Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-14

history Of the I'd Corps was unprecedented
in that war.
1T inscribed a greater number of engage
ments upon its banners than any other
corps of the army, and probably than any
other corps or legion in the history OF the
world.
!Its battle flags captered outnumbered its
engagements, forty-four of which were
taken before it lost one of its own. 1t
captured in n single day as many battle
flags and many prisoners of the enemy
as it lost in the whole four years Of the
war.
Its aggregate of killed and wounded
greatly exceeded in number that of any
other corps, it's 10000 killed and wounded
being left upon every battlefield of the
Army of the Potomac, from Fair Oaks to
AppomattoX.
I'm the Wilderness campaign alone, end
ing at Cold Harbor, 1t captured more guns
and colors than all the rest of the army
combined. Its reverses were few and they
began only when 1t had dwindled to a rem
nant of it's former strength, after it had
lost twenty-five brigade commanders and
more than 125 regimental commanders and
more than 23,WO men.
'In accounting for this record, may we
not, without reflection upon the grand and
able men who commanded other corps, sug-
gest that, in part, at least, it was due to
the character and quality Of its leaders.
Listen to their names: Sumner, Couch,
Warren, Hancock and Humphreys. Among
it's division commanders were numbered
Sedgwick. Richardson. Howard, French,
Barlow, Birney, Miles, Mott, Gibbon, Webb
and Alex. Hays.
This was the corps that under the lead
ers 1 have just named crossed the Chicka-
hominy to the rescue of the beaten left at
Fair Oaks: breasted the bloody lane at An
tietam; made the great assault at Marye's
Heights; on which fell the fury of Long
streets charge at Gettysburg; which was
the rear guard at Auburn and Bristoe;
which stormed the salient at Spottsylvania
OF E>a Ia inf
battle of the war against the Army Of
Northern Virginia.
''Such Is the unmatched, Incompatible
record of this Incompatible corps the ami
versary of whose organization we cele-
brate tonight. Its story will be read and
re-read with absorbing interest and burn
ing enthusiasm as long as valor is priced
and heroes are honored."
The Members and Guests.
Those present at the banquet were Capt.
Charles Lyman, Commissioner H. B. F.
Mcfarland, Gen. John NJ. Wilson, Col.
Cecil Clay, Gen. John ]. OConnell, Gen.
John c. Black, Senator William Warner,
Representative F. w. Cushman, Gen. Chas.
F. Humphrey, Second Assistant Postmaster
General w. s. Shallenberger, Col. Thomas
G. Hopkins, Maj. A. H. G. Richardson,
Lieut.. Com. John J. Knapp, Gen: J: NJ Lee,
Col. c. A. P. Hatfield, DR.. Frank I. Howe,
Capt. N. M. Brooks, DIR. c. F. Rand, Mr..
, W. W. Davis, Mr.. John Finn, Mr.. H. c.
Magoon, Col. M. E. Urell, Capt. Nathan
Bickford, Maj. George A. Armes, Mr.. s. r.
Whitney, Mr.. George Mccarthy. Mr.. Orville
D. Thatcher, Mr.. Leigh Thatcher. Maj.
John McElroy. Col. Caldwell c. Tyler, Lieut..
Com. F. 8. Carter. Representative ]. T.
McCleary, Col. ]. H. Reeve Capt. w. p.
Seville, Capt. VIM. r.. Hillyer, Maj. John
T. Clements, Capt. J. s. Wyckoff, Mr..
Aretas Hall, Maj. r. w. Tyler. Col. R. G.
Rutherford, Maj. w. P: Huxford. Gen. Geo.
B. Davis, Gen. Geo. A. Woodward. Chaplain
]. H. Bradford Gen. Francis Moore. DR..
VIM Tindall. Col A. Hart. Maj. j. NJ.
Hoag, Gen. Maxwell Woodruff, Mr.. jerks,
Gen. George H. Harries, Gen. F. s. Dodge,
Gen. E. NJ. Coates. Senator ]. NJ. Thurston.