Evening star., 1902-08-25

of which he is a member, favorable to the
reunion and presented his cause first to the
Board OF Trade and then to the Business
Mems Association. He is, in a certain
sense, thus the originator Of the move
ment
Applications for and assignments to quar-
tiers have been made as follows: Mr.. b. +.
Bowman of Randolph Vt, representing the
Vermont Central railroad, for 500 tourists
expected to arrive in Washington Sunday,
October 5, assigned to the Dumbarton and
Colonial hotels; Mr.. James Lowrie, on be-
half of Abe Patterson Post of Allegheny
City, located at the Ardmore; Captain Jos.
Murphy and Benjamin Levy, for about 80
members of Clafiin Post of New York city;
Haylette Post. No. 81. of GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
wants quarters for sixty members; Sheri-
dan Post, No. 10, of Oshkosh Wis, 25
veterans: Charles Russell Lowell Post, No.
Z, of Boston. 50 members.
Meetings of Committees.
Committee meetings have been scheduled
for the current week as follows: Monday,
the ID Army Corps, Captain NJ. E Uren.
chairman. 4:SO pm: the committee on
horses and carriages at 4:3O pm; the 9th
Army Corps. 7:3O pm, and the reunion
committee of the 14th Army Corps, pm;
Tuesday evening, the 23d Army Corps, the
second division of the Sd Army Corps, the
9Th Army Corps, and the 18th Army Corps:
Wednesday evening, the committee on ex-
cursions, Mr.. Arthur Hendricks, chairman;
the committee on campfires and the 18th
Army Corps; Thursday evening. the union
or ex-prisoners Of war. L. p. Williams,
chairman; Friday evening, the 5th Army
Corps Reunion Association, the 10th Army
Corps and the committee on invitations to
campfres; Saturday evening" the commit
tee on speakers for the encampment
colonel l.. S Brown, general agent of the
southern railway, through whose kindness
the Grand Army of the Republic encamp-
ment Headquarters has been furnished with
a handsome map showing the battlefields
of the civil war, has left for distribution,
through Secretary Barry Buikley. his bat
uefeld folder for the thirty-sixth national
encampment. Colonel Brown thinks that
wherever there occurs a reunion of the vet
eran soldiers of the civil war there arises
desire to revisit the scenes of the great
struggle of third OF a century ago. He
believes that those who participated I'm
the conflict there must always feel an in
tense personal interest In the places where
they and their comrades fought for the
cause in which they believed and for the
country which they loved
The folder is very comprehensive in char
acter, and includes historical sketches OF
Manassas, or Bull Run; Brlstow Station,
where in 1862 Jeb Stuart's raiders upset
the northern plans and forced the second
battle of Bull Run; Balls Bluff, Cedar
mountain and Culpeper. Brandy Station
and Beverly Ford, Shenandoah, Strasburg.
Cedar Creek and Sheridan's ride. Five
Forks and White Oaks. Fredericksburg
Cold Harbor, Chanceilorsvilie, wilderness
Petersburg, Five Forks. Sailors Creek
Farmviile. Appomattox. Montpelier anc
Monticello.
The folder also contains a list OF the
national cemeteries near Washington with
their known and unknown interments; n
beautiful view of Monticello the pride or
Jefferson, and a -iimpse of the monument
on the site Of Libby prison