The Placer herald., 1865-07-08
The Review of Sherman's Armv,

The most of our modern readers have nc
doubt read of the great review of the army
of the Potomac which took place in Wash
ngton last month. This army numbered
above one hundred thousand men. Ther
came the army of General Sherman, number
ing eighty thousand The following accoun
is from the New York World:
The companions of Sherman locked, per
haps, less spruce than their brethren of the
army of the Potomac; but it must be re,
membered that they have traversed five
great States since they began the wonderful
march from Nashville and Knoxville to
| Washington via the sea- board of the Caroli-
mas. And in martial port, in the cadence of
their steps, in the magnificent physique. they
were certainly the peers of any army that
ever trod the earth. The parade occupied
some nins hours during which eighty thou.
General Grant and (partally) General Sher
man. The appearance of the latter officer
was the signal for tremendous applause, a
popular ovation such as has never before
been accorded any officer of our armes.-
After passing a certain distance beyond the
platform erected in front of the White House
the General returned and took his place
among the chief men of the nation, and re-
mained until the pageant had passed by. 1t
is reported that when General Sherman
mounted the platform, the President exten-
ded his hand, which was warmly grasped;but
Secretary Stanton, attempting a similar
movement, was quietly snubbed by Sherman,
who by ignoring his presence, reached out
and met the grasp of the Lieutenant General,
with whom we entered into conversation,
much to the discontinue of the Secretary Of
war. AS General Sherman has no great pro'
portion of cavalry, the deficiency was made
up by the introduction of the pack mules,
young horses and broken down nags Of the
army of the west, loaded with tents, baggage,
utensils, kettles, swords, pigs, chickens, goats,
dogs, raccoons, piccanninnies, black women,
and trudgng along in the dusty rabbe were
the backest OF negroes and all the thousand
and one of camp life. The famous "Bum.
mer Corps" brought up the rear; without
this no representation of Sherman's army
would have been complete. Accordingly at
the end, General Bar's corps, appeared the
most ludicrous, and at the same time, the
most interesting scene ever witnessed in con.
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black servants, attended by the guards of the
small baggage train, were preceded by two
diminulive donkeys, astride of which were
two equally dimiuulve darkies, whose self
complacency was only equaled by the imper'
lurate animals under them. Then came
the straugest huddle equine, canine, bovine
and human, that ever civilian beheld, but
which has been common enough in Georgia
Mules, asses, horses colts, cows, sheep, pigs
goats, racoons mounted on mules, dogs, led
by negroes blacker than Erebus. Every
beast of burden was loaded to its capacity
with tents, baggage knapsacks, hampers,
panniars, boxes, vases, kettles, pots, pans,
dishes, demij johns, bird cages, cradles, mir.
rors, fddles, clothing, picauinuies, and an
occasional black woman. In effect Sherman
gave us sample of his army asst appeared
on the march through the Carolnas. The
troops returned at and during night to the
old camp in Virginia, and will doubtless
soon be disbanded.