Evening star., 1902-08-21

soldier affair and we want and will have
the kind OF music that cheeTed the boys
and gave them the step wifi. which they
served the Union. If your eastern bands
can't play soldier music,scut them out and
the Kansas bands will lead the parade and
give the boys the step that win straighten
up their backs and put them iii line in good
shape" d
Application for Quarters.
Applications for quarters have been re-
ceivd from the following. IS
Gen. B. c. Bedell. commander of the de-
partments of Washington and Alaska, the
post at Brazil, Ind, for 20 members; post
at Seville, Ohio, for % Veterans; the Wo-
mans Relief Corps of Chattanooga Tenn,
for 90 women; Veteran Post, No. 436, New
YORK city. 90 members, from the ladies of
the Grand Army of the Republic, Depart
ment or Nebraska; post of Stewartstown,
Pa, for 25 members; post at Oswego city,
n. Y, for 20 members; post at Kenton,
Ohio, for % veterans; Hartranft Post at
oharto.se' 1a1 n. c. 40 veterans has secured
Hicks, 215 East Capitol street
IN accordance with a statement made at
the last meeting of the local executive com
1nlttee. zen. torrance has named his chief
or star. Col A. Noel Brakeman, as grand
marshal of the veterans parade This pro-
cedure follows precedent of long standing
in the G. A. r. Many veterans and the
members OF the citizens committee desired
Iehefai Miles to serve in this capacity,
put the last named understood from the
hrst that Col. Brakeman was to serve. In
stead OF acting as grand marshal, therefore,
General Miles will review the line with Gen.
torrance, and the President will be the
cnle1 speaker at the meeting of welcome
which is to occur Tuesday evening
An organization was effected by local sur
V1vors of the 14th Army Corps last night by
the election of the following officers: Capt.
Henry A. Castle, chairman; D. A. Grosve-
nor, vice chairman; H. G. Potter secretary.
inns body will meet again Monday evening
at o'clock.
Organize for the Reunion.
The survivors in Washington of the I'd
Division, Sd Army Corps. have organized
for the approaching reunion by the election
of Charles F. Keefer as chairman, Charles
S. Wilder as vice chairman, and ]. L. H.
Winfield as secretary. Secretary Winfield,
whose address is the army paymaster gen
erals office, desires that all I'd Division
men at Washington whom he has not per-
sonally seen shall report their names and
addresses to him.
The division has a notable civil war his
tory. From early in the war TO it's close it
was composed of the Massachusetts, New
Jersey and Excelsior (New York; brigades.
With the Massa chusetts boys, from begin
ming to end was brigaded the 26th Penn
sylvania, one of Philadelphia's first and
choicest contributions to the Union army,
of whom one of the best known survivors
is General Joseph Dickinson, now of the
pension bureau. Fighting joe Hooker
was the first commander of the division,
and his successors We're Generals Sickles,
Berry, Humphreys and Mott. The division
was assembled and stationed away down on
the Maryland side of the Potomac, whence
Washington was almost as inaccessible as
the far eastern homes of it's rank and file.
Hooker fixed the regular army standard for
its drill and discipline, and the picket
service in a region where the underground
railroad to the confederacy was in contin
uous operation made Hooker's men past
masters in the art of outpost duty, while
the rest of McClelan's great army were
diligently acquiring the lesson from Gen.
Butterfield's manual. In the=movement to
the peninsula, after the many months of
preparation about Washington, Hooker
took 10000 muskets, borne by men already
real soldiers, and despite the greater events
of Charlottesville, Gettysburg and the
Wilderness, the still living veterans of the
I'd Division cling to their desperate struggle
of the division at Williamsburg as the
tarting point of their "reminiscences In
that mere "rear-guard affair. the division
lost nearly quarter of its numbers in
killed and wounded and missing, and dur
ing the lovely spring morning after the
battle buried $40 Of its musket bearers on
the field where they fell. !.