Third Brigade Band.

Third Brigade--Brigadier-Gen. J. S. Robinson (82d Ohio) commanding and Staff: 82d Ohio Vet. Vols., Col. S. J. McGroarty; 143d N. Y. Vols., Col. Horace Boughton; 32d Ill. Vols., Lieut.-Col. Ed. St. Salmon; 31st Wis. Vols., Lieut.-Col. George D. Rogers; 101st Ill. Vols., Lieut.-Col. John D. Le Sage.

SECOND DIVISION-Brevet Major-Gen. JOHN W. GEARY, of Pennsylvania and Staff.

First Brigade Band.

First Brigade-Brevet Brig-Gen. A. Pardes Jr., commanding and Staff: 147th Penn., Lieut.-Col. John Craig; 29th Ohio, Lieut.-Col. Jonas Schoonover; 5th O., Lieut.-Col. Robert Kirkup; 66th O., Lieut.-Col. John T. Mitchell; 28th Penn., Lieut.-Col. James Fitzpatrick.

Second Brigade Drum Corps.

Second Brigade-Brigadier-Gen. P. H. Jones (for merly 154th N. Y.) commanding and Staff; 33d New Jersey, Col. George W. Mendel; 49th New York, Col. John T. Lockman; 73d Penn., Major C. H. Goebel; 154th New York, Lieut.-Col. L. D. Warner; 134th N. Y., Lieut.-Col. A. H. Jackson.

Third Brigade Band.

Third Brigade-Brevet Brigadier-Gen. H. A. Barnum commanding and Staff; 29th Penn. Vet. Vols., Col. S. M. Zulick, commanding; 111th Penn. Vet. Vols., Col. Thomas M. Walker, commanding: 137th N. Y. Vol., Lieut.-Col. K. S. Van Moorhees, commanding; 102d N. Y. Vet. Vols., Lieut.-Col. H. S. Chatfield commanding; 60th N. Y. Vet. Vols.,

Lieut.-Col. L. S. Wilson, commanding; 149th N. Y. Vols., Major N. Grumbach, commanding.

THIRD DIVISION-Brevet Major-Gen. W. G. WARD, commanding, and Staff.

First Brigade Band.

First Brigade: Brevet Brigadier-Gen. Benj. Harrison, commanding and Staff; 70th Ind. Lieut.-Col. S. Merrill; 102d Ill., Col. F. C. Smith; 79th O., Lieut. Col. A. W. Doan; 129th Ill., Col. H. Case; 105th Ill., Lieut.-Col. E. F. Dutton.

Second Brigade Band.

Second Brigade-Brevet Brigadier-Gen. Dan'l Dustan commanding and Staff; 33d Ind. (Vet.), Lieut.Col. Jas. E. Burton; 11th Mich., Major David Anderson; 22d Wis., Lieut.-Col. Edward Bloodgood; 85th Ind., Lieut.-Col. Alex. B. Crane.

Third Brigade Band.

Third Brigade-Brevet Brigadier-Gen. Wm. Coggswell (formerly of 2d Mass.) commanding and Staff; 63d O. (Vet.) Lieut.-Col. Samuel Hurst; 136th N.. Y., Col. James Wood; 20th Conn., Lieut.-Col. P. B. Buckingham; 26th Wis., Lieut. Col. Fred C. Winkler; 33d Mass., Lieut., Col. Elisha Doan; 55th O. (Vet.) Lieut. Col. E. H. Powers.

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Artillery Brigade-Capt. Chas. E. Winegar, commanding; Battery "E" Independent Pennsylvania Artillery, Capt. Thomas S. Sloan; Battery “I” 1st N. Y. Artillery, Lieut. Warren L. Scott; Battery "C" 1st O. Artillery, Lieut. Jerome B. Stevens; Battery "M" 1st New York Artillery, Lieut. Edward P. Newkirk.

APPENDIX III.

THE FIRST DAY OF THE GRAND REVIEW DESCRIBED.

Extract from the "Report of Proceedings of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, Twenty First Annual Reunion held at Portland, Maine, July 3d and 4th, 1890," as printed for the use of members of the Society.

From this pamphlet, at its pages 18 to 32, inclusive is taken the following:

ORATION.

BY GENERAL FRANCIS A. WALKER.

Twenty-five years ago on the 23d of May the Army of the Potomac, having fought a good fight and finished its course with honor, passed in final review before the President of the United States prior to disbandment.

Upon the reviewing stand were General Grant, General Sherman, Secretary Stanton, and other members of the Cabinet, Senators Wilson, Wade and Sherman, and “ War Governors " Buckingham, of Connecticut, Fenton, of New York. and Andrew, of Massachusetts.

One important exception only there was to the completeness, the personal interest, and the poetic justice of the grand review. The gallant and great hearted Sixth Corps, under Wright, was still de

tained in the vicinity of its old battle-fields; but its pickets were no longer disturbed by the crack of hostile rifles; no four o'clock-in-the morning yell broke the well earned sleep of its veteran regiments. Peace reigned where so lately raged furious war.

The weather was all that could have been desired for the great pageant at the nation's Capitol. The sky was clear, the air cool, and a pleasant breeze blew steadily throughout the day from the north. The head of column moved promptly at 9 o'clock, and for six full hours thereafter that fiery flood of living valor poured along Pennsylvania Avenue.

The line of march was from the Capitol, past the head of the street which leads down to Long Bridge, past the Treasury, past the White House, where Lincoln had watched and waited through four years of terrible anxiety, on to the Georgetown circle, where the column parted, and the troops took their several ways to camp, never again to be assembled for pageant or battle.

While that long march was in progress a man from a foreign land, an officer trained to arms and inured to war, who had seen almost every army of Europe operating in the field, from the Crimea to the Danish duchies, and had known all the great captains of the day, who had watched the course of the civil war in America with both a military and political interest, and had made himself familiar with its chief names, whether of leaders or of battlefields, leaned from the balcony of a house fronting upon the avenue, noting with eager attention every feature of that mighty display.

What was it this man from foreign parts saw? He saw a body of cavalry highly unique, little like

any other on which his eyes had fallen, yet more formidable to a foe than any equal number of horsemen who ever rode together into battle. Those stern and serried ranks owed almost nothing to the drill sergeant, still less to the riding master. Those grim troopers had been trained but little in camp or barrack. In some cases they had actually been mustered in the field. In all, they had there learned everything of practical value which they knew. Of the few precepts relating to the theory and practice of modern warfare which had been taught them, they had, on trial, rejected more than they had retained. Little by little traditions and prescriptions had dropped out. Little by little the severe experiences of a war of unexampled activity and ferocity had built the American cavalry up to an extraordinary efficiency. It was in the presence of the enemy and under the pressure of actual service that the soldier acquired his seat, the officer his tactics.

Hammered into shape by hard blows, in the white heat of battle, the cavalry which that day rode at the head of the Army of the Potomac represented the utmost which human daring and skill could do in a mounted service. They had invented the raid, that hitherto unknown instrument of war, and had developed all its capabilities. They had compassed long and rapid marches, cut their way through forests, bridged streams or swam them, skirmished in thick woods amid tangled under-growth, demonstrated as infantry upon the flanks of the enemy, and when necessity arose had fought with infantry upon equal terms, mounted or on foot. Beginning with no technical discipline and generally unaccustomed