 Three of the leading Federal armies were close enough to travel to Washington to participate in the procession— the Army of the Potomac, the Army of Tennessee, and the Army of Georgia.Officers in the three armies who had not seen each other for some time communed and renewed acquaintances, while at times, infantrymen engaged in verbal sparring (and sometimes fisticuffs) in the town's taverns and bars over which army was superior.The Army of the Potomac was the first to parade through the city, on May 23, in a procession that stretched for seven miles.