The Washington times., 1912-05-29
GEDVETERANS TO
DECORATE GRAVES
OFO[D COMRADES
! Survivors, in Broken Ranks,
to Spend Tomorrow at
- Arlington.

A few hundred veterans of the civil
War-the line grows shorter, the march
ers more feeble every year-will march
! to Arlington tomorrow morning, there to
decorate the graves Of their dead COM
rades.
Final orders for the Memorial Day
! parade issued by J. D. Bloodgood, COM
mander of the Department of the Poto-
! mac, @. A. R., and o. H. Oldroyd, as
i sistant adjutant general, call for the as
sernbling at $50 a. m. of the old soldiers
] on the north side of Pennsylvania aven-
/ ue with the right of line resting on Fif-
teenth street.
The Marching Order.
The order of formation will be as fol-
: lows:
c.. II. worden, Officer OF the Day.
Archie Burgess, Officer of the Guard
r. s. Hodgson and Gurnon r. Scott,
The Second Rattaiion' lions Second Infantry:
Company X, Second Infantry, and
tional Guard, District Of
United ststes sSsamGis Marine Band.
Old Guard, Capt. Amos ]. Cunning,
Commanding.
Department Commander.
Department offieers and officisl staff.
Members of the Staff of the Commander
sn-Chief
John A. Rawlings Post No /, Horace
UT c.rsor H; Brewer; Row, No commanseri a.nns..
Commander.
Lincoln Post No. g. w. H. Raymond,
Commander.
George g. Meade Post No. 5, Charles H.
Mcclure, Commander.
Phil Sheridan Post No. 6, S. F. Hamil-
ton, Commander.
James A. Garfield Post No. T. William
Burnside Post No. g., ]. K. Gleeson,
Commander,
Charles Sumner Post No. 9, Benjamin
Young, Commader;
Potomac Post No. IL, ]. Tyler Powell,
Commander.
Lafayette Post No. 20. Edwin j. Sweet,
Commander.
Drum Corps of the United States Ma
rine Band.
United Spanish War Veterans, Depart
ment of the District of Columbia.
James p. Greeley, Department
Camp No. cSmmanaer; SSrIs alntenacb, Com
Camp No. 2. Harry B. Coulter. Com
Camp No. 8. Allan NJ. Russell, Com
Camp No. 4. Edwin N. Lawton, Com
mander.
Camp No. 8. g. L. Shorey, Commander.
Sdhp NO. q, JObtpn +. hCCTlnh, SOul-
mander.
REGULAR ARMY AND NAVY UNION.
Gen. J. M. Schofield Garrison No. /,
Emil Walter. Commander.
e. ARMY AND NAVY UNION.
Thomas A. Green Department Com
David n Porter maaqeT; aa1ri:on No cp
Daley, Commander.
Gen, Guy v; Henry Garrison No. o.
The Presidents Own Garrison. No. 10i.
Lewis Robsson. Commander.
Gen. James A. Buchanan Garrison No.
Ill. John r, Hays, Commander.
Five posts, Fsrragut, John A. Logan
George H. Thomas, Henry Wilson, and
Frederick Douglas are assigned for
ton and will not march In the parade.
The column will move at 10 o'clock uI
the Avenue to Seventeenth street, thence
north to H, east to Thirteenth, south tc
and Mt. Vernon cars.
To Decorate Graves.
The procession, headed by the band
will march past the Arlington mansion
at 11:3o o'clock and at u noon to the
"Tomb of the Unknown" where a hall
will be made, and, while a special com
! mittee decorates the tomb the band will
play dirge.
The column will thence proceed to the
amphitheater, where the assembly will
be called to order by Commander Blood
good. After this the Rev. Henry n
Couden, chaplain of the House of Rep
resentatives. will pronounce the invoca'
ton and the assistant adjutant general
o. H. Oldroyd, will read the orders Of
the day.
Major z. R. Campbell will read the
Gettysburg address and George C. Ross
past department commander, will read
Gen. John A. Logan's memorial order
The oration of the day will be delivered
by Senator William Alden Smith. The
benediction will be given by the Rev
]. w. r. Sumwalt, d. D.
The musical program for these exer
o1Aes Is elaborate. The Dumbartor
Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Choir, under the direction of William T