Morning journal and courier., 1882-06-27
9ournaI anb Courier.
Tuesday Mernins. June 27, 1882.
Decoration By the Grays.

Fine Appearance of Actives and Vet
 Wreaths.
 The decoration of the graves of fallen 'Grays" took place yesterday afternoon. The actives appeared in full ranks and the vete- rans, who were largely represented, present ed fine appearance in their new uniform coats of blue, double breasted with shoulder knots. The actives also wore white pants, as did other uniformed members in the line There was an elegant display of flowers, roses largely predominating. There were also large number of wreaths of evergreens and immortelles. When the companies left the armory shortly after o'clock, each member of the actives was supplied with bouquets and wreaths, the latter being thrown on the shoulder. The veterans were also abundantly supplied with handsome bou- quets. The line marched up Chapel street in the following order
 American Band.
 Active Grays, 35 men, Captain George s Arnold Veteran Grays uniformed. 40 men, Captain A. c. Hendrick, battalion comma der Company A, commanded by Lieutenant Gessner. Company B, unnamed by. .Lieutenant Dewell. Ununiformed Veteran Battalion, Colonel Samuel Tolles
 War Grays, Company A, 27th Conn. Vols The Grove street cemetery was first visit ed. In order to expedite the decoration services, the commands were divided into | three separate details who had specified | graves allotted to them to decorate. Detail | No. decorated in this cemetery the graves l of Captain E. S. Lines, Charles Bostwick, | Captain P s. Galpin, Captain E. s. Hitch | cock, Captain Dennis Kimberly, Lieutenant I Colonel H. c. Merwin and Captain Elijah | Thompson.
 Detail No. ? decorated the graves of Cap l tain Raymond A. White Private William M l Anderson, Colonel George s. Whiting, Fri, i vate D. Ie Roy Wilcox, Lieutenant Charles l w. Cornwell, Private Edward Cornwell Cap tain Prescott, Private Henry G. Smith, Pri- l vate w. H. Shiphard, Major E. Walter Os-
 borne. Captain Henry E. Peck.
 Those allotted to Detail No. were the
 graves of Lieutenant Charles F. Brown, Cap
 tain Jedediah Chapman Private Nelson A. | Hotchkiss, Colonel Noah Farnham, Captain
 John Galpin, Private Wells Davis, Captain | Charles Nicholl, Captain John H. Cooley, l Captain John Ritter, Captain J. F. Cleveland,
 Musician William Bishop.
 The decoration was performed with un- I covered heads and in the presence of many | of the friends of the dead The line of
 march was then taken up for the Evergreen
 cemetery where the ceremonies were performed under the same circumstances, l Detail No 1 decorating the graves of Sergt. | R. H White, Lieutenant Albert Sharp, Cor poral W. A. Goodwin, Private E.. c. Hazard,
 Captain W. G. Howarth, Sergeant s. P. | Bowles, Musician H. o. Thomas, Private
 Fred Douglass; Detail No. ?, graves of
 Private John E. Chard, Sergeant E
 w. Hotchkiss, Captain George S..
 Northrop, Private Charles T. Linds. ley, Sergeant John E. Daley Detail
 No 3, the graves of Private August Scharf, Sergeant E J. Fox, Private Harry c Bowers,
 Private E. B Monson, Corporal George E.. l Edwards. Private Gus Rodugue, Private l Albert M Foote.
 | The donations of flowers were very ele- | gant, in particular those of General Merwin, Mrs Minott A. Osborn, J D. Dewell the Cedar street school, and the relatives of John 1 E. Daley, George Edwards Henry o. Thom- as, William Goodwin and Jedediah Chapman. 1 One of the most unique designs was that of parasol of roses daisies and pinks. given 1 by Charles Barnes