FINAL OPERATIONS OF SHERMAN'S ARMY.



started for Washingtoi over the btttle-sesrred
route so familiar to the inen who had fuight tin-
dir Nceowell. le'lellun,, and stuhseqtuently Illidr
6r-lnt, a. wt'll is tO tIttise who hail served Iunider
lee. The weather was pldasanit and the march
full of interest.  (In s- om  of Ihe filds where great
battles had been foight we found the 11odies of
minau Union. sldiers lying unburied, apparently
just as they had fanlletn on the field. Parties were
detailed to) bulry the dead. anid subsequlently a party
was sent from nWashington to complete thn work.
  We went into eamp it, th-6. viinity of Alexandria,
my owit heaitqiiarters being very near the place I
had occupied during the first winter of the war,
when McClellan was organizing the Army of the
Potomac. We were soon informeil that the final
seene of the war was to be a grand review of all
the troops by the President antI his Cabinet. All
the f. reign ministers resident in. Washington, the
governors of the States, and many other ditin-
guished people had been invited to be present.
The Eastern troops were to be reviewed on the
23d of May. and the Western on the day follow-
ing. The leading officers of Sherman's command
were invited to the stand to witness the review of
the Army of the Potomac, and they gladly ae-
cepted the invitation. After the close of the re-
view of that army, several of our offieers assembled
at Sherman's headquarters to discuss matters and
prepari for the work to be done next day. InI
speaking of the review of the Army of the Poto-
mai Sherman stidt: "It was nmagniticent.   IIi
dress, in soldierly appearanee, in, precision of
aligmnent and marching we cannot beat those
fellows." All present assented to this statement.
Some one then suggested that we should not make
the attempt. but should pass in review  -as we
went marehinig through Georgia "; that the f(or-



agers, familiarly kiu w. wn among us as "bum-
mers,"  hliolHId  f,,rn,  part  of  the  i.hliin .  This
sugges.tion  seetned   tI  s trikc,  f neirtil  Slirituan
favorably, anid instruaictiuis weVre issued tii carry
it into effect.  Early ott ftl, following iu...rning
the  iiad  of  thur  colitnin  Start ed  up  Pennsylvuuiis
Avenu. e amil soon pass1edl the reviewing Stiadl,
whih wast filled with distingdished peold' fron
till parts of thi  euttil ry.  Sheriinai's iteneertnitily
preseiteil a very solidierly appearance. Thiy
wer' irotl of their aetievimitits, anld ld tlu
swing of men who haid marehed through half a
dlozen,  States.  Bitt  the  featiute  of  the  'ilttim
which seemed to ititerest the spectators most was
the attachments of foragurs in runr if etch bri-
gade. At the review the men appeared "iii their
native uigliness" ast they appeared ott the march
through Georgia amid the Carolinas. Their pack-
nutles and horses, with rope bridles or halters,
laden with supplies such as they hal carried ot
the mareh, formed part of the columi. It was a
new feature in a grand review, but one which those
who witnessed it will never forget.
  Soon after the review the troops were ordered
into various camps, where the paymaster paid
them his last visit, and then they separated, never
again to meet in large bodies, except on Memorial
D)ay, the 30th of May, of each year, 4 when they
meet to honor the memory of comrades who gave
their lives for their iountry, and at annual reunions
of regimenital asoeiations, whemi they assemble to
renew the ties of comradeship I formed during
the struggle of more than four years' duration,
which cost us huindreds of thousanids of lives
and thousands of millions of treasure, but which
has conferred, eveni upoim the defeated South,
blessings that itore titan compensate the country
for a11 her losses.



  4 (Coifederate Memuorial . erv-i e are usually- held at  of the Loyal Legion of the United States, numbering in
digereutdatesi.iAprilland day.   Ins-imeloc itiesveter-  1W8  about 6000  unemutuerum  (eoan lss nel40ll   tMters  of the
tis of bo.th sides particitpate In all itenuoriail ceremonies.  Union army and navy,, wast org...itzud in Isa6 to perpet-
Of late years reuniions of Unin .u.i C-nfederitte veteratis  nate the memtories of the war. There are also numerius
on battle-fields have beomie frequent.- EDITORS.     r'ion veteran a-snaiatons, either fraternal or Provi-
  I The Grand Army of the Reliubli, datiag trom 1866,  dent, or both; among them a national body of Naval
numbering in, 18  iiver a30,eO0  members, is the largest  Veterans, the societies of the Armly of the Potomiac, the
veteran association in the couHntry. It. membership is  Army of the Cuimberlaud, the Army of the Tennesee.
restricted t soldiers and sailors of the Uuion army and  the Aruty of the Ohio, and societies of the several
navy, who served during the Civil War, whether hmmor-  army corps, forming parts of the societies of the main
ably diacharged or still in service. The Military Order  armieS.-EDITORS.



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