Rare Antique Society of the Army of the Potomac 1886-1890 Civil War Reunion Book

Description

Rare and Historic Antique 'Society of the Army of the Potomac 1886-1890'
Civil War Reunion Book
132-Years-Old
Hardcover Book with over 800+ Pages
I've seen the occasional original individual books on the Society of the Army of the Potomac reunions, but I can find no other books that include more than one reunion. This is an original book, not a reproduction. It is 132 years old and bears the name, rank, and signature of its original owner, Captain J.A. McMicken.
It is not only fascinating from a historical, Civil War, perspective, but it includes pages and pages of soldiers names and can be very useful for genealogy purposes as well.
Be sure to watch the video. The last part of it is flipping through the pages and pages of soldier names from one of the sections. Each section has just as many!
I've spent a great deal of time researching Captain McMicken and will include the information with the book. It is very clear that the Captain was a dedicated Patriot his entire life.
Provenance
Owner: James Alexander McMickin
Born February 2, 1842  -
Died November 2, 1901
Captain, 43rd Regiment NY Vols (New York Volunteers), 6th Corps., Army of the Potomac,
New York Commandery
1861-1865
Brevetted Major for Meritorious Service
Served with Major General George B. McClellan on the Peninsula Campaign in West Virginia and at the front in the battles of Antietam and Gettysburg.
Captain McMickin's Obituary from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, November 4, 1901:
Major James A. McMicken, who died Saturday, November 2, at his residence, 7 South Elliott Place, of heart failure, after an illness of only two days, was a veteran of the war of the Rebellion. He was born at Albany, N.Y. in 1844, and has resided in Brooklyn since 1865. He was attended in his last illness by Dr. J. Lester Keep. He served with high distinction with the Forty-third New York Volunteers as captain and was with McClellan on the Peninsula and at the front in the battles of Antietam and Gettysburg and was brevetted major for meritorious service. He was a member of the New York Stock Exchange for thirty-three years, and one of the oldest. He was a member of the Oxford Club, the Army and Navy, Loyal Legion, vice commander of the George Washington Post, the Seventh Regiment Veteran Association, Kismet Temple, and the Society of the Army of the Potomac. Three sons and two daughters survive Major McMicken. Funeral services Tuesday, November 5, at 4 p.m. at his late home.
This utterly fascinating book contains the "Report of Proceedings" of Society of the Army of the Potomac's following reunions:
Seventeenth Annual Reunion
Held in the City of San Francisco
August 2nd & 4th, 1886
Eighteenth Annual Reunion
Held at Saratoga Springs
June 22nd & 23rd, 1887
Nineteenth Annual Reunion
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
July 1st, 2d and 3d, 1888
Twentieth Annual Reunion
Held at Orange, N.J.
June 12th & 13th, 1889
Twenty-First Annual Reunion
Held at Portland, ME
July 3rd & 4th, 1890
Each reunion section contains details:
List of Officers - Minutes - Report of Treasurer - Oration - Banquet Proceedings - Letters and Dispatches - Memorial Page - Order and Specifications of Badge - Constitution - By-Laws - List of Members
In addition, the books includes fascinating details such as the reception received at the hosting cities, menus, speeches and more. Below are listed the many dignitaries who presented speeches, orations, and responses -- all are printed in each section of the book. Their words, written in contemporaneous time, are breathtaking.
17th Reunion Orators
Colonel Stuart Taylor
Governor Stoneman
Hon. Mayor Washington Bartlett
General Erasmus Darwin Keyes
General W.T. Sherman (William Tecumseh Sherman)
General Lucius Fairchild
General Horatio C. King
General Edward Selig Salomon
Colonel David Patterson Dyer
Colonel William Renwick Smedberg
Mr. Frank Morrison Pixley, Journalist
General James A. Beaver
Colonel Stuart Taylor
Mr. Fred Emerson Brooks
Senator Aaron Augustus Sargent
Ex-Governor Eli H. Murray
General John C. Black
Corporal James Tanner
18th Reunion Orators
Lieutenant Chauncey M. Depew
General William Tecumseh Sherman
General Henry Warner Slocum
General Daniel E. Sickles
Judge Henry Hilton
General John C. Black
General Judge Calvin E. Pratt
Professor Nathan Sheppard
General William Denison Whipple
Corporal James Tanner
General Daniel Butterfield
Mr. Wallace Bruce
General John C. Robinson
19th Reunion Orators
Honorable George William Curtis
General Newton Martin Curtis
General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Poet, George Parsons Lathrop
General Daniel E. Sickles
General John Brown Gordon (ex-Confederate)
Governor James A. Beaver
General Charles E. Hooker, M.C.
20th Reunion Orators
Mayor George H. Hartford
Governor Richard S. Green
General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Poet Will Carleton
Cortlandt Parker
General Oliver Otis Howard
Mr. C. G. Kidder
General Abner Doubleday
General/Senator William Joyce Sewell
Colonel Richard B. Irwin
Mr. F. D. Crozier
Rev. Dr. J. E. Rankin
21st Reunion Orators
Rev. Norman Fox, D.D.
Mayor, Major Holman Staples Melcher
General Charles H. T. Collis
Horatio King
General Francis A. Walker
General William Tecumseh Sherman
Hannibal Hamlin
General Oliver Otis Howard
General Charles Devens
General Fitz John Porter
General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Redfield Proctor, Secretary of War
General Selden Connor
Admiral Bancroft Gherardi
General Philippe Régis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand
Printed By: MacGowan & Slipper Printers, 30 Beekman St., New York
Book Binder: E. Walker's Son, Brooklyn, New York
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