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| | The Grand Army Of The Republic |
 | | This was effected after a grand parade of the armies of the Potomac, the Tennessee, and of Georgia, on May 22 and 24, 1865, when one hundred and fifty thousand men marched through the wide avenues of Washington in review before the President and the commanding generals. |
 | | The first veteran society formed, The Third Army Corps Union, was organized at the headquarters of General D. Birney, commander of the Third Army Corps, at a meeting of the officers of the corps, September 2, 1863. |
 | | This fact gave, in good part, a political tinge to the Grand Army during the first year or two of its existence, and to it was due, chiefly, the severe losses in membership that the order sustained for a short period. |
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