Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-08-31
REACH HERE TO-DAY
DelVin Post, No. 14S, G. 4. R., vii
Arrive in Richmond This Evening.
LEE CAMP WILL ACT AS HOST.
House Monday Night-Drives
TO the Bnttlc-Ficlds-HistO of the
Visiting Organization and Names
of the Veterans Coming.

At GEO O'Clock this evening Delvin Post.
No rs. Grand Army of the Republic. OF
Brooklyn. n. Y, will arrive in Richmond
to spend a couple of days In visiting bat
tIe-nelds and places of interest in and
around this city. The visiting veterans
will reach here via the Chesapeake and
Ohio railway, and will be quartered at
Murphy's Hotel. During the stay of the
post here Lee Camp. No. !. Confederate
Veterans. will &C; as host, and see that
its members enjoy their sojourn here.
They will be taken to the battie-held5
and all other points Of historic import
ance. and on Monday evening Lee Camp
will keep open house at It's headquarters,
on Broad street between Sixth and
Seventh. in honor Of. their visitors. Re
freehments will be served, and there Will
be speech-making. music. telling of camp
stories. and much OF the like. The post
will also visit Petersburg and other south
ern cities. but nowhere will II find
beartier welcome than In Richmond, the
capital Of the ConfeGeracy.
NAMES OF THOSE COMING.
There will be about seventy In the
party, who will be in charge OF Michaei
]. Cummings assistant quarterInasler-
general of the division, and past COM
nanGer OF Dolvin Post. Among the Wis
itors will be Messrs. James i. keenan,
and wife: ". J. Cummings and wife. Dan
ieI ]. Keeler and wife. John c. Halter
and wife. T. Il. Adams and wife. Jonh
Cassidy and wife. John lillian and whe'
John Hodges and wife, 7. \. Coheh' =
Sharkev. F. n. jerks. lobe Smith Je-
rome Nolan. Thomas J. ODonnell, Melvin
Nadgfn. John J. Kennedy. {. A.
Scott. Edwin r. Wooster. q. W. SiniIn
y. NJ. Storer. James Cunningham frahh
Kenney. Thomas II. Herman. hehrS
Draper. John Keltby. John FRAME anu
Rev. J. y. Brosman.
HISTORY OF THE POST.
This nost was chartered February IL,
1880 and selected as its namr thd' "
Thomas c. Delvin. at one uine co'y ,r'.
OF the famous Sixth New hoIn az
,,bich wac called the Second Ira harlis
Guard after Hon. Ira Harris ,hen tn
states Senator from New ioIhl' -,
ciyth New York Cavalry was ortdiIlZcu
4, Aur,si ls6l and served until 9uly'
,se, Colonel pelvin became prisau'ei
general. and brevet smajor-eeherah
United States volunteers. ana cvlO''i ,, ~.
the Third United states CaVa1fy. TIE
,@,rn ~ service In the volunteers Was
,onr vcars and six months. during Which
time he was in seventy-one bd'''es anu
enga gements. ,..,.. ..,,.ol r.,
After the war Colonel Delyin served II,
tho regular army for eleven years anu
seven months. lie died April L. le.s' anu -
hurled in Calvary Cemetery. adjacent
The citv of Brooklyn, where every beIo-
ration-pay the post pays tribute 10 nm
nv distributing flowers over ms tldNs.
There are quite number OF ih,'ii''''
% tho sixth cavalry in Delvin post
OBJECTS OF THE POST.
D4Ivin Post was organized to preserve
ami strengthen those Kind ana iia,eiha
Te.I,nps which bind together the soidleIs'
esilors. and marines who served IN ihe
Union army aud navy during the iate
war: TO perpetuate the memory OF '.'e
Teai. 20 assist such comrades-in-arms az
Nd II and TO extend needful aid TO ths
widows and orphans Of those VINO nave
Gallon by the wayside The post has ABOUT
~, members. The dues are s. per year,
ord during the fifteen years III "hlch II
has been in existence the post mas spent
IN charity alone over 5000. There are III
Tho CITY OF Brooklyn $500 Grand Army
81 the Republic men. and thirty-thTee
UOcts