Middletown transcript., 1895-09-21

IlHNM- last week. Th
-5llAl|| following accoun
is clipped fromit
twenty-six page
edition of that date:
There was day in Washington
years back, when the men who ha'
saved the natien passed in reyies
through the streets of the nation
capital, and thenceforth that has beel
the greatest day in the history of th,
Grand Army Of the Republic. It is s
no longer. That day was the flower o
their heroism. Yesterday was it
fruitage.
Shoulder to shoulder, as they march
ed thirty years ago, SO they marched
yesterday. Treading the soil of th,
South as they did in the darkest day,
Of the Union, again they came as con.
querors. Echoing in their ears fol
four long hours rang the rebel yell
such as they heard ON Virginia hill!
and Western rivers until at Appomat.
tox it sank into silence. But there
was difference, and that differel ce
made the day the Grand Army's great.
est. For their march was not past
silent homes and snllen faces, but be.
tween two greater armies of happy
brethren. The cry that drowned all
other music was the cheering of South.
ern soldiers and their sons echoing a
welcome through this gateway to the
South, whose reverberation will strike
forever dumb the demagogues who
would prate ofldead issues and fix sec
tionalism upon the common country
Of a united people.
Bitternessp IIl-feeliDg? Why the vet
Grams of Vermont marched past the
Commander-in-chief to the strains of
Dixie. The approach of Massachu-
setts' splendid delegation was heralded
by ''My Maryland.n Scarcely a State
passed without the hoarse on-lookers
being forced to cheer ssMy Old Ken
tucky Home." Did not the South
erners hurrah for the ,attered flags Of
Pennsylvania as loudly as they did for
the Kentucky banner that was first
planted on Lookout Mountain? And
when the thousands from Indiana and
Ohio and Illinois and the handfuls
from Idaho, Washington and others far
away passed by, were not the greetings
given each the complete fulfillment of
promise when this city
asked the presence of the g. A. r.?
Politicians will hereafter preach dis
sension in vain.
No untoward incident marred the
parade. Arrangements for order were
kept and the line OF 10000
men moved on time, marched as or.
dered without delay or interference
and dishanded with marvelously few
accidents or Ills.
Cadets could not have moved more
quickly or more steadily than did these
men of '61. s.Old Glory1 waved above
Them and its colors flashed around and
about the crowds on either hand. And
as they walked beneath the folds Of the
Ilag bowed heads were lifted, bent
were swung back to straight
ness and feeble limbs for a while grew
strong. For all it was a day OF glad
ness, and color, and joy in the glory of
The past that these men t,pefied, the
greatness Of the present and the prom
se OF the future of this Union that MOI
longer knows a North. South, an
East, or West. And il the sun
,hone little too brightly on this old
Kentucky home it was but in sympa-
by with the warmth Of the welcome
hat was waiting for each and every
guest.
Delaware was represented by the de-
3artment officers and further had about
ifty of the rank and file in line. The
Delaware boys we're all neatly uni
'ormed and looked like regulars, so
perfectly did they march. The depart
nent being q small one the officers had
,very reason to be pleased with the
made yesterday. especially in
. State solar from their own homes.
The following officers headed the
Delaware delegation
E. F. Wood, Department Comman-
Ter William j. Kelley. Jr., Senior
Vice Department Commander; Joseph
". Agnew, Junior Vice Depart |
nent Commander; @ w. S. Byron,1
Assistant Adiutant General; Casper
Miller, Chief ofbStaff.
Past Department Commanders: John
Wainwright, j. 5. Ritzenberg. T. II. /
kyres, r. G. Buckingham. G. W.
Daniel Ross and Joseph Now
'efrys - - s.s..
The veterans from Maryland made .
pleDdid showing At the head Of the
fourth Grand Division. which was
nder the command Of Department.
o. H. Harner.- The latter
gas followed BY 8 brilliant staff. COM
osed of N. F. Rittenhouse, John G.
,sylor, Charles D. Marburg. D. s.
tanton and J. =. Hoffman. The
veterans paraded as . bat
lllon, about thirty-flye posts being
spresented. Among these were VII
s. Dashane, Custer, Dodge, Lincoln, T
'dsory, Dennison, Fingate. Wsst-
ifuister ana Rspo. Tho geterans
IrfliSd fbe nstiona1 col6fs and sieppe1
Ionlji7 s Us b1lI eftsn plsYed (
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