In due time the necessary orders were issued, and with knapsacks on our backs we arrived in Washington on the 3d of March. We were quartered at the Ebbitt House, and in the afternoon gave a drill and dress parade before a large audience in front of the Arlington. In the evening we were given the freedom of the city, the Delinquency Book having been left at the Academy. On the 4th we joined the procession and took the post of honor at the head of the long column. We were without overcoats, and it was fearfully cold, too. Some of us wore double suits of underclothing, and as many pairs of white gloves as we could and hold on to our guns. Bands playing (ours at the head, too), banners and flags waving, bright eyes beaming upon us, and delicate hands applauding us as we marched on Pennsylvania avenue, made us forget all about overcoats. We stood in front of General Grant while the oath as President of the United States was administered to him. We then marched at the head of the procession along Pennsylvania avenue and passed General Grant on a reviewing stand in the White House grounds, where we fell out of the column and saw the balance of the procession pass. Next to the cadets came some battalions of U. S. Artillery, then the midshipmen from Annapolis, a battalion of U. S. Marines, then regiment after regiment of militia, then ex-Presidents and Vice-Presidents, the U. S. Supreme Court, U. S. Court of Claims, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the U. S. Senators and Representatives, Foreign Ministers, Presidential Electors and tens of thousands more. Of all the military I was especially pleased to see the Second Connecticut, a magnificent body of well-drilled men, whose lines were perfect as they passed us, and extended from curb to curb. A CONCERT BY THE ORCHESTRAL BAND WILL BE GIVEN IN THE LIBRARY, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1873 COMMENCING AT 7:30 O’CLOCK, P. M. PROGRAMME. (No. 7.) No. 1. March, Tannhauser Wagner 2. Ouverture, Rui Blas Mendelssohn 3. Reminiscences of Weber Godfrey 4. Reveille Galop Rehm 5. Selection, Moses in Egypt Rossini 6. Potpourri, Musical Tour Through Europe Conradi 8. Potpourri, A Musical Joke Sass [Illustration: _You are respectfully invited to attend the INAUGURATION BALL on the evening of March 4th 1873_ Managers