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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
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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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