Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-30

design. when was adopted consists OF
red. white and blue ribbon, with the Greel
ton. Reunion committee, sixth corps, twenty
sixth annual encamDment, Washington, ID. C.,
printed thereon in gilt letters.
i separate badge was adopted for distribu
ton among the visiting members Of the corps
The complete organization Of the sixth corp
from the time il went to the front until tn,
close oi the war submitted by Comrad'
Hrutt OF lie War Department, for which he wa
teu4s-, a vote of thanks. Chairman Gilman
was instructed 20 ascertain the cost Of having 4
printed in pamphlet form. He was also author
izei To appoint committee invitation
Other routine business was transacted.
THE sIxrEENEH CORPS.
! The members Of the sixteenth corps held
meeting at the Ebbitt last evening. The com
mittee on badges submitted a report, which wa,
adopted. II will consist of a red white and
blne ribbon, the stripes running diagonally
upon which is TO be inscribed In gilt letters the
corps emblem, the Maltese cross within q cir
Gle and picture Of the Capitol, accompanied
by suitable inscription.
Satisfactory reports were made by the vari-
Gus committees. and at the next meeting q ros-
ter Of all organizations in the corps will be sub
mitted. The circular to be forwarded to sur
viving members will also be submitted.
After the transaction of routine business at
the meeting of the ninth corps last night the
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men to have charge Of the various reunions:
Capt. W. Fl. Norton. fourteenth New York
cavalry. third brigade first division; John l..
Norris. company E, second Maryland. second
brigade, second division; l.. E. Gridley, second
Michigan volunteers second brigade first d.
vision; Geo. Fl. Patrick, thirty-sixth Massa-
cbasetts. first brigade, second division; W. II.
Murphey, third artillery, artillery brigade; l..
A. Common. company G.. ninth New Hampshire,
second brigade, second division; NJ. !. Hader-
man, company C, two hundred and fifth Penn
sylvaria third division, second brigade; Z. j.
Hartshorn, seventeenth Vermont, second d.
vision; Leopold Karpeles, ffty-seventh Massa-
chusetts volunteers first brigade first division;
Daniel S. Townsend, third New jersey cavalry,
headquarters body guard, engineers, twenty
/ second Pennsylvania cavalry, and staff.
The new members enrolled last night were:
G.. W. Hitchcock, quartermaster sergeant,
eighty-ninth New York volunteers: Benjamin
Z. McAlwee, sergeant company D, third Mary
land; John Barron, company ID, third Maryland
veteran volunteers; Frederick Rice, company A.
seyenty-ninth New York; Henry Morgan. com
panv 1. seventy-ninth New York: L. z. Grid
ley, second Michigan; Calvin l.. Hayes, thirty
second Maine.
ANY information regarding the reunion or
badges will be furnished upon application to R.
y. Sprague, secretary, 4l6 5th street northwest.
CORPS MEETINGS TONIGHT.
Twenty-third army corps members will meet
tonight at the Ebbitt House at 7:30 o'clock to
hear and act upon reports of the various com
Inittees heretofore appointed. Several responses
may be read from comrades abroad who have
been invited to participate in the approaching
reunion.
The thirteenth corps meets tonight at Will
lard's, $50 sharp.
THE ARMY OF THE JAMES.
J. A. Judson. Frank A. Butts and Edwin P.
Upham the committee on invitations of the re-
union committee of the Army of the James,
have issued the following address to their COM
rades:
In the nature of things the twenty-sixth ma
tional encampment of the Grand Army OF the
Republic will probably see assembled at the
capital of the nation in September the greatest
number of old veterans OF the Union that ii
will be possible to collect this side of that
river we all must cross at last.
The wears are creeping on; we are gradually
growing older and more intirm; our ranks are
thinning, day by dav. until soon there Will be
l. fl bur coporals guard Of that grand army
of republic in arms that thirty years and
more ago battled for the national life. We have
| all passed that point where definite plans for
the future can be made with any degree of
certainty. Today only is ours-tomorrow
belongs 10 uncertainty, perhaps to eternity.
SO therefore. during some one day of the en-
campment week. it Is proposed to hold in one
of the immense tents on Grand Army place
a grand reunion of the survivors of those who
at any time served in the tenth, eighteenth,
twenty-Tourth and twenty-fifth army corps; Of
those who at any time served in the Department
of North CAROLINA. both during and after the
troops thereceased TO constitute the eighteenth
CORPS of those who served In the Department.
of Virginia. and in the Department of the
South. in Peck's division of the fourth corps of
the ARMY Of the Potomac and in the naval bri-
gade and III the north and south Atlantic block
aiding squadTOns.
For the purposes of this reunion only and for
greater convenience the committee having these
matters in charge has decided to unite all these
old organizations under the general title OF
The Army of the James, Each corps will
will have its own appropriate corps, division
/ and brigade headquarters tents in Grand Army
place. each FIXING the familiar old colors where
| the comrades are all invited and expected to
register their names and regiments or other
commands. but the reunion proper will be held,
a. stated. under the general designation of
The Army of the James"
From the everglades of Florida 70 the shadow
of EiChmonds spires our cOors have been
/ borne aloft in the storm of battle. Beloved
comrades fell on every field; blood-stairei
/ paths of wrecked and mutilated patriots lead
} over many hill and dale. through forest and
morass. beside the smiling river and along the
desOlate coast. WhiteHed bones mingle with
the mysteries of ocean depths; ,;listeuing head
stones in the quiet national cemeteries mark
. the last resting place OF many % cOmrade. lime
has nIercifully soitened many of the asperities
I of war, but eternity alone Will suffice in which
/ to remember the glorious aim and the righteous
ending.
/ So, let us all meet once more that we may look
again into faces once SO familiar: feel again the
I clasp of the hand that had much meaning
/ in those far-off wariike times: hear again. in
/ gentle tones those well-remembered voices that
! were wont TO ring out the stern orders utter
l the firm words OF encouragement, or the sound
ing phrases of commentator. Heads have
turned gray. eyes grown dim, steps become
faltering. Perhaps but the brave hearts that
then beat in our Young breasts with the passion
ate heat OF patriotlsm-now tempered with
years-are still the same hearts that bore US W
I until the end.
/ We are but n small band here of all that
mighty host, but we bid you all come. from the
generals to the drummer boys that We may
unite IN grand jubilee of peace.
THE RECEPTION nat THE CAPITOL.
Mrs. Logan as chairman OF the committed
! in charge Of the reception at tn,
Capitol announces the following list o.
ladies TO receive on that occasion
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Mrs. L. P. Morton
Mrs. Mckee, Mrs. U. s. Grant, Mrs. Elizabeth
! Custer, Mrs. p. II. Sheridan. Mrs. Winfield s
Hancock. Mrs George b. Mcclellan. Mrs John
| W. Foster. Mrs. Charles Poster, Mrs. Stepber
r. Elkins, Mrs. Ferdinand Wilmerding, Mrs
John Wanarnaker, Mrs. John ". Noble, Mrs
| VIM. II. III. Miller. Mrs. Jere W. Rusk, Pas
National Presidents W. r. c. Mrs. Z. Florenc,