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Avenue to the Executive Mansion, to receive the President's thankful salute.
With their arrival, about noon of the 25th of April, all the gloom, and doubt, and feeling of danger to the capital, vanished.
In comparison with the unmurmuring endurance that trudged through the Yazoo swamps, and the unflinching courage that faced the dreadful carnage of the Wilderness, later in the war, this march of the “Seventh” was the merest regimental picnic; but it has become historic because it marked a turning-point in the national destiny, and signified the will of the people that the capital of the Union should remain where George Washington planted it.
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