The Reunion of the Third Army Corps will begin Monday evening, May 6, with a Grand Camp Fire at the Academy of Music, this feature being arranged by the Grand Army and citizens' committee of Northampton.
On Tuesday the visitors will breakfast in Northampton at 6.30 and form in line on Main street, at 7.30, falling in without ceremony behind their old brigade battle flags. Under the escort of Co. I, 2d Reg. M. V. M., the Agricultural College Cadets and the Grand Army posts of Northampton and Amherst, the column will march to the railroad station, where a special train will convey the Corps to Hadley (three miles distant) and where, at ten o'clock the principal exercises of the Reunion will be held, according to the following program:
| Address of Welcome, to the town of Hadley, | By Chairman O. W. Prouty, of the Selectmen | |
| Response, | By Major William Plimley, President of Third Corps Union | |
| Welcome to Massachusetts, | By Gov. Frederic T. Greenhalge | |
| Address, | By General Henry E. Tremaine | |
| Poem, | By Comrade J. Howard Jewett of Hadley | |
| Presentation to the town of Hadley, from the Soldiers of the Corps of an oil portrait of Gen. Hooker. | ||
| Presentation Speech, | By General Daniel E. Sickles | |
| Acceptance for the Town, | By Dr. Franklin Bonney | |
A bronze tablet will be placed on the house where Gen. Hooker was born and after a collation furnished by the citizens of Hadley, the annual business meeting of the Third Corps Union will be held in the tent, after which a special train will be taken to Northampton.
At 7 o'clock p. m. the annual banquet of the Third Army Corps will be held in the City Hall at Northampton. Tickets to the banquet will be $2. Many civic and military guests will be present, and speeches full of interest on General Hooker's career will be made by prominent officials, historians and others.
