Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-11

! v. Cox; collection of pictures. from MIS-
! w. V. Cox-President Lincoln Rice, photos'
| rapher), night at Fort Stevens. July H.
| 1864. showing Lincoln on horseback; wash
| ington in 1854, picture Of Lincoln and Gen
| Wright at Fort Stevens James E. keliy
| pictures of Gen. Horatio G. Wright, Cen
| Jubal Early, Confederate outpost as ap
! pears today, Fort Stevens as It appears 70
| day Early's cavalry at New Windsor, Nd.
July. 1884. and Washington during wal
! time, souvenir of thirty-sixth annual en-
| McElroy. cartridges, army and navy but,
| tons Of United States Army. 1907, pass used
during civil war; maps of defenses o.
| Washington, 1854: from Theodore 8. Cox
| copy of The Evening Star OF July 10 sno
| H. 1907, and other newspapers.
Exercises Tomorrow.
| Members of the Association Of Quarter
| master Volunteers of the Civil War will to-
morrow visit the reservation on the Bright
wood road set apart to commemorate that
battle. and will review the scenes OF that
memorable day when the Confederate forces
came so near the capital. 1t has been the
annual custom for years for these volun-
| teers to celebrate July u, but as their ranks
are thinning 1T is expected that the cee-
/ bration this year will consist only of a
visit to the site of Fort Stevens and a reel
tai of their experience forty-three years
ago.
The association was only recently organ
at a meeting of eleven of the volunteers,
called together by a special notice In The
Star but the number soon grew to forty
nine and the evening of June II last that
number gathered in the office of h s..
Beresford G1S F street northwest. and
formed a permanent organization. The Of
ficers are: President, G.. J. Magill; vice
president, William A. Clarke; secretary. Jo-
seph Acton: treasurer, r. BereSford; mar
shall, Henry LeDuc.
The quartermaster volunteers had a most
mi artj in bt,d n the 4 nOp and
of the capital. They were first called out
under Special Orders, No. 2ls," issued
from army Headquarters. September 2, 1885,
The order was follows:
BY direction of the President all clerks
and employees in the public buildings in
Washington will be Immediately organized
into companies, under the direction of Brig.
Gen Wadsworth, and will be armed and
supplied with ammunition for the defense
of the capital.
Companies Formed.
Under that order, it is declared, about
200 civilians of the District and AleXan-
dria were organized into companies and
regiments and were given the necessary
arms The organization was not kept up
more than a year: but when it was reported
early in July, 1864 that Gen. Early with a
large command of troops was marching on
the capital the need for these men was rec
ognized. Accordingly. July .. 1864, Brig.
Gen. Montgomery c. Meigs, quartermaster
general, United States Army, ordered that
the clerks and workmen employed by the
quartermaster department in the District
and Alexandria be armed and late that
day these troops were reported to Maj Gen.
Halleck, chief Of staff. as ready for such
service as was required of them. The vol
unteerS We're told first to relieve the soldier
guards placed over the Quartermaster sup
plies and of the public buildings in the Dis
trict. thus enabling the soldiers there to go
to the front. There were more than enough
f,- It'd. ,l,TAtnt
1,J00-were sent to Maj. Gen. McCook at
Fort Stevens. The were stationed