 | Josiah Henry Benton - United States - 1894 - 38 pages
...issued by John A. Logan, Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army, designating the thirtieth day of May "for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defence of their country during the late rebellion." No particular form of ceremony... | |
 | Mormons - 1894 - 646 pages
...Grand Army of the Republic, by a general order dated May 5, 1868, 'That May 30, 1868, be designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating, the graves of their comrades who died in defense of their country, etc., with the hope that it will be kept up from... | |
 | Grand Army of the Republic - 1902 - 372 pages
...REPUBLIC, WASHINGTON, DC, May 5, 1868. General Order, No. n. I. The 3Oth day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defence of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in... | |
 | Oliver Morris Wilson - United States - 1905 - 288 pages
...was his General Order, No. 11, dated Washington, May 5th, 1868, directing the observance of May 30th "for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorat'ing the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion." This order was sacredly observed... | |
 | Henry Wells Hand - Nunda (N.Y.) - 1908 - 658 pages
...by General John A. Logan, commander in chief. This order read: "The 3Oth of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion and whose bodies now lie in... | |
 | Education - 1909 - 720 pages
...one by issuing an official order, dated Washington, DC, May 5, 1868. in which May 30 was "designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 1026 pages
...Logan, of the Grand Army of the Republic, issued a general order designating the 3Oth of May 1868 " for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion"; Logan did this " with the... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - American literature - 1911 - 364 pages
...at some uniform time. General Logan immediately issued an order naming the 3Oth day of May, 1868, " for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 1144 pages
...Logan, of the Grand Army of the Republic, issued a general order designating the 30th of May 1868 " for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion "; Logan did this " with the... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 1018 pages
...Logan, of the Grand Army of the Republic, issued a general order designating the 3oth of May 1868 " for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion "; Logan did this " with the... | |
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May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late Rebellion, and •whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village and hamlet churchyard... 
