Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
GENERAL REUNION OF
 REGIMENTS OF STATE
Will Be Held Wednesday at Hartford -Regimental Reunions in Addition.

There is daily increase of interest in the plans for the general reunion of the regiments which went from Connecticut to fight the rebellion fifty years ago. to be held in the state arm ory in Hartford, on Wednesday. At a meeting of the executive committee in the rooms of Robert o. Tyler post, C. A. R.. Thursday afternoon the programme for the reunion was out lined.
 The regimental reunions will be held in the forenoon. The following or ganizstions will hold annual reunions: Connecticut Cavalry association, First Light battery, Second Heavy artillery Fifth infantry, Ninth infantry, Twen- ty-second infantry, Twenty seventh infantry, and the Naval Veterans as sociation. The Second Heavies will hold their reunion in the rooms of the Spanish War Veterans. The Con necticut Cavalry association will meet in the pension office. The Fifth in fay.try will meet in Company Els room TAA meeting places for the other re- urf~ns will bs eunounced later. Henry E. Simmons, the secretary of the exec utive committee, will have 6 table near the entrance to the armory, where he will be looa ted, to answer. questions and to distribute badges, which are in the form of a souvenir button, white in color, with a golden rim.
 General Reunion at Noon.
 The general reunion will commence at 12 o'clock with President Dwight C. KiIbourn in the chair. He will turn the duties of presiding officer over to former United States Senator Morgan c. BullSeley. Invocation will be pro nounced by the Rev. pr. Rockwell Harmon Potter. Lieut. -Gov. Dennis A. Rlakeslee will speak for the state and Mayor Edward l.. Smith for the city. President Kilbourn will respond tc the addresses on behalf of the old soldiers
 Following these abbreviated exer- cises the veterans will form in line, and Col Charles F. Thompson, a member of the citizens advisory com mittee, will assume charge IS marshal. The First Regiment band will lead, and the survivors of the greatest struggle the world has ever seen will march to the armory and salute the battle flags. The line will proceed to the Petersburg Express. and then down Trinity street, through Ford and out Asylum street, thence to the armory, where at 2 o'clock dinner will be served in the basement under the di- rectien of Mayor Charles E. Lamb.
 Veterans in Auto Cars.
 After dinner it is planned to take
 
 bout the city to interesting points. Many of the veterans will be interest ed in visiting the location of the camps where their regiments were stationed while awaiting orders to" proceed to the front Col. Louis R. Cheney is inter- esting the members of the Hartford Automobile club In this feature, and is endeavoring to secure 100 machines for the afternoon It is hoped that many owners of cars will place them and their chauffeurs ot the disposal of the veterans for the last qualification that it may be in the power of the younger general ton to extend to the men who fought their battles for them half century ago.
 The Old Camp Grounds.
 The two principal camping places of troops before their departure for the front in civil war days were on what is known as the Campfield at the south ows well up toward the Windsor line. In addition to these, regiments were encamped on the Farmington road near what is now known as Vanderbilt hill: on the Albany turnpike in the neighborhood of what was later the trotting park, and on Colt meadows. Nearly all of these sections have been so changed in the fifty years that the old vets" will not know them. This is particularly true of the Campfield the site of which is now marked by the handsome monumen ent surmounted by the bronze statue of Gen Griffin A Stedman When the soldiers camped there the lot extended from Maple avenue on the west to Wethersfield avenue as the east, and south as far as the eye could reach, with mighty few houses in sight. Today it is thick " built upon and traversed by nu- nnerous streets and has upon it hand some and beautiful St. Augustines church.
 Money Coming In. Major E. V. Preston. treasurer of 1 the citizens committee, reports the | receipt of gratifying sum of money 1 10 aid in the entertainment of the old 1 soldiers by the people of Hartford | The sum received to date is .S12545O { SOCIETY