The National tribune., 1892-08-18
LOOK UP YOUR CORPS.

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Is ~ we'll known to them as their regiment
Eut Sesre are thousands Of Others especially
CT Watern troops, who are uncertain as to
| what corps their regiments belonged, if any.
Tseir regiments were employed in detached
| os,s .htions, with only a nominal connection
va b corps, and many regiments were in
-. eral corps during their terms of service,
or the men themselves went out of the serv-
ice on account of wounds, disability, or from
some other cause before the corps were
| formed. ~
1t is very desirable that every visitor
should know his corps, for this will add
greatly to his interest and enjoyment Of the
great gathering, since he will then be able
to come and go at once where he will find
all his cd aequaintances and comrades.
Those who served in the Cavalry Corps of
the Army of the Potomac, or in the First,
Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth,
| Eleventh, Twelfth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth,
Seventeenth, or Twenty-third Corps need
not to be told where they belong. These
corps were long-lived and permanent; they
operated almost constantly as corps, and
the corps organization was stamped def
nitely on the mind of every man who served
in them. This was not the case with the
other corps.
For example, the Seventh Corps could
hardly be said to be 3 corps in the ordinary
acceptation of the term. There was corps
organized under this name. and the conf
mand of Gen. John A. Dix, July %, 1862,
and consisted of the troops stationed in the
neigiborhood of Fort Monroe. This corps
has been ignored in the Reunion arrange
ments, and the troops composing it assigned
to the Eighteenth Corps, into which they all
entered in 1853 The Seventh Corps recog-
nized by the R=Eni,n Committee, and of
which Gen. Cyrus Bussev, Assistant Secre-
tary of the Interior, is Chairman, was the
one organized Jan. 6, 1864, under the COM
mand of Gen. Fred Steele, and which in
Guided all the troops in the Department of
Arkansas All the troops which served per-
manently west Of the Mississippi and north
of the Red Rivers Will be included in this
corps. This takes in also the California
Column" Those c0mrades who served for
time west of the Mississippi and afterward
entered other armies, can select which corps
they viii meet with. In their case as in
all Others, they will probably choose the
corps in which they had the longest or most
distinguished service.
The Eighth Corps is another which had
hardly had true corps history. A portion
of it appeared regularly as corps, but
large share of the troops were engaged in
service where only brigade or q division
would be operating together. According to
the Reunion Committees program the
Eighth Corps viii mean all the troops which
served In West Virginia.
The Tenth Corps will mean all the troops
which served along the coast Of South Caro-
lima, Georgia ana Florida, as well as those
which belonged to line corps when it was
operating as such before Petersburg.
The Thirteenth Corps will mean the
corps as organized Dec. IL, 1862, and COM
manded by Gers. John A. McClernand, Ord
and Gordon Granger.
The Sixteenth Corps was greatly changed
fers and was never operated as whole in
any campaign or upon the field of battle. 1t
has long list of battles to its credit, bat
they were fought by divisions and othet por-
lions of the eorps-never by the organize
ton as whole The Reunion Committee
has made the Sixteenth Corps include all
the infantry and artillery-except the col
ored troops-in the Army of the Tennessee
which were net definitely assigned to other
corps This includes all those which were
il garrison anywhere in the Department or
were guarding lines Of communication.
The Eighteenth Corps includes all troops
which served in the Departmental Virginia
and North Carolina-from Yorktown to the
South Carolina line.
The Nineteenth Corps means all the
troops in the Department Of the Gull, ex-
cert those of the Thirteenth and Sixteenth
Corps, which served in it temporarily.
The Twenty second Corps will include all
regiments in the Army of the Potomac
which were not definitely assigned to other
corps. This includes all the three months,
six months, 100 Days, nine months, and other
regiments in and about Washington which
did not get into other corps
The Twenty third Corps means all of the
troops in the Department of the Ohio. as
organized under Gen. Burnside, except those
OF the Ninth Corps. 1t means the corps as
commanded successfully by Gems. Hartsuff
Foster, Schofield, and Cox. r.<T