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mahatmakanejeeves

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Tue May 23, 2023, 11:55 AM May 2023

Presidential reviewing stand at Union Army victory parade, May 23, 1865

Presidential reviewing stand at Union Army victory parade, starring President Andrew Johnson and General Ulysses Grant, today 1865. Had Lincoln survived Ford's Theatre, he would have been standing here:







Grand Review of the Armies



Grand Review of the Armies on Pennsylvania Avenue, in the national capital city of Washington, D.C., heading northwest from the United States Capitol (dome visible in rear) towards the White House (Executive Mansion) at 15th Street, N.W., by the United States Treasury Department building, at the conclusion of the American Civil War (1861–1865), May 23–24, 1865.

Date: May 23–24, 1865
Location: Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C.
Participants:
Ulysses S. Grant, Commanding General,
Union Army / United States Army
George Gordon Meade
Army of the Potomac;
William T. Sherman
Army of the West

The Grand Review of the Armies was a military procession and celebration in the national capital city of Washington, D.C., on May 23–24, 1865, following the Union victory in the American Civil War (1861–1865). Elements of the Union Army in the United States Army paraded through the streets of the capital to receive accolades from the crowds and reviewing politicians, officials, and prominent citizens, including United States President Andrew Johnson, a month after the assassination of United States President Abraham Lincoln.

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Presidential reviewing stand at Union Army victory parade, May 23, 1865 (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2023 OP
Thankfully we have better decorators today... AZ8theist May 2023 #1
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