“An Executive Committee – A Grand Shooting Match – A Sub-Committee to Confer with the Ladies. etc.

The same issue of the Leader has a report of a meeting of this executive committee at which sub-committees were appointed as follows … Committee to select the grounds and make all necessary arrangements for the shooting match.  Mr. J.A. Taliaferro, Captain W.H. Robertson, Messrs. A.P. Cottrell, J.H. McCord, Warren Ware and T.C. Exum…”

Reference Data:

The Republian Campaign Text Book for 1882, by Republican Congressional Committee and William E. Nott, 1882, page 7