The National tribune., 1902-09-25
THIRTEENTH CORPS.
Western Survivors Preparing to Attend En-
campment in a Body.

campment in a Body.
Headquarters, Wooster, Ohio, Sept. 10,
1902.
Dear Comrade: You are hereby noti-
fed that the Annual Reunion of the ia
nous old Thirteenth Army Corps Assoeia-
ton will be held in the Sherman Tent at
Camp Roosevelt on the White Lot south
Of the White House in the city Of Wash
ington, ID. c.. during the National En-
camplnent of the Grand Army Of the Re
public, on Thursday, Oct. 8. 1902.
The local committee at Washington are
making all necessary arrangements to
make this the banner Reunion. and the
most enjoyable the Corps ever held. Eff
forts are being made to have large at
tendance.
Arrangements have been made with the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company for spe-
cial coaches which will be attached to the
regular train, No. 20, which departs from
Wooster at 9:35 p. m. Saturday, Oct. 4,
and will arrive in Washington on Sab
bath. Oct. 5, at lis O'Clock p. m, in
ample time for the special patriotic re-
tents at Camp Roosevelt in the afternoon.
This will be designated the Official
Thirteenth Army Corps headquarters
train, and the special coaches attached
will he run through to Washington with
out change, and not be overcrowded. All
comrades Of the Thirteenth Army Corps
and their friends along the Pennsylvania
lines between Chicago and Pittsburg are
kindly invited to take passage on this
train. The fare for the round trip will
be $40, with one stop-over privilege both
going and coming; also in addition the
usual stop-over privilege at Baltimore.
Ali comrades and others desiring TO take
passage on either of the above mentioned
trains, should notify the undersigned in
ample time. not later than Sept. 30, so
that seats in the coaches and berths in
the sleepers can be assigned.
Capt. Jacob Il. Foster, of Chicago, COM
mander of the famous battery bearing his
name, and President of the Thirteenth
Army Corps Association this year. has
been invited. and is expected to be a pas
senger on this headquarters train.
Comrades, it is matter of pride to be
able to say that we, as Corps, took an
active part in the Vicksburg Campaign,
or that we were at Arkansas Post, Forts
Gaines. Morgan, Blakely, or at Mobile,
or at any of the numerous conflicts with
the enemy in which our Corps was en-
gagged; and We ought to keep fresh the
history by making our Thirteenth Army
Corps Association permanent and yigo-
rous organization.
The heroes Of the Thirteenth Army
Corps have suffered in reputation be-
cause of the lack of such an Organiza-
ton, while the survivors of other Corps
have been making valuable additions to
the history Of their organizations, ours has
been resting on the laurels so CALAMITY
won and trusting to history to justify
their claims.
My comrades, we did not make our rep
utatioh by allowing things to take their
course, but made it by our good swords
and faithful guns, backed up by the in
domitable bravery and unfagging endur-
ance of gallant Western men, with hearts
as true as the steel they carried, and a
patriotism rs inextinguishabie as the fires
of Vesuvius. And now, my comrades, let
US be as untiring and as faithful in trans
mitting the history of these achievements
to pOsterity as We were in making it.
"Fall in, fall in, old Comrades, and fight
your battles DER,
Until above the last low bier the wings
Of freedom soar.
! Stand hand to hand, and heart to heart,
in Fame's Eternal care,
Until the Great Reunion unites us over
there"
]. r. VAN NEST, Secretary, Thirteenth
Army Corps Association, Wooster, Ohio,