The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-30
VETERAN SOLDIERS DAY.
Formation and Line of March of the
Military Parade.


Parade will form at $50 a. m: and
move promptly at 1870 a. m in the
following order:
Chief Marshal and Staff.
Marshalls and Manifold's ConsoH-
dated Band.
The Queen and her Court.
Marshal and Staff.
The Horton Band.
FIRST DIVISION.
Maj. VIM. A. Rafferty,, I'd y. S. Cav.
commanding.
Four Troops U. S. Cavalry.
Light Battery U. S. Artillery.
SECOND DIVISION.
Maj. Gen. Chas. McCrum, K. N. G.,
commanding.
The Governor and Official Staff
mounted.
Maj. Gen Chas McCrum, and Staff.
Band.
First Regiment K. N. c.. Col P. NJ.
Battery ''A'' K. N. G., Capt Geo. D.
Downing, Wichita, commanding.
Band.
Second Regiment, K N G., Col Will
der S. Metcalf, commanding.
Battery b. K. N. G., Capt H. H.
Phillips, Topeka, commanding.
THIRD DIVISION.
Lieut.. Col. Joseph H. Young, Oberlin
commanding.
Band.
First Regiment Sons of Veterans
Guards, Col. w. P. Wilcox, Emporia,
commanding
Sons of Veterans organized into sub
divisions by Col. Young, Senior Vice
Division Commander of Kansas.
Battalion Reform School Cadets, com
manded by Col. ]. E. Anderson.
Ex-Pensioners of War, commanded
by DR.. Henry w. Roby
FOURTH GRAND DIVISION.
Gen. d. S. Elliott, commanding.
Past Commander-in-Chief John P.
Rea, Minnesota.
Past Commander-in-Chief VIM. War
ner, Missouri
Jor
Veterans, VIM. H. Russell, of Kansas
in carriage with Guard of Honor.
First Division.
Col. Ed B. Jones. commanding, will
compose the following state Organiza-
tiOnS:
Illinois, Maine, New Hampshire, Yer
mont, Rhode Island, Connecticut and
Massachusetts.
Second Division.
Col L. V. B. Taylor, commanding,
will compose the following states:
Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Mich
igan, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas,
Texas and West Virginia.
Third Division.
Col. R. E. Howard commanding, will
compose the following states:
Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New
Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and Iowa.
Fourth Division
Gen. George H. Barker, commanding,
will compose the following states:
Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, Indian
Territory, California and Shawnee
county's Mounted Battalion, commando
ed by Captain James Phillips.
The line will form at $3.50 o'clock a.
m. and move promptly at 1890
First Division.
Major VIM. A. Rafferty,, commanding,
viii form on Quincy street. right rest
ing on Eleventh.
Second Division.
Maj. Gen. Charles McCrum, COM
manding, will form on Quincy street,
right resting on Ninth.
ir6 iSi
Lieut.. Col. Joseph H. Young, COM
manding, will form on Quincy street,
right resting on Seventh:
FOURTH GRAND DIVISION.
Composed of the four subdivisions,
will form as follows:
First Division.
Col. E. B. Jones, commanding, on
Quincy street, right resting on Fourth.
Second Division.
Col. L. V. B. Taylor, commanding, on
Quincy street, right resting on Third
street.
Third Division.
Col. r. E. Howard, commanding, on
Quincy street, right resting on Second
Fourth Division.
Gen. George H. Barker, commanding,
on Quincy street, right resting on
First.
All Bands that have been assigned to
the Veteran Soldiers division by the
Chairman of the Committee on Music,
will report to Gen. Elliott, at the corner
of Fifth and Quincy streets, at $3.50,
prompt.
All State organizations are request
ed to report to their respective DiViS-
ion Commanders, at the place designat-
ed in general programme at $3.50 O'Clock
prompt, that they may be properly
formed and be ready to move at the
hour without confusion or delay. Mar
shall Fuller directs that members of his
staff, together with all Division Com
manders and Aides of the Fourth
Grand Division, report to him, mount
Of iSYth nd
streets. at o'clock a. M, for consul
tation and instruction.
Following the Fourth Grand Division
will be an ambulance corps under COM
mand of Surgeon General w. H. Gill,
who will care for the exhausted or
wounded on the march