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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 44: in camp at
Bailey's Cross Roads
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up to the Nineteenth Massachusetts of 1861, and and the addition of many recruits of all nationalities lent much to its picturesqueness. Here nothing of interest occurred until May 23, when the Army of the Potomac passed in review before President Johnson and Lieutenant General Grant. This was a great event. Most of the previous day was spent in preparation, cleaning guns, polishing brasses and blacking equipments and boots. No knapsacks or equipments were to be carried. Colonel Rice wregiment to march. In the centre of a vast assemblage of brilliant uniforms at a point on the line of march, sat General U. S. Grant, while in the chair, which, but for the fanatic Booth, would have been filled by Abraham Lincoln, sat President Andrew Johnson. No halt was made until the regiment had crossed the Aqueduct Bridge into Virginia and was well on the way to camp. This was the last march the old Second Corps ever made. Although the Army of the Potomac never presented a finer a