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| 168 beg leave to transmit to you with this report, in which I urged the usefulness and importance of a national encampment of United States and State troops at Chicago, at the expense of the General Government. This communication has since been transmitted to Congress by the Secretary of War, accompanied by a report of the senior major-general of the United States Army, which is not very encouraging. A bill has been introduced into the Senate providing for such an encampment and making an appropriation therefor. In the passage of that bill lies our hope of getting to Chicago." The bill, however, did not pass, and that was the end of the matter. The same report of the adjutant-general has the following, in regard to the Veteran Corps: "By the Acts of 1892. Chapter 315, the members of the Veteran Corps of the Fifth Kegiment, M. N. G., were authorized to form themselves into an independent military organization under certain restrictions therein specified. In compliance with said Act, the Veteran Corps has been duly organized and the officers have been commissioned." The following were the officers commissioned: Colonel, Henry D. Loney; Lieutenant-Colonel, Geo. R. Gaither; Major, J. W. S. Brady; Adjutant, A. DeB. Courtenay; Surgeon, Geo. H. Rohe; Commissary, J. O'G. Almand; Quartermaster, E. F. Pontier; Paymaster, George W. Davison; Captain, Frank X. Ward; First Lieutenant, Fritz Renter; Captain, Neilson Poe; First Lieutenant, Calvin T. Davison; Captain, Fitzhugh Golds-borough; First Lieutenant, Ed. W. Davison. In February, 1892, the Veteran Corps was incorporated. On February 6,1892, the Fifth Regiment Veteran Corps left for a trip to New Orleans, where they were hospitably received and entertained. After spending a few days in that city sight-seeing, the veterans returned home on the 13th, bringing with them the royal flag of King Rex, of the carnival. On February 23—the 22d being Sunday—the Fifth paraded in the streets of Baltimore In March a former distinguished member of the regi- ' ment, and one of its organizers, died—Colonel John D. Lipscomb. During the riots of 1877, then being captain of Company B, he acted as major and was badly hurt by the rioters. Later on he became lieutenant-colonel of the regiment and was regarded as one of its most efficient officers. |