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Tennessee (SOCIETY OF THE ARMY)

SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE, the second society composed of soldiers organized during the Civil War. The preliminary meeting for the formation of the society was held in the Senate Chamber at the State capitol, Raleigh, N. C., April 14, 1865. Memin the Senate Chamber at the State capiofficers who had served with the Old Army of the Tennessee. The society erected in Washington, at a cost of $50,000, a handsome bronze statue of erected in Washington, at a cost of placed an appropriate memorial, costing $23,000, over the grave of Maj. Gen.

James B. McPherson, at Clyde, O., an placed an appropriate memorial, costing in Washington, and a monument in born in London in 1820. He was almost entirely self-taught, and his first picture was exhibited while he was little more and produced but few pictures afterward. than a boy. He painted one of the fresand produced but few pictures afterward. In 1851 he became connected as an illustrator with "Punch," and contributed illustrations to that paper, in particular illustrated many Christmas and other goldsby Legends," "Alice's Adventures in goldsby goldsby Legends," "Alice's Adventures in 1893. He died in 1914.