The National tribune., 1883-06-07
AT BALTIMORE.
DeTOting ths Day TO D1coration-The Memorial
Services al Night.

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In Baltimore Memorial Day was devoted TO
docking the graves with flowers and the night
10 memoJial services.
The first services Of the day took place about
10 a. m at Fort McHenry. Ellsworth Camp,
Sons Of Veterans, numbering about fifty, ac-
conpanicd by their dram corps, marched from
Post-otiice avenue TO the fort where they were
met by batteries ], i, and bI, Second artillery,
nader command Of Gen. III. G. Gibson The
Regulars were In full uniform, and carried
nauskcts. There are about 40 soldiers buried
in tho fort cemetery. When the graves had
been decorated. Colonel I. i. Lang read a
poem, and MAS followed in an address by Gen.
Gibson.
At the National Cemetery, Loudon Park,
there wero q large number Of ladies' who as
sisted with slillful hands the decoration Of the
graves. over 2,e90 soldiers are buried there,
/ rcpr6scnting nearly ali the States which lent
their aid 10 the Federal cause. Every grave is
marked gith q headstone, numbered, most OF
/ tnem containing tsle name and State of the sol
/ der Here and there headst0ne, with sim
! pie number, and nothing mora, tells Of the un-
/ known dead. Wilson Post Commander Geo
| w. johnson, had charge Of the decorations
there and turned cut about $50 strong.
The 2lG graves Of eolorod soldiers in Laurel
/ Cemetery on the Belair road, were decorated
1 at o'clock in the Afternoon by delegations
/ from Lincoln Post, No. z; Guy Post, No. lG
/ and Ellsworth Post, No. 10, G. A. r. There
were about forty conrsdesin uniform.
Committees from Wilson Post went out in
1 the morning to Greenmoant, Baltimore, Cedar
1 Bill, and St Peters Cemeteries and decorated
the graves Of the comrades and friends buried
| there.
Members Of Burnside Post, No. %, decorated
with flowers the scattered graves of Union sol
1 diers in St Patricll's, the old Methodist and
Mt. Carmel geHleteIes, IN the eastern suburbs
The grave Of the late Gen. Dixon S. Miles
q. s. A, st St. James Church, Baltimor,
| county, IN My Lady's Manor" was decorated
with fowors by his friends.
Denison Post No. 6, Of HaInpden, Baltimore
county, decorated The graves OF their Unioi
coInIssdes rePosing in st. Mary Cemetery.
One OF the most solemn scenes ever witnessed
ueon the boards at F0rds Opera House wa
presented at night during the Memorial scr
vices conducted under the auspices Of Wilson
Denison, Harry Howard and G. K. WarreI
Posts. IL consisted OF a funeral service, Whicl
included chants, surpliced choristers, prayer
by the chaplain, the playing Of a dirge b.
Wilson Post baad, the lowering of buria
casket into an improyised glaye, aud the tina
firing Of . salute by United States artillerymeI
Adjatant Chas. II. Richardson read the mill
tary record of fourteen comrades who had die
since last Memorial Day. To the rear Of the stag
were fourteen vacant chairs dEaped IN mourn
ing. The orator of the occasion was Genera
Green Il. Raum, OK Commissioner OF lnteIDa
| Revenue.
At Dushane Post Hall, Lexington and S
Paul streets, a funeral service was held i
memory of seven deceased comrades. Th
Rev. J. McKendree Kelley delivered the ad
r dress. A delegation from Post No. u, of Phi
} adelphia, was present.
OTHER oBsERyAscEs IN MARYLAND.
Memorial ceremonies at Mount Olivet Gene
.ery, at Frederick, under the auspices of Rey