Griggs courier., 1895-09-20
G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT.
Veterans OF the Late War Meet
In Louisville.

The Blue and the Gray Join Hands-He-
roes March the eStreets-Watrerson's
Eloquent Address Commander
In Chief Chosen.
Lou1sv1ILE, 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 :ts
limits SO many battle-scarred soldiers.
It 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 1890 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
course. they were not all veterans, or
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 chears from the throats
of the tens of thousands of citizens on
the sidewalks, from the windows and
housetops.
The Big Parade.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept IL. - 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
asst ditch. One bore aloft the stars
and stripes, the other silken banne,
of virgin white, having in its center a
golden dove, and in its mouth an olive
branch. This was typlfied 1.-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
tops and gave the marching hosts 9
reception that will be memorial BILE ir
grand army annals, and remembrance
of which will be carried by every par
ticipant to his last hours.
These great throngs OF spectator.
were tens of thousands of those thai
fought on the other side, that even to
day speak with pride of the fact tha'
they rallied under the stars ant
bars and wore the gray that wal
SO dear to southern hearts. !Thest
were the loudest in their plaudits ant
the most vociferous in joining in thu
chorus when the strains of "Rally
Round the Flag" and other northern
war songs filed the air and proudly
tie great unarmed army received th'
plaudits of their one time foemen.
Mounted police first cleared tn
way. The parade was headed i,
front of the first division by tw'
distinguished ex-confedcrateso on horse
back, Capt. John H. Weller and Capt
William H. Harrison. They did no
wear the gray, but were dressed
in black Prince Alberts with sill
hats and red, white and blu
sashes, the same as the members o
the citizens committee. They ais
wore red, white and blue scarfs ant
rosettes. Capt. Weller carried yer,
large flag, and the stars and stripe
were proudly borne by him. Capt
Harrison carried very large whit
banner of peace mounted on stat
like the stars and stripes car
ried by his confederate comrade
Henry watterson Checred.
LOUISVILLE. KY, Sept. 14.-Glad o
the opportunity to rest awhile frou
the pleasures and festivities that hav
been showered upon them during til
week, the official delegates to tn
twenty-ninth encampment of the Gran
Army of the Republic assemble
Thursday morning in Music hall
which had been handsomely decorate
with national colors and the Of
fetal flags of the organization
Promptly at 10 o'clock Commando
in Chief Lawler called the en
campment to order, and Stat
Commander Kelly was presented to eS
tend greetings to the delegates in be
half of the city and the Kentuck
grand army department. Ex-Con
gresham Warner, of Kansas City
responded for the grand army. The
amid a scene of wild enthusiasm
the delegates rising en- masse, an
cheering and waving-of hats. Henr.
Watterson, whose Grafton at Pitts
burgh last year brought the encamI
ment to Louisville, was escorted to tn
footlights, and addressed the gran
encampment in a speech full of patriot