General Grant . son. Certainly, while his armycomrades live, the spot that holds his earthly re-mains will be held sacred, and when they, withtheir locks of gray, follow the now silent leader,their descendants will continue to cherish the hal-lowed ground, and on each returning Decoration The soldiers under arms numbered about 20,000. There werenearly 50,000 men in the cohimn that marched to Grants tombon April 27, 1S97, of whom about 30,000 were armed, and 10,000were veterans who had followed his victorious banners. Amongthe Grant Municipal Committee of Two Hundred, appointed bythe mayor to m
General Grant . son. Certainly, while his armycomrades live, the spot that holds his earthly re-mains will be held sacred, and when they, withtheir locks of gray, follow the now silent leader,their descendants will continue to cherish the hal-lowed ground, and on each returning Decoration The soldiers under arms numbered about 20,000. There werenearly 50,000 men in the cohimn that marched to Grants tombon April 27, 1S97, of whom about 30,000 were armed, and 10,000were veterans who had followed his victorious banners. Amongthe Grant Municipal Committee of Two Hundred, appointed bythe mayor to make arrangements for the ceremonial, were Gen-erals Burnett, BulterHeld, Christenson, Day, Dodge, Greene,Hcrron, Ilubbinl, McCook, McMahon, Molineux, Porter, .Sharpe,Sickles, Sigel, Swayne, Webb, Wilson, and Wootlford. Of GrantsMilitary Academy associates, who accepted the committees in-vitation to be i)rcsent, there were, among others, Buck-ncr, Franklin, French, Longstreet, Reynolds, and Schofield. I.
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