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CAPT. WILLIAM H. PATTERSON, Commander of D. B. P. Molt Post No. 527, G. A. R., who has been desig¬ nated as the delegate of the Grand Army men of Nassau and Suffolk cotinties to aitend the Nalional (jrand Army Encampment at Wash¬ ington, D, C, from Sept. 27 to Oct. :'.. Otlier Grand Army men of the two counties will acopmpany him.
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Chief Feature of This Memorial Pageant—Union and Confedrate Veterans to Fraternize on the Occasion of SOth Anniversary
(By Special Correspondent.) Fifty years ago the United States had in the field an army of one rniMion men. It was the largest and most efflcient army of thoroughly equipped, highly trained veteran troops, in the pink of condition, which the world had seen up to that time.
President Johnson and Lieutenant General Grant reviewed thouaands irn thouaands of theae magniflcent troops as they marched from the Capitol down Pennaylvania avenue, past the White House, in Waahlngton to celebrate the cloae of the Civil War flfty yeara ago. In commemoration of this unprecedented review of troopi the Grand Army of the Republic, with a lamentably amall number of the men who marched on that day, will repeat the pageant on September 29 of this year. President Wilson will stand where stood Johnaon and Grant and will receive the salutes of the veterans of flfty years ago—men now nearly all past 70 yeara old.
The forty-ninth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Repub- M(, of which this memorial pageant will be the chief feature, will be held In Washington from Sept. 27 to Oct. 3. It wlll be followed immediately by a great conference of military men and civilians from every part of the United States.
Impressive heyond measure wlll be the review of Sept. 29. It will be the last march of moat of the veterans, now dwindled in numbers to a few
paltry thousands. It will certainly be
the last encampment of the G. A. R. in Washington, and doubtless the la&c large encampment anywhere. It will be the fit sequel to the wonderful re¬ union at Gettysburg on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of that bloody battle. As on that Held Union and Confederate veterans fraternized, so have Confederates—officers of all he Confederate veterans' associations of the South —been invited to take part.
The great review of the Army of the I'ntomaf and of the army of 65,000 which Sherman lod through the South occupied two full days—May 23 and 'I. 1,S(;5. The review this year will last but two hours and a half, and it will embrace tin? remnants of all of lhe armies of Ibo I'nion in the Civil VVar as well as several regular army and navy organizations of today and militia resimonis whicii will come to honnr tho veterans.
When those veterans marched in their first review along Pennsylvania avenue there was a feeling of e.Nulta- tion throughoul the northern part of the United States such as this coun¬ try had never seen since the winnin.s; of its independence. On May 26. I,'Ull.'l. the Confederate General Kirby Smith, who had control of all Con¬ federate trnops west of the Mississippi Kivor, surrendered to thn Union forces in that vicinity. This marked tbe end of the war. Leo had surrendered at Appomattox after a fight that will never be forgotien aa long as the na¬ tion lasts. Jolmson surrendered to Sherman further South. In all I T1,- 223 Confederal ¦ soldiers all that were left of a tremendous host—laid down their arms to the federal com¬ manders and were released on parole. The news of the surrender of Kirby Smith and the end of armed opposition to the federal government naturally raised the spirits of the Northerners, and of the armies especially, to the liighest pitch.
There was only one thing to mar the joy of the occa.sion in Washington
close to 100,000 visitors in the capital city.
The commander in chief of thc Grand Army today is David J. Palmer of Des Moines, Iowa. The dimin¬ ishing hosts will have amon.g its leail- ers the very man who led Sherman's first regiment in 1.S65. namely. Col¬ onel George A. Bosley, who was lieu¬ tenant colonel of the Twenty-fifth Iowa regiment.
Lieutenant Geheral Xel.<on A. Mile.-;, retired, of the regular army, will be grand marshal of the memorial pag¬ eant. Lindk y M. Garrison, Secretary of War, and Jo.sephus Daniels, Secre¬ tary of the Nav>-. will each designate an oflicer to act, respectively, as mili¬ tary and naval aid to General Nelson -Miles. Tho oflicers of the Grand Army will be escorted by the Sons of Vet¬ erans. Tbe special escort to Com mander in Cliief Palmer will be the U. S. Grant Po,';t. of Brooklyn, N. Y.
A speciiil court nt lionor is to be erected in front of the White House, from which President Wilson and bis Cabinet will review tbo veterans.
Becau.'ie the forthcoming reunion will undonhlodly be the las! at wliicli tbe veterans will asseinlili' in Wasli¬ ington a special effort is being niadi^ to bring tliere at that time the sur¬ viving great leaders of the Civil War. .Among those arc the only two living corps commanders, General James II. Wilson of Wilniinston, l>el.. and Gen¬ eral Grenville M. Dodjie of Couiieil Bluffs. Iowa, also division command¬ ers. General Adelbert Ames of Mis¬ sissippi, Cicnieral D. MeM. Cregg oi Pennsylvania, General Lewis A, Grant of Minnesota, General J. War¬ ron Keifer of Obio. who is also a vet¬ eran of the Spanish-.American War. and Bri.gadier General John T, Wild¬ er of Knoxville, Tenn.
.Arrangements have been made for an exhibition drill of artillery and cavalry of the regular army from Fort Myer on Ihe grounds surround
hut It'was enough to be on tho minds '"K »h<^ Washington Monument. Sec
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of every man and woman who wit nessed or read of the great and tri¬ umphant review. Walt Whitman has '"scribed the feeling of the people on that occasion In his immortal poem, which begins:
"O captain! niv capt.nn: eur fcniful trip
is dono: The Hhlfi has weath- reil every r:irl<, the
Iirize we soupbt Is won; The port Is near, thi' bolls I he.Tr, the
lieonle all exultiriK, While follow eyes the steady keel, the
vissel jrrim and d.Trhifr."
