The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-10-01
THE BOYS In BLUE.
Seventy Thousand Of Them in Line
at Washington.
The Parade Route Made Memorable by
the Grand Review of 1865 Again
Trod by the Gallant Defend
ers Of the Unicn.
10 Longer. However, in the Habiliments
OF War, but in the Uniform Of
Fraternity Made Sacred
by Wars Associations.

| Pennsylvania avenue. Times ravages
in decimatiug its ranks made it possf
bic to attempt in one day what it re-
quired two long days to accomplish in
! 1865. To the survivors of the 160. 900
men of the armies of the Potomac and
/ the west, who on the memorial Esd and
Gath days of May, 1868, passed in re-
view before the president and his
cabinet Including Secretary Seward,
Just recovering from the assassin's
knife), the foreign ministers, the mill
| tary attaches of all the great powers
| of Europe. and their own beloved and
illustrious generals-Grant, Sherman
and Sheridan-the contrasts and rem
iniscences called out were necessarily
striking.
1t took seven hours-from to A.
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 horsemanship 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 a thousand
more than n 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, whose gallantlittleh hand
| full 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. Antietan,
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.
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treasury denar;ment
The bopr for the moving of ves,er.
davis narade was $50 but IL was long
] after that orc tho bodv started For
two hours nrevious TO the bopr desia-
mated the streets leading to the avenue
were thronged with hurryinr people
eaper to secure an advantaoeous
view point for the dav's event.
The troops formed along New Jersey
avenue for three or four blocks; thence
east around the capitol and into the
avenue adjoining the main column.
Tho Grand off;cers escort , nos. NJ
honor. was accorded to the survivors
of the famous Sixth Massachusetts
regiment, the first defenders of Wash
ington.