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J t 41 i 1 A f C q d.- d. i ft p o V w 4 ft X y f JJ f jI mJ m r r. r r. r t j. j 4 Wr V kl r m t. t 4 Y RIF 8 P II Fp 1 fY o T f i RM N L AV J Remnant of Victorious Host That Marched On i Pennsylvania Avenue At the Close of the Civil War Veterans of the Grand and Army Will Again Pass In Review At Encampment At National Capital BY ny COL cor JOHN McELROY PAST SENIOR VICE IN CHIEF G. G A A. A It R The poet Uhland sang aang Take 0 O boatman thrice thy fee fee fee- Take I give It willingly For tor invisible to thee Spirit Spirits twain have crossed with me me NOT merely spirits t w a in n but sp spirits I r Its in scores and In battalions w will march with every gray and bent veteran vet vet- Bran eran in tho the Grand Review on Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania SJ Avenue in n Washington on Wednes Wednesday ay September September Sep Sep- 29 1916 1015 The Tho parade of the Grand Orand Army veterans veterans vet veterans vet vet- erans along this historic thoroughfare thorough thorough- fare a n. half hat century century cen con tury after tho the spectacular r o 0 view of ot the victorious Union troops at atthe atthe atthe the closing of the tho Civil War Wat will bo be ono one of the tho principal features of the Grand Army Encampment which is isto isto to be held at tho National Capital September 27 to October S S. S ot of this s year From the asphodel meadows of th the e dead will wUl troop to each veteran th the tho e spirits of all aU those crude country boys who formed tho the first awkward lino line o ohis of f his company who bed held up their right t hands and in tho many keyed tones tone of the school chool room recited tho the solemn n oath to defend the United States o of ot f America Amoric- against Ale all enemies and op op- posers whatsoever foreign or domestic dom domestic do do- m there will troop to him th the e spirits of tho the thousand boys of ot h hyet his 9 yet loosely joined regiment who re received rc- rc from their governor the bright new new tags flats which their blood was t to U consecrate and glorify There Thero will wUl troop to his hie side aide those e who touched his elbows when the thes they y s ank Hank to death amid the thunders o of ot t Chickamauga or the sulphurous horrors horrors horrors hor hor- of the burning wilderness Fifty winter have wept over the their r say Jay and arid the tho roses roae 1 of fifty springs spring C have bloomed in fragrance from tho the soil eoll their blood enriched d. d They are all living to him They have been very much alive alivo to him ever since their names went down together on tho the enlistment roll Fully as alive o are those who after atter touching elbows with him throughout all tho trials and dangers of ot years of terrible war marched shoulder for tor the thelast thelast thelast last time in tho the triumphal pageant of ot May 23 24 1865 1866 Then had come a change as 88 marvelous marvel marvel- ous as aa that which four tour years before had transformed tho uncouth country country country coun coun- try boys into veterans surpassing those of Caesars Caesar's C sar s legions The magic maglo wand of peace laid a dissolving touch upon the bands binds of steel forged in th the tho tires of ot battle battlo The knit firm companies and rel regi regiments menta ments melted molted away into the broad level sea of American citizenship The Tho boys who had men while graduating from Wars War's stern University of Destruction at once became bocam be- be came cam o potent factors of ot peace and up up- building t Four Presidents of at the United States came from among them They sat in tho the august Court and filled fined the Senate and House of or Representatives tives govern governors on judges eloquent preachers' preachers of tho the Gospel skilled physicians phy phy- presidents and professors of ot colleges merchants and manufacturers man man- seemingly without number number num num- ber bar came from among lads who had gone straight from tho the little red school house to a a. years four course at tho fiery front They built bunt the great railroads across tho the continent they thoy transformed th the e savage-haunted savage wilderness west of ot the th e Mississippi into mighty states filled title d with homes schools and churches This momentous work was never too absorbing to prevent their pausIng pausing paus pans ing lug in n it ft from tram time to time to gather gathe r with their comrades in tho the glad of old d equality of the camp and the march in n the meetings of ot the Grand Arm Army Y of ot the Republic There tho the robed robe d minister cr and tho the dignified judge became became be be- came once more Comrade BUI