Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-18
THE TENTS PITCHED,
All the Preparations for the Great Drill
at Nashville COmplete-The City
Beautifully Decorated.
Meeting OF the Tennessee Soldiers AS
ISOLATION Next Tuesday-The State
Debt Settlement,



petitiye drill next week. All the companies
from New Orleans and seven from Iowa will
arrive here Monday morning. The Law
renee Light Infantry ia now on It's way from
Boston. Gen. Peter Tracy lie having the
governors stand erected in the lot in which
will be displayed the fireworks. He will
have seats in it for representatives of the
daily press. He named the stand In honor
of Gov. Bate.
Special Correspondence of the Appeal
NAsHvIILs, Nay Street and house
decoration In now the order of the day in
preparation for the great drill. All the pub
lie buildings and many business houses
already make handsome display, and by
Monday the principal theroughfares of the
city will be one mass of bunting and hags.
The scene at the Fair Grounds is busy one.
Mr.. w. c. Smith, the architect, and his
assistants we're busy all yesterday afternoon
laying out the plan of encampment, which
is On the same principle az is used in the
regular United States army. The tents will
be pitched on the upper hslf.mile of the old
race-track, Oh what is known a. Allisen's
paddock, and the ground will be spread with
wheat straw. The lodges are of two classes
one class measuring inside eight by twelve
feet and the other Elk by nine feet. The
former are intended to contain five and the
latter three men. The tents will be divided
into rows by streets running between them.
The color line is run on thu brow of the hill,
twenty feet south eff the old mile track fence.
In the center o. the line of the course the
hag-pole Kill Sc placed. Sixty feet south of
the cSIor line, on a line running east and
west, the width OF the encampment, are the
Chcers' tents. These tents are placed two
together so as to accommodate one set OF off.
GERS, and the next officers quarters are thirty
four feet from the fcst, and the next sixteen
feet from the second, the distances thus al
ternating between the officers quarters along
the whole line go TO run them ss nearly
opposite the quarters Of their men as pos
| sible aud forming fourteen sets of
quarters. The tents for the men will be run
in squares, the first at the west end
of the line being ten feet wide and running
| north and south 200 feet. Between this and
the next square ia an avenue fifty feet wide,
| aud on the east side of this avenue another
block OF tents is run also ten feet wide. This
| latter block has q companion block of the
| same Dimensions running parallel with it
aud four feet from it. This order ia con-
| tiuued for the next five blocks, when along
side of the avenue of fifty feet ruu north and
south. Alongside of the sixth double block
| is a single block of tents ten feet wide, as in
| the first instance. This order will be con-
| tinued throughout the whole encampnent,
though only the portion already described
has been laid cut go far. All Of the tents
| will be placed on the grounds TO day, and
the rect OF the surveying done before night.
| All the tents will be pitched by Saturday
| night.
DRUM TAPS.
The Crescent II fiss will bring forty-eight
| men.
Tent accommodations have been prepared
for 2500 men.
Season tickets will cost So so. No COM
| plimentaries will be issued.
| TIE Judges will arrive here Saturday,
bringing the programme with them.
The Quapaw Guards, Of Little Rock, have
| informed the ommiitee that they will be
unable to participate in the drill.
The programme Of the drill will be handed
to the captain of each company five minutes
before the time for his company to enter the
arena.
The drill ground, by actual measurement
is 1856 feet lorg aud 135 feet wide. This
does not include the track between the am
phitheater and drill ground proper, which
makes it 400 by $50 feet. RAIL.
| n eet1uK OF Inc IeAueesoe bOiuIeEs AS
| soeiaiiOD.
Special Correspondence OF the Appeal
NASHVILLE, May 16 L inclose for pub
LEGATION in the APPEAL a circular to carry
out the purposes for which meeting of thu
Tennessee Soldiers' Association has beer
called to be held in this city at the capito
on Tuesday next, the 22d instant, which
all old soidiers visiting Nashville at thu
time are requested TO attend:
TO THE SOLDIERS OF TENNESSEE:
Historical records can be correctly made b,
| those alone who participated in the events. Tn
Tennessee soldiers Association proposes to gsthe
incidents Of the wars in which our people hay
engaged yet unrecorded and IN danger o. oolyion
/, | may be in their keeping. Your memories ar
richly stored, but when you are gone the thrillin
stories of heroic past Will be buried with yoC
serve the names of those who made It. 10 IN
. end the association will appoint reliable men
canvass each civil district IN the State turnlshe
with carefully prepared forms, as to collect fu
aud reliable facts about both living and the deat
i We especially desire TO make up accurate lists
| ali the XII led or mortilly wounded in battle, an
| of those who died in the service from disease Z
h | in prison. This grand, yet melancholy, memoirs
: Liadsleys Military AmlGs Of Tennessee. For ye q
n DR.. Lindsey has been quietly and labor usly d
ing a work which seeras beyond the ability OF al
a | inSiyidual and which has hitherto been q
| tempted alone by State or national authority az
fusds. On the Sth OF January last, at meetiI
see 1t was resolved that he should have the ald
our united efforts. II carrying out the plans
i | the Tennessee Soldiers Association, much Volu
q teer labor will be required. Moderate necessa
: expenses must be incurred 10 meet the laItef
very low enrolment fee will be required. we
= confident that our comrades will not shirk one
the other. At the same time We mean that no o
= whose soldiers record was good shall be deoarr
n from mem berkhip and place IN our records pecat
poor in this worlds goods.
W. II. JACKSON,