The Xenia sentinel. [volume] (Xenia [Ohio]) 1863-186?, 1865-06-09
The Great Review.


ingtOn correspondence Of the New York
Tribune;
The next wonder was that the soldiers
seemed so Ittle excited. They tr4mpled
along with a certain easy, satisfied, every
day nouchalance that was the perfection of
the nal admirori. They scarcely looked
right or lett, aud any PRIDE aud exultarion
they dId show was grim aud brOnzed like
th,ir fees aud their uniforms. There
were, however, some exceptions. When a
shout of "Hurrah for Massachusetts"
would be rli>ed by group of Bay State
spectators, or an enthu ,iastie Sucker
wOulI call for and get rOusi g cheers for
Illinois, as regiments from their respective
States passed by, then the rank aud file
would look eagerly to where the shout
came from, and scan zach mans face as
though hoping to zee familiar one. Ag IN,
when Colonel ou passing the main pavIl-
ion would ask cheers for the President aud
Gen. Grant, the imperturbaJle faces would
become frausfgured into Wild animation
and pride, aud old rusty caps, graSped by
tawuy hands aud swung high 10y GrawUy
arms, would circle in the ar, while lungs
made strong by y,ars in the fed and
thrOais familiar with the whOOp Of the
charge aud the cheer of victory, wOuli
send up a noise like that of the many wa
ters of many Niagaras. And yet not one
in fifty would turn his eyes to see the faces
Of those they were cheering. Whether the
seeming want Of curiosity was the result Of
discipline which commanded "eyes to the
front, all, " or whe her they really did no
deign to appear to be curious l can't
say.
There never was so perfectly happy a
set Of meu as those in the main pavilion
the President and Clbinet, Gen. Grant,
and the score or two of other distinguish
ed off -ers. Not that they grinned aud
bowed in self-approbativeness, for there
vas not bit Of tnat. 1t WASH sef-com-
placency, but a sort of calm quiet; SET
tied peace and gratitude, seemed to per-
wade them all. When the crowd would
surge up to the stand, at any brief inter-
val in the procession, and demand a sight
Of their favorites, the President would rise,
and bow repeatedly, but never say i word.
Grant when called for would but rise for
an instant, with lifted hat, and if his face
told any story at all it was one of shyness
and surprise.
To the stranger in Washington who had
never seen tue men on that stand, it was
wei worth while the rushing up as the
r, ar of division or corps passed, the hur-
ried glance, and the scimpcr back when
the head Of the next column approached.
There were the President and Cabinet,
Sherman, Meade, Hancock, Howard, SlO-
cum, Logan, Hunter, Humphreys, Gus
ter, aud 80 others only les famous Ia
Of ma mes that will pass iuto his
tory an ny the giants.
Yesterday the fuvorites among the Off
GERS who rode by were clearly Merritt,
Custer, Humphreys, Griffin and Miles.
Custer is the Murat of the war, Hum
phreys has wJrthily succeeded to the COM
mand of Hancock 5 old corps (tbe Second,
and Griffin to Warren's (the Fifth.) 1t
should not and does not derract FROM the
latter, that the men raised cheer after
cheer for Warren, than whom an ofhcer
was never more ido.ized by his soldiers.
It may not be Inappropriate to say here
that it is understood that Warren stands
today entirely exonerated from any fault
on the day that he was relieved from his
corps by Sheridan, and that he and Sher-
iJan are now the best of friends. The
statement is confirmed by Wareu's late
to an important command at
the West.
Tooday the heroes have been Sherman,
Logan, SIocum aud Geary. Howard hav-
ing taken charge of the Freedmen's Bu~
reau, and yielded the Army of the Tens
nessep, did nut ride with the troops; but
everybody asked for him, and an ovation
was waiting for this one-armeC hero.
You know before the war Logan was an
qwfm Democrat, and in his speeches actu-
ally committed himself against coercion"
But when Sumter was fred upon, and his
political chief, Douglas, wheeled about
and pronounced for coercion, then he, too,
began to reconsider. 1t is said that he
wrote to Douglas to know what to do, aud
hat the later replied, "Raise a regiment,
John" Logan did 50, and was commits
stoned Colonel by an old political antagU-
mist, Gov Yates. During the first year of
the war be remained very much Of a Dem
ocrat-fOught for the Union with Slavery.
lie dates his Abolitionism from the day
he entered some Southern rity-I think it
was Nashviile-and found no welcome ex-
cept from the negroes. Last Fall his wife
bet span of mules with Gen. Singleton
that her hu>band would vote for Lincoln
and won them. A few weeks before the
election be was given leave ofabsence, and
announced that he would speak; but,
desirous of getting at his old political as
sociates, refused to say upon which side he
would speak. He got tremendous audi
ence, aud pronounced for Lincoln; and
then spoke twice each day till election.
As the direct result, the political revulu-
luton in Southern Illinois was the most
thing in the last campaign.