Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-09-23
Monster Parade Of the Late War
Veterans at Wash
ington.
Many Thousand Men Are in Line
and the Weather
Perfect.
Some Of the Notable Characters
Who Participated Com
rade Killed.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2o.-The Grand
Army of the Republic made it's second
triumphal march along Pennsylvania
avenue to-day. Times ravages in its
ranks made it possible to attempt in
one day what it required two long days
to accomplish in 1865. To the survivors
OF the 100000 men of the armies of the
Potomac and the West, who on the
1865, passed in review before
the President and his Cabi-
net, including Secretary Seward,
just recovering from the assassi n S
knife, the foreign ministers, the mill
tary attaches of all of the great powers
Of Europe and their own beloved and
lllustrious generals, Grant, Sherman,
and Serbian, the contrasts and remin-
isecnces called out were necessarily
striking. 1t took seven hours-from
g to leach day for the armies
OF 1865 to pass the reviewing
stand, and the estimated length of the
two days procession was thirty miles.
Many of those in the march to-day
were there in 1865, and not few of
the spectators to-day saw that other
historic scene of twenty-seven years
past.
The hour for the moving Of the
parade was 9:30 o'clock, but it was
long after that ere the body started.
For two hours previous to the hour
n loci +aI no +o
avenue We're thronged with hurrying
people eager to secure an advantageous
view point for the days event.
All along the broad thorough
fare tiers of seats had been
erected commanding good views of
the procession. These were crowded,
as We're the cross streets AUDITING on
the avenue, the windows of houses
fronting thereon and the sidewalks
from the capitol to Washington circle,
two miles way, which formed the linn
its Of the parade Nearly half as many
old soldiers were in line as passed up
the avenue on the historic days of
1865
General Palmer's determination to
have the procession march in double
column was the means of avoiding a
possible controversy between these
two organiza tions over the right of the
head Of the line. AS it was, they
marched side by side and the amour
propre was fully preserved. General
Palmer, commander-in-chief, with
Henry Nj. Duffield, of Detroit, senior
Vi" comm"nder. and T. S.
Ola lson f Omaha, junior
vice commander, &c:Ompanied
by the official staff of the com
mander-in-chief and his aids-de-camp
followed. The staff comprised the fol-
lowing: Surgeon general, Benjamin
z. Stevenson, Visalia, KY; chaplain
in-chief, the Rev. s. b. Paine, Ocean
Grove, n. j.; Acknowledgements, Fred
Phisterer, Albany, n. Y; quartermas-
te1- general. John Taylor, Philadelphia,
Pa. nspector-general, John f, Pratt,
East Orange, n. j.; judge advocate
general, Joseph w. O'Nean, Lebanon,
Ohio; assistant adjutant-general, D. u.
@ k, Brooklyn, n. Y.
A pleasing feature of the march and
one that the veterans greatly enjoyed
was the choral tribute to their pres
ence by school children of the district.
They were located at two points-300
colored girls at the corner of Third
street and the avenue and 500 white
girls at the corner of Fifteenth street.
Perhaps as interesting feature of the
parade as any was exPresident Hayes,
who in a suit of black, marched at the
head of the Fremont Post, of Ohio.
i The people of Washington recognized
him at once and cheered in the most
cordial fashion. So constant and I'M
ceaslng was the cheering that for
! blocks at a time he did not have an OPP
portunity to replace his polished tile
upon his silvered head. He might have
! had a carriage or horse, but ne pre-
ferred to walk with the rest of his
comrades, and the crowd liked him
better for it.
This morning, while Light Battery F.
of Third Artillery, was firing the salute
large crowd gathered about the
canon. A squad of policemen was
sent for to disperse them, and while they
were at work getting the peop,e O,
of danger, the canon was prematurely
discharged. Spear, Brown, Al, i'll,
Murphy and Pearson were painfully in
iured about the head and face by the
powder and c. Y. Billert, Dave 81 in
dollar of Spencerville, Ohio; J. A.
Bradley of Illinois, and Mrs. Mary
Lagget were also injured.