Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-06-10
WOULD PRESERVE CAMP
COMMANDER GRINNELL URGES G.
A. R. TO MARK RENDEZVOUS.
Civil War Veterans Address School
Children and Four Former Gov
errors Are Present.

FOND DU LAC, Wis, June 7.-[Spe-
cial. THAT the G. A. R. should take the
initiative in the preservation of Camp
Randall at Madison as a state park on
account of it's being the place where 70
per cenE- OF the troops that left the state
during the Civil war were mustered into
service, was urged by Department Com
mander w. Ill. Grinnell of Beloit in his
annual address at the opening business
session OF the fOrty-fourth annual en-
campment here this morning. He said:
l wish to call your attention to the his
torlcal places of Wisconsin, made So nv
their occupancy by our comrades during the
war of the Rebellion. Camps were estab-
llShed in several cities of this state, Mad1-
son, milwaukee,, La Crosse, GAINESVILLE, Fond
du Lac and Racine. Practically all the
in these places and in most cases it would
be hard matter to define the lines of the
old camp.
A few weeks ago was in Milwaukee, ana
went cut with friend to find the old camp
where where l was mustered ed, into service. My
t TIE a. sal q to me; wv, This is about where
There was nothing to show a stranger,
however, that the place. he pointed out had
beliion. 1t was very largely occupied with
buildings, and so it would be with all or
most Of the other camps. Madison has her
Camp Randall, which is owned by the state.
Should it not be preserved as a paEk since
this could be easily done at the present
time? This was the place where about 70
per cent. OF the troops which left the state
were mustered. Let us at least have one
historic camp ground before it is too late.
| do not know how you may think about
this, but to ne it seems like one of the
good things we may do to preserve one Of
these camps where children grand-chil-
dren or even .great-great-grand children may
point with pride and say, there Is the place
where father or grandfather was mustered
into the army during the war;
Mr.. Grinnell touched briefly upon the
work of the past wear and spoke with
pride of the fact that the true meaning
of Memorial day and Mothers day was
being realized. He also spoke of the
death of 27O members of the G.. A. r. in
Wisconsin during the past year.
At the morning session the address of
welcome was delivered by Mayor h. w.
Clark. The morning was devoted largely
to committee reports. This evening there
will be a camp fire at the Armory at
which prominent veterans from all parts
of the country will speak.
A feature of this mornings programme
was the visits Of the veterans to the pub
lie schools. Addresses Were delivered in
all the schools. Among the s. eakers were
former Cows. Hoard, Peck, Upham and
Scotield
The business meetings OF the W. r. c.,
Ladies' of the G. A. r., and Sons of Vet
Grams also opened this mornin". At the
w r. G. meeting little Ruth Sackett,
granddaughter of e. A. Brown, organizer
of the local post of the G. A. r., was
presented to the convention.
Last night Col. J. A. Watrous and
held at the armory for the high school
students. Receptions were holl at the
Elks clubhouse ana Library hall by the
ladies.