Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-10-21

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was oucceoDfully carf1eo OUT -.
organisations marched well. Inc rou1e -
: circuis Of Temples farm, and soGes 10y.
miles In lenRth over the broad neids, @nn
noshin, IN oheerucs the march, One hour
.,d two ninutes we're consumed in pass1ng
. g;ven poiut. When the head Of the pro-
ces.;on reached The grand stand, Gen. Han
rock and staff road 1t the head, but they then
tell ont of line, and with President Arthur
and his cabinet and foreign guests. and other
distineuished visitors, reviewed the troops
from the grand stand.
Gen. Hancock stated to the President that
there we're 8, 500 men in line. The states
Represented BY volunteers were Georgia, Ne"
Jersey, Delaware. Pennsylvania, Massachn-
sets, Michigan. South Carolina, New Hamp-
shire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina
Rhode Island, Vermont, Kentucky and Con
necticuf. The impression seems to be that
the competition for marching lies between
the 18th BROOKLYN and New jersey troops.
The President was quite enthusiastic over
the magnihcence of the display. The only
colored troops in line we're two companies
from Richmond. They were loudly cheered
by the spectators from the North.
Gen. Hancock's Reception.
In the afternoon Gen. Hancock gave re-
ception on board the St. John. Among the
guests were President Arthur, David DAVIS,
French and German visitors, Rear Admiral
wyman, officers of the Army and Navy,
members of the congressional commission
and Governors and officers of States.
The Review.
The military review today was brilliant
success. An immense crowd lined the ground
over which the troops passed, but the senti-
nels along the line of march preserved per-
feet order. On the grand stand, to which
persons were only admitted by ticxet, were
President Arthur and members of his Cab
met, senators and congressman. governors OF
states, Gen. Sherman and staff, French and
German delegates, and large number of
other distinguished men as well as many
ladies. At 10 o'clock the review began and
the columns passed the grand stand in the
following order; Gen. Hancock and staff,
companies I'd Artillery, companies Sd Artil-
lery, 4 companies LIST Infantry, companies
Marine Corps, sailors from the flagship
Franklin, l6 companies of sailors from other
ships in the harbor, sailor boys from the
training ships with gatling guns, band of
MES Chatham Artillery from Georgia, with
guns captured from Corvallis, 10 companies
from New Jersey, LIST Del. Reg't, 6 companies
Pennsylvania National Guards. Ninth Mas
sachusetts, companies LIST Maryland Brigade,
IL companies of Second Maryland Brigade,
companies of the Carolina Brigade, 10
companies Of the Third New Hampshire. 3
companies of the Virginia Brigade headed
BY Fitz Hugh Lee with . mounted body
guard of so men, Virginia Military Institute
Cadets. 8 companies of the lst Corps of Bos-
ton Cadets, (cheered) LIST Virginia Regiment,
companies of the LIST battalion of Virginia
Light Artillery on foot, companies of the
Sd Virginia Regiment, companies of the
4th Virginia Regiment, 6 companies of Inf,
white and colored, companies Of Veter-
ans on foot, (cheered) Co. ID Veterans of
Buffalo, N. Y, LIST North Carolina Regiment,
I companies of the I'd North Carolina, I'd
Battalion of Rhode Island, 8 companies of
the LIST Vermont. I'd Michigan Regiment
companies, (cheered) LIST Connecticut Regi-
ment 10 companies, (wildly cheered because
they were supposed to have been lost; they
arrived just in time to get in line,) Mounted
Trumpeters, Pennington's Battery, U. S. A.,
four pieces, Claire's Battery, four pieces.
These were the regiments that came over
land and were cheered. The marching of
the troops were generally very fine and ex-
cited great interest among military men
and ELECTED loud cheers from the multitude.
Gen. Hancock and Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee were
both loudly cheered whenever they appeared
a. a tribute to 1.-THE blue and the gray
The two pieces of artillery captured at the
seige of Yorktown and presented by Wash
ington to the Chatham artillery excites the
greatest interest. As an illustration of dis
cipline by some Of the volunteers one of their
sentinels refused to let Secretaries Lincoln,
Hunt and Postmaster General James enter
the grand stand without the usual pass.
There have been fully ten thousand troops
present during these exercises.
A very large crowd lined the bluffs along
the water front to witness the naval review,
which has been changed from tomorrow, as
originally announced, to this afternoon. At
the appointed hour the sails of the naval
vessels were dropped and then furled again.
The yards manned and 81 guns fred from
each of the seven men of war lying in the
harbor, as a salute to the Presidential party
who passed each of them in steam yacht.
The scene from the bluff was one of the
most picturesque Of the whole occasion. The
naval vessels, yachts, tug, sail and row boats,
with steamers, music from the bands and the
firing of salutes, combined to make the
scene one long to be remembered. The
Presidential party and all Of the steamers
bearing distinguished visitors left this even
ing, and only the Army and Navy are linger-
ing and thew 90 Tomorrow