Evening star., 1902-05-07
WHAT THE MAILS BRING
g. A. B. COMMITTEES RECEIVING
ORDERS FOR QUARTERS.
Third Army Corps Arranging for En-
tertaining Guests-Sketch Of
the Organization.

Applications for quarters continue to be
! regularly received at the local head
| quarters for the 1902 encampment OF
| the G. A. R. This mornings mail
| brought four r-on from w. B. Mays
Post, No. 22O, of Franklin, Pa, for
seventy-fve men; one from Forsythe Post,
! No. Is, of Toledo, Ohio, for 100 men: one
| from George H. Thomas Post of Cincinnati,
| ior an indefinite number of men, and one
| from Representative Emmett Tompkins, on
behalf of several posts in Columbus.
From the number of the applications and
! the tone of the communications received
! during the past month the officers of the
| local citizens committee argue that the at.
| tendance will this year surpass that of any
recent encampment. All the rooms in many
| of the hotels in Washington are already
| taken and the managers are refusing ap-
| plications for further reservations. Mr..
Tompkins Is particularly active on behalf
| Of the Ohio posts and has already obtained
| quarters for great number of veterans
| from his state
| On behalf of the Old Guard Drum Corps,
formerly Kit Carson Post Drummers of this
| city, Leader j. Mundell has applied for as
Signment In the encampment parades.
Fifth and Third Army Corps.
A meeting of the Fifth Army Corps AS
sociation has been called for May II at
headquarters.
Under the Craftsmanship of Major A. H
G. Richardson of the Post Office Depart
ment, the committee appointed at a late
meeting of survivors of the Sd Army
Corps to arrange for the corps reunion dur
ing the Grand Army encampment is rapidly
preparing for the reception and entertain
ment of visiting comrades next Oc-
tober. Advlces so far received indicate a
large attendance from New England and
the middle states of wearers of the dia-
mond patch" the badge of the corps.
The Sd Corps was organized in March,
1862, from the divisions of Fitz John Porter
Hooker and Hamilton, the latter soon sue
ceeded by the famous Phil. kearny. Por-
ters division was almost Immediately taken
away to form part of the 9TH Corps. With
Helntzelman as corps commander and
Hooker and Kearny in charge of the two
divisions, the corps made the Pennsular
campaign under Mcclellan, after which 1t
was brought to Alexandria and sent out to
the assistance of Pope's hard-pressed army
Here the impetuous Kearny was killed and
Birney succeeded to the command of his
division. Hooker was promoted to COM
mand OF the 1st Corps, and General Berry,
brother-in-law of Vice President Hamlin,
eventually became his successor.
In preparation for the Charlottesville
campaign new division was added, un-
der General Whipple, and General Sickles
was placed In command of the corps. The
campaign was an arduous one for the corps
and Berry and Whippe were both killed
AT Gettysburg the corps, still under Sickles,
and formed into two divisions, under Bir-
ney and Humphreys, received the shock Of
Lcngstreet's grand assault In front of Little
Round Top and Devils Den on the second
day of conflict, and lost its commander
Mine Run Campaign.
Reinforced by troops from other fields,
sent to the assistance of General Meade,
and placed under General French, the corps
made the Mine Run campaign. Before the
opening of the Wilderness campaign under
Grant the two original divisions were
| transferred to the I'd Corps, helping to make
uD what Meade then termed "Hancock's su-
perb corps of veterans and the reinforce
ments went to the 9th Corps.
Among the more notable organizations
forming part of the corps from first to last
were the New York Excelsior Brigade the
Jersey" Brigade, "Graham's brigade of
Pennsylvantans, Berdan's demi-brigade of
sharpshooters and Collis' Pennsylvania Zou-
aves. These commands wifi have reunions
| next October. in addition to the general
reunion of the corps and the reunions of
| the survivors of Brney's, Berry's Whipple' s
and French's divisions
The Sd Army Corps Union. organized at
Brandy Station, Va, in the fall of 1863
and still flourishing, is declared to be the
Oldest military society of the civil war.