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Memorial Address by Rev Willa M Evans at Estherville
Rev Willa M Evans delivers a Memorial Address at Lough Opera House Estherville Iowa on May 30 1900 honoring Grand Army of the Republic veterans and recalling the origins of memorial and Decoration Day, Civil War memory, Union restoration and the cost of freedom. The talk frames Confederate and Union sacrifices, southern reconciliation, and the role of patriotism in shaping a united republic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willa M. Evans
Lough's ‘Opera Hones
Estherville
Grand Army of the Republic
Woman's Relief Corps
Ocean
Great Lakes
Justicn
Marathon
Nage
Miltiades
Pladen
Charleston
D. C
Fort Sumpter
Henry Ward Beecher
Lincoln
James Redpath
Dahlgren
U. S. Fiset
United States Navy
Redpath
Ars
Prof. Redpath
Woodford
Hartwell and Gurney
James C. Beecher
H. W. Beecher
Thomas M. Cooley
Michigan
J. C. Beecher
Belle Isle
Rishimond
B. F. Fay
Richmond
H. G. Kimball
Philadelphia
John A. Logan
Graves
Grand Army
North
Joseph Wheeler
Fitz Hugh Lee
Confederate Women of
Columbia
Francis M. Pinoh
Philippias Telands
Maine
Havana Harbor
South
America
Europe
David
Isreal
Tehorah
Egypt
Euphrates
Arabian Desert
Mediterranean
Solomon's Temple
Oewapaters
Rome
Ohio
John Morgan
Lee
Gen. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Church
Coorhouse
Lincol
Secrety Seward
God
United States
England
Union
Dred Scott
John Brown
Harper's Ferry
Moses