The National tribune., 1895-05-23
NAVAL VETERANS.
Excerpts from General Orders, No. Z, from
Headquarters, Providence, II. 4.

The work OF organizing citizens committees
for the care and entertainment OF those who
will attend the 29th National Encsmpment a;
Louisville, KY, Sept. 9 to Ia, goes on indus
triously. Information Sheet No. J." just
issued by Director General Milliken and Gen.
eral Secretary Cornwall, contains much gen.
eral information.
Naval Veterans seeking quarters or informa-
tion should address p. II. Hsger. Secretary.
352 West jefferson street. Louisville, KY, in
closing stamp for return postage.
Capt. J. B. Writ, of indianapolis, Ind, has
very kindly consented to loan the Association
during Encampment week the celebrated paint
ing by Miss Writ, "Farragut in the Rigging
that commanded much attention and was
such a feature of our decoration at Pittsburg.
The Naval Board has been looking over the
condition of "0ld lronsides," now lying at
Portsmouth IN. H. Navy-yard, and finds it
will require sum of money about equal to her
original cost TO restore her TO seryiceable con-
dition.
1t was q grand conception that once a year
we should set apart a Memorial Day, sacred to
the memory of the patriot dead. Alter the
lapse of SO many years, even TO those who took
part in that great conflict, whose lives have
been graciously spared to behold \ united and
prosperous country, and the old flag with the
luster of some additional stars, honored at
home and respected abroad, the period of the
civil war seems far away in the past. On that
day the sacred trust devolves upon u.s. not only
of honoring the known dead, but we should
industriously search for the unmarked grave
and the unknown dead. whose last resting
place May have been neglected, and pay a trib
ute of fresh Spring flowers, and decorate with
flag the mound that covers their sacred re-
MAINS and let us pledge ourselves anew that
the sacred principles of liberty, loyalty, and
fraternity for which they contended shall not
be forgotten. There were others, again, of our
shipmates, whose bodies were not given back
to mother earth, but were consigned to tho
mighty ocean with the simple and impressional
ceremony for the burial of the dead at sea, the
closing words of which were: I'VE therefore
commit these bodies to the deep, looking for
their resurrection when the sea shall give up
its dead.''
Although no sculptured marble shall rise
to their memory, or engraved stone bear record
Of their deeds. yet will their remembrance DO
as lasting as the land they honored."
Your commanding officer would earnestly
recommend that, wherever possible, on the
Sunday evening next preceding Memorial Day
our Associations arrange for Memorial sery-
ice, 10 be conducted by their Chapiains if
practicable; otherwise, by the pastor of any
church extending the invitation. The deaths
of George w. Bostwick. National Secretary
Naval Veterans at Brooklyn; John IL.
Knowles, Qusrtermaster. U. S. N, at Annap-
oils; John T. Giddings Captain, Z. s. ", and
Capt. Abraham Louch, Acting Quartermaster,
u. s N, are announced.
Commander A. L. Lowe, 21l Main street,
Fort Worth, Tex, would like to hear from any
shlnmaies who served with J. II. McCragin
(Pursers name), Quartermaster on the U. S.
Steamship Relief lS64-'65, afterward trans
ferred to U. S. S. jamestown at Brooklyn, n.
Y, and discharged October, 1865