The third division was under Captain Daniel P Seaton as marshal, headed by a full drum corps. Those composing it were the Boys in Blue of the Third Ward, bearing a banner with the likeness of Thaddeus Stevens, over which was the motto "Ecce Homo, and beneath the words of Stevens, "No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and the execution of her laws,” the Social Club of the Royal Maryland Line, they numbered 140 men, and wore blue capes and military caps, the Anacosta Club followed, having 66 members, in complete Indian dress, faces painted a war red with muskets and tomahawks, and with their squaws and pappooses in like costume in wagons they had a fine banner, with representations of an Indian over it, "Organized March 26 1870," and beneath it, "We are the true supporters of the republican party." The Richmond Market Radicals, Locust Club Hannibal Club, Caledonia Club No 1, with a banner bearing the words, "Give us equal rights and we will protect ourselves Glory to God in the Highest the year of jubilee has come," Republican Wide Awakes of the Thirteenth Ward, The Union Star Society of the Rising Generation, vehicles, containing the female school children and male scholars on foot.
"The fourth division was marshaled by John T Griffin, and was headed by Captain Murray’s Cornet Band. It was composed of four companies of the Butler Guard, carrying a banner with a likeness of Benjamin Butler, the Knights of Samaria in full regalia, the Soldiers of Gideon, Draymen's Mounted Guard of Honor of South Baltimore, Dreadnaught Association of South Baltimore Hugh L Bond Club at the eighteenth ward with banner bearing a portrait of the judge Indian Club of the seventeenth ward in Indian garb, Maltby’s Oyster Openers Sheridan Invincibles of the sixteenth ward, Delmonico Club, Nineteenth Ward Lincoln Rangers, Colfax Club Juvenile Club Butler Association, with a banner containing the words "Fred Douglass a man among men," and another, "Philip Hacketon the Platform thirty six years."
The fifth division had for its marshal John A. Wagoner. It was headed by martial music, and consisted of Washington County Star Club Lutherville Council, U L A, Twelfth District Council U L A, Frederick City Battalion, Fremont Council, U L A Patapsco Council U L A, Stemmer's Run Radicals. Anne Arundel County Boys in Blue: Towsontown Council, U L A bearing a banner on which was inscribed "The first to vote under the fifteenth amendment," Liberty Council, U L A, Baltimore County and Long Green Beneficial Society, Pikesville Club, Lutherville Liberty Association