Origins and spread of Memorial Day in Civil War era South
The practice began when Tennessee and Mississippi women scattered flowers on Confederate graves during spring in the second year of the Civil War. It spread across the South and was later recognized in the North after General Logan set May 30 for decorating Union graves, though no federal sanction exists.
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Tennessee
Mississippi
South
North
John A. Logan
Grand Army of the Republic
Ironquill’s Tribute to the Irish Soldiers
A poem recalling Irish soldiers who served in America and died in far Dixie. The speaker honors comrades who wore the blue and who lie beneath green graves, folding the stars and stripes with pride and memory.
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Ironquill
Ireland
Dixie
Isons of Revolution Put Flags on Graves
Boston honors the dead of the Revolution and prewar events as the Boston Chapter of the Massachusetts Sons of the Revolution, led by the Melrose Cadets drum corps, paraded from Faneuil Hall to Granary Burying Ground. Edwin Jones Cox spoke, Rev. George C. Crawford offered prayer, and graves including Samuel Adams and the Boston Massacre victims were decorated with national and state flags.
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Boston
Massachusetts Sons of the Revolution
Melrose Cadets
Faneuil Hall
Granary
Edwin Jones Cox
George C. Crawford
Samuel Adams
Child Drowns in River Near Pawtucket Millrace
Seven year old James J. Mc Jack slipped from the river bank at Central Falls near the Pawtucket Electric Company and was carried through the sluice by the swift current after gates were opened.
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Central Falls
R. I
James J. McJack
Blackstone
Pawtucket Electric Company
Let Them Rest Where They Fell Protest Poem
A ceremonial meditation urges reverence for fallen soldiers. The piece emphasizes letting heroes rest in the places they died, shrouding their memory with valor rather than grave markers and marble monuments across prairies forests bays and mountains.
Dr Francis J Weller of South Boston Dies
Dr Francis J Weller a renowned physician and Tufts Medical School instructor died suddenly at his home 58 East Broadway South Boston yesterday morning. He had a Back Bay office and was a 1894 Harvard Medical School graduate. Survived by wife two children and brother George J Weller a lawyer.
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Francis J. Weller
Tufts Medical School
East Broadway
South Boston
Weller
Nottingham
Huntington Avenue
Back Bay
Boston College
Harvard Medical School
George J. Weller
Songs That Stirred the Nation During the Civil War
Fifty years after the outbreak of the Civil War a collection draws from Northern and Southern song books. The article notes how lyric and battle songs fueled patriotism on both sides, offering selections to inspire today’s readers.
Wild Bill Hickok battle with McCandlass gang told
The tale recounts James Butler Hickok known as Wild Bill, a Union veteran, fighting ten men from the Jack McCandlass gang in Mrs. Waltman’s cabin. He describes the brutal close combat, using a Hawkins rifle and revolver to prevail, suffering many wounds but surviving to tell the tale.
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James Butler Hickok
Wild Bill’ Hickok
Jack McCandlass
Wild Bills
la Salle County
Wild Bill
John Wilkes Booth
Edwin Booth
Ward
Central Park
Alcibiades
Hector
Achilles
Packy
McFarland
Massachusetts
Colonel Nichols
John
Union
McCandlass
Jim MecCandlass
Jack
Kansas
Rebs
Camp Floyd
Kansas Line
Nebraska
Bill
Parson Shipley
Bill Hickok
MacCandlass
McCandless
Denver
Wild Bill Hickok
Deadwood
Battle Hymns and War Songs Rise in Civil War Era
The article chronicles Civil War era anthems and popular tunes from both North and South. It cites The Star-Spangled Banner The Battle Cry of Freedom Columbia the Gem of the Ocean The Red White and Blue John Browns Body Mary land My Maryland Dixie and other songs as rallying, morale boosting, and propaganda pieces amid Union and Confederate strains. It notes authors such as James Ryder Randall and Julia Ward Howe and references the Bonnie Blue Flag and Dixie in the South and North’s anthem adaptation.
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Union
Stars and Stripes
Sumter
Norta
North
Columbia
the Ocean
Our Union
South
Maryand
Maryland
James Ryder Randall
Baltimore
New Orleans
Massachusetts
Rouget de Lisle
Marseilles
Carroll
Howard
Potomac
Chesapeake
Virginia
Old Dominion
Dixie
Daniel Decatur Emmett
Emmett’s
Minstrels
Julia Ward Howe
John Brown
Albert Pike
Missouri
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Home of the Brave
Freedom
Gem of the Ocean
Brave and the Free
Liberty
the Republic
Halle
Army of the Lord
Jeff Davis
Free Land
Annie Lisle
Daisy Dean
Lily Dale
Johnny
Finnigan
Bonnie Blue
Jill
Scott
Butler
Down East
State Prison
Picayune Butler
Plummer’s
Olivine Sy
Washington Street
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