The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-03
OLD CAMP GROUND.
Interest in the Hartford Monume1
 Irniont cincc

Interest in the Hartford Monument
 Project Increasing.
 The Connecticut veterans of the civil
 war, says the Hartford Times, who
 encamped on the old grounds border-
 ing on what is now called Camptield
 avenue in the south part of the city,
 are feeling a great deal of interest in
 the plans for the erection of suitable
 monument on the site that has been
 given for the purpose by John c. Bark
 CT one of Hartfords old and respected
 residents The Campfeld Monument as
 sociation, of which General Thomas
 McManus is the president and William
 H. Barker, the son of the donor of the
 site, is the secretary, will soon send out ! a statement to the survivors of the
 regiments which encamped on the | grounds during the war giving the full facts and interests connected with the project Ex-Mayor John c, Root of this city, who is one of the trustees under
 the deed conveying the property by MT. Barker has been made the treasurer of the association.
 The two regiments which have de-
 cided to adopt the plans for erecting
 the monument are the Twenty-second and Twenty y-fifth. The trustees have been selected from these two com lnands, being named in the deed given by MT. Barker They are Col. Charles A. Jewell, ex- Mayor John G. Root and Col. William E. Cone from the Twenty-sec- ond, and General Thomas McManus, Alderman Watson Fl. Bliss and De- partment Commander William F. Si- monds of the Grand Army in the state, from the Twenty fifth. These trustees are also members of the executive com rnitte, together with General Julius $. Gilman, President Dewitt c. Skilton of the Phoenix Insurance company, A. w. Converse of Windsor Locks and Prasi- dent Henry l.. Goodale of the Amherst Agricultural college. Associate vice presidents have been selected from the Fifth, Eighth, Tenth, Fourteenth and Sixteenth regiments, which were also encamped on the grounds that are to be commemorated, General Brayton Ives of New York, who was in the Fifth prior to his taking command of the First Connecticut cavalry, and Chaplain H. Clay Trumbull of Philadelphia, who was in the Tenth during the war, have been made associate vice presidents. The Hartford associates are Surgeon John B. Lewis, Major E. V. Preston and Judge P. E. Marvin of the Fifth Col C. H. Case of the Tenth Col. William H. Tubbs of the Fourteenth, Col. r. w. Cheney and General John B. Clapp of the Sixteenth. General Edward Harland of the state board of pardons and Col. Charles l.. Upham of Meriden represent the Eighth. Col. Upham commanded the Sixteenth at the battle of Freder- icksburg in December, 1862, being at that time a captain in the Eighth He was an officer of great bravery and gal lantry. General F. s, Greeley of New Haven is on the board from the Tenth re"iment Cnptain George S. Colt and Col. q. A. Moore are also members of l the beard. It is strong organization l and every member of it is earnestly in- | terested in the project.
 General McManus, the president of | the association, has taken a deep inter- | est in the plans from the outset Ex- l Mayor Root has expressed the deepest | interest in the project, and is giving | much time and thought towards it's promotion. General Gilman has also | been a foremost friend of the enterprise and is in charge of the general head quarters of the association in the Hills block. The association is hoping to se- cure $10000 for the monument. No one doubts the possibility of raising that amount by the association. It will en- sure one of the finest monuments in he state in memory of the war.