The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-09-18
G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT.s
Veterans Of the Late War Meet
in Louisville. 81
The Blue and the Gray Join Hands-He-
roes March the Streets Watterson's
Eloquent Address-Commander
In Chief Chosen.


In Chief Chosen.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept 12.-It is
doubtful if this city, famous for fair
women and fast horses, ever before
entertained as many guests as
were here Tuesday. Certain it is
the town never before had within its
limits so many battle-scarred soldiers.
1t is conservatively estimated that
nearly 100000 strangers are here,
but the majority of them thirty
years ago bore arms either
for the blue or the gray. But the blue
and gray are one to-day, and men who
were then at war walk arm in arm as
brothers. The bitter hatred Of these
dark days has vanished.
The hour set for the starting of the
naval veterans parade was 1920 o'clock
But, as usual, there was some delay, not
enough, however, to tire the anxious
patriotic thousands who had gathered
to see it. When the order to
forward, march" was given, the
old timers moved. There were
fully 10000 men in line OF
COuI DC, JllCy were uOt oil VcItTduS, OT
of the United States navy. But these
veterans of the navy were the center
of attraction, and as those grizzled
and gray old heroes passed
through the streets they were greet
ed by patriotic cheers from the throats
of the tens of thousands of citizens on
the sidewalks, from the windows and
housetops.
The Big Parade.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept 12. = Fifty
thousand ex-soldiers of the union
army marched through the streets of
this southern city Wednesday. Before
them at the head of the column rode
two Kentuckians who enlisted in
the confederate service at the
outset of hostilities and fought to the
last ditch. One bore aloft the stars
and stripes, the other a silken banner
of virgin white, having in its center a
golden dove, and in its mouth an olive
branch. This was typlied ''The Flag
of Peace"-the reunion thirty years
after of the victors and vanquished.
Three hundred thousand people lined
the streets and windows and house
GODS dnu gave CilC lOoUS d
reception that will be memorable in
grand army annals and remembrances
of which will be carried by every par
ticipant to his last hours.
These great throngs of spectators
were tens of thousands of those that
fought on the other side, that even to-
day speak with pride of the fact that
they rallied under the stars and
bars and wore the gray that was
so dear to southern hearts. These
were the loudest in their plaudits and
the most vociferous in joining in the
chorus when the strains of Rally
Round the Flag" and other northern
war songs filed the air and proudly
the great unarmed army received the
plaudits of their one time foemen.
Mounted police first cleared the
way. The parade was headed in
front of the first division by two
distinguished ex-confederates on horse
back, Capt. John II. Weller and Capt.
William H. Harrison. They did not
wear the gray, but were dressed
in black Prince Alberts with silk
hats and red, white and blue
sashes, the same as the members of
the citizens committee. They also
wore red, white and blue scarfs and
rosettes. Capt. Weller carried very
large flag, and the stars and stripes
were proudly borne by him. Capt
Harrison carried a very large white
banner of peace mounted on staff
like the stars and stripes car
ried by his confederate comrade
Henry Watterson Cheered.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 14.-Glad of
the opportunity to rest awhile from
the pleasures and festivities that have
been showered upon them during the
week, the official delegates to the
twenty-ninth encampmento of the Grand
Army of the Republic assembled
Thursday morning in Music hall,
which had been handsomely decorated
with national colors and the of
fetal flags of the organization.
Promptly at 10 o'clock Commander
in Chief Lawler called the en-
campment to order, and State
Commander Kelly was presented to ex-
tend greetings to the delegates in be-
half of the city and the Kentucky
grand army department. Exon
gresham Warner, of Kansas City,
responded for the grand army. Then
amid scene of wild enthusiasm,
the delegates rising en- masse, and
cheering and waving of hats, Henry
Watterson, whose grafton at Pitts
burgh last year brought the encamp-
ment to Louisville, was escorted to the
footlights, and addressed the grand
encampment in a speech full of patriot
ism and good taste. He said: