Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-11
H ANCOCK THE SUPERB
His Statue to Be Unveiled by His Grand
son.
Half Day Holiday in the Public
SchOols-Departhen Clerks Will
Have No Special Privileges.

The ceremonies attendant upon the un-
yelling of the equestrian statue of Gen.
Winfield s. Hancock, at the junction of 7th
street and Louisiana and Pennsylvania
avenues, are expected to attract an i'm
mense crowd to the vicinity, while the pre-
ceding parade of the military will doubt
less cause the entire population TO turn out
in summer holiday attire. The regular
troops, as we'll as the District National
Guard and the various military and other
societies. which will compose the process
sion, will form into line in the White Lot
a l 30 pm, and will march by way Of 18th
street, the avenue. the road between the
White House and Treasury Department
and the avenue again to the site of the
statue. Fifteenth street is avoided in the
marching because of the cable cars and
other traffic constantly passing through it,
The exercises at the monument will begin
at O'Clock. President Cleveland will pre-
side. Bishop Satterlee Will pronounce the
Invocation, and the orator will be Senator
Palmer of Illinois.
Gen. HnncOck's Grandson.
The statue will be unveiled by Cadet
Glynn r. Hancock, third class, United
States Military Academy. He is the grand
son of Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock
and the only male descendant of that gal
liant soldier.
Cadet Hancock has been ordered to report
for this special service to Adjutant Gen.
eral Ruggles tomorrow. In this duty he
VIII be assisted by a warrant officer and six
biueJackets from the navy yard, skilled in
handling ropes and canvas.
The public schools will be closed at noon
tomorrow TO give the pupils chance to pay
honor to the great patriot and soldier.
Departments Will Not Close.
1t is settled, however, that the executive
departments VIII not be closed tomorrow
on the occasion of the Hancock statue un-
Yelling. Neither will any special facilities
De given government employees to par
uc1pate in the ceremonies. Those desiring
to do so will be granted leave of absence
Tor the purpose, but such absence Will be
charged against their annual leave author
lied by law
Acting upon Instructions from headuuar-
teis, Assistant Secretary Wike. acting sec
rotary of the treasury, has issued the fol-
lcwirg order on this subject:
"Ali employees OF this department who can
be spared from their duties, and who de-
sire 10 participate in the ceremonies of the
rnve'iins of the statue of Cen Hancock on
tuesday, the 18th instant, are hereby
granted leave of absence for that date
Notice is hereby given hat absence un-
der this order will be charged to the reg
u!ar annual leave, and in cases where such
annual leave is exhausted. absence under
this order will be without pay"
Similar orders have been issued in all
the other departments
The Old Headquarters Flag.
OF the many historic flags that will be
carried in the parade on Tuesday, May H.
at the dedication of the equestrian statue
of Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock none will
be more significant or have more thrilling
record than the flas that will follow i'm
mediately IN rear of the old army staff of
Gen. Hancock and leading the old staff of
the first division second army corps Orig
inally a white field with a red trefoil in the
center-the badge of the division and corps
out now stained, torn and tattered, it is
the headquarters flag that followed Gen
Francis G. Barlow from the Rap.dan
through the Wilderness and to Petersburg
and is significant as being the flag that led
the assault at Spottsylvania Court House
otherwise known as the Bloody Angle) on
May l., 1S6+thirty-two years ago-the re-
suit of which was the capture of 22 pieces
of artillery, 81 stand of colors and over
1900 prisoners, among whom were Maj.
Gen. Edward johnson, commanding di-
vision of Icwelrs corps, and Brig Gen. Geo
H. Stewart, commanding brigade signii-
cant as the flag under which Gen. Nelson
A. Miles and Gen. John r. Brooke, who
commanded the leading brigades in this as
sault, won their first stars. 1t led the di-
vision on past Cold Harbor, leaving Brooke
dangerously wounded and ON to Petersburg
and Ream s station, where another star
was added to the shoulder straps of Miles
making him brevet major general The
division it represents has the record of
having captured during this campaign more
guns, Colors and prisoners from the enemy
than the entire corps lost during the war
but the mournfuI record remains that under
its folds went down 1O,225 officers and men
from the 5th day of May, 1854, to the lst
day of November of the same year This
is the flag of the division that closed its
though melancholy, record of 2,237 men
killed and 11,72t men wounded in battle,
and has gone into history the division of
Sunday morning at Fair Oaks, of the
sunken road al Antietam, of the stone wall
at Fredericksburg, of the wheat field at
Gettysburg, of the salient at Spottsylvania,
of the closing fight at Farmville-as the
division which had been commanded by five
such soldiers Edwin V. Sumner, Israel
B. Richardson, Winfield S. Hancock, Fran
els c. Barlow and Nelson A. Miles.