The meeting adjourned at 3.15 P. M.
Charles A. Snow, Chaplain and Secretary.
The Third Regimental Association met at Brockton, July 27, 1893. They were received royally by Fletcher Webster Post, G. A. R., who entertained them in their Post Hall, presenting each with a neat white badge bearing the inscription, “Brockton, Third Massachusetts Regimental Association, 1893.”
After the exchange of greetings, quite a number meeting their comrades for the first time since the mustering out of the regiment thirty years ago, the members of the Association took the electrics to Highland Park, where the business of the day was transacted.
At 11 A. M. the meeting was called to order by the president, who in his address emphasized the necessity and the duty of the living to stand firm and exhibit the spirit of fraternity, loyalty, and charity, ever keeping in mind those noble principles of patriotism which prompted them to enlist in the service of our country.
The report of the last meeting was read and adopted. The treasurer reported cash on hand at the beginning of the present year, $37.40; paid out $6.25; balance on hand, $31.15. The report was adopted. Comrade Atwood reported that two hundred badges had been procured, and fifty were still on hand for members who wished to purchase. His report was accepted. It was voted that the names of deceased members be placed on the Roll of Honor, and that notice of the same be sent to the family of each. It was voted that the present officers be continued another year. They are as follows: President—Col. Silas P. Richmond; Vice-Presidents—Capt. A. R. Wright, Maj. T. B. Griffith, Maj. W. E. Mason; Treasurer—J. C. Hitch; Secretary and Chaplain—C. A. Snow. Capt. A. R. Wright was added to the Executive Committee. Executive Committee—C. P. Lyon, B. S. Atwood, S. F. Brayton, R. A. Soule, P. Cannavan, J. L. Wilber, J. Gibbs, A. Ingraham, C. E. Churchill, G. A. Grant, T. B. Griffith, A. R. Wright, C. C. Doten and A. S. Cushman.
Comrades Gibbs and Lyon were appointed to solicit funds from the members, and they succeeded to the amount of $45. It was voted that the next meeting be held in Plymouth on the last Thursday in July, 1894.
Business being ended the Association adjourned at 12.15 P. M., and the comrades sat down to tables in the grove, where a splendid dinner had been prepared by the Fletcher Webster Women’s Relief Corps, No. 7. The comrades will long remember the cordial greetings of the G. A. R. Post and the W. R. C. of Brockton.
Charles A. Snow, Secretary.