"From a reviewing stand the President, Hooker and the staff watched 17,000 horseman file past, the biggest army of men on horses ever seen in the world, said Hooker, bigger even than the famous cavalry body of Marshal Murat with Napoleon. Mud flew from the horses' feet on ground soft with melting snow. . . . The infantry filed past the President-four corps, 60,000 men, a forest of moving rifles and bayonets. Then came the reserve artillery force, some 400 cannon. . .
Hour on hour in platoons and in company front, the Army of the Potomac . . . marched by for the Commander in Chief in the reviewing stand, surrounded by his Generals.
[Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln, The Prairie Years and the War Years, Ond-Volume Edition, Gallahad Books, 1993, p. 361]