. Book of the Royal blue . n, and although Sheridan, thehero of Five Forks and Winchester, wasabsent, at the head of the divisions rodeCuster and Merritt and Gregg and otherswhose sabers had blazed the way in manya charge. There was the Infantry whichhad faced the storm of lead at Fredericks-burg, the dangers of the Wilderness, andthe fevers of the swamps of Chickahominy,and with them the Artillery, whose red-mouthed guns had beaten back the charg- HISTORIC PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. ing lines of Gray at Gettysburg and whohad shared the hardships of the closingcampaigns until Lees veterans, ragged a
. Book of the Royal blue . n, and although Sheridan, thehero of Five Forks and Winchester, wasabsent, at the head of the divisions rodeCuster and Merritt and Gregg and otherswhose sabers had blazed the way in manya charge. There was the Infantry whichhad faced the storm of lead at Fredericks-burg, the dangers of the Wilderness, andthe fevers of the swamps of Chickahominy,and with them the Artillery, whose red-mouthed guns had beaten back the charg- HISTORIC PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. ing lines of Gray at Gettysburg and whohad shared the hardships of the closingcampaigns until Lees veterans, ragged andstarving, but still fierce and defiant andwith undiminished courage, failed to breakGrants encircling lines. For seven hours this mass of men moved sifted out the weak and sickly, and everyman in line could be counted as effective,and the result was a force which Shermansaid was invincible and which Grant saidman for man had no equal on earth. This display can never be parades will continue, military. E .MONUXtENT. at company front through thousands ofcheering spectators. On the 24th cameSherman with the men from the West, themen of Donelson, Vicksburg, Stone Riverand Atlanta, who had marched the widthof the Confederacy from Atlanta to Savan-nah, and then faced north to meet hardships of the closing days had pageants will be seen and the Avenue willbe gay with banners and music, andthronged with marching men, but they willnot be the veterans whose uniforms werefaded but whose guns were bright, whothen followed the leaders whose fame willendure while we are a Nation and historiesare written and read. HISTORIC PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. Dismounting when he reached thereviewing stand, Sherman joined the dis-tinguished group gathered there, and pub-licly refused to take Stantons extendedhand. Grant, Sherman, Hancock, Custer,Meade, most of the conspicuous figures in stiffly and out of step, the stalwart youthswho followed the torn battle flags in
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