The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-27
WASHINGTON Letter.
From our regular corrcspondent.l

statue OF Une great anu nCrOlc SOluleT, |
General George II. Thomas, and the
meeting of the "Society of the Army
of the Cumberland, - gave to the Capt.
tai of the Nation the grandcst pageant
it has witnessed since 100000 battle.
SCARED veterans, fresh from the vic
tories of Atlanta, Jonesboro, and APP
pomatox, marched through its broad
avenue in the spring of 1865. The
morning of the 10Th of November was
ushered in by the boom of artillery,
and by eleven o'clock Pennsylvania
Avenue, from the Capitol to the Treas
ury, was thonged with spectators, gay
with flags and strcamers and gaslands,
while staff officers and civic and mill
tary organizations moved to their re-
spective rendezvous.
At 1890 the grand procession moved |
up Pennsylvania Avenue in five divis-
ions, headed by General II. Il. Critten- |
den, Grand Marshal, and his staff.
Each division was headed by Il mar
shall and his staff. In the first division
was the West Point Military Academy
band, Veterans of the Mexican War,
Grand Army of the Republic, from
different portions of the United
States. In the second division were
the Third U. $. Artillery band, from
Fort Hamilton, n. Y. the Society of
the Army of the Cumberland, num-
bering 600, on foot and in carriages
various committees of citizens Judges,
Senators, Governors, and other dis
tinguished visitors. In the third divis-
ion was the Second Artillery band,
from Fort McHenry; Light Battery
G., Third L. $. Artillery; Batteries NJ
and II, Second L. 5. Artillery, and Il
battalion of U. S. infantry; Gen.
Sherman and staff Gen. Hancock and
staff, Gen. Schofield and staff, Gen.
Mcdowell and staff, and many others,
including the staff of the Army,
followed by the handsomely mounted
Light Battery A. Second Artillery.
The fourth division contained the
celebrated Marine Band, followed by
a battalion of marines, Admiral Porter
Vice-Admiral Rowen, and Rear-Ad-
mirals, Commodores, and other naval
officers; following these, in the same
division, were the boys from the L. s.
training ships Saratoga and Ports
mouth, with their Gatling guns, and
dressed in their iaunty sailor oruniforms.
, The fifth and last division was made
| up of Columbus, O, Barracks band,
/ Richmond Light Infantry Blues,
Norfolk City Guards, the Governors
Guards, of Annapolis, Md AleXand-
, ria Light Infantry, Cadets, Thomas
Mounted Battalion, Butler Guards,
and the Fire Department of Washing
ton. These divisions were reviewed
by the President from stand Oh the
Avenue, in front Of the Executive
Mansion,
= Reaching the circle at the intersec-
ton on Fourteenth street, Massachu-
sets, and Vermont avenues and NJ
o street, the divisions were assigned
their several positions around the
veiled monument. $4,000, people had
assembled to witness the ceremonies
at the unveiling of the statue. The
, circle around the monument was most
-, beautifully and artistically decorated
with flags and streamers and garlands
y prayer, salute OF artillery, and the
- "Star Spangled Banner" by choir OF
100 voices, with artillery accompani.
ment, anu, at a signal, the starry
folds of the flag of our country fell al
the touch of General Don Carlos Buell.
and the splendid equestrian statue OF
the pure patriot and umfinching
soldier, rose to view amid the cheers
of an admiring multitude. The
{ oration of General Stanley Matthews
u, which followed, was "a splendid trib
ute to the memory of the warrior
whose form lives in bronze, but whose
e great name and deeds live in the
+ hearts of The American people.
, This statute is pronounced to be tn,
h, finest equestrian statue in Washing
!. ton. 1t is the work of the sculptor
j. Q. a. Ward, and was purchased by
= the Society of the Army of the Cum
c berland at a cost of $4,000. The
$ pedestal on which it stands was er
t ected by the Government at cost o
S25,0O0
In the evening meeting was helc
y by the Society in a mammoth ten
erected on the White House lot JUS
f south of the Presidents Mansion
Ten thousand people assembled undc
4 this canvas. There was an address O
Judge Macarthur; an oration by Gen
, eral Anson G. McCook; a recitation o
p the poem, "The Rock of Chick
y amauga," by Miss Annie Story
y speeches and anecdotes by Genera
q Sherman, General Garfield, Presiden
=. Hayes, and others, all intersperseC
- with choice music.
!, The morning of the Goth dawneC
e cold and blustery, with flakes of snow
;, in the air. The mammoth tent hac
: been flattened out by the gale, ant
: the Society met at Wizards Hall
e where, among its proceedings, it wa
v determined to hold the next re-uniol