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Of Unknown Soldier 1 Buried Today In NationalCemetery; Military HonorsA handlul of Northerners, one of Lincoln delivered his deathless a 1-whoni saw service in th Civil War. dress more than haif a cMtury i • another who foueht in the Spanish ago.» j American War and sonic* who The cemetery fag was at half-- ' fought in ihe recent world conflict, stufl' A briffht KUn broke t,irau^h’ , • i (■ . , a clouded sky. Two parties of• j .iMi iinal tributf to the memory * * * \ . * *j / tourists, one from New* \ ork statev * on}lt;derate soldier her » in ftnd the other from Colorado, stop-National C mviery this morning at ptHl on the driveway near the1110 o’clock. ,„-aVe.I»| r it the Oa y -rirs thr- h VC Captain Recites Ritual| clap . i .met th three days' hat- Captain James W. Bodley, 86I tie* at (.ettyshurg, the m wnnry of ye ar of age, a veteran of theon who lo.sgtr with the Con fed- Civil War and superintendent of; rat -v and *»ve his life for a cause the National Cemetery# recited a ;:,u lt;a; lfi - **h} wn* h^norcd jirrf soldier’s ritual. A rln* squada militaiy i uiiai ;i jji\ n f 1 r ;h * Suns of \ *ran Hied the? blt; rc. His identity renviirs \ parting salute and a bugler sound*i (mystery but there is sufficient rup- ((J “Taps”, iYi peace a soldier'sposition to fix his identity as i lullaby, in death his requkmtr* i j member of Davis' .Mississippi iv-i u was significant that as the j ni nt which foupht a eouiageot ? small box of bon‘s was being (t engagement in the railroad eu , lowered into the grave an nuto-ji -ar Reynolds avenue, July 1, 18G3, mobile beating a Mississippi li-Hag At Hall-Staff unse stopped within a few yardsinesedWhen battlefield employe found 0f the buiioi party and w the bones protruding from the rail- the final rites.| mad cut several days ago, Colonel | A marker will designate this « 1 // *,avs. superintendent of the'grave as “unknown” but the posi-j Gettysburg National Paik, re- tion of prominence it occupies in ^ceived permission from the War the National Cemetery will forcer 1Ik'i iti tmcnt to bury the bo - »n bear evidence that it is the eravt 1 |thlt; National Cemetery with mill*! of a hero. iJ tary honors. The same flag that has been usedAt ten o clock this moming on many previous occasions for 1 | handful of Northerner? had gath- military funerals draped the small ' er.d around thlt;» 1 ittIt grave in the | box containing the skeleton re- 1Nation®’ Cemct-ry, wi hir tne mains of the unknown soldier. 1shadow of the National and New It was the full mark of respect rP°,k, monuments, and a of a great country to a departingstone s throw ftom the spot where son. t
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Gettysburg Times
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Oct 08, 1928
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