The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-28
THE GREAT PARADE.
Fully Thirty Thousand Men in Line-Usual
Scenes of Beauty and Grandeur


Scenes of Beauty and Grandeur.
MILwAUKEE, Aug. 27.-The parade was
the greatest event of the encampment,
ticipated estimates, was well managed,
fine spectacle and q complete sue
cess. A thing remarkable in the history of
big professions was, that it started on
time. The head of the column began TO
move at 10 O'clock and reached the review
ing stand on Grand avenue at 1880. A con-
servative estimate of the number of men
who passed that point places it at $4,000.
A noticeable incident of the parade was
the enthusiasm of the old veterans when
ever they caught glimpse of General Sher-
man. He was greeted with round after
round of cheers, while the bands forgot
their admonition not to play Marching
hero of the triumphal march through the
South had to listen to- the tune that has
dinned his ears ever since the war closed.
Occasionally a veteran in the ranks would
break out with Sh sally at his old general
through another war;" while another
shouted. "How about those chickensf"
To the iatter's interrOgatory, General Sher-
man, who was as tickled as a school
boy. replied: "Oh. never took the trouble
to inquire where they came from"
The Pennsy lvania delegation made the
best appearance of any In the line, and were
conspicuous for their soldierly bearing
throughout the entire parade. There were
two magnificent spectacles to be seen about
the time the parade started. One was OBJ
servable from the intersection of Eighth
street and Grand avenue, looking down the
avenue to the bridge, with the gaudily be-
decked bridge as back ground, and the
brilliant decorations all the way up on
both sides of the street, as side lights, the
great, seething mass presented panorama
which no one who saw it is likely to forget
in q lifetime. The other spectacle was from
Tenth street up Grand avenue. In the fore
ground was the solid phalanx of human
beings, a sort of atmosphere of bright
cOlOrs. and good nature covering it all;
little further on was the reviewing stand
with its drapery, and freight of dlgnitaries
and newspaper men; then In the distance
yellow plumes of the Light Horse Squad
ron moving down the hill at the head Of the
great column between solid waves of cheer
ing humanity.
features of the parade was Post Joseph
Ledergerber, No. 240, of the Department of
Wisconsin. Although the name is Germ an.
these q. A. X. veterans are all Indians, and
came from the keshena Menominee reser-
vation, near Green Bay, Wis. 1t is the only
Indian post in the e. A. X. 1t was mus
tered in three weeks ago by Adjutant-gen-
eral Gray, of Wisconsin, and numbers
thirty-One men, all of whom served as pri-
Yates on the Union side in the war of the
rebellion, and these thirty-one men were
Indian scouts attached to the Southwest
ern department., aud nearly all of them
were in the Twelfth Missouri, and saw
much hard fighting. After the war they
were given each an allotment OF land in the
Menominee reservation, and have become
farmers and as nearly good Indians as are
to be found in the Republic. The post was
named after Capt. Joseph Lederberger, of
the Twelfth Missouri. who was killed at
Ringold. Ca, June, 1864. in which battle
nearly all of the post participated.