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History of
The Cincinnati Society
of
EX ARMY AND NAVY OFFICERS
with the
NAME, ARMY RECORD AND RANK
of the Members
Alphabetically Arranged
Written by A. H. Mattox
Cincinnati:
Peter G. Thomson, Publisher
1880

Pages:

Preface

7-20

21-40

41-60

61-80

81-100

101-120

121-140

141-160

161-180

181-200

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     The long struggle of our Government with rebellion, closed gloriously and triumphantly on the 9th day of April 1865.
     On the now historic ground at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, in the balmy spring-time, and 'neath the sweetly-fragrant apple blossoms, General ROBERT E. LEE surrendered his command to General U. S. GRANT.  The soldiers of the Confederate army - the army of the Rebellion, that for over four years had fought with a desperation, almost without parallel in history, to destroy the union, on that day, and at that place, acknowledged defeat, and took up the lonely march to their homes - to homes, that, but a few years before, when they left them, were so beautiful, but now were found desolate and barren, made so, by the ravages of war.
     On that memorable day the "bonnie blue flag' was furled forever.  "Away Down South in Dixie," as a National air of the Confederacy, was played for

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the last time; the beauty of the "Confederate Gray" faded away forever - its significance was lost for all time, and the "Cause of Rebellion" was at once and unanimously, by North and South, and by all civilized nations, condeded a "Lost" one.  The rebel guns were stacked; the knapsacks unslung; the cartridge-box laid aside; the sword sheathed; the last bugle call sounded, and then, comrades bade each other a tearful adieu and the Confederate soldier passed away to be known no more, except upon the eternal pages of history.
     In the summer of 1874, a little more than nine years after the battle flags of the Southern Confederacy had been draped in the crape of complete defeat and when again the stars and stripes were floating with benign beauty over North and South, bestowing a benison, alike upon those who had been true and faithful to its colors and upon those who had deserted them, and imparting the choicest boons once more upon a Union of States, the "CINCINNATI SOCIETY OF EX-ARMY AND NAVY OFFICERS" had its birth.
     During the summer of the year mentioned, a few congenial Ex-Army officers, residents of Cincinnati, occasionally met by chance or accident, on the street; at the noon-day lunch "on 'Change," or elsewhere, and the course of their conversation, like the rivers, flowing in a natural channel, glided along the banks and in the streamlets that led to happy reminiscences of army life, and back to "the days when they were soldiers."
     Among these kindred spirits were Colonel John

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Kennett, General Manning F. Force, Colonel Hunter Brooke, Colonel G. C. Kniffin, Colonel Stanley Matthews, Captain Flamen Ball, Jr., Colonel H. G. Kennet, Captain J. O. Stanage, Major Mark Hollingshead, Captain J. C. Cochran, Major Frank J. Jones, Colone H. E. Collins, Colonel A. E. Jones, Major Wm. Este, General A. Hickenlooper, Colonel L. M. Dayton, and others.
     In the months ........ MORE TO COME

 

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PRESIDENT.
Colonel L. M. DAYTON.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.
 

 

SECRETARY,

 

TREASURER.

 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

 

 

 

 

 

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