The Washington times., 1915-09-29

the air above the veterans fiutter the
buflet-riddled time-tattered remnants
of what were once battle flags and
which are now even more dear to the
hearts of the warriors than during the
hours when the iVt flush of victory
Cimsoncd their Ch. ekS.
AZ the hating column wends its way
westward there troop to the side Of the
veterans in blue those innumerable
comrades who participated in liaa grand
review with them. but have since an
swcred the final roll call. Into their
minds are crowded recollections of the
stirring scenes which characterized that
unmatched pageant OF May. 1865.
The world has seen many imposing
military pageants. but not even when
NAPOLEON marched his eagle bearing
legions back to Paris from the wreck of
empires and the destruction of dynas-
ties; did the hours keep pace with SO
swept In unbroken tide along Pennsyl-
vania Avenue for those two wide-arch-
ing Nav days in 1865.
The grand review has been de-
scribed as "ln numbers bewildering: +:
in history. startling: in character,
overwhclming.'
GeneratiOn-Old Standards.
The banners flung to the breezes
bore the scars of more than a thou-
sand battlefields, scores Of them the
most cory in history. and the lives
of half a million young men had been
laid down to carry those standards to
victory The battlc-torn flags brought
tears 20 the eyes of countless spec-
tat"rs fifty years ago, and these same
standards stir the emotion of an en-
thusiastic multitude today.
General George Gordon Meade head
ed column of bronzed. seasoned and
erect Veterans Nov
Years of incessant battling having elm
irated the dross and weakIinrs and
nodded and tempered that marching
most into comparatively the finest mill
ration's will.
Today's pageant Is ir pathetic con-
trast with that of half a century ago,
both IL numbers and appearance of
the pafticipnnts' but beneath the uni
stout hearts in which famed the cour-
age and valor of the stirring days Of
'6l-G5.
Signal for the Review.
When a cannon was fired on the
Mall the veterans who had assembled
on the side streets just Off Pennsyl-
Vania avenue recognized tic signal to
get ready for the grand review of
1915" Ten minutes later two cannon
doomed, and the :;rand marshal gave
Preceding Lieutenant General Miles
rode Major Raymond Pullman and a
platoon of mounted police. With the
grand marshal rode his assistant mar
shals. n score ~ more griZZled vetera ms
who saw service with him in the civil
war and have been retired from the
regular army. Many men prominent I'm
the army today were also with him.
The personnel of his staff as assistant
marshals follow: Col. Channcy B.
Baker, Maj. Gen. c. F. Humphrey,
Brigadier Generals Arson Mills, +. d.
Baldwin, George +. Chase. J. H. Smith,
G. p. Sriven. ]. l.. Glenn, Surg Gen.
w. c. Gorgas, Coils. Charles c. Walcut,
Nathan Church. +. b. Wiborg. John
Black, NJ. NJ. Parker, Gist Blair and
these aides. Lieut.. Richard U. Nicholas,
Lieut.. Leo ]: Dillow, Capt. Percy l..
Jones, Ma ior +. n. Jones, Capt. William
Mitchell. Capt. W. T. Merry. Capt l.. p.
Williamson, Col, W. w. Brewster,
Lieut. John n. Greely. Capt. George s.
Gibbs, Lieut. Comdr w. W. Galbraith.
Lieut. owen Bartlett, Lieut.. r. +.
Gross, Lieut.. J. T.. Geman. n ljor II. f.
Noble, Major Mothersill. Major William
J. l.. Lyster and Orderlies Barteman