San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-05
BATTLE OF SHILOH.
MEMORIAL PARK DEDICATION SER
VIUES BEGIN.
Great Reunion of Veterans of the
North and South on the Famous
Battlefeld-Story of the Battle.

the Shiloh battle meet at the Sec
ond annual reunion which is to be
held here this week beginning to-
day and continuing to the 9th,
they will, in company with gen.
eral and officers, go over the field
and mark the positions held by the
different commands during that
fatal conflict which began on the
same grounds on April 9th, 1862.
Congress has recently passed the
Shiloh bill for the purchase of the
battlefield for a great National
Memorial park like Gettysburg
and Chickamaugua. Each regi-
ment, battery and organization
that took part in the battle will be
we'll represented to assist in mark
ing the various positions their re-
spective commands held during the
battle and to assist the Shiloh
commission in locating spots for
monuments and tablets to be
erected on the battlefield. Almost
all the leading officers who are sur
vivors Of that battle will be pres
emit and greet their old comrades
on this famous battlefield. The en-
tire Chicamaugua Commission will
be present.
Each organization has prepared
marker with the number Of the
regiment and this inscription:
"The - Regiment held this po-
sition from s a. m. till 2 p. m,
April 6, 1862"
Among the generals and Or
CARNATIONS that will be present
are General Lew Wallace, General
B. NJ. Prentiss, General r j.
Oglesby, General Joseph Wheeler,
General E. G. Walthall, General
William B. Bate, Senator Isham
G. Harris, General J. r. Chalmers,
Colonel William Preston Johnson,
Major Gable Breckenridge, Colonel
A. G. Warehouse, Colonel l. p.
Rumsay, General Hickenlooper
and Colonel Cornelius Cadle; the
Chicamaugua Commission COM
posed of Generals j. S. Fullerton,
A. P. Stewart, H. V. Boynton and
Major Frank G. Smith of the
United States Army; the surviv-
ing members of "Crockers Iowa
Brigade" The Nebraska Shiloh
Association and the officers and
members of the Shiloh Battlefield
Association. There will be much
regret If General d. c. Buell., the
sole surviving "Army" cOmman-
der of that battle, will be unable,
on account Of the increasing in
firmities of age-he is TITO be
present. The rapid work OF time
among the veterans is shown by
the fact that of the four army
commanders of the Ten
essee, Buell. of the ,Ohio, and
Johnston and Beauregard Of the
Mississippi-Only one remains. 1t
is arranged that if he is kept away,
adelegation Of veterans from all
sections, north and south, will
visit him at his beautiful home at
Airdrie, near Paradise, Ky, where
he is living in hOnored retirement.
General Buell. has just been APP
pointed one OF three commission
ers to establish the park. His
colleagues are Cornelius Cadle and
Robert Il. LOoney.
Much sympathy will go out to
General John A. McClernand, who
has almost finished his stirring
career Of SO years, and is lying at
his home in Springfield, ILL.,, in the
shadow of impending dissolution.
Addresses expressing the veterans
regard for the old commander will
be sent to him by many organiza-
tions.
The st. Louis delegation have
chartered a steamer and will come
down the Mississippi to the Ohio,
and up the Ohio and the Tennes-
see to Pittsburg Landing. The in
dications are that this will be the
largest reunion ever held in the
south since the war. The secretary
of the Shiloh Battlefield associa-
ton, Col. f. T. Lee, of Monticello,
ILL.,, has the names and pOstOtfice
address of over $4,000 Of the sur
vivors Of that battle who wore the
| blue, while James Williams, the
assistant secretary of Savannah,
| Tenn, has thousands Of names Of
those who wore the gray. The
great majority Of all these have
signified their intentions of attend
ing the reunion on the field of the
first great battle OF the war fought
in the west. There were 25S differ
ent organizations which took part
in this battle, representing twenty
one states in the Union. The gov
ernOrs Of all these states have been
s,invited to be present and partici-
b pate in the reunion. The reunion