Posted to the right is a reminiscence of the victory parade down Pennsylvania Avenue that was staged a few weeks after the end of the Civil War.
It took two days - with the Army of the Potomac marching on the first day followed by General Sherman's Army of the West on the next. The Grand Review was the brain-child of Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton and was attended by (so it was believed) over one hundred thousand people from the victorious Northern states.
More about the American Civil War can be read here
To read a short article about the most pathetic generals of the Civil War, click here.
(The last Union veteran died in 1956)
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