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Unknown Observing the Day-Honoring the Nation's Dead with Flowers, Eulogies and Public Demonstrations

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02744.330 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Newspaper clipping Date: 1861-1877 Pagination: 1 clipping ; 13 x 66.3 cm. Order a Copy

A special day of speeches and poems prsented to honor the men that died in the war. Reports the words of the mayor and ex-mayor.

Burpee, Thomas F., fl. 1861-1865

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