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National Decoration Day Observance Details and Addresses
May Day ceremonies marked Decoration Day with a Riverside Cemetery service, a procession from Davenport and Rock Island, and remarks by Rev. A R Morgan. The event honored Civil War soldiers, highlighted patriotic duty, and urged keeping watch fires of liberty. The address praised Union veterans and stressed national unity, with laying of flowers on graves and a concluding prayer.
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Rock Island
Sol Jlérp
Riverside
Weterahe
Mapes
Wellington Winouds
Go. H
19Th
Sinvis
Stonerifé
Scott
Reaiment
Riverside Cemetery
A.R Morgan
Morgan
Wellington Wood
Lllinois Volunteer
Wm. Spencer
11Th
Iowa Vulunteer Infantry
Charles Margraf
Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Neut Babcock
Alonzo Kibbard
David Flickinger
William Pall Maront Wheeler
St. Kansas Infantry
Alfred Poston
Ilinois
C F Doefler
Crane
Blanchard
Lawson
L. B. Mapes
Marshal Clendenin
Levi Cralle
Col. Flagler
Davenport
Clendenin
Augustana College
Rodman
Add Sanders
Rhea
Gregg
Felton
Lapigs
Union
Washington
All the Union
Leo Te Te Pee
The
Nahon
Lincoln
Donaldson
Shiloh
Cloody Field
Corinth
Vicksburg
Ellsworth
America
Illinois
Iowa
Northwest
Pericles
Bishop Haven
Sherman
Grant
Cairo