THE HOMEWARD MARCH: The Second and Fifth Corps Arrive Near Alexandria; They Meet with the Kindest Treatment on the Way from Richmond (5/13/1865)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 5/13/1865

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Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.

WASHINGTON, Friday, May 12.

The Fifth and Second Army Corps arrived and went into camp this afternoon at Bailey's Cross-roads, about five miles in the rear of Alexandria, having made the march from Richmond in about six days and a half. All along the route they met with the kindest treatment, and the deportment of the troops toward the citizens was of the most courteous character. The ground on which the troops are encamped to-night was covered by the encampment of MCCLELLAN's host in the Winter of 1861-2, before the real fighting had begun. Not a few of the men who participated in the great review held at Bailey's Cross-roads, in the early months of 1862, are to-day back on the same grounds, conquerors in the war of which they then scarce comprehended the magnitude. Gen. MEADE's headquarters are about two miles in the rear of Fort Albany, which commands the approach to Long Bridge. He was in the city to-day, attended by a portion of his staff. The Second, Fifth and Ninth Corps are all now encamped within a few miles of Alexandria.

Gen. SHERMAN's army will begin to arrive about Sunday. The wing under Gen. SLOCUM, the Army of Georgia, which moved from Richmond via Germania Ford and Warrenton Junction, will probably reach the vicinity of their camps first, and the Army of Tennessee, under temporary command of Gen. LOGAN, will arrive by Tuesday of next week. The latter army are encamped in the vicinity of Hanover Court-house to-night. Gen. HOWARD, who commands the Army of the Tennessee, and Gen. FRANK P. BLAIR, Jr., commanding the Seventeenth Army Corps, arrived in this city this morning. Gen. SHERMAN, who arrived in Richmond on Tuesday, will move overland with the troops,

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: civilwar

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