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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 155 pages. Oversized book, measuring 11-1/2 inches by 8 inches. Some wear to cover and spine. Front flyleaves partially separated. Includes 64 illustrations (black and white), Prefatory Note, Organization and work of the General Committee, Subcommittees, Officers of the Parade, and the Joint Committee; The Programme, including Concerts by Centennial Chimes, route of Parade, exercises at the Capitol, Evening Concert, Decorations and Illumination, Grand Stands, Street Decorations, centennial Medal, Souvenir Invitations, The Tablet, and Cost of the Celebration; The Parade: Formation, Route, Etc. At the Capitol: The Invocation, Chairman Gardner's Introduction, President Cleveland's Address, William Wirt Henry's Oration, The Vice President's Address, Speaker Crisp's Address, Justice Brown's Address, Commissioner Parker's Address, and Night Concert; [continuation] The Joint Committee: Personnel, Action, Etc. Congressional Action: Authorizing the Celebration, Appointment of the Joint Committee; Making the Day a Holiday, Granting Use of Flags, etc.; Resolutions to Attend, Attendance at the Celebration; The Tablet; Printing the Proceedings; The Capitol: With Some Notice of Its Architects; The First Corner Stone: A Brief Account from a Contemporaneous Source; Extension Corner Stone: The Programme, The Procession, Ceremonies at the Capitol, Corner Stone Laid, Address of B. B. French, and Daniel Webster's Oration. Also includes 43 black and white illustrations in the text. The official programme of the ceremonies included a civic and military parade over the route taken by the procession on September 18, 1793; prayer by the Right Reverend William Paret, Bishop of Maryland, an address by President Grover Cleveland, and address on "The United States Senate," by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, Vice-President of the United States, an address on "The United States House of Representatives," by Charles Frederick Crisp, Speaker of the House, The vocal music was rendered by a trained "Centennial Chorus" of fifteen hundred adult voices, and the instrumental music by the United States Marine Band. Duncan Stephen Walker (November 11, 1841 - June 3, 1912) was a Union Army lieutenant colonel and assistant adjutant general during the American Civil War. He resigned his commission on May 12, 1865. In 1866, he was nominated and confirmed for appointment as a brevet brigadier general, to rank from March 13, 1865. The grandson of Revolutionary War veteran and U.S. District Judge Jonathan Hoge Walker and son of U.S. Senator Robert John Walker (1801-1869), he was educated at Georgetown University, Lafayette College, and Princeton University. Initially commissioned as a captain of volunteers, Walker served as an assistant adjutant-general during the American Civil War, on the staffs of Major Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks and later Brig. Gen. William H. Emory and Major Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock. On February 21, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Walker for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers, to rank from March 13, 1865, and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on April 10, 1866. He was the great-great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin.