Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-05-12
MEMORIAL DAY.
Department Commander Henry Has Is
sued the Following General Order.

Comrades--In