Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-07-06
BIG CAMP
FOR G. A. R.. VETS
Remaining Members of 0rganiza.
ton Will Gather at Wash
ington.
RANKS THINNING
WITH EACH YIAR
Army and Navy Departments Are
Planning Entertainment Tor
Reunion.

Washington, July 5.-Fitty years
ago the victorious Union armies, fresh
from the battlefelds OF the Civil war
and the surrender at Appnmattox,
marched down Pennsylvania averue
in Washington.
1t was q grand .eview OF tue war
Scared lsgions OF Gran: and Sher.
man, OF Meade and Sheridan, ami
the other famous commanders whose
boys in blue" had preserved the
Union. President Johnson and Cen
eral Grant were in the reviewing
stand as the veterans SWING proudly
past to the exulting music G: their
bands, while the battle flags that had
flown on a hundred bloody fields wav.
ed over the triumphant host.
Thrilling ageant.
This thrilling pageant, Of national
interest, will be reproduced as far
as possible during the forty.ninth an
nual encampment OF the Grand Army,
Of the Republic, which will be held
in Washington, September 27.to Octo-
Der 3. next, according to the an
nouncement made here today.
1t will be the tifticth anniversary
Of the Grand Review. Thousands Of
the same veterans who marched in
that review, a half century ago, uni.
formed in the Union blue, will keep
keep step to martial music down
Pennsylvania avenue, and pass in pa
rade before President Wilson and
members of his cabinet. It will be
the last time the veterans will march
in Washington, and the last time that
hundreds Of them will ever again at
tend an encampment, as the aged mel
are fast passing away.
The Grand Army. which survived
four years OF campaigns and never
surrendered will soon have to lower
its standards, defeated by Time, the
only enemy able to vanQuish the vet
Grams Because of the. increasing
death rate and the fee5leness OF the
survivors OF the great war. it is prob
able that the Grand Army will never
again hold d great encampment after
the Washington event. AS this gath
ering is the last in which many Of
them will participate, and as the an
niversary of the Grand Review is Of
such historic significance to them
and the country; they VIII make great
efforts to be in Washington in Sep
TENDER. The encampment will there
fore be the largest and most success
full ever held by the organization.
ID 5.l" Elaborate Preparations. -
, Washington is making elaborate
preparations to receive the veterans,
and the nations capital will be en-
fete during the week that the famous
soldiers are within her gates. -
. Government officials and the people
Of the capital are unit in extending
invitations. through the pcessof the
country, to the nation to visit Wash
ington during G. A. r. week. Plans
are being perfected to mako the On
campment and the Grand Review an
event Of national Importance.
An elaborate program o. entertain
ment for the veterans and citizens
who visit the capital at that time is
being prepared. The war department
ard the navy department IRE cooper
ating in the program.
The former has arranged for eXhi-
Ibition drills OF U. S. troops, cavalry.
artillery, aud infantry. at Fort Myer,
which is q suburb of Washington.
Some OF the best soldiers in the pr
my are stationed at Fort Mycc, par
~ticularly the cavalry, which numbers
among the enlisted men mary of the
greatest riders in the world. Crack