The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-22
THE VETERAN REUNIoN.
A Busy Week for Portland.


Saturday the executive committee met al
the Oaks and laid out the grounds for the Sol
diers and Sailors encampment. The headquar-
tiers for the Commander-in-Chief, Governor
and his staff and the executive committee will
be located on the point of land at the entrance
OF the Oaks from Green street and near the
pond. The tents of the veterans are located
on the opposite side of the opening from the
headquarters, and extending back among the
trees The grand stand and the large tent,
l50x5O feet, is located on the left hand side of
the street goir 9 from Green to Grove street
through the Oaks, on the bank near the pond.
Mr.. Gardiner, manager of the Telephone Ex-
change, has kindly furnished telephone for
the use of the veterans, and it will be placed
in the headquarters of the executive commit
tee.
Tomorrow the veterans will assemble and
the day will be devoted to getting the encamp-
ment into shape. There will be meetings of
regimental associations but purely for social
purposes. The real business of the reunion
will begin Wednesday.
The sham fight, Thursday, in the afternoon,
will be representation of the siege and sur
render OF Yorktown. The English and French
forces will be represented by our state militia,
and the Continental army by the veterans.
Washington, Lafayette, Rochambeau, Corn
wallis, &C., will be personated by military
men among us, who will present fac smile
OF the costumes supposed to have been worn
by those historic characters on that eventful
day, and all the incidents of the battle will be
portrayed. The ground selected for the fight
ION the plain adjoining Bran halls HilD is
well suited for it, and will prove great fea-
ture. Two thousand muskets and fifteen
pieces of artillery, the latter manipulated by
the naval brigade, will participate.
The bill of fare for the encampment will
consist of the following dishes, and % cents
will be charged for each meal: Baked beans,
corned beef, boiled ham, fish chowder, brown
Bread white bread, pilot bread, butter, cakes
and pastry, tea and coffee.
Military music will be furnished each day
and evening by Chandler.
An adjourned meeting of the 18th Maine
Regiment Association will be held at Army &
Navy Hall this evening at s o'clock.
The Navy Veterans win meet at the rooms
in Army and Navy Building this evening.
A number of veterans from Aroostook arriv-
ed on the train early Sunday morning.
The Gardiner, Pennington and Wilton G
A. B. Posts and other veteran organizations
have made arrangements to come to the re-
union. They will encamp as posts and have
their rations served in their own tents. The
Massachusetts association has made similar ar
rangements, with the exception that Mr. Lang
will feed them in his tent. A large number of
responses have been received from the men,
bers of the old 9th Maine expressing their in
terest and intention to be present at the re-
union. A movement is on foot among them
to act as skirmishers at the sham fight. They
would be particularly at home in this, as they
served in the Light Brigade with distinction in
the late war;
All com rades and regimental associations
are requested to report at headquarters execu-
tive committee on the encampment, for assign
ment OF quarters and for other necessary ar
rangements on their arrival in camp.
The papers in the State have quite generally
announced in connection with the coming re-
union of veterans, that the camp equipage
and arms, ammunition, etc., were furnished
by the State for the use of the veterans, which
is not the fact. The committee wish to cor
rect the error. All the camp equipage and
arms are furnished the veterans by the United
States government by s. resolve passed in Con-
gress Feb 10, 1881, as follows:
Resoloed, &C., That the Secretary of War is
hereby authorized to send from some con-
venient fort arsenal to be used at the soldiers
reunion TO DO held in Maine in 1881, such can
non, tents, muskets and equipments as can be
conveniently spared, the same to be returned
after the holding of said reunion in like good
condition as when received: Provided, That
all transportation of said articles to and from
the place of reunion to the fort or arsenal
shall be without expense to the government:
Provided further, That the Acknowledgement
of the State of Maine or other proper account
ing officer shall receipt for said articles in the
name of said State, and that such of them az
shall not be returned shall. be charged to said
State against its quota
The tents have been furnished from Phila-
delphia and the arms from the United States
arsenal at Augusta. and both the camp
equipage and arms are at the risk of the COM
mittee
The ammunition has been contracted for by
the committee and at their expense.