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A hundred other welcoming banners were displayed along the line of march.And as the veterans marched past, the 5000 school children at the Capitol sang songs. The strains of “When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again andGlory Hglleluia,” in childish voices,rose even above the cheers.Custer** Horse Shiedt At 9,30 Gen Meade entered the stretch between the massed stands at the White House, prepared to pass in review He was a striking figure tall, serious, spec-, tacled, his shoulders bent by the weight . of months from Gettysburg to Appomat-| tox.i Save lesser officers, and civilians, there » was none to greet him in the main f stand. President Johnson did not ar-i rive until nearly 10, when hundreds had I passed by. It was % few minutes later » when Grant, with his two little boys, - took his place. He was wildly cheered.Following Meade came the brilliant t mass of his stftff—Webb» chief of staff ;Hunt, chief of artillery; Williams, of i Maine, Adjutant General, i Then the cavalry corps of the Army 5 of the Potomac, now under brave Merritt, for Sheridan was on his way to Texas, where trouble was brewing on thetached, and dropped clanking on the pavementBut Custer was too ;ood a horseman to lose in such a battle. As he swept past the White House he finally got his steedin command, brought it to a standstill,and calmly rode back to his place in the line.New Englanders In LineIn all that line of march, New England occupied a prominent Place With Custer rode the boys of the 1st Vermont, the 1st New Hampshire and the 1st Connecticut Cavalry Regiments. The 1st Maine, of George Crook’s 2d Cavalry Division, was absent that day with its brigade, but in *the 1st Division, under Brig Gen Thomas C. Devin, came the 2dMassachusetts, - |After Merritt’s men came the Horse Artillery, and the Provost Marshal General’s Brigade, and the Engineers- all containing New Englanders.Then the veteran 9th Corps- Burnside’s old lighters—-under Maj Gen JohnG* Parke, with the gallant Tidball, finest artillerist of them all, on his staff.Here more New Englanders! Division after division, brigade after brigade, saw them. In order, came the 29th, 57th and the 59th Massachusetts and the 18th New
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Boston Evening Globe
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Thu, May 29, 1919
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