Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-14
VETERANS AS GUESTS OF
COLUMBIA TURNVERE|N
Plans Completed for Enter
tanning the Survivors of
Civil War Regiment.

The Goth Turner) Regiment of New
York is due to arrive in this city at
$50 O'clock this evening. The New York
ers will be the guests of the Columbia
Turnverein of this city while they re-
main here and the members of that
organization promise TO entertain the
visitors royalty. When they arrive at
the Union station this evening COM
mittee of twelve will meet them in auto
mobiles and escort them to the National
Hotel and the Ebbitt House, where they
will make their headquarters.
Tomorrow morning at $50 o'clock auto
mobiles will carry the visitors from the
hotels on a sightseeing trip about the
city, returning with them to their re-
spective hotels in time for lunch. After
lunch the New Workers. will be free to
make individual sightseeing excursions
about Washington and this will occupy
the remainder of the afternoon.
Garden Festival Planned.
At s o'clock in the evening an enter
tainment and garden festival will be
given at the home of the Columbia Turn
verin, a2S NJ street northwest, in honor
of the visitors. Including the 1o5 men
from New York, there will be nearly three
hundred present to join I'm the festivities.
The visitors will spend Friday AT Mount
Vernon. looking over the historic estate
After an early luncheon Saturday the
New Workers will be taken to the Union
station in automobiles and will leave on
the L O'Clock train over the Royal Blue
line for New York
The delegation has been on an extensive
trip. having left New York last Sunday
Most of the places they have visited
have been Of historic interest, including
Gettysburg, Hagerstown, Pen Mar, An
tietam, the Luray CavernS and Haspers
Ferry.
Monument to the Dead.
The members of the Turner Regiment
dedicated monument at Antetam, while
they were there, to their comrades, who
had fallen in the battle of Antietam. The
shaft is said to be one of the handsomest
regimental memorials on the Antietam
field. being eighteen feet in height. At its
base is large bronze plate depicting the
charge in which the Turner Rifles took
part in the battle of Antietam.
The 10Th Regiment, New York Nolun-
teers. has the record of an important part
in the civil war, participant ting in some
of the most hotly contested battles. The
regiment was formed few days after
the bombardment OF Fort Sumter. be-
ing composed, for the most part, of MEM
bers of the New York Turnverein. When
President Lincoln called for 10000 men
the regiment Immediately responded, and
On the 9th of May, 1851 less than a
month after the call was issued, the regi-
ment was mustered into the service of
the United States. The first marching
orders were received by the regiment OF;
the Eth of June
Suffered Loss of 500 Men.
During the war the Turner Rifles, as
the regiment was Familiarity called. be-
came known one of the most efficient
regiments in the Union army, and sus
tanned a total loss of 800 men before the
conflict closed. A reunion has been held
annually ever since the veteran society
was organized in 1865, to celebrate the
departure of the regiment from New York
for the seat OF war and TO commemorate
their companions who fell during the