Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-11
ARMY CORPS REUNIONS.
Many Veterans Hold Meetings to Perfect Ar
ranSements for Them.


Many Veterans Hold Meetings to Perfect Ar
rnngements for Them.
At the Ebbitt Last evening meeting was held
Of the members Of the twelfth army corps. A
resolution offered by Gen. Carman was adopted
to the effect that the members Of those organ
izations Of the twentieth corps which rendered
no service with the eleventh or twelfth corps
prior to tho consolidation Of those corps as the
twentieth corps be invited to unite with the
twelfth corps in the reunion of that corps
Among the organizations referred to are the
thirty-third, seventeenth and eighty-fifth In
diana, seventy-ninth Ohio, twenty-sixth Wis
consin, nineteenth Michigan and the one hun
dred and fifth, one hundred and nineteenth
and one hundred and twenty-ninth Illinois reg
iments.
A resolution was also passed directing the
secretary to correspond with DR.. ]. Love Of
Montclair. n. j., secretary Of the Twelfth
Corps Society, with view to ascertaining the
names and addresses OF the various surviving
ofhcers OF the corps. The meeting then ad-
journed until next Wednesday night at the Eb-
bitt House. Among those present were Col
W. H. Webster. fifth Connecticut; Gen. Car
man. thirteenth New Jersey; Mai. T. Fitz-
gerald, twenty-eighth New York; Mr.. g. A.
Meyers, one hundred and forty-fifth New York;
SaP'' 1. ID. hirDy, tWentletn Connectlcut; MI
Coppersmith. first Potomac home brigade; W..
L. Aughinbaugh, fifth Ohio and Capt. Bresna-
han, twenty-seventh Indiana
THE CAVALRY CORPS.
The Army Of the Potomac cavalry corps held
a meeting last evening at the Ebbitt Capt II.
c. Parsons, first Vermont cavalry, was an
nounced as vice chairman Of the committee
There were added to the committee the follow
ing new members: First Sergt. VIM. Quinn,
company A, fifth United States cavalry; First
Sergt. g. W. Giddens, company NJ, fifth United
States cavalry; Urban Gebhart, company G,
fifth United States cavalry; Joseph Fought,
company D, fifth United States cavalry: First
Sergt. John Fogarty. company B, first United
States cavalry; W. W. Wilmington, company D,
sixth United States cavalry; Philip H. Weber,
company d, fifth United States cavalry.
The following selections Of days and dates
for reginental reunions were made and the 10
cal authorities are urged to notify their COM
rades at home, 30 that they may know the time
fixed for their regimental gatherings:
Second Pennsylvania cavalry, September %,
7:30 pm; fourth Pennsylvania cavalry. Sep
TENDER 20, pm; eighth Pennsylvania cavalry,
September ~, pm; thirteenth Pennsylva-
mia cavalry, September %, 9 am. second Penn
sylvania cavalry, September %. 7:3O pm: Sec
ond United States cavalry September 20. 7:3O
pm; first United States cavalry, September 20,
7:3O pm; fifth United States cavalry, Septem-
Der 20, 7:3O pm. sixth United States cavalry,
September 20, 7:30 pm; second New York
cavalry. September 81, am; first New Hamp-
shire cavalry, September 90, am; first Con-
necticut cavalry, September %, 9 am, and Sec
ond Maine cavalry, September 81, Gam.
THE TENTH CORPS.
At Wizards members Of the tenth army corps
held a meeting last evening" The chairman of
the committee is Mr.. G.. NJ. Hustled and the vice
chairman Mr.. o. s. Firmin. The local mem
bers present last night were j. Z. Engle, T. NJ.
WEIGH, j. S. Wyckoff, F. S. Goodrich BEDFORD
Durye, James H. Reeve, z. II. Harding, George
L. Reach, F. A. Butts and Henry
A. Phillips. A committee Of three was APP
pointed consisting of Maj. Reeve and Comrades
Harding and Reach to get up circulars and send
them to the members OF the corps. 1t is thought
that the tenth, eighteenth and twenty-fourth
corps will consolidate for the purpose of hold
ing one grand reunion. to be headed by Gen.
benjamin F. Butler, who was in command of
the troops composing these three corps. The
next meeting viii be held in parlor Ii, at VIII
lard's, next Wednesday night.
THE EIGHTEENTH CORPS.
meeting of members of the eighteenth army
corps YVES held last evening at Wizards. Maj.
d. W. Houghton presided and d. J. Evans was
secretary. The following are the enrolled
aCtNc mtmDcTs vi ILLS COIliil.ttec 10 U3te: zen.
Guy V. Henry, Capt. William B. Avery Capt
L. 4. Devendorf. Capt. Z. A. Fenton, Capt. J.
A. Judson, Maj. d. W. Houghton. Lieut.. +. W.
Paige, Capt. Edward Mallet, Capt. S. +. Nc
Bride, Lieut.. I. S. Kelly, Lieut.. Allen Feathers.
Lieut.. G. NJ. Arnold. Lieut.. G. II. Claybough.
Capt. A. B. Haywood, Capt. d. J. Evans and
Capt. Thomas Mckernan
Capt. Edward Mellet was elected vice chair
man first division; Capt. Thomas McKerneen,
second division. and Maj. C. A. Fleetwood,
third division; Capt. ". B. Avery, fourth di-
vision; Capt. l.. 4. Devendorf, department Of
North Carolina; Capt. S. +. Mcbride, Peeps
division, fourth army corps. Capt. G.. NJ.
Hustled of the tenth corps committee proposed
that the committees of the tenth, eighteenth,
twenty-fourth and twenty-ffth corps be con-
solidated under the name Of the Army of
the James. The proposition was favorably re-
ceived, but action deferred until the next
meeting. The next meeting will be held at the
same place next Wednesday evening.
SAILORS AND MARINES, OBEY.
Officers and men interested in making the
naval and marine reunion at the national en-
campment a success are invited to be prese mt
at the meeting tomorrow (Friday) evening at 8
o'clock sharp, to be held in the red parlor Of
the Ebbitt House.