20,000 Parade Up Riverside Drive in Martial Array, with Battle Flags a-Flutter.

Veterans Out in Force

Thinning Ranks March and Salute, Undaunted by the Passing of Half a Century. 

Under a sky that could not have breathed more kindly benediction, the memories of the Civil War passed up riverside Drive yesterday morning in a great Memorial Day parade past the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. There Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, himself a memory of that war, a sturdy one still, reviewed them with a proud eye that surveyed Gettysburg and many another field, yet had never seen a finer sight than this of the thinned ranks of his old comrades, still warring bravely with the time. …

Perhaps the most applause, however, fell to the lot of the Zouave posts that followed in the second division of the parade — the Veteran Zouave Association under  Col. Frederick L. Schaefer, in their picturesque garb of faded blue bloomers or ante-bellum harem-skirts, and red fezzes, and the Second Duryee Zouaves, in their equally faded red bloomers and blue coats. The Anderson Zouaves followed under Capt. Charles E. Morse, halting of step but still of martial spirit. they looked as if they had just that moment come out of a terrible raking fire, and looked the more terrible because they were so feeble and few. 

New-York Times, May 31, 1911,  p.15.