But the poet adds:
"My captain does not an.swer, his lips are pnic and still."
.And the reason:
'Kxult, O .shores, ami rin«. O bells!
But I with mournful tre.id Walk the deck my eaptaLn Ilea, ;
Fallon cold and dead," j
Lincoln was dead, assassinated on the night of April 14, only a Utile more than a month before. The man who had been commander in chief of these vast armies, who had worked and prayed for fonr long, dreary years for victory, who had won the love and admiration of bolh Norlh and South, was not there to see the joy of the people and to receive the salutes of tho veterans who bad won the vic¬ tory.
On May 1, 1865, many more than a million men were under arma in the Northern armies. Hy November 10 of the same year there were only 183,- 000 Union soldiers under arms. Ap¬ proximately 800,000 soldiers had been mustered out and returned to their I homea in six month.s. There were no 'liRiiirbances. All returnedto peace¬ ful occupations with a great sigh of relief.
The statlBtlcs of the; Civil War are highly Interesting. It has been care¬ fully figured out that there were 2,- 898,304 enlistments Ip the Union armies during the war and approxi¬ mately 1,400,000 in the Confederate armies. Reduced to the three-year period, there were the equivalent of l..'i.'".6,67S enlistments in the Union armies and 1,082,119 in the Con¬ federate armies. The Union casualties were 67,0.'58 killed In battle, 43,012 died of wounds, 224,."iSe died from diseaae, 24,872 died from accidenta and other cauaea; lotal deaths, 359,- .528; total wounded and recovere(l. 27,5,17.''). The Confederates had 94,- 000 killed or dead from wounds In battle and 164,000 lost by disease or other causes.
Waahlngton la making vast prepar¬ ations for the reception of the veter¬ ans this month. "The War and Navy departments will lend a helping hand, and everything will be done to make the visitors have the time of their lives. Conservative estimates of the number of old soldiers who will be In Waahlngton tq attend the encamp¬ ment place the* flgare at 30,000. This meana that with their famlllea, friends and allied organtzations there will be
retary Daniels has ordered marines and bluejackets from nearby vessels of the navy to take part in the pa¬ rade, and small vessels of the navy will come tip the Potomac River so that the veterans can see them. There wlil be military aeroplane and hydro¬ plane flights over the city to show tho difference between war loday and flfiy years ago.
Colonel John M. McElroy. editor of Ihe National Tribune, which is the official G. A. R, publication, has pre¬ pared an elaborate system of regis¬ tration so that the veterans will he ahle to flnd their comrades of former days wilh as little inconvenience as possible.
Incle Sam for the first time in the nation's history has consented to tem¬ porarily relinquish control of one of his greatest treasures for the benefit
of the veterans—namely, the Wash¬ ington collection of historic flags of the Republic. Many attempts have been made in the past to borrow theije arnty and navy flags for pairiotic gatherings, but the government has never before consented to let them go (eit of its hands .At the National Museum there will be on view a won¬ derfully interesting collertion of war reli<8, as. for instance, a hullet-rld- dled stump, which tells the story of the battle of Spotsylvania Courl House, and old uniforms worn in the (ield hy General Grant.
.Many thousands of Ihe G. .A. K. vottrans wil! remain in Washington for lho great National Defence Con- "eiiuco In follow from Oct. 4 to 7. Representative .lulius Kahn of Cali¬ fornia, president, and Senator Robert F, l'.rouss;ird of Louisiana, vice-presi¬ dent of the .N'ational Defence League, will preside al tbe conference. ' Tbe Navy League, .N'ational Rifli- .Associa¬ tion of Amerlea and tuiuierniis olher patriotic bodii-.^ will participate in Ihe confereni e. It will be addresse<l by Secretaries Daniels and Garrison and other prominent aiieakers. II Is expected lo he ono of the largest .ualberinp.s over held in this country.
Four orKti'iii'atioim of women allied
with the Grand Army will take pari. in the encampment as well as in th* National Defence Conferenca Thay are the Woman's Relief Corps, th* Woman's Auxiliary to the Sona of Veterans, the Ladies of the Q. A. R. and the Daughters of Veterans. Tboa" sanda of membera of these bodies wlll ! be In Waahlngton. The Woman's Ra- ; lief Corps, the offlclal auxiliary of the |G. .A. R.. is the largest philanthropic I charitable and patriotic organitatioa In the world, comprlalng a member¬ ahip of 167,000.
The Covernora of all the States and their staffa have been Invited t» attend the encampment, and many of them have accepted. They, too, wlll take part In the National Defeaee Conference.
One of the mo.«t intereating re¬ unions during the encampment will be that of the bodyguard of President Lincoln, known as the Union Light Guard. While talking with Mr. Stan¬ ton. Secretary of War In 1863. the Governor of Ohio offered to obtain a bodyguard for Lincoln. Secretarr Stanton accepted the offer. The Oov¬ ernor then asked for a picked man from each county In Ohio for volun¬ tary special service. One hundred and eight men reaponded, believing that they were volunteering to lead some "forlorn hope" and never expecting to see their homes again. They were organized into a company by Captain Elmer Otis. Fourih United Siatea cav¬ alry, and left for Washington Dec. 88, l.Sti.l, reporting to the Secretary ot War and learning for the flrst time of tluir duties. They were quartered near the While House and alwaya some of them were on duty near the President.
¦Vfl or tbe war they scattered tliroughout the world, but recently nine of tbem got together and or¬ ganized.
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