Fort McNair Parade Field
Military District of Washington
Sesquicentennial Commemoration
Program:
* Grand Marshal: Ed Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus, National Park Service
* Musical Prelude
* March On
* Adjutant's Call
* National Anthem, Bailey's Crossroads Baptist Church Choir
* Trooping of the Line
Remarks:
* MG Michael S. Linnington, Commanding General, Military District of Washington
* Colonel Carl R. Coffman, Commander, Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall
* President Abraham Lincoln (portrayed by Jim Getty)
* Frank J. Williams, Chief Justice (Ret.), Rhode Island Supreme Court
Pass in Review:
* Battle Hymn of the Republic, Bailey's Crossroads Baptist Church Choir
"The all pervading feeling was an enthusiastic and ardent admiration for the man who had created the Army of the Potomac. In the realization of all observers, even the most experienced officers, the Army was born that day. Those who had visited its busy camps and attended the inspections and reviews of divisions had formed no adequate conception of the army as a whole... Everyone in and around Washington had felt the pulsations of momentous preparations and the throes of a tremendous and vigorous growth going on about them since the 1st of August, but on the day of the grand review at Bailey's Cross-Roads, the eyes of all spectators, and even of the army itself, were suddenly opened."
-- Colonel William Averell, Commander of the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry
Union General George B. McClellan's Grand Review of the newly reorganized and enlarged Army of the Potomac, held at Bailey's Crossroads, Va., on November 20, 1861, before President Abraham Lincoln and members of his Cabinet, will be re-enacted November 12, 2011, at the Fort McNair Parade Field, Washington, D.C., from 10:45 to 11:30 a.m.
This sesquicentennial re-enactment is being sponsored by the Lincoln at the Crossroads Alliance (LATCRA) with support from the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation, the Bailey’s Crossroads Revitalization Corporation, The Lincoln Forum and many other organizations and individuals
The re-enactment will consist of a parade suggesting the 70,000 troops that marched before Lincoln on a cold, wet November day on the old Leesburg Pike, today's Virginia Route 7 in the heart of Bailey's Crossroads. The parade route had been a Confederate campsite abandoned by Rebel forces on Munson's Hill shortly before McClellan's Grand Review.
In addition to Civil War re-enactors, participants in the 2011 parade will include the Joint Forces Color Guard, the Continental Fife and Drum Corps of the Third Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), and modern-day armed forces veterans.
Michael S. Linnington, Commanding General, Joint Force Headquarters National Capital Region/Military District of Washington, will present remarks. Other speakers will include Colonel Carl Coffman, Commander of Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall; and Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice Emeritus and renowned Lincoln scholar Frank J. Williams.
Actor Jim Getty, well known for his realistic portrayals of President Abraham Lincoln, will preside as the 16th president of the United States.
This event, initially planned for re-enactment at the original Bailey's Crossroads location in Falls Church, Va., had to be relocated due to logistical concerns. However, LATCRA President Schacknies said, "The spirit of the original event, including President Lincoln's optimism that the Union would prevail, will mark the re-enactment and will celebrate Lincoln's determination to do whatever was necessary to keep the country intact."
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