The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-11
THE ENCAMPMENT SOUVENIR.
An Elaborate Book of Much Histori-
cal Interest.
Washington Post.

Washington Post
The official souvenir to be issued by
special committee on literature for the G..
A. X. encampment next month is the most
a like occasion. Gen. Thomas M. Vincent
is chairman of this committee, and DR..
Marcus Benjamin has had charge of the
work of editing the different articles. The
book is now in the hands of the printer.
This book will not only be of great in
terest to all veterans, but will be val
liable addition to the works on the civil
war. 1t Will be printed on fine book paper,
and contain about $50 pages, devoted to
wartime events in Washington and its
vicinity. Fourteen articles have been con-
who took actual part in the incidents of
which they write. Each article Will be In
troduced by full-page illustration. There
will be fifteen portraits of CIVIL military
and naval officers who were, connected with
fights around Washington: also portraits
of Secretary Stanton, Secretary Welles,
Generals Scott. Meigs, Wright Mcdowell
and others. The front piece will be Brady's
which was loaned the committee by Os-
born III. Oldroyal, who has charge of the
Lincoln memorial collection at SIG Tenth
street. Other valuable portraits and illus
traitors were secured from the collection
at the War Department.
The book will contain two very interest
ing maps, one of which will show every
fort in the District of Columbia during
the time of war and other points of historic
interest. The other will locate the differ
ent hospitals, the recollection of which is
dear to every surviving veteran who was
ever an inmate of one of these institutions.
Thousands of copies of the book will be
printed and placed sale during the re-
union at the different newsstands and
book stores. An edition de luxe will also
be issued.
The list of articles to be published in
this book, with the authors. is as follows:
Washington at the Beginning of the
War;" by Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan, chron-
icler of the Columbia Historical Society;
THE Military Situation in Washington in
1861" by DR.. Marcus Benjamin, president
of the Society of the War of 1872: The De-
lenses of Washington" by Gen. John Gross
Barnard, corps of engineers, u. s. A.;
THE Part Taken by the Naval Forces in
the Defense of Washington During the
Civil War;" by Richard Wainwright, COM
mander, U. S. NJ, and superintendent Nav
ton, by Gen. Thomas McCurdy Vincent;
Battle of Fort Stevens, by William Van
Zandt Cox, author of the "Defenses of
Washington" Social and Business Condi-
tons Of Washington During the War;" by
Brainard Henry Warner, chairman thirty
R.; The Death of President Lincoln" by
Gen. Thomas McCurdy Vincent; THE Mill
tary Power of the United States as Shown
During the War of the Rebellion, by
Thomas McCurdy Vincent; THE Hospitals
Of Washington, by Dr. John Wells Bulk
flee Hospital; 1.-THE Humanities of the War;
Christian and Sanitary Commission by
William Jones Rhees, archivist of the
Smithsonian Institutions; Arlington and
Battlefield Cemeteries" by Mrs. Isabella
w. Bail, and 'The Washington of To-day"
Board of Commissioners of the District of
Columbia.