The times., 1901-03-16

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| Probably many people who saw Gen.
benjamin Harrison when ne first came
! into the city Of Washington are yet alive.
| 1T is, likewise exceedingly probable that
they do not remember having seen him,
! and that cannot be considered strange.
! General Harrison was here as one of
many soldiers who took part in the grand
review just after the close of the war.
| He marched at the head of his troops,
as little noticed, doubtless. as any one Of
| the privates who followed him.
| The record Of his appearance in Wash
! ington IS to be found in a copy of the
Daily Morning Chronicle" dated May %,
/ 1865. The issue in which the state
ment concerning eX-President Harrison
/ occurs is devoted almost entirely TO an
account of the second days festivities
/ incident to the grand review of troops
1 in Washington at that time. The news
! leader is The Welcome" and states
| in the headlines that the volunteer
/ troops from the West arrived and
| took part in the parade. On the
/ fourth column Of the page. under the
! black type heading. Third Division" is
! to he found General IIarrison's name.
! Just before the division in which General
/ Harrison appeared was the Bummers'
! Brigade. which is described in the article
| as being led by q tiny sable warrior
/ on q diminutive donkey" This brigade
| was composed of all sorts of ludicrous
| animals and people
| At the head of the Third Division was
! Pvt Mai. Gen. W. r. Ward, and i'm
mcdiately following him, in command of
! the First Brigade. was Bvt. Brig. Gen.
/ Benjamin Harrison. Following the latter
| We're the Seventieth Indiana Regiment of
! Volunteers. the Seventy-ninth Ohio the
/ 1921 Illinois. the lt5th Illinois, and the
| 129th Illinois regiments. Following Cen
! eral Harrison brigade was a brigade un-
! der Bvt Brig. Gen. DuVal Dustin. who
/ led the Nineteenth Michigan. the TIVE nty-
/ second Wisconsin, the Twenty-third lndi-
ana. and the Eighty-iifth Indiana. The
! Third Division closed with an artillery
! corps under the command of Capt. G. T..
/ WingieT
/ 1t is fact not generally known
/ that eX-President Hayes, Senator Haw-
/ ley. and General Harrison were rec
| commended 10y the President for ad-
J vaucemeut upon the same day. Hayes
/ was at the time colonel in the
/ Twcnty-third Ohio Volunteers and his ap-
/ pointment to tn" position OF brigadier gen
! cral was confirmed, taking effect october
/ -, 1854 The announcement of the con-
hrmatiou of the appointment is made in
/ the Daily Morning Chronicle of Feb
( ruary -, 1863. In the same paper II Is
! announced that the appointments of col
| j. r. HaWlcy as bTiaadier general OF the
| Seventh Connecticut and that OF Col
! Benjamin Harrison. 81 the SEVENTEEN IN
diana Volunteers as bTeVet brigadier gem
! er;d. were confirmed General Harrison S
/ commission was dated January p, 1850.
/
! Judge GcaIy, of California. who repre-
sentcd his State in the House in the Fifty
/ first, Fifty-second aud Fifty-third Con-
/ crosses. has been IN Washington some
/ time, preparing to try a case before the
/ Supreme Court lie is at Willard $, and
was found last night in corner of the
smoking room porng over newspaper.
II have not much patience with all
/ these rumors Of bubonic plague in San