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- Program, "Memorial Day Exercises by the Alpheus Clark Post 118 of the Grand Army of the Republic," May 29, 1897 - This 1897 pamphlet details the schedule for a Memorial Day service organized by an Illinois post of the G.A.R. (an organization for Union Civil War veterans). Veterans traveled from the Grand Army Hall to the cemetery, where they decorated the graves of fallen Civil War soldiers. Prayers, speeches, music, and a formal reading of names ended the solemn graveside services.
- May 29, 1897
- Collections - Artifact
Program, "Memorial Day Exercises by the Alpheus Clark Post 118 of the Grand Army of the Republic," May 29, 1897
This 1897 pamphlet details the schedule for a Memorial Day service organized by an Illinois post of the G.A.R. (an organization for Union Civil War veterans). Veterans traveled from the Grand Army Hall to the cemetery, where they decorated the graves of fallen Civil War soldiers. Prayers, speeches, music, and a formal reading of names ended the solemn graveside services.