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Memorial Day Origin and Missouri Local News Highlights
A survey of Memorial Day origins notes General Logan and the poem The Blue and the Gray by Francis Miles Finch shaping the holiday. The piece details national cemeteries, the Arlington and Gettysburg sites, and Baker’s push for a nationwide burial system. The update covers Missouri lawmakers, county officials, and local incidents including a murder in Rogersville and coal stats in Ray County.
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Logan
Grand Army of the Republic
N. P. Chipman
Grand Army
Lincoln
Rufus R. Wilson
New York Herald Tribune
New England
Middle
South
Arlington
James A. Garfield
Congress
Francis Miles Finch
Lake Cayuga
Ithaca
N.Y
Lee
Johnson
Finch
Atlantic Monthly
Baker
New York
Laura Keene
John Brougham
Washington
BE. L. Hartz
D. H. Rucker
Hartz
Seventh Street
Massachusetts Volunteers
Simon Cameron
Cameron
Mexico
Virginia
Tennessee
Kentucky
North Carolina
Louisiana
Illinois
Maryland
Mississippi
Arkansas
Missouri
District of Columbia
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Texas
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Kansas
Alabama
West Virginia
Oklahoma
Nebraska
New Mexico
Montana
California
Alaska
Mexico City
France
Belgium
England
Reveille
Gettysburg
Jefferson City
Horace C. Keyes
Richmond
Ray County
County Assessors Association of
W. W. Woods
Columbia
Boone County
Fred Tanner
Cole
Caulfield