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. The Seal of the District of Columbia features the date 1871 recognizing the year the District's government was incorporated, The siege of Yorktown ended with the surrender of a second British army marking effective British defeat. History On the following day William T Sherman led the 65,000 men of the Army of the Tennessee and the Army of Georgia along Washington's streets past the cheering crowds Within a week after the celebrations the two armies were disbanded and many of the volunteer regiments and batteries were sent home to be mustered out of the army! Alonzo Chappel (1858), History Hessian troops hired out to the British by their German sovereigns, The Army of the Potomac was the first to parade through the city on May 23 in a procession that stretched for seven miles the mood in Washington was now one of gaiety and celebration and the crowds and soldiers frequently engaged in singing patriotic songs as column passed the reviewing stand in front of the White House where President Johnson general-in-chief Ulysses S Grant senior military leaders the Cabinet and leading government officials awaited. . . . .

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