was written a statemant of the cause of his death. This was a 

 desperate remedy, but it had the desired effect, as we did not 

 have another man killed. 



April 10th moved to Raleigh, arrivino- there on the 14th. 

 Remained in camp until the surrender of the rebel army under 



Gen. Johnson. 



April 29th, marched northward via of Richmond, to Alex- 

 dria, Virginia, arriving- May 19th. 



On May 24th, i865, marched tJ Washiuiiton and took part 

 ill the (rraud Review, an account of which we quote fi-om Head- 

 ley's History of the Civil War of tne United States: 



'•As a fitting close to this long- and terrible struggle which 

 the country had passed through, a grand review of the two armies 

 of Gr-ant and Sherman took place in the National Capital on the 

 2.]rd, and 24th of May, in the presence of the President and Cab- 

 inet, and foreign Ministers. As the bronzed and proud veterans 

 marched up Pennsylvania Avenue, the heavens resounded with 

 the acclamations of the multitude, and the air was filled with 

 boquets of flowers that were rained on the noble leaders. The 

 Duke of Wellington said, when 50,000 troops were reviewed in 

 the Champs Elysees, after the occupation of Paris by the Allies, 

 that it was 'a sight of a life time;' but here nearly two hundred 

 thousand marched in an apparently endless stream past the Pres- 

 idential mansion, not conscrips forced into the ranks, but citi- 

 zens, who had volnntai-ily taken up arms to defend, not a mon- 

 arch's rights, but their own. 



Yet, sublime as was this spectacle, it sunk into insignificance 

 before the grandure of the one presented a few days after, when 

 this army, strong enough to conquer a hemisphere, melted sud- 

 denly away into the mass of the people and was seeri no more. Its 

 deeds of renown had filled the civilized world, and European 

 statesmen looked on and wondei'ed |what disposition could be 

 made of it, and where it would go. or what it would do. It was 

 one of the grandest armies that ever bore on its beyonet points 

 the destinies of a king or a nation —a consolidation and embodi- 

 ir.ent of powei" seldom witnessed: and yet, while the gaze of the 

 world was fixed upon it, it disappeared like a vision, and when 



