The National tribune., 1903-05-28

REVIEWING STAND IN FRONT OF WHIT
approached more nearly the Regular
Army model of dress. marching and ma
nuvers. The Western Army was rather
careless as to dress and equipments, only
caring to have enough to show that they
were Union soldiers. Nor did they bother
much about proper cadence and absolute
perfection of alignment, but moved with
the long, swinging stride which had car
ried them with marvellous swiftness over
II States.
At their head rode the General-in-C Chief,
William Tecumseh Sherman - with the
laurels of Atlanta, the March to the Sea,
Through the Carolinas, and the Surrender
of Johnston still recent and fresh. Tall
and sinewy. with rugged face and gleam-
ing eyes, he looked the ideal leader of
battle and conquest. By his side. with
armless sleeve, rode one of his principal
lieutenants-Oliver o. Howard, the Christ
ian soldier. and the Commander of the
Army of the Tennessee from Atlanta to
Washington.
There now rode at the head of the
Army of the Tennessee John A. Logan,
the greatest volunteer General of the war,
whose sword had won him that eminence
from the starting point Of Colonel of q
regiment.
The Fifteenth Corps, which had been
commanded by Sherman in the Vicksburg
campaign, and afterward by Logan in the
Atlanta campaign, and through the Caro-
lnas, was led by William B. Hazen, the
hero of Fort McAllister.
The Seventeenth, McPherson's old
Corps, was commanded by Frank p.
Blair, the soldier-politician, who, with
Nathaniel Lyon, had saved Missouri to
the Union.
The Army of Georgia was commanded
by the quiet, scholarly Henry W. Slocum,
trh o6 nfn as.
The Twentieth Corps was commanded
by Fighting Joe Mower" who had en-
tered the army in 1S47 as a private in
the engineers, and had been made Ma
jOr-General for the passage Of the Sake
hatchie.
The Fourteenth Corps, the corps which
Pap" Thomas had fashioned and
commanded by dayk-faced, sour-looking
Jefferson G. Davis. every inch soldier,
who had given the best taste Of his quail
ity at Pea Ridge. when, having fought a
successful fight through, at great loss, on
one part of the line, had led hrs brigade
at once to another part and helped win
the battle there.
reviewing stand the face Of all others they
had most longed 70 see that of the great
hearted, kindly Lincoln, who had fallen
beneath the assassin's bullet, few weeks
before.
His pace was taken by heavy-jowIed,
red-faced johnson. At his side stood the
great organizer of victory, the iron-willed
Stanton, Secretary of War.
Most interesting Of all in that group
was the ruddy-bearded, stoop-shouldered,
quiet man with three stars in his straps,
who had commanded all the armies of the
United States in the last decisive year of
the waL A tanners clerk when the war
began; Colonel in his first campaign:
who won every promotion by success upon
the field of battle; who was constantly
called to "come mp higher" because he
had done so well below; who had never
fought but 10 win; and never organized
but to succeed. The end Of the war saw
him the sole commander of million bat
tle-tfaiRed veterans, the mightiest host in
every way that the world had ever seen
SUBJECT TO one mans will, and there was
but one voice as to the eminent fitness for
that pinnacle Of unprecedented greatness
OF Leut.-Gen. UIys IS Grant