The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-05-29
GRAND REv1EW IN WASHINGTON.
PenUsyIvRnIa Central RaIIrOad--TFe-
mendOus CrOwd--1aRnfneeDt APP
PeRranee OF the army of the
Potomac.
Editorial e0resRosd,pes ClYelsnd LEADEAl
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Mefpr ppcefUcceeded amazing direct
connection from Cleveland to Washington,
and reschsd here today only three hours
behind time, ADdlwhen we consider that
our train consisted Of eighteen cars cram
med full of people, all going to see the
"Great Review" the railroad company are
ezeussble for not being prompt to time.
Quite q number Of C~svelanders were
aboard, consisting of J.. A. Harris and
lady, Messrs. h Nottingham, Jerry Not
tinghAm, Truscott Ipghsm and Sturte-
want; also ME.Horaoe Steele. and lady, and
Mr.. George Paine, of Painesville. The
journey was an extremely delightful one'
the sociability Of our party adding to its
pleasures. At Pittsburg b I came near being
separated from them BY q Grabbed railroAd
mSng refusing me sdmittance to the slAdies
car" on the ground that l was not pro
vided with thAt article of luxury, 9 lady!
Fortunately, having lost my own shawl on
a former journey, Ehad borrowed n of
my better hslf, which I happened to have
on my sfm. 1 pointed triumphsDtly to
the shawl, and limited TO Mr.. Railroad
Man that the ladies wastraveling with had
gone, in, Hnd that 1 must JOIN them. The
shawl evidently confirmed my story M l
was admitted Itucan be imagined that
this brillisnt strategy justly gave me q
feeling bordering on pride. ei
The scenery on the line Of the Pennsyl-
vania Central Railroad has often been de-
scribed, and its beauties celebrated in prose,
poetry and speech. There Is no route in
this country that possesses more grand
views than can be seen while crossing the
A~lIeghaniez and none that can show finer
and more charming Landscape than the
country between Harrisburg and PAils.
delphia. We would advise the tourist who
desires to see nature in its widest gran
deur, TO take q trip over the Pennsylvania
Central. This road is considered among
the very best managed and equipped roads
in the country, snd $ look at the wellrbuilt
station houses, bsllasted track, and mag
niticent cars and engines viii well attest
these facts. sa. .rs-8ula
At Baltimore the rush ofpsssenge-s from
the Northsrn Central Depot to the Wash
iDgton Depot was terrific. When we az
rived they had just commenced making up
the train for WashiD gton and the first
hslfdozsn cars we're flied instsntsneously
to o~verfowing. As fast as a fresh car was
added the rush TO FIJI it continued. Fortu-
nstely, we avsiled ourselves If the railroad
experience of Henry Nottingham, who
understood the ropes, I" and by putting our
selves under his escort we succeeded in
getting inbo an empty car, where we were
not crowded in the least.
Arriving at Washington, we stesred Of
course for Pennsylvania avenue, where we
saw the great review" in the shape of q
procession Of our brave boys marching up
the avenue to the White House. The
whole distance of the avenue, which is one
mile and a quarter long from the Capitol
TO the Treasury building, and 100 feet wide,
(thirty feet wider than Superior street,
wss filed with q line'of infantry marching
in plstoons Of about twenty wide, present
ing the appearances Of a huge mass Of NOV
ing bIus humanity. Proceeding to the
White House, we fund the street for
about one thousand feet in front of that
mansion fenced in, and in the center was
erected 8 pavilion on which we're seated
the President and his Cabinet the Diplo-
matte Corps some twenty Of our most dis
tinguishsd generals; and any quantity Of
the 'besuty aud FASH n'' Of, the cOun-
try. The sight presented here was
grand beyond description. On the
opposite side stsnds were erected by the
different State Agents, decorated with sp-
proptiste and affecting Inscriptions, in
which which were seated their respective
State delegations. On the canopy or pa
wilton were hung the names of the prin-
cipsl bsttlefelds; among which were
"Vicksburg, Shiloh, Roanoke, Donaldson,
Chattanooga, MurfreesbOro, Resaca, Look
Out Mountain, o Antietsm, Gettysburg
Wilderness, Spottsylyanis, Weldon Bail
Road, Five Forks, Fort Sumter, and so on.
When I gszed at the famous Army of the
Potomac, as they marched by the pavilion
and scanned their dusty and broD zsd faces,
and then looked at the names Of the above
glorious fields inscribed on the stands, 1
could hardly realize that these bravo
men could possibly have gone
through such scenes of carnage IS they must
have Witnessed 1o,.qs ss5Is. fas
I'VE civilians who have apparently been
sDjoying the blessings and comforts of
peaceAt home, safe from any danger, can
not, no matt T what may be the power of
our imagination, conceive what our boys
have passed through. We may read-we
may see pictures of battles, (which of
course are all drawn from imsginstion)
and we may hear veterans 6ght their bat,
Ties DER again, bat we can never obtain
the remotest idea of the sppesTsnce of 8
raging battle except from actual obserya-
ton. These Scared warriors when their
thoughts wander back 10 the time when
their'ears were filed with the rosr Of ar
tiIIery, the groAns of the wounded, the
.hosrse voice Of their officers, and when
they marched overthe grounds paved with
the bodies of the fallen, they, and only
such as they, can have any idea of the re-
n 80 Ell Et..H". "IL 200 H| .Ha |
atty Of s battle ,.g
The most prominent features of the
army are the worn out and torn sppeAr.
Rnes of the regimental flags, which have
been borne through hundreds Of fights,
and the decimsted appearance of the regi-
mnuents. When These regiments frat march.
ed to the war, they generally averaged
from 1000 to l 200 men each. Now they
only number from 100 to 400. What has
become of the rest will be the natural en-
-guiry r, Many have fought their
last fight and ara sleeping their last sleep
hundreds of battle fslds-others have
been discharged from hospitals disabled By
honorable wounds others have died By