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Memorial Day Reflections From Civil War Founders and Voices
A 1897 reminiscence on Memorial Day honors Mrs. Martha G. Kimball as founder of the memorial custom and features letters and essays by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Commodore Melville John Clark Ridpath and others reflecting on the dead of the Union and the meaning of sacrifice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
John Clark Ridpath
Ingalla
Commodore Melville
Colonel Forney
Hervio
Martha G. Kimball
Sherman
Lincoln
Stanton
Winchester
Molineux
Sheridan
Mrs. Kimball
South
John A. Logan
Grand Army of the Republic
Logan
Kimball
Quaker City
Laurel Hill
United States Bureau of Steam Engineering
Navy Department
Washington
America
Gronon W. Melville
United States Navy
Henry Thomas Buckle
Mill
Buckle
Joan Clark Ridpath
The
Arena
Green ‘Clay Goodloe
Marine Corps
Kentucky Cavalry
Our
Republic
Liberty
Union
Greens Clay Goodloe
West
Ingalls
Commonwealth
John James Ingalls
Atchison
Kan
James Forney
John Forney
Philadelphia Press
Farragut
Custom House
New Orleans