An animated picture.
While the disposition of the various organizations was being made, the picture from the statue was a most animated and inspiring one.
There was a clear sweep for the vision in whichever direction one turned.
All over the field to the southeast were groups of cavalry, and paralleling the road in the same direction was a long line of glistening musket-barrels.
To the immediate rear, the
Hermitage road was bordered by vehicles and citizens.
To the immediate rear of these, and made all the more prominent by a background composed of another immense throng in citizen's dress, were the
Confederate camps and Sons of Veterans, in their gray uniforms and vari-colored badges.
To the left and west the red artillery were stationed; here, there, and everywhere staff officers
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were galloping over the fields, and on every side fluttered State colors and Confederate battle-flags.
Some of these were new, but not a few were bullet-riddled and blood-and-weather-stained, and had waved over many a victorious field, and were dear in every thread to those who gazed upon them.
