Predictably, northern military units predominated, but the presence of Confederate soldiers touched onlookers. "It was quite a sight to see the Stonewall Brigade {march} up Fifth Avenue with their drums marked Staunton, Va.," one said. "They wore the grey, with a black and brass helmet. There were several companies of Virginia and Southern troops."148 Contingents of black veterans were liberally represented among the sixty thousand soldiers, supplemented by eighteen thousand veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic.
( Ron Chernow )
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