MEMORIAL — HENRY HITCHCOCK xlv 



from October i, 1864, to the close of the war served as Judge Advo- 

 cate on the personal staff of General Sherman. He was with the 

 latter on the ' ' March to the Sea ' ' and in the subsequent campaign 

 through the Carolinas, and carried to "Washington the dispatches 

 announcing the "Sherman-Johnston truce." He was brevetted 

 Lieutenant-Colonel, and honorably mustered out of service on June 

 23, 1865. 



After the war he spent four months in European travel. Five 

 years later, owing to the failure of his health, he made a voyage to 

 visit his brother, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, who was then engaged 

 in business in Hongkong, China, and is at present Secretary of 

 the Interior. 



In August, 1 87 1, he was one of the delegates who organized at 

 Newport, R, I., the National Civil Service Reform League, and 

 from that date was a member of its Executive Committee. He was 

 one of the fourteen signers of the call which resulted in the forma- 

 tion, in August, 1878, at Saratoga, N. Y., of the American Bar 

 Association, and served several years on standing and special com- 

 mittees, notably on the Committee on the Relief of the United 

 States Supreme Court. He prepared the majority report advoca- 

 ting the plan afterward substantially followed by Congress in creating 

 United States Circuit Courts of Appeal. He was elected President 

 of the Association in 1889. 



In 1880 he helped organize the Missouri State Bar Association, 

 of which he was President in 1881. 



In April, 1896, he was a delegate from Missouri to the American 

 Conference on International Arbitration, held at Washington, D. C. , 

 and took part in its debates, earnestly advocating an international 

 arbitration treaty with England. 



He delivered addresses on various subjects of professional and 

 public interest, including the annual address before the New York 

 State Bar Association in January', 1887, on "American State Con- 

 stitutions," afterwards published in the series called " Questions of 

 the Day ; " the annual address before the American Bar Association 

 the same year on " General Corporation Laws ; " in March, 1889, 

 an address before the Political Science Association of the University 

 of Michigan, on the " Development of the Constitution as Influenced 

 by Chief Ju.stice Marshall," which, with other lectures by well- 

 known lawyers, was published in a volume entitled "Constitutional 

 Law;" and at the centennial celebration of the organization of the 



