The marchers in sight.
The head of the advancing column from the city came in sight at twenty minutes past twelve o'clock, and when about a quarter of a
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mile from the monument the cavalry broke away in a trot across the field to the southeast, the infantry turning into the same field behind them.
The whole movement as viewed from a distance was exceedingly striking and realistic, and, whether so intended or not, had the effect of suggesting an effort on the part of the cavalry to head off the infantry.
The artillery then moved forward, the camps closing up the gap, and the former after passing in front of the grand stand moved into the field to the west and unlimbered, and the veterans were massed in front of the grand stand and between it and the monument.
In the meantime the guests in carriages had alighted, the marshal and his aides had picketed their horses, and the stand had rapidly filled up. Among those who occupied seats on it were
GovernorMcKinney and
Mrs. McKinney;
Mrs. Saunders, sister of
General Hill;
Miss Lucy Lee Hill and
Mrs. Russie Gay, daughters of
General Hill;
Mrs. Forsythe, half-sister of
Miss Hill and
Mrs. Gay;
Mrs. J. Taylor Ellyson,
General Fitzhugh Lee,
Mr. Alexander Cameron, wife, and two daughters;
Mr. Charles Talbott,
Mrs. Appleton,
J. Ide,
Mr.Leigh and
Mrs. E. G. Leigh and son,
Colonel W. E. Tanner,
Mrs. W. J. White,
Mrs. Thomas A. Brander,
Mrs. Perkinson,
Mrs. Fellows,
Mrs. Waddy,
Ex-Lieutenant-Governor J. L. Marye,
Colonel Fred. Skinner,
Dr. C. W. P. Brock,
Rev. Dr. Hoge,
Mr. Arthur B. Clarke,
Mr. Robert H. Whitlock,
Mr. Joseph Bryan and family,
Colonel Snowden Andrews,
Mrs. George E. Pickett,
Colonel Thomas N. Carter,
General G. M. Sorrell,
Dr. George Ross,
General Field,
Colonel Miles Cary,
Colonel C. O'B. Cowardin,
Colonel Morton Marye,
Hon. R. H. Cardwell,
Mr. John V. L. Klapp and others.
