Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-06
G. A. r. ENCAMPMENT.
Preparations Being Made for the Com
Event.


Event.
WASHINGTON, Sept. Gone week
from next Monday the twenty-sixth
grand encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic will begin in this city.
Preparations for the occasion have
been made on 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 considerable historical
interest is attached, will be the review,
in which the veterans taking part will
march over the same route they covered
in 1865 when peace was proclaimed after
four years of war, and 100000 boys in
blue celebrated the occasion by march
ing in their tattered uniforms up Penn
sylvania avenue from the Capitol to the
White House. The review of twenty
seven years. ago consumed the better
part of three days, but that of Sept. 30,
of 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 win take place
Monday, Sept. 10, on the grounds sur
rounding the Washington monument,
which has been chistened Grand Army
place. President Harrison will make
the opening speech, and 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 program win be "The
Star Spangled Banner" with the hand
kerchief salute to the flag.
The program of entertainment in
cludes receptions by the president, re-
ception at the Capitol and promenade
reception in the pension Office building,
where the Cleveland and Harrison in
augural balls were held. At the Capitol
reception the ladies of the receiving
party will include Mrs. Mckee, the
presidents daughter, representing her
invalid mother; Mrs. Levi p. Morton,
all the ladies of the cabinet circle, and
the widows of Generals Grant, Custer,
Sheridan, Hancock and Mcclellan.
Grand Army place will be the princi-
pal point of interest. A huge fac smile
of the ship Kearsarge, 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 en-
campments in the past have been the re-
unions of the survivors Of the old organ
nations. While these have been largely
attended, it is now known that all pre-
vious records viii be eclipsed at the
Washington encampment. A beautiful
and convenient site has been selected on
which large tents will be pitched to az
commodate all of the old organizations.
These reunions will not be for one day
alone, but will be continued during the
whole of 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 leadership
of Porter on the Peninsula, Butterfield
at fredericksburg, the gallant Meade at
Charlottesville, Sykes at Gettysburg,
and Warren on the bloody fields of the
Wilderness and Spottsylvania, Peters
burg and Five Forks, will come to-
gether in the reunion of the Fifth
corps. And the meeting Of other corps
win be fully as interesting Nearly all
the surviving corps commanders will be
present. The grasping of hands again
by comrades so long separated, the rem
iniscences which their meeting will call
out, viii make each of these reunions
more interesting than the most thrilling
work Of fiction that could be penned.