Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-09-20
REHEARSING HISTORY.
Union Veterans Make Their
Second Triumphant March.
THE TWO OCCASIONS CoNTRAsTBD

The Ravages Of Time Makes Possible the
Attempt to DO in One Day what RE-
quired Two in go An Immense Mass
Of Harrison Color Along the March
Personnel of the Procession.
lBy Telegraph to the Evening JouranlJ
WASHINGTON, Sept 20-The Grand
Army Of the Republic made its second
triumphant march along Pennsylvania
avenue to-day Times ravages in its
ranks made it possible to attempt in one
day whet it required two long days to
accomplish in 1863
The line Of march OF the procession
was from foot of Capitol street, along
Pennsylvania avenue past the treasury
building, the department of justice, the
4 White House, the state, war and navy
departments, to Twenty-third street,
where the parade disbanded
To survivors Of the i6O, 600 men Of the
armies Of the Potomac and the West, who
ON the memorable 23rd and gath Of May.
1865, passed i'm review before the presi-
dent and his cabinet, including Secretary
t'NNdAAs lu0N recovering rum lHt Ahndt-
sins knife, the foreign ministers. the
military attaches Of all the great powers
of Europe and their own beloved and IL
lustrious generals, Grant, Sherman and
Sheridan, the contrasts Of "reminiscences
called out were necessarily striking It
took seven hours-from 9 10 leach day
for the armies Of 1865 to pass the review
ing stand, and the estimated length of
the two-days procession was thirty
miles
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 senate and house was then
completed The cobblestone pavement
of Pennsylvania avenue was worn into
alternate ravines and gulies by the
passage of heavy commissariat wagons
and artillery. Tiber sewer rolled its
filthy waters uncovered Not one hand
some building was to be seen from the
capitol to the treasury department.
The First Review Recalled.
The leading features Of that great
review live in. memory and have passed
into history First the resonant hooi
beats and clattering sabres of Sheridan
5000 cavalry Custer magnificent horse
manship and his theatrical dash up II
the reviewing stand Next in line the
battle-wofn Ninth corps, with its bullet
torn flags, and the shattered remnants
what once had been regiments-th,
109th and 5lst New York, the 50th
Pennsylvania, the 30th and 35th Mass
achusetts and the 2nd Michigan Ther
the Fifth corps, with its trophies Of
Yorktown. Chickahominy, Antietan
, fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and thl
Wilderness.
The grim earnestness and stead,
marching of Meads magnificent ARM
/, Of the east left nothing TO be desired a.
: a spectacular military display the frs
|, day, but the enthusiasm Of the secont
! day when sherman bummers-the frs
: and only original wild west show
Z, marched past with all their pioturesqu,
: loot of coons and chickens and goats ant
3 cooking utensils, and mules and contra
, bands of war all irregularly mixed up
! as in the actual march, Through Georgia
with the swarthy veterans themselves
with their long swinging stride that tol,
of forced marches and hard fighting
some of them barefooted, but witt
musket and cartridge box bright an,
y ready, all of them bearing the marks O
Il gallant service done. all this no one VIII
witnessed it will ever forget
And many of those in the march to-da'
were there in 1865 and not few Of tn
: spectators to-day saw that other histori
e scene of twenty seven years past.
2 The arrangements for the movement
n of the armies on the second day wer,
admira bic The right wing compose'
o of the army of the Tennessee, including
e the Fifteenth and Eighteenth corps
o Major General Logan commanding, an,
r the left wing composed of the army o
Y Georgia, including the Fourteenth ant
Il Twentieth corps Major General Slocun
(, commanding had bivouackedo n the nigh
v previous. without knapsacks, and wit
:. two-days cooked rations in thei
haversacks, on the Virginia shore Of tn
Long Bridge AT daylight in the morn
ing they had moved across the bridg
Il and taken their position upon the street
/ and grounds east of the capitol. BY
! o'clock both armies were in position
u awaiting, with stacked arms, the sigma
y to start
u Their marching was irregular and wit
frequent gaps, but the cheering whic
a Sherman and his army received from frs
to LAST Of that long day knew no cessa
tion. In the third division of the Twenti
~ eth army corps at the head of the first bri
Il gade marched Brevet Brigader Genera
/, Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana.
The parade of 1865 was the first grea
national review the country had eve
seen. The nation had had its wars. bm
no pageant had marked their successful
l. termination. The flag had been plante
3 upon the heights of Mexico and then IN
!, army had gone home separately lik
'e folks from church. When our boundarie
le were saved from British grasp it wa
. thought useless to do any congratulator
/; parading, and after redeeming our righ
II to independence our forefathers melte
le steadily away with only little sunburs
ell Of Washington's farewell to his officers.
10 Fortunately. however,at the close of tn
late war there were two armies in an
near this city. All of the soldiers compo.
ing them dwelt at the North, and Wasl
ington was better place than any othe
20 for their dispersion. The fortitude of.th
D. men and the struggles in which they ha
s. borne so brave a part, deserved con
ne memoration, and out of this sentimer
ar grew the march which was repeated &
lie day. In many respects it viii probabl
~ stand out as equally remarkable in I'll