Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-29
VETS CLASSIFIED.
Where to Go at the G. A. r.
Encampment.
HOW THEY CAN FIND THEIR CORPS

Some Information That Indicates 'where
They Are at''-Tents To Be Erected on
the Great Mall and Marked by the
Well-Known Corps Badges-A Dim-
cult Job AccompIished-Said Pasha,
the Turkish Minister of Justice, an Ex-
pert at Dodging the Truth-The Mis-
sionary Case.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-The question of
classification of corps of the coming grand
encampment of the G. A. A. (Which was a
very confusing one) has been settled.
The committee on reunions for the coming
national encampment here have devised a
plan of holding all the reunions on the
great mall lying between the White House
and the Washington monument. Upon
this will be erected groups of tents for all
the old corps of the army and for the
navy. There will be a headquarters tent
for each corps and in line behind it smaller
tents for brigades. The corps tents will
be distinguished by the familiar old corps
badges; every veteran arriving in the city
will go to his corps headquarters, and
there be directed to his brigade tent.
How They viii Know Their Corps.
The following is the classification of the
corps adopted by the committee: First,
Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, Elev-
enth and Twelfth all who served therein
after their reorganization Oct. "a, 1862;
Fifteenth and Sixteenth, all who served
therein after reorganization Dec IS, 1852;
likewise as to Seventeenth; Twenty fifth,
all who served therein as organized Dec.
8, 1864 under General Ord
Corps With Special Features.
Those belonging TO the Fourth corps are
all members of the Fourth corps of the
off ho Tn harla nd -,
Guiding those who had previously served
in the Twentieth and Twenty-first corps
of that army prior to its consolidation
into the Fourth corps; Seventh corps, all
who served west of the Mississippi and
north of the Red river; Eighth corps, that
corps and the Army of West Virginia;
Tenth corps, all who served in that corps
or the department of the south.
These Are Somewhat Mixed.
The Eighteenth corps will include all
wEo belonged to one corps as organized
Dec. 23, 1867, or at any time thereafter
This includes Casey's division of the
Fourth corps and Peck's division of the
Seventh corps, of the Army of the Poto-
mac, and all the troops in the department
of Virginia and North Carolina. Nine
teenth corps, all who belonged to the
corps as organized Jan. 5, 1868, or at any
time thereafter. This includes all who
served at any time in the department OF
the Gulf. The Twentieth corps will
mean the corps organized April
4, 1864. by consolidating the Eleventh
and Twelfth corps, and include
all those who served in that corps there.
after. Twenty-third corps includes all
who served in that corps and the new
Army of the Ohio, exc ept the members OF
the Ninth corps.
Men Not Definitely Assigned.
All the regi ments that served in the
Army of the Tennessee and were not def.
nitely assigned to any corps will be as
signed to the Sixth corps. This includes
all the 100 days regiments called out in
1864 TO do garrison duty and protect lines
of COMMUNICATION. The place of the Twen.
ty-first corps has been taken by the pro-
Vlsional corps, Army of the Cumberland,
which will include all regiments in the
Army of the Cumberland not definitely
assigned to any corps. The Twenty-second
corps will include all troops occupying
the defenses OF Washington and all regi-
ments. batteries, etc, of the Army of the
Potomac which were not assigned to
corps.
Assignment of Colored Troops.
Twenty-fifth will include all who serve
in the corps, as organized Dec 3. 1864, or
ut any time thereafter. Also all colored
troops east of the Allegheny mountains.
The colored troops serving in the country
between the Mississippi river and the
Allegheny mountains will form an organ
iZation called the "Colored Troops of the
Military division of the Mississippi"
Cavalary. Navy, Artillery, Etc.
There will be two cavalry corps-P oto.
mac and Western. The former consists
of the cavalry of the Army of the Poto-
mac. the latter of all other cavalry The
marines and Mississippi marine brigade 60
with the sailors in the Navy corps. There
is an artillery corps for the Army of the
Potomac to take in all who served in
that arm of the service in that army
The Engineers corps includes signal
service men, scouts, spies, tele grapheI S,
ETC., and then there is corp of prisoners
of war, including all who fell into the