The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-06-10

m0IcueO Win Dltter, OuSlueSs.I ke EcoWl
- If they might be going 10 battles yEvi.
have been converted into soldiers so thor.
oughiv. as these gaunt veterans Of Sher.
mans army.
It is the army Of the desolation of the
South, that has made its mark of blood
lind ashes for two thousant1 miles. utterlnp
Fthe whole line of it's tremendous march
with graves and the ruins Of the habita.
tions Of its enemies. These are the men
who brought the war home to the South.
and brought the irst wall Of despair from
the enemies of American nationality: and
you can read something OF the grand and
terrible history in the dark faces OF the
heroes.
| The arnotilances were worn, and had
| many marks of hard service and long ;our-
| neying. Tho old stretchers, upon which
! the wounded had been carried to the rear
from the e-feids Of tie far West
were carried along as if for immediate
use. The absence Of all the ornament. all
the russ and feathers, and the presence of
ALI the utilities OF war, was seen from one
end TO the other Of the massive column.
The army was at its best fighting weight
and condition. II there had been such an
army as this four years ago, the war would
nave been over in the first niaeay dava
But OF course it would take four years to
| make such An army. in country where
the arts of peace had been so extensively
cultivated as In ours.
Sherman's artillery passed bv hatter;es
six guns abreast, and the heavy lar and
suilen rattle of the ponderous carriages
made the pavements tremble. The horses.
after all their hard work OF dragging the
black-muzzled dogs of war through the
swapps OF the Caroiinas and the Quick.
sandof Virginia, though thin, were in fair.
serWeeable condition, and the harness.
though plainly it had stood the tug aud
fret OF many = weary pull, was good for
hard work yet. -
Sherman's men did not look upon them
selves rs favored by the opportunity of
displaying themselves, but regarded the
performance as a bore Of large proportions
ana sone OF the line officers We're not in
line, having embraced chance to avoid q
march of nearly fifteen miles through the,
heat and dust.
Com mparisons between armies NAV be in.
ivldlous, but II is impossible not to make
them. AT least, there is no man. woman
or child in Washington who has rot com.
pared and thought OF the difference be-
tween the army that marched up Pennsyl-
vania avenue yesterday, and the one that
marched to-day; and it is not because am
Western man that write the vertiic, is
universally and cordially given, that the
Army OF the West was most like an army.
The marching of3our Western l,oy4 WAS
magni fcent. But adjectiyes fail to tell
" hat It was. Il was glorious to see. Lord
bless you, the boys had done it before
They had marched two thousand miles ia
An enemy's country-why shouldn't they
have made q display 'sgrand. gloomy and
peculiar" in the Capital OF their country?
they did 1t. It was triumph for them,
to-day, such as has rarely been witnessed
upon the earth. The great. solid masses
OF boys in blue, bristling with steel, moved
up Pennsylvania avenue, and before the
President Of the United States, conquerors
and tho heroes Of the day. And there was
not an eye, loyal to the flag of the nations
that did not kindle, to zee how compact.
how splendid, and how admirable they
were.
looked from the front of the Treasury
Building, upon the l4th Corps-the bows
Of the West, who were . wall Of steel and |
nre at Chickamauga-and saw them fill
the avenue, from the Capitol to the marble |
columns OF the Treasury, and Europe neyeysi
saw grander sight, nor braver one. L |
was like mighty serpent, winding in the |
majesty Of power, on its way, each bristle /
9 spike Of steel. shining in the full splen-
upon this memorable pageant, from skyI
that had net speck Of cloud 70 dim the
OF 5ts blue--blue. the color of the
boys who marched so grandly to dav under
the flag, and keeping step 70 the music Of
he Union.
ONE OF JEFd. DAVIS SLAVES IN THE
Dry GOODS MARKET.-The Cincinnati Ga
sette, IN its dry goods market report, says
Among the buyers from the South there
came an ex-slaye Of Jefferson Davis, who
purchased qpite literally for his store at
Davis Bend, Mississippi, formerly the
plantation Of his master, and thus while I
n q " pyoo ockD fe hold N$o