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1901
MEMORIAL DAY
Nashua Reporter, 30 May 1901
OUR HONORED DEAD
Appropriate Services Mark the Day Set
Apart to Keep Sacred the Memory
of Our Departed Soldiers
Today is the
hallowed day when all over this land the solemn memorial
services are held to sacred commemoration of our loved
soldiers who gave so much for their country's welfare. Early
this morning the boys of '61 and their co-workers, the
ladies of the Relief Corps began gathering at the Post
routes to get in readiness the flags and flowers to decorate
the graves of their departed comrades in the various
cemeteries.
At 8 o'clock,
headed by a squad from Co. D, of Charles City and
accompanied by the Relief Corps, the veterans to the
stirring music of the life and drum marched to Oak Hill
cemetery and paid their tribute of love and honor to their
comrades who had gone before.
The other
cemeteries were then visited after which they all returned
to the G. A. R. hall where dinner was served. This afternoon
at the opera house a memorial address was delivered by Rev.
Ewin Ewell, and a program of music and recitations rendered.
Following are the names of the dead, who are buried in our
cemeteries:
BURIED
AT OAK HILL
John
Felcher, G27th Iowa inf.
John Harris,
G27th Iowa inf.
L.
Jackson Dowd, G27th Iowa inf.
Giles Hall,
G27th Iowa inf.
BURIED
AT GREENWOOD
Thos W.
Price, G27th Iowa inf.
BURIED AT BECK CEMETERY
Robert Beck,
G27th Iowa inf.
MEMORIAL ODE TO THE UNKNOWN DEAD
(By C. M.)
Ten thousand of patriot freemen
Went forth at the beat of the drum
To rescue our dear bleeding country
Or fall ere the task was done
Ah, well we remember the morning
When our brave boys bade us adieu
How proudly they marched to the music
Arrayed in the National blue
Beneath Southern myrtle and roses
Sleep many of that patriot band
How nobly they fought, but have fallen
Far, far from their dear native land
In unknown graves they are sleeping
Our heroes so brave and so true
No stone, no flower for the resting place
Of the boys who wore the blue
Breath sweet, pathetic, tender strains
Fit to the true and brave
Whose duty done, and nobly dear
Rest in a soldier's unknown grave
The so true men should ne'er be forgotten
Their mem'ry still cherished will be
As long as the flag of the Union
Waves over the land of the free
Contributed
by Claudia Groh, Transcribed by Mike Peterson
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