NOTE. Attention is called to the postal card for acknowledgement enclosed with each book. About one-fourth of our members neglect to mail it. This acknowledgement with post office address is essential in the work of giving correct addresses. The list of dead shows those dying prior to the meeting of which the book is a report. While a number have died since our last meeting in Chicago, they are carried on our reports until the next meeting. This has always been the rule. Members should advise this office of any deaths among us, coming to their notice, and send any information, newspaper slips or otherwise, that will aid the Corresponding Secretary in writing a memorial. And our members should prepare a sketch of themselves and file it with the Corresponding Secretary for use in this respect when the time comes. Attention is called to the circular on page 218, issued by the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Commission, giving notice of a reunion at the Park on October 9th, 10th and 11th, 1900, for a general inspection of the work. CORNELIUS CADLE, CINCINNATI, OHIO, September 1, 1900. Recording Secretary. OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. 1899-1900. President, General GRENVILLE M. Dodge. Vice-Presidents, Captain L. H. CHAMBERLIN, Captain R. J. CHASE, Captain M. J. MCGRATH, Major F. P. MUHLENBERG, Captain F. H. MAGDEBURG, Captain G. A. BUSSE, Mrs. H. T. NOBLE, General J. C. BRECKINRIDGE, U. S. A., Mr. HUGH R. BELKNAP. Corresponding Secretary, General A. HICKENLOOPER. Treasurer, Major AUGUSTUS M. VAN DYKE. Recording Secretary, Colonel CORNELIUS CADLE. 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 their line of 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 on 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 VicePresidents 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-inarms 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: "The number of Vice-Presidents shall be twelve, instead of one from each Corps of the Army of the Tennessee." THIRD. "That each member may, subject to the approval of the President and a majority vote of the Society, at any annual meeting, designate by last will and testament, or otherwise, in writing, the relative to whom his membership shall descend, and in default of such designation, the same shall, subject to the same approval and vote, descend to his eldest son, and such membership, so descending, shall carry with it all the rights, privileges and obligations of original membership. That in case such deceased member has no son eligible to membership and has made no designation, then his widow, if she so desire, shall be considered an honorary member, and as such shall receive our care, consideration and respect, and shall be entitled to receive notices of proposed meetings and reports of proceedings." FOURTH. "That honorary members may be elected from those who served with honor and distinction in the Navy of the United States." FIFTH. That the Third Amendment to the Constitution be amended to read as follows: "That each member may, subject to the approval of the President and a majority vote of the Society, at any annual meeting, designate by last will and testament, or otherwise, in writing, the relative to whom his membership shall descend, and in default of such designation, the same shall, subject to the same approval and vote, descend to his eldest son, or no such son being alive, then to the grandson, to be designated by the nearest relatives of the deceased, and such membership, so descending, shall carry with it all the rights, privileges and obligations of original membership. That in case such deceased member has no son eligible to membership, and no grandson is designated, and has made no designation, then his widow, if she so desire, shall be considered an honorary member, and as such shall receive our care, consideration and respect, and shall be entitled to receive notices of proposed meetings and reports of proceedings." SIXTH. That the Fifth Amendment to the Third Amendment to the Constitution be amended to read as follows: "The sons and daughters, or other relatives, who have heretofore been designated by members as their successors, and also the sons and daughters, or other relatives, who may hereafter be nominated for membership by any such member, shall be entitled to membership, if of legal age, upon the payment of the fees and dues prescribed in the Third Amendment to the by-laws. "And the sons and daughters, and if there be none, the nearest relative, when of legal age, of any deceased officer who was entitled to membership by creditable service in the Army of the Tennessee, but who died without becoming a member of the Society, may, upon written application, approved by the President and a majority vote of the members present at any regularly called meeting of the Society, become a member, but any such membership shall be subject to the payment of the fees and dues heretofore specified." |