Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-12
 OLIVE BRANCH OF PEACE Borne at;the Head of the Grand '.., Army.
  FIFTY THOUSAND VETERANS Marchin Solid PhaIanx Before Vast Crowd. True Southern Tribute to North ern Valor.
FIFTY THOUSAND VETERANS

Louisville, Ky, Sept. 11.-F'ifty thou
 sand ex-soldiers of the union army
 marched through the streets of this southern city today Before them came
 the advance, the Kentuckians who en-
 listed in the Confederate service at the
 outset of hostilites and fought to the
 last ditch. one bore aloft the stars and stripes, the other a silken banner of white, having in it's center golden dove
 and in its mouth an olive branch. This typified "The emblem of peace. The re-
 union thirty years after of the victor and vanquished" Three hundred thousand
 people lined the streets and windows and house tops, and gave the marching hosts
 a reception that will be memorable in Grand Army annals and remembrances of which will be carried by every partici- pant to his last hour In these great | throngs of spectators were tens of thou- l sands of those who fought on the other | side that even today 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 yociferouS In joining in the chorus when l the strains of Rally Round the Flag" | and other national war songs filled the | air, and proudly the great unarmed army
 
 foemen
 Full of sentiment and pathos also were | the demonstrations of the women folks 1 when a maimed or crippled veteran came ! hobbling along. For fully a mile in the | aristocratic residence district the lawns | and gardens were filled with the fairest | buds of a state of beautiful women, their | costumes of white adorned with tri- l colored Sashes or miniature American | flags. These admirers, not content with oiN,iY, of hoY q IipfG nd IT l feminine ways of greeting, showered 1 flowers on the heads of the aged and | crippled as they passed along.
 From start to finish it was more like a. | home coming and passage of victorious army fresh from the battlefield than a | reunion of conquered and conquerors 1 thirty years later.
 | Owing to the blockade and consequent | delay in the arrival of many of the posts | that were to figure in the line it was not | until nearly daylight this morning that | Colonel Cowan and his assistants had | completed the order of the divisions. At | 5:30 o'clock four signal guns were fired | to awaken the veterans in the out door camps and school houses, but the detona- | tions had the effect of startling the whole | city and rattling the China in many l closets. An hour later all vehicular traf- fic in the district covered by the line of l march was stopped. The police roped off 1 the roadwayS from the sidewalks and the | departmental delegations and individual l posts began to form at locations desg- | mated. In the meantime the sightseers | had commenced to turn out in a torrent, | and sidewalks, windows and the public l and private stands with which the route l was thiclly studded filled up like magic. | Owing to the complaints of veterans at 1 previous eneampmentS that they were l compelled to go over more ground than | their age or physical condition justified, | the line of march was limited to two and | a half miles, and the change was a wise | one, for the heat was intense, and the | sun beat down upon the unShaded road 1 ways with remorseless fury.
 | The head of the column formed at | Shelby and Broadway, close upon the l spot where the catastrophe had occurred | few hours before and at Ills o'clock | three signal guns from PheniX hill gave l the signal that all was in readiness for | the grand line march. Upon the moment | Capt. J. H. Wells, bearing afloat mag nificent Silken specimen of the stars and l stripes, moved forward. Six feet behind him came Captain Harrison. holding high | a banner emblematic of peace and good l will. Chief Marshal Henry s. Cohn and l the members of the various citizens com l mittees followed on horseback, acting s | escorts to the carriages containing Gov 1 ernOr Brown and staff, Mayor Tyler, the | city officials of New Albany and Jeffer- l sonville and other special guests. The | crack Coulmbia post of Chicago was | next in line as escort to Commander-in- 1 Chief Lawler and the council of ad- l ministration, who were mounted on l splendid black chargers. This completed l the advance of the column, and the l grand divisions followed in regular or | der.
 l In the first were the departments and | posts of Illinois, Wisconsin and Pennsyl- l vania, Governor Upham marching with 1 the post in the front rank of the Badger 1 State boys In the second division the | comrades from Ohio turned out in force, | and behind them were the delegations l from New York state, of which the mem- | bers from John A. Dix post, attred fit | tingly for a ball room in black broad l cloath suits and white helmets, easily | carried off the honors.
 l The features of the third division were
 the Rhode Island contingent, looking | spick, span and comfortable in white l duck trousers and blue coats, and the | New Hampshire delegation. Between | the two first posts four stolid veterans | carried a cage containing the department 1 mascot an immense white eagle. which l has been in captivity for several years. 1 When the reviewing stand was reached 1 the top of the cage was loosened and the
 bird, mounting to the upper rail- gave | an unearthly scream in celebration of 1 freedom and scared to the skies. Be- 1 hind the Granite State contingent came | the department of the Potomac, with the 1 famous Old Guard and it's field band 1 OtFelgnty pieces, well UO the lrOnt. The 1 mink ShakOdaS were novelty to the | southern spectator, and whose general picturesque appearance was awarded by | torrents of applause. The delegations | from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New | Jersey. Maine, California. Vermont, Vir- | ginia and North Carolina were also in | this division, varying in numbers, the | Bay State turning out 1000 strong.
 In the fourth division the Iowans, who were sandwiched in between Michigan, | 1000 strong. and Indiana all three being | largely represented, made themselves lAknown through immense yellow badges | representing a full grown ear of corn. | Gen. Lew Wallace marched with his In- diana post and Maryland and Nebraska completed the division.
 The Kansas posts, 2000 strong, with | sunfiower badges the size of a grddle | cake, were conspicuous in the fifth d- | vision. Missouri turned out strong and