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ENCAMPMENT REUNIONS.Survivors of Armies, Corps, Divisions and Brigades Met at Camp Roosevelt.The series of Reunions of Corps, Divisions, Brigades and Regiments, held on the white-tented field of Camp Roosevelt formed one of the happiest features of the great Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. The vet emus assembled in the larger tents, named for Grant, Sherman, Sehridan, Meade, Farra-gut and other distinguished leaders of the civil war and retold the old. old story of suffering, discouragement, privation, death and finally victory triumphant. They listened to orators whose addresses were punctuated with patriotic utterauces. They heard again the drum beat of the ’GOs, accompanied by screaming fifes sounding the old familiar tunes of the dark days of strife. They renewed the comradeship of bivouac, ramp and firing line, and under the very shadow of the tall shaft erected to the memory of the immortal Washington, pledged themselves anew to the old Hag and the new and reunited Nation, the greatest and grandest under the beneficent sunlight of Heaven. The principal Reunions follow:SECOND CORPS REUNION.The Reunion of the Second Corps was held in Grant Tent, Camp Roosevelt, Tuesday, Oct S. at 11 o’clock a. m. The assemblage was called to order by Cept. K. F. Seville. Seated ou the platform were Col. Charles Lyman, President of the Corps; Gen. W\ S. Shallenberger, Second Assistant Postmaster-General, and other prominent members of the organization. Col. Lyman was called to the chair, and delivered an address of welcome to the comrades present. He said the Second was one of the five corps which retained its organization intact throughout the civil war. He spoke of the memories of privations and hardships, which he said were especially precious at this, the 36th Annual Reunion of the grand old army. D. L. Ainsworth recited an original poem, and addresses were delivered by C. L. Ctouch, a son of Gen. Dennis Crouch; Capt. X. M. Brooks, and Col. Nata Nathaniel Shotswell, of Massachusetts.part, and which was bolding its Reunion in a near-by tent. Several war songs were sung by the Schubert Quartette, the veterans joining in the chorus. After a hearty handshake all around, the Reunion came to u close.REUNION OF THE TWELFTH CORPS.This Corps never lost a color or a gun. was the shibboleth of the veterans of the Twelfth Corps at their Reunion in Farragut tent Tuesday afternoon.There was a general intermingling of the comrades, and the meeting partook of the nature of a Camp-fire. Dr. Laurence Wilson presided, with Joseph T. Parks as Secretary. Gen. Charles Candy, in his address, said the Twelfth Corps was small, but was composed of excellent material. Among its regiments were the 2d
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Washington National Tribune
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Thu, Oct 23, 1902
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