Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-21
The Boys Went Marching and
VIII Soon March to
THAT ETERNAL CAMP GROUND
Where Nearly all tho Great Civil War GEN
erals Have Gone.
Fifty Thousand Veterans, GrItzipd and Inffm,
Many Of Them. March Along Pennsylvania
Avenue The Veterans Accorded
Grand Reception.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept co.
Through the dpnse lines OF thousands
Of people who lined the payements and
side streets, past buildings whose Law
ish display OF nuttnrinE banners, Tags
and stisaanpfs attosted the cordially OF
The welcome Of their owners, oheerod
ON Nv the irush voicos OF hundreds ot
school children singing patriotic airs,
the Grand Army OF tho Republic many
thousand strong, to-day marched mp
the broad, smooth asphaltod Penneyl-
vAnia avenue, along whose rough cob.
hlestonos a. mcmbcrs OF tho groateNt OF
modern armies they marched twenty
seven years ago, tired, dusty, travel
stained, wnr-worn, but with ilerce OK
uliatun and pride born OF the courage
OF their deeds and accomplishments
II was tho last tlmo many Of them
would over soc the national capitoi.
Tho long roll-call hpd carried on mHny
OF those mon who had boon with theul
in the march 10 which nearly NIL their
minds reverted An the most famous
leaders wore gone
GRANT, SHERMAN, SHERIDAN,
| Thomas, f.0ran, Mcpherson, Hancock.
| Blair, McCionnan aud stlll the call
might go on. Tho grisslcd' aged, lre-
/ quontly iniirm appearance OF thusc leit
showed all had passed thelrprlme u
/ thoy ruturnUh 80 another rc-lnlpn, ~
! must be with great snducss AZ the thin
nod ranks, so Il was they decided 10
! mako the parndo tho rroatest foaturc Of
! tho twcuty-aiNth annual oncampmcnt,
Tho Onilrc limo mmohed With deco
rated bannovs, bunting, corps onslgna
and nngs until oaoh block OF stretch
between the capitol and the treasury
department wus az picturesque and ~
gay a. the decorators skill could
mako H.
Tho weather was perfect, one Of those
rich AUTUMN days for which Washing
ton n famous, And AZ ucarly as an nu-
iumn day can lrsomhlc spring day,
did this morning resemble that memo-
aho 2ard ot May, 1865, whom the bat
tic stunned yoteWua OF Che army Of tho
United States hogan their march along
Pennsylvania nyonue 20 b. reviewed for
the last tune by tho great commander,
now no moro.
bat tho weather Hoddess was iiclslo and
az tho hour arrived for tho starting OF
the procession, the east wind began IN
hl0W hfihgiha u raw chill, the sky boz
gun 20 an with light ruin clouds, and
soon the day
oIEW GRAY AND GLOOMY.
Tho yniarans formed In line nt their
respective headquarters and marched
chiefly BY side streets TO the place OF
formation, Adjoining the south wing
OF tho treasury building on a large COW
ored stand named
~ HONOR or LINCOLN
and prottlly decorated some 800 young
school girls with waving OF flags, merry
shouts Of 10Y and ringing shouts OF glad-
moss sped on the way the veternna
whose preliminary march ~ tho capitol
led thcm pHst their stand
From tho Botanical gardens down
the diagonal avenues as lnr az the Penn
! hylyanin station and railroad irncks
stretched tho ranks Of tho Illinois nnd
/ | Wisconsin departments. To tho south
and onst from the flank Of the Sucker
! aud Badger state divisions 70 tho navy
yard tunnel wore the Pcnnsylyaninna
and Chionua. South Of the capitol Tho
Now Workers. spread out IN a long and
Z Irregular brOkon line thanking the men
from Connecticut and Massachusetts,,
whose right column faced the park on
the east front Of the capitol.
Tho commands from New Jersey aud
, California occupied streets directly east
: Of the capitol. North and oust were
= the veterans from the stAtoa Of Mich.
a Igan, Nebraska, Iowa, Maryland aud
. Virginia
4 TiiE ORDER or PARADE