TRIBUTE FROM THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC
That splendid soldier and generous gentleman, Major-General Oliver Otis Howard, sent the following letter to the Grand Army Encampment, assembled in thirty-eighth annual session at Boston, Massachusetts, August 15 to 20, 1904:
“Burlington, Vermont, August 10, 1904.
“To the G. A. R. assembled at Boston:
“Comrades,—Our Commander-in-Chief having already sent his subscription to the Memorial Volume to General Longstreet, written by his widow, I wish to join a list of subscribers to be forwarded from this encampment to Mrs. Longstreet, which we will request General Black to transmit with assurances of our regard and admiration for her great husband, whom we learned to fear on so many brilliant fields, and in a later day to admire for his noble qualities as citizen of the reunited nation.”
This tribute came to me accompanied by a delightfully long list of subscribers to this little volume. I would be pleased to print the list, but want of space forbids.