The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-24
MARCH OF THE VETERANS.
THE PROGRAMME OF OBSERVAN-
CES FOR MEMORIAL DAY.

Regtment-The March to the Mon
ument-The school ChiIdren's Pa
rade and Their Part in the Exer-
ciscs-The Programme in the Park
and at the Cemetery.
McLaws Camp of United Confederate
Veterans held its adjourned quar-
terly meeting last night in the
officers room at the armory
of the First Regiment Infantry. Com
mander W. S. Rockwell presided. The
invitation of the Confederate Veterans
Association to participate in the exercises
on Memorial day was accepted. The COM
mander will issue an order for the camp
to assemble on President street, north of
the court house at 4SO o'clock Monday
afternoon, for the purpose of joining in the
parade.
The following veterans were elected del
egates TO the grand encampment of the
United Confederate Veterans at Mash,
Vile: John r. Dillon, 7. T. Chapeau, Ju-
Illus Perlinski, A. X Wilson, A f. Mar
melstein.
Walter H Chaplin was elected adju'
tant of the camp, and j. e. Horning was
elected to membership.
A vote of thanks was extended to the
Daughters of the Confederacy for their
work in preparing wreaths for the graves
of the confederate dead for Memorial day.
The following is the completed pro-
gramme of the Memorial day services, as
arranged by the Memorial day committee
of the Confederate Veterans Association:
The Confederate Veterans Association,
Camp 756 will meet on the west side Of
Wright square at AIS o'clock, where they
will form and await their invited par
ticipants, McLaws Camp. and the escort,
the First Volunteer Regiment of Georgia.
The column will move promptly at 5
o'clock in the following order:
Escort, First Volunteer Regiment Of
Georgia.
Children of the public and other schools
that may voluntarily participate
Confederate Veterans Association.
NcLaws Camp Confederate Veterans.
Chairman of the memorial committee in
carriage with the orator of the day. Mr..
Walter c. Hartridge and the Rev. A. NJ
Williams.
The line of march will be out Bull street
to CASTOR, CASTOR to Drayton, Drayton
to Hall, Hall to Bull, Bull to the monu-
ment in the park extension. When the
head of the military column reaches Bull
street ON Hall, 1t will halt and front south
and the school children and veterans will
march past.
The children will take position on the
east and north of the orator. stand facing
west and south. The veterans will then fol-
low and take position on the west of the
orator facing east. Seats will be provided
for the Daughters of the Confederacy and
lady teachers of the public schools, in
front and north of the stand.
The military will form three sides of a
square facing east, west and south, sur
rounding the children, Daughters of the
Confederacy and veterans, and close in
as near as comfort and space will permit
Prayer will be offered by the acting
chaplain, Rev. A. NJ. Williams. After
prayer the orator will be introduced by
the acting president After the Grafton the
veterans, preserving their order, will
march to the gate and enter the Enclosure
of the monument keeping as close to the
iron fence as conVenient-the school chill
dren to follow and form inside the line of
veterans, all facing the monument. The
committee of ladies will then take the
wreaths from the veterans and
flowers from the children, and deposit
them on and around the monument, after
which taps will be sounded by Capt. w.
N Nichols. After taps the children will
be marched out and dismissed. The vet
Grams will then follow and after forming
line outside of the Enclosure will be dis
missed.
When the veterans reach the south side
of Og1ethorpe avenue on the march to the
park extension. they will halt to allow the
school children to march out of the acad-
envy inelosure and take. position in the
rear of the military escort.
When the head Of the column arrives
at Huntingdon street the band will play a
dirge and continue doing so until all have
taken positions around the orator After
the Grafton, when the veterans and chill
dren march into the monument Enclosure,
and take position. the band will again play
a dirge.
The following order was issued yester-
day for the parade Of the regiment as
escort to the veterans:
Headquarters First Regiment of Infan-
try, Georgia Volunteers, Savannah, Ca,
April %. 1871. On Monday, the 26th
inst, being Memorial day, the Confeder-
ate Veterans Association and Lafayette
McLaws Camp Of United Confederate
Veterans will parade for the purpose OF
decorating the monument to the confed-
crate dead in the parade ground in this
city The occasion is one which calls
forth the sympathy of every citizen in the
south, ana should be particularly dear to
members of a command which fought
through the entire four years of the civil
war. In order to show our respect for the
day, and for the survivors of that strug-
gle who are engaged in honoring their
dead comrades, the commanding officer
has rendered the services of that portion
of the regiment stationed in Savannah as
an escort to the confederate veterans,
and the tender has been accepted.
.. The regimental line will be formed
in the parade ground at 4:30 p. m. or
Monday. April 26. 1897, facing north, with
the right resting near the intersection of
the parade ground and Gwinnett street,
east. II is the earnest hope of the COM
mandng officer that nothing but the most
absolute necessity will prevent every offi-
Ger and man from appearing in the ranks
on that day Full uniform will be worn
8. The field and staff mounted, and the
non-commisisoned stan and band will re-
port at the armory at 4:15 p. m.
BY order Of Col. Lawton.
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