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Hampshire Infantry all in the 3d Brigade, 1st Division, Then, in the 1st Brigade of the 2d Division, the 7th Rhode Island and the 35th, 58th and 36th Massachusetts.Following came the 6th and 9th NewHampshire, the 17th Vermont, the 81st Maine and the 56th Massachusetts and 1st Massachusetts Cavalry,In the Corps Artillery Brigade marched the 9th and 11th Massachusetts and the 7th Maine Batteries. ^ i v VfF -.Dwight’s Division of the 19th Corps, which was thrown y into lino here, contained the 15th, 29th and 30th Maine, the 26th and 30lh Massachusetts*the 8th Vermont and the 12th Connecticut Regiments, and a battalion of the 1st Maine. *Famous Irish liriyadeThere was then a break in the marching line—a neatly 15-minute Interval, in which the mighty throng broke into the* lines at the White House and moved up i to get a closer view of the notables in , the main Stand. The President, Gen\ Grant and others were cheered by name* many times, until forced to arise and i acknowledge the greeting. ’It was indeed a remarkable gatheringi Surrounding the two main figures—|ohu* t son and Grant-^were Gen Sherman, oec-l retary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Secre- tary of the Navy Welles. Atty Gen Speed.» Postmaster General Dennison, Secretary McCulloch, and Maj Gen Meade, who nad turned back after passing, to review his men. Hancock was there, too, and Torbert 1 of the5cavalry, Gens Meigs and Warren.About these notables was a great frame , of draped dags, with streamers bearing- the immortal names of Richmond. Peters-t burg, Gettysburg, Chattanooga. Antietam, r Cold Harbor, Spottsylvania. Shiloh, South i Mountain, Stone Branch and the Wilder-p ness. •- ' - - - vi Suddenly the crowd scurried back Into place again. The head of the 5th Corps, 5 under Maj Gen diaries Griffin. was- rounding the Treasury1 Again was New England represented | w ell w ith the 16th and 20th Maine Regi-- meats, the®32d and 39th Massachusetts i Regiments.| and the 1st Maine Sharp-t ghooterc'Following came the 2d Corps, with i its famed Irish Brigade, with the 28th / Massachusetts Regiment and the equally i famed 69th New York. This brigade i was one of the most striking in line.Every man wore in his hat a sprigof green boxwood; and they marched behind the flag of Ireland, borne proudly with the Stars and Stripes.Every Hour Saw 13,000 MenThe 5th New' Hampshire Regiment, known for its exceptionally heavy loses;marched with the 2d Corps; and the 17th and 19th Maine, the 11th, 19th and 20th Massachusetts and 14th Connecticut Regiments the 1st Massachusetts and litMaine Heavy Artillery were brigaded with the infantry. In the separate artillery brigade were Battery B of th* 1st Rhode Island, Battery M of the 1st New Hampshire and the entire 10th Massachusetts Battery.It was just S o’clock when the last man of the Army of the Potomac pasedthe Presidential stand. The line had been about five and one-half hours in passing a given point, This was remarkable time. Nearly 13,000 men had swung p*St every hour.The Second DayEven larger crowds greeted Gen Sherman's veterans the next day. They had tit reamed into the city all through the day and night before, mainly on trains from th# West, for Sherman’s boys had been recruited principally from the rollingmmm:These Western soldiers started from the Capitol just at 9, The same children were there to sing them on their way. There were the same showers of flowers, the same wreaths.Great tall, swarthy men were these, burned by southern suns. They swung along with the easy stride that hud covered so many miles in Georgia, in the memorable march “from Atlanta to the Sea.* Each wore a broad-brimmed felt campaign hat, strangely in contrast with the trim blue caps of their brothers of the Eastern army. 1 ^This march was more picturesque than that of|the 'lay before Sherman hadordered his troops into the review|just as they had come from their long march overland to the camps on the Virginia shore Their equipment was war-wornand their uniforms shabby, In contrast to the cleanly clad stroops of Meade s army. They had with them their bag*(Continued on Page Six)
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Thu, May 29, 1919
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