St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-05
AFTER MANY YEARS,
Veterans to March Over the
Route Taken by Soldier
Boys Of '65.
Formal Opening Of the En-
campment at Washing
ton Monument.
Camp Fires to Be Burning Day
and Night Throughout the
~Encampment.
The Reunion of the Old Fifth
Corps to Be a Unique
@ Feature.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-Two weeks
from tomorrow the twentY-siXth grand
encampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic will begin in this city. Prep
aratiOnS for The occasion have been
made on a scale so extensive that it will
eclipse in completeness and historic
interest every previous reunion of the
organization. One great feature of the
whole affair, and one to which consid-
cradle historic interest is attached, will
be the review, in which the veterans
taking part will march over the same
route they covered in 1866. when peace
had been proclaimed after four years of
war, and SOC. 600 boys in blue celebrated
the occasion by marching in their tat
tered uniforms up Pennsylvania avenue
to the White house. T~wenty-seven
years ago it consumed the better part of
three days. but that OF Sept. 20, this
year. has been so arranged that, by
marching in double columns, the sur
vivOrs will be an hour only in passing
over the entire route.
The Formal Opening
will take place Monday, Sept. 10, on
the grounds surrounding the Washing
ton monument, which have been chris
tened "Grand Army Place." President
Harrison will make the opening speech.
n there will be an address of welcome
and one ON behalf of the Grand Army.
Patriotic songs will be sung by trained
vOcaliSts. The feature Of the pro-
gramme will be "Star Spangfed
Banner" with handkerchiefs attached
to their flags. The programme of enter
tainment includes a reception by the
president, a reception at the capitol, a
promenade reception at the pension Of
ice building where the Cleveland and
Harrison Inauguration balls were held.
At the capitol reception the ladies of
the receiving party will include Mrs.
Mckee, the presidents daughter. repre-
senting her invalid mother. Mrs. Levi
p. Morton, all the ladies of the cabinet
| Generals Grant, Custer, Sheridan, Han
cock and Mcclellan. Grand Army Place
will be the principal point of interest.
There a huge fac smile of the ship
Kearsage, which sunk the Alabama, is
in course of construction, and it Will be
manned by sailors who served on the
vessel. Prominent among the attractive
features of national encampments in the
past have been the
Reunions of Survivors.
Of the old army organizations. While
these have been largely attended, it is
now known that all previous records
| will be eclipsed at the Washington en-
campment. A beautiful and convenient
site has been selected, on which large
tents will be pitched to accommodate all
of the old organizations. These re-
unions will not be for one day alone,
but will be continued during the whole
of the encampment week. and day and
night for the whole time Grand Army
Place. will be made merry with camp
fires and other attractive exercises.
Nearly as possible all the survivors
of those who fought under the lead
ership of Porter on the peninsula,
Butterfield at fredericksburg, the gal
liant Meade at Charlottesville, Sykes
at Gettysburg, and Warren on the
bloody fields of the Wilderness and
Spottsylyania, Petersburg and Five
Forks, Will come together IL the reun-
ion of the Fifth corps. And the meet
ing of old corps will be fully as inter-
esting. Nearly all the surviving corps
commanders will be present. The
grasping of hands again by comrades SO
long separated and the "reminiscences
which their meeting will call out will
make each of these reunions more inter-
estiIg than the most thrilling work of
fiction that could be penned.