Military Reunion Gathering, 1877

Proceedings of the Reunion Society of Vermont Officer, The Fourteenth Reunion, Dec 13, 1877 -- met at the St J House during the day, and in the evening assembled there and "marched to Athenaeum Hall, where the annual address was delivered by Lieutenant-Colonel Roswell Farnham." Full text of speech available as a PDF.

Farnham became Vermont's 38th governor (1880-1882). UVM has the Farnham papers: http://cdi.uvm.edu/findingaids/collection/farnhamr.ead.xml

His photo here is from the Wikipedia site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_Farnham