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Dedicate 60 Foot Shaft on Antietam Battlefield
New York veterans attend a dedication ceremony for a $29,000,360 granite monument at Antietam commemorating New York military units. General Miles and officials from New York and New York Senate leaders attend. General Reynolds and Mapes lead units, with Arm Strong presiding. The event includes a reception by Hagerstown Chamber of Commerce and a tour of the battlefield. Nearby items note a temporary Mine Workers injunction and a liquor raid in Trenton.
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New York
ShapsoUrg
Antietam
Hagerstown
Yee
John F. C. Ryan
Él. Wainwright
Montgomery
Gibbons
Jessel L. Eady
John Knight
Bernard Downing
New York Moziument Commission
Lewis R. Stigman
Miles
John Ryan
Smith
John A. Reynolds
Freeport
W. H. XI. Mapes
Emporia
Kansas
Reynolds
Mapes
Alexander ‘Arm] Strong
Hageratown Chamber of Commerce
Adj.Gan
A. Reckord
Lysterans
Antie‘am Wattle