BUl an and d Comrado Jim to those who were giving gl their years to building up farms and following useful trades May Bo Do Last Reunion I At the forthcoming Encampment the remnants of at that mighty army which passed in grand review before President Johnson and General Grant will again pass In grand review This Thill time before President Wilson and members of his Cabinet It may bethe be betho betho tho the last encampment which the tho Grand Army will ever hold Certainly it will bo be tho last one for tor many of ot the aged veterans and there is b no likelihood likelihood hood that another such reunion willever will willever ever be held hold at tho the National Capital In the fifty years since 1865 1866 four tour out but of every five of ot those comrades havo have been relieved from their tours of ot earthly duty and gene on to Join tyrant rant Meado Meade Thomas Sheridan Logan Loca and Farragut in the tho advance camps beyond the broad Potomac Potomac Po Po- tomac of Eternity I They will be with him on the grand parade however ever Just as palpably nS as as the applauding throngs along tho the line lino of ot march It will wUl bo only a few rew years ean at most when he ho will rejoin them in answer Hero Here when tho the angels caUthe call caU the roll roU in the Eternal Morning As tho the veteran marches up Penn Penn- sylvania he will wUl face taco the western western western west west- ern sun typical of ot all his remaining marches through life Uto Henceforth he will be facing tho the most glorious sunset sun sun- set Bet of ot lifo life that over ever comforted the tho eyes of passinG veterans This old world has hns seen many Imposing military pageants since sinco first th the sword began to devour by byway byway byway way of ot saying the last word in dis dis- But Dut never not even evenIn evenIn evenIn In the glory that was Gr Greece cc And tho grandeur that was Rome not even whet when Napoleon marched his eagle bearing legions legions' back to Paris from tho wreck of ot empires and tho destruction of dynasties did tho hours keep pace paco with Ith tho the march of ot so eo a n. torrent of warlike power aa as swept in unbroken tide tido along Pennsylvania Penn Penn- Pennsylvania sylvania Avenue A for tor two wide-arching wide May days of ot 1866 1865 In numbers it was bewildering in history startling in n character over over- whelming Its banners showed the scars of ot more than a thousand battlefields many pf Qt them tho the bloodiest in history history his his- tOt tory and were consecrated by the lives of half a million young Oung men who had tall fallen en around them since first unfurled A mightier army than Napoleon led to tho the mastery ry ryot of ot Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope had perished in carrying forward those banners to victory Each Euh ono one of ot the myriads myrla of at bronzed young youn vet vet- erans Brans who strode up thu tho avenue a Inthe in inthe inthe the pr le of ot trained and perfected sol sol- sol sol- represented an average of ot nearly half hat a score scora of youthful companions com com- who had started In with him but who now sleeping In shallow shallow shallow low graves lingering on beds of pain or scattering back to their homes as drifting from tho the vortex of ot the far tar flung battlo line lino Pour our years ears of ot incessant incessant battling II with a foo too of finest mettle had also burned out all tho the dross and tho weaklings weaklings weak weak- weaklings I lings and and tempered that I marching host Into Into comparatively the 1 finest military weapon ever er forged to execute a nations nation's will It was led by men whoso names will forever shine In our history as types type of tho the highest Joined to tho the purest patriotism First Day Of or Review Tho The first day the tho Army of tho the Potomac Potomac Po Po- tomac tomOo in a dense denso column w which filled the wide avenue from curb to curb marched by from early morn until late at night t. t No 2 better demonstration tion of ot the marvelous Plan efficiency which had been attained in its four tour years years' schooling In war can be bo given than that men should bo be able ablo to passIn pass passin passIn in perfect military order by a given point in a single day This would be Impossible in n tho the best drilled legions of ot Europe today And with that army what recent and vivid memories marched Of Ot the months of bloody blood welter on tho the Peninsula Of the battle battlo bat bat- tle surges over the oft reddened plains I of Manassas Of Ot that awful September September September Septem Septem- ber da day on the banks of ot the tho Antietam which closed with v 1000 boys boS In blue I I lying dead or wounded Of Ot that still stillmore stillmore more moro bitter December day at Fredericksburg Fred Fred- r ericksburg when fell tell In an assault fore doomed as hopeless Of that wasted asted opportunity at Chan- Chan which cost men and tho the sanguine ho hopes es of ot tho the close of the war Of or the momentous three days at Gettysburg which finally turned turne back the tho tido of Lees Lee's great army at tho the price of ot Union dead and wounded Of Ot those thirty days of ot mortal wrestling between tho the Union and Confederate armies from the thu th Rapidan of ot the James which cost the theUn Un Union on army men and filled every overy household In n the South with mourning Of Ot the months of ot anxious persistent inflexible siege of ot Petersburg Peters Peters- burg Of Ot that most magnificently thrilling of all aU man-hunts man In history the hound blood-hound rush of ot Grants Grant's army after Lees Lee's for a hundred miles milos over Virginias Virginia's brakes and bournes until the end came at Appomattox For four tour long years cars the people had been walking dally with the tran grand grim unconquerable Army of the Potomac Po Po- Potomac tomac through the Valley of ot the Sha Shadow ow of ot Death with only Infrequent ascents to the mountain peaks of victory but now it was fresh tresh from the I complete overthrow of Its mighty an un- These were the men who ho had been through all this the survivors survivors survivors sur sur- sur- sur of ot the host which had accomplished accomplished pUshed it all alt bearing tho flags nags around which they had unfalteringly gathered no matter how disasters thickened At the head of ot this Mississippi of ot warlike force rode its Commander George Georgo Gordon tall Meade tall grim spectacled his broad shoulders bent bentas as if It by the weight eight of the tho burden ho had carried from Gettysburg to Ap Ap- I Sheridan tho the whirlwind of ot battle I Iwas was missing from the glorious Cavalry Cavall Corps which ho he had wakened to Us its strength and fashioned in the forge of ot war into tho the mightiest mounted force torca that ever drew saber aber He had j been rushed oft off to tho the Rio Grande to throttle an exotic Empire planted in Mexico by Napoleon III who counted i I us of ot too little worth Sheridan was awhile later well spared however f tor r the tho Imported Emperor was taken out and shot T n. n I r AJ u J The Cavalry Cavall was led by such In incomparable Incomparable comparable com com- parable lieutenants as the theatric I dashing George A A. Custer and the I quiet gray eyed George A. A Crook The Second Corps each man In its I perfectly aligned ranks prouder of ot his hits clover 1 leaf af badge than of ot a peerage In Inthe Inthe inthe the United Kingdom was led by AnI Andrew Andrew An An- drew A. A Humphreys an Ideal American Ameri Amerl can soldier and corps commander Tho The Fifth Corps whoso whose Maltese Cross had the dead in tho the forefront forefront fore toro front of ot every line of ot battlo battle of ot the Army of ot the tho Potomac was as led by tall taU I slender knightly knight Charley Griffin who had four years cars b before foro entered tho Corps as an enthusiastic young oung battery captain and was now w wearing the double stars of ot a 0 major-general major well earned In moro more than a al of ot hard fought battles baUles Those who on breast or cap wore a Greek Cross Crossas as a proud armorial bc bearIng bearing bear bear- rIng r- r ing were the men who had toll followed owed the leonine John Sedgwick until his character had become theirs They were cre led by tall pr precise formal Horatio Horatio Horatio Hora Hora- tio G. G Wright an Engineer Officer all aU through But he could drop his theorems and triangulations with re remarkable remarkable ro- ro quickness when the tho bugle called and hurl the tho Sixth Corps an avalanche to break the backbone of ot tho the Confederacy at nt Petersburg Peter or smash the heads of ot Leos Lees columns at nt Sailors Sailor's Creek The Ninth Corps Corps Corps- Geography Geography Ge Ge- Class Class which which had carried Its cannon and anchor badge from m Roanoke Island to the Antietam an anthen and d then to Vicksburg and East Tennessee to return to tho the Army o 0 or the Potomac C for tho the Wilderness and the he siege e of or I Petersburg was led b by another Engineer En En- I Ineer Officer John G. G Parke with the memory of ot the gallant work of ot the tho theat Corps at Fort ort Steadman only a few Cow weeks old Many lany of ot the loved and trusted leaders leaders leaders lead lead- ers now be belonged Ions to history Tho The brilliant brilliant bril bril- Kearny and the steadfast Stevens Steven had fallen at nl Chantilly in sight of the |
