New Britain herald., 1915-07-13
NOTED VETERANS
AT 5OTH REUNION
Many Leaders Will Attend G. A.
R. EnCampment

Washington, D. c., July 13.-Clad
in a reception gown of red, white and
blue, the capital city will welcome the
time-worn survivors of the once pow4
erful legions of Grant and Sherman,
Mead and Sheridan at the forty-ninth
! annual encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic, and the fifth
eth anniversary of the grand review,
the week beginning September 81. In
the hurly-burly of patriotism at Wash
ington on that history making occa-
sion will be many conspicuous char
acters of the greatest war in the pre-
ceding century.
Col. McElroy, "EncycIopedia.'
Col. John McElroy, past senior vice.
commander in chief of the G.. A. r.,
who lis regarded by his comrades as a
veritable living encyclopedias of the
civil war, it's men and events, is COM
piling roster of the noted figures of
the sixties who are expected to at
tend the big encampment II is in
teresting to note in this connection
that the two surviving corps com
manders of the civil war, Maj. Gen.
Granville M Dodge of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, and Maj. Gen. James H. Wilson
of Wilmington, Del, are expected to
be present. General Dodge command
ed the noted sixteenth corps. Gener-
al Wilson commanded all the cavalry
between the Allegheny mountains and
the Mississippi river; details of his
troopers swept down through Alabama
and Mississippi at the close of the war
and captured Jefferson Davis.
German Officer Coming.
At the head of the list of division
commanders is Maj. Gen. Peter Joseph
Osterhaus, who has been living for
many years at Mannheim, Germany \
At the time of the encampment of the
G. A. r.. he will come to Washing
ton to visit his son, Admiral Hugo
Osterhaus, U. s.. N, and will greet his
old comrades of fifty years ago. Gen.
eral Osterhaus stood among the SPLEEN
did German officers who came to this
country to serve the cause of the
Union.
Another noted division commander
who is expected to greet his former
soldiers at the encampment is Maj. |
Gen. David Men. Gregg, who is auditor |
general of Pennsylvania. He COM
nanded with great credit one of Sheri- |
dams cavalry divisions. II
Maj. Gen. Adelbert Ames, who COM |
manded division of the tenth corps. |
distinguishing himself at Fort Fisher |
and who was afterwards governor of |
Mississippi, and later senator from |
that state is living in retirement in |
Massachusetts, and is expected to |
come here during the encampment.
Other Visitors.
Others who are on the roster of |
prospective visitors are Admiral |
George. Dewey who was one of Adj |
miral Farragut's young officers, gain
ing distinction in the attack upon
Port Hudson; Maj. Gen. Nelson A. |
Miles, who 5entered the service AS
first lieutenant and became colonel OF
the 61st New York Volunteers, and
who as brigade commander deliv-
cred at Sunderlands Station, Va. the
momentous blow that cut General
Lees last railroad connection and
the surrender of Peters
burg and Richmond; Admiral Colby
M. Chester a young officer of Far
raguts squadron; Lieut.. Gen s. M. B.
Young who rose from an enlisted man
to be colonel and brevet brixadier
general, and then entered the regular
army, being retired in 1904 with the