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. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . CONCERNING THIS BOOK The appropriation of $100,000 for the erection of a monument inhonor of the Soldiers and Sailors of Philadelphia in the Civil Warand for the publication of this book was provided for as an item loan bill of 1911, approved by vote of the people. The movementfor this appropriation was initiated by the Grand Army Association,with the co-operation of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and theSons of Veterans, forming a Joint Committee of the representatives ofeach body, which met October twenty-sixth,
. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . CONCERNING THIS BOOK The appropriation of $100,000 for the erection of a monument inhonor of the Soldiers and Sailors of Philadelphia in the Civil Warand for the publication of this book was provided for as an item loan bill of 1911, approved by vote of the people. The movementfor this appropriation was initiated by the Grand Army Association,with the co-operation of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and theSons of Veterans, forming a Joint Committee of the representatives ofeach body, which met October twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eleven,and by resolution recommended an official historian. This action wassubsequently ratified by the Joint Committee of Councils on Soldiers andSailors Monument, and the sum of $10,000 was fixed upon for the cost of10,000 copies of the book. The general direction and scope of thepublication was entrusted, by Mayor Blankenburg, to a special AdvisoryCommittee. The book was completed at the end of the year nineteenhundred and thirteen.
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