Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-09-29
Ho Longer. However, in the Habtliments
of War, but in the Uniform of
Fraternity Made Sacred
by Wars Associations.

Fraternity Made Sacred
by Wars Associations.
WASHINGTON, Sept. ea.-The Grand
Army of the Republic yesterday made
ats second triumphal march along
Pennsylvania avenue. Times ravages
in decimating its ranks made it posi-
ole to attempt in one day what it re-
@quired two long days to accomplish in
1865 To the survivors of the 100. 900
men of the armies of the Potomac and
the west, who on the memorial Esd and
24th days of May, 1865, passed in re-
view before the president and his
cabinet Including Secretary Seward,
just recovering from the assassln's
a<nife). the foreign ministers. the mill
fary attaches of all the great powers
of Europe, and their own beloved and
Industrious generals-Grant, Sherman
and Sheridan-the contrasts and rem
iniscences called out were necessarily
striking.
1t took seven hours-from to -
each day for the armies of 1865 to pass
the reviewing stand, and the estimated
length of the two days procession was
thirty-six miles
The leading features of that great re-
view live in memory and have passed
into history. First the resonant hoof-
beats and Gathering sabers of Sheri-
dams 5000 cavalry; Clusters magnifi-
cent Workmanship and his theatrical
dash up to the reviewing stand. Next
in line the battle-worn Ninth corps,
with its bullet-torn flags, and the shat
tered remnants of what once
had been regiments thousand
strong now reduced to barely
more than full company
the One Hundred and Ninth and Fifty
first New York, the Fiftieth Pennsyl-
vania. the Thirtieth and Thirty-fifth
Massachusetts. the First Michigan
SharpshOoters,w whose gallant little hand
flu! had pressed close upon the heels of
Lees retreating army and placed their
banner upon the courthouse of Peters
burg, and the Second Michigan, who
followed on their heels. Then the
Fifth corps, with its trophies of
Yorktown, Chickahominy. Antietam,
Fredericksburg. Gettysburg and the
Wilderness The grim earnestness
and steady marching of Meade's
magnificent army of the east left moth
ing to be desired as spectacular mill
tary display the first day.
But the enthusiasm eliminated the
second day when Sherman's-the only
original wild west Show-men marched
by, followed by the famous hummer
Brigade" Heterogeneous collection of
all colors, with every species of plumber
and impedimenta loaded upon q sorry
looking a lot of beasts as could
be picked up. The swarthy
veterans with their long. swinging
stride and gallantlv borne arms and
. equipments that told their own story
of long marches and hard fighting, led
by the gallant Sherman, presented
sight that lives wildly in the mem
= DRY of those who witnessed it.
And many of those in the march to-
day were there in 1865, and not few of
the spectators of to-day saw that other
historic scene of twenty-seven years
past.
Washington was a very different city
then. The capitol, in 1865, was walled
in and surrounded by heavy timber.
Neither of the present stately marble
wings now occupied by the senate and
house was then completed. The cob
blc-stone pavement of Pennsylvania
. avenue was worn into alternate hillocl<s
and gullies by the passing of heavy
commissariat wagons and artillery.
Tiber sewer rolled its filthy waters I'M
covered. Not one handsome building
was to be seen from the capitol to the
treasury department.
The hour for the moving of yester-
days parade was 9:3O, but it was long
after that ere the body started. For
two hours previous to the hour desig-
mated the streets leading to the avenue
were thronged with hurrying people
eager to secure an advantageous
, view point for the days event.
The troops formed along New Jersey
8 avenue for three or four blocks; thence
= east around the capitol and into the
avenue adjoining the main column.
The grand officers escort, a post of
honor, was accorded to the survivors
of the famous Sixth Massachusetts,
regiment, the first defenders of Wash
ington.
The United States Signal Corps Vet
eran association, which is holding it's
seventeenth annual reunion in connec-
ton with the Grand Army of the Re-
public encampment, closed the first
part of the procession.
Then came the Grand Army of the
Republic posts by departments. The
old soldier was apparent in every step,
and the proudly martial behavior of
the veterans was strengthened by the
plaudits of the multitude which rang
continually in their ears as they passed.
The posts marched in the order of their
seniority, beginning with Illinois,
where the Grand Army of the Republic
was organized. The rear of the pro-
cession was brought up by the Naval
Veterans association.
The procession was, as far as posi-
bic. strictly Grand Army of the Re-
public organization, the first and last
division containing the only non-sol-
diers.
The procession moved under the or
ders of the commander-in-chief in
double column, twelve files front, one
column on each side of the car tracks,
:platoons being twelve PAGES apart, and
between departments twenty four
PAGES
When the vice-president's reviewing
stand in front of the treasury building
was reached Gen. Palmer and staff
saluted most gracefully, and the re-
ssponse came back from Mr.. Morton no
Hess effectively.
Passing on to the stand reserved for
himself and officials of the G. A. R.,