The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-07-06
OLD SOLDIERS
PASSING ONWARD
LAST GREAT ANNUAL GRAND ARMY
REUNION WILL HE HELD AT
WASHINGTON IN SEPT.
Great Preparations Made for the En-
tertainment of the Survivors of
the Civil War

WASHINGTON, July 6.-Fifty year
ago the victorious Union armies, fresl
from the battlefields of the civil wa
and the surrender at Appomatox
marched down Pennsylvania avenue il
Washington.
1t was a grand review of the war
SCARED legions of Grant and Sherman
of Meade and Sheridan, and the Other
famous commanders whose boys il
blue" had preserved the Union. Pres.
ident Johnson and General Grant were
in the reviewing stand as the veterans
swung proudly past to the exultine
music of their bands, while the battle
| flags that had flown on a hundred
bloody fields waved over the triumph
ant host
This thrilling pageant, of national
interest, will be reproduced as far as
possible during the forty-ninth annual
encampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic, which will be held in Wash
ington, September 27-October 8, next,
according to the announcement made
here today.
1t will be the fiftieth anniversary of
the Grand Review Thousands of the
same veterans who marched in that
review a half century ago uniformed
in the Union blue, will again keep
step to martial music down Pennsyl-
vania avenue, and pass in parade be-
fore President Wilson and members of
his cabinet. 1t will be the last time
the veterans will march in Washing
ton, and the last time that hundreds
of them will ever again attend an en-
campment, as the aged men are fast
passing away.
The Grand Army, which survived
four years of campaigns and never
will soon have to lower its
standards, defeated by Time, the only
Because of the increasing death rate
and the feebleness of the survivors
of the great war it is probable that
The Grand Army will never again hold
4 great encampment after the Wash
ngton event. AS this gathering is the
asst in which many Of them will par
icipate, and as the anniversary of the !
Grand Review is of such historic sig
lificance to them and the country,
hey will make great efforts to be in
in September. The en-
will therefore be the largest
md most successful ever held by the
rganiZation.
Washington is making elaborate
to receive the veterans,
nd the Nations capital will be en-
etc during the week that the famous
oldiers are within her gates.
Government officials and the people
f the capital are a unit in extending
through the press of the
ountry, to the nation to visit Wash
lgton during G. A. R. week. Plans
re being perfected to make the en-
and the Grand Review an
vent of national Importance
An elaborate program of entertain /
ent for the veterans and citizens who I
sit the capital at that time is being Z
'epared. The war department and the
avy department are cooperating in y
e program. :
The former has arranged for exhibi c
on drills of U. S. troops, cavalry, ar il
llery, and infantry, at Fort Myer, II
hich is a suburb of Washington. a
,me of the best soldiers in the army O
e stationed at Fort Myer, particular
the cavalry, which numbers among #
e enlisted men many of the greatest u
1ers in the world. Crack batteries .,
light artillery are also stationed at
rt Myer. Aeroplane exhibitions are :.
be given by the signal corps. The
right brothers demonstrated in pub
the first aeroplane at Fort Myer
The navy department will have a
ct of torpedo-boat destroyers, SUBJ
.rines, gunboats, and cruiser de- w
he'd from the Atlantic fleet and r,
1t up the Potomac river to Wash n,
ton, where the ships will remain ~
ring the encampment. A big feature ce
| he camn fires at which will be -
d reunions of the various corps of nj;
Union armies.
ust below Washington, on the Po-
lac, is located Indian Head proving
und, where big guns for the navy ins
Notifications are tested before be- wa
placed on battleships or in our bu