The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-06

regiment who are in the regular service,
the National Guard or the Naval Militia
Of this and other States. There We % more
than sixty officers in Gen. Smith X division
and the red Of the artillery, the yellow Of
the cavalry and the white of the infantry,
marking uniforms Of blue, made a kaleido-
scope OF color.
Then the crowd really woke up and turned
itself loose with q wild roar of cheering.
Along came the old fellows, the second
| their head. The first detachment was made
up of ex-members Of the Seventh who
served in the regular or volunteer army or
navy in the civil war. Forty-eight sturdy
old men walked behind Cen. MolineuX,
holding themselves stih az ramrods. feet
stepping out straight and true to the time
beat of the band, cnnes in the curve Of
their right arms. Every man Of them
carne ont Of the war an officer. Most went
In "a privates.
Gen. Molineux, and the old fellows saluted
the Secretary Of War. who leaned forward
In tho stand, raised his hat M saluted hack.
Front" snapped the little General and ON
they went, briskly, vigorously and very
proudly.
They carried their old battlefags with
an air, and the crowd cheered every hon
orable rag as II went on up the line, There
was the battlefag Of the First Brigade,
Third Division, Sixth Army Corps, Army
Of the Potomac; the remnants Of the old
flags first carried by the First United
States Chasseurs subsequently the Sixty
fifth New York Volunteers): tattered old
regimental and State flags, just shreds
on blackened stats. Maybe the proudest
man Of them all was Capt. Alooke, marching
all by himself, holding up for Secretary
Taft 10 see the old Sixth Army Corps flag.
Swinging along behind the ~forty-eight
Of Gen. Molineux's command were the
officers who served in the army, or navy
In the Spanish-American war, Major Henry
/. W. Hovey in command. Then came a de-
tered into the United States service with
the regiment in 1851, 1862 and 1859. One Of
the oldest Of the Seventies veteran led this
detachment, Major-Gen. Richard N. Bower
Maryland of the G. A. r. He went into the
war in 1851 as a corporal in Company G.
Col. Thomas Dimond, president OF. the
Seventh Regiment Veteran Association.
led 200 men, made up OF all ex-nembeTs
of the Seventh not parading in the other
divisions,
There was a brief interval when the old
boys went by and then the Seventh, re-
stored by breeze and sunshine, swung up
the avenue, Following Lieut.. Col. Kip
and his staff were Companies a, b. G and D,
Of which tho seventh Regiment grew, The
four companies paraded as a battalion
under the command OF Major willard c.
Fiske. Companies X, g., E, /, H and F
formed the escort for the original four
companies, and they were commanded by
Capt, Robert Mclean.
Each company az it tramped by the re-
viewing stand saluted the Secretary OF
War with a sharp turn OF the head to the
right.
The head Of the column halted at Fifth
avenue and Sixty-seventh street, whore
another large crowd had gathered. The
former members OF the regiment, the old
boys, fell out Of line and took positions
park wall. OF the forty-eight under Gen.
Mollneux only four suocumbed to the
hardship Of the march and. fell out Of line.
IL am proud of my command, said Gen,
Molineux, half jocularly, half seriously.
Then the Seventh Regiment, Col, Apple