Surviving members of the Eighth Kansas Veteran Volunteer Infantry, to the number of about one hundred, assembled at Camp Pope, on the Fort Leavenworth reservation, on the 10th, 11th and 12th of October, 1883. The headquarters of the “Society of the Eighth Kansas” were established in a tent opposite the general headquarters for the soldiers’ reunion, designated by a banner bearing the following inscription: HEADQUARTERS EIGHTH KANSAS VOL. INFANTRY. 3d Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Army Corps, 1st Brigade, 3d Division, 4th Army Corps, ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND. Beneath this was painted the badge of the Third Division, Fourth Army Corps—to which the regiment was longest attached—a blue triangle, bearing the names of the most prominent engagements in which the Eighth took part, viz.: PERRYVILLE. LANCASTER. BRENTWOOD PIKE. TULLAHOMA. CAPERTON’S FERRY. CHICAMAUGA. CHATTANOOGA. ORCHARD KNOB. MISSION RIDGE. KNOXVILLE CAMPAIGN. DANDRIDGE. KENNESAW MOUNTAIN. PEACH TREE CREEK. CHATTAHOOCHIE. ATLANTA. LOVEJOY STATION. NASHVILLE. On the afternoon of October 10th the roll was called by companies, and the day was spent in social greetings, in revisiting Fort Leavenworth, and in reviving recollections of the campaigns in which the command took part. The Society elected the following officers for the ensuing year, viz.: _President_—Colonel John A. Martin. _Vice-President_—Lieutenant-Colonel John Conover. _Secretary_—Sergeant Chas. W. Rust. _Treasurer_—Lieutenant David Baker. At the conclusion of the exercises in the “big tent,” the President, Colonel John A. Martin, delivered the following address, which was ordered printed in pamphlet form, together with the proceedings of the reunion and the names of those in attendance: COMRADES OF THE EIGHTH KANSAS: There is always a charm in revisiting once familiar places after a long absence, and to a Kansas soldier this reservation will ever possess a fascinating interest. Here nearly all the troops young Kansas sent to the war were organized or equipped. And to those who were mustered here; who slept for the first time under canvas in the old blue-grass pasture, and there ate for the first time a soldier’s fare, Fort Leavenworth will always be holy ground.