

A. HICKENLOOPER,

Corresponding Secretary, Cincinnati, O.

This committee having secured the use of Pike's Opera-house, the Society assembled there and was called to order by your President, promptly as appointed, and proceeded to the transaction of business. The first in order being the reading of the records of the last annual meeting by the Secretary. During the progress of their being read, on motion of Colonel C. Cadle:

Resolved, That as most of, if not all those present have read the printed report of the proceedings of our last meeting, as prepared by the Secretary, the reading of them at this time be dispensed with and the report be accepted and spread upon the records of the Society.

On motion:

Resolved, That a committee of seven be appointed to nominate officers for the Society for the ensuing year.

The President announced the committee to consist of the following gentlemen: General R. P. Buckland, General W. E. Strong, Colonel A. H. Markland, General W. Q. Gresham, Colonel J. H. How, General J. M. Thayer and General Wager Swayne. On motion of Colonel Slack:

Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to report on the place and time of holding the next annual meeting.

The President announced the committee to consist of Generals J. R. Slack, McArthur, and Kimball, and Colonels Cadle and W. S. Jones.

No other business presenting under this head, receiving reports was next in order. The Recording Secretary presented and read as follows:

RECORDING SECRETARY'S REPORT.

SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
CINCINNATI, April 6, 1871.

GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN,

President:

To you, as the presiding officer of our Society, and thus to our members, I desire, in accordance with our By-Laws, to make the following report.

My last report was made at the annual meeting in Louisville on November 17th, 1869. Since that date up to the present there has been paid me by members, monies as follows:

Which has been duly transmitted to the Treasurer, whose receipts for same has been filed with the records of the Society. To all persons who have paid money to me since the organization of the Society, I have transmitted a receipt for same. That none should be under misapprehension, I sent to each member a notice of his financial standing, one in February, 1870, and duplicated the notice in July, 1870, both of which were duly transmitted by your Corresponding Secretary.

I will now ask your indulgence while mentioning the manner in which other duties which you placed upon me at your last meeting, though not strictly coming under the head of this report, have been performed. By your resolution, I was required to have printed six hundred copies of the Certificate of Membership from the design adopted by the Society. This I had done and the members were notified in February and July that they were ready for distribution as soon as applied for. Up to the present time 125 members have applied for certificates and they were filled out, handed over to your Corresponding Secretary and duly transmitted. The blank certificates I now have ready for delivery to my successor in office.

Your President and myself were required by resolution to cause the proceedings of your last meeting to be printed for distribution. By reason of your President being occupied by duties incident to his public position, this matter has mostly devolved upon myself. A faithful transcript of those proceedings were made and one thousand copies printed. On the first of March, 1870 they were transmitted to your Corresponding Secretary for distribution. I have also, during the period named, made a list of the organizations that served in the Army of the Tennessee, showing the names or designation of each regiment, battalion and company of cavalry and infantry and each battery of artillery, both of regular and volunteer troops. It was also my hope to have at this meeting a list of names with rank, of such officers as served in the Army of the Tennessee, but my whole time for more than a year