REVIEW OF THE ARMIES: The Second and Last Day of the Great Pageant; Reception of the Armies of Tennessee and Georgia (5/25/1865)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 5/25/1865

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Special Dispatches to the New-York Times.

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, May 24 -- 8 P.M.

The great display is over. SHERMAN's two armies -- the most superb material over molded into soldiers -- has passed in review through the streets of the capital, of which they have heard so much, and toward the safety of which they have done so much, and yet had never seen.

The men who marched from the Ohio to the Tennessee under BUELL, only to march back again; who first penetrated down into Alabama under the daring and nervous MITCHELL; who fought at Perrysville under MCCOOK, and checked the advancing tide of the rebellion to again send it reeling southward, at Stone River, under the chivalrous ROSECKANS; who toiled over the rugged passes of the Cumberland Mountains and seized the great natural fortress of Chattanooga; who held the left with a tenacity that saved them from defeat at Chickamauga, under the ever-victorious THOMAS; who stormed Lookout Mountain, and fought above the clouds with HOOKER; who cut their way from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and from Atlanta to the sea; who swept the Carolinas as with a besom of destruction, and who gave the finishing blow to the great rebellion, in following the lead of SHERMAN, and HOWARD, and SLOCUM -- these were the men who received to-day the enthusiastic plaudits of a hundred thousand spectators.

The interest of to-day has exceeded that of yesterday. The Army of the Potomac is our old acquaintance, but the Armies of Georgia and Tennessee few people here had ever seen. The most eager interest was therefore exhibited to view the Veterans of the West, whose marches can only be counted by thousands of miles.

The weather was even more propitious than yesterday, the temperature being several degrees cooler,

[M Kehoe]

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[ConservativeMind]

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