. Washington during war time, a series of papers showing the military, political, and social phases during 1861 to 1865; official souvenir of the Thirty-Sixth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic . GENEKAL JHWIX McJJOWEU, Arlington and Battlefield Cemeteries By ISABEL WORRELL BALLChairman, Press Committee, Thirty-sixth National Encampment N the Virginia hills, with the placidPotomac below, where the shadowof the Capitols white dome fallsathwart the shimmering watersand the Monument like a grimsentinel is ever on duty at thegateway, lies Arlington, theNational City of the Dead, w
. Washington during war time, a series of papers showing the military, political, and social phases during 1861 to 1865; official souvenir of the Thirty-Sixth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic . GENEKAL JHWIX McJJOWEU, Arlington and Battlefield Cemeteries By ISABEL WORRELL BALLChairman, Press Committee, Thirty-sixth National Encampment N the Virginia hills, with the placidPotomac below, where the shadowof the Capitols white dome fallsathwart the shimmering watersand the Monument like a grimsentinel is ever on duty at thegateway, lies Arlington, theNational City of the Dead, wheresleep nearly 19,000 soldiers ofthe Union, mustered out. It was the great war governorof Pennsylvania, Andrew7 G. Curtin, who suggested thatNational interment of the Nations heroes would be but simplejustice to those who died in the Nations defense. It wason the soil of Pennsylvania that the first shrine to the dead ofa war fought in National defense was dedicated. At Gettys-burg, on November 19, 1863, this first dedication occurredand the tribute to the battlefield dead and the Union soldiers,paid by President Lincoln, is read each recurring MemorialDay in every cemetery in the world where a soldier o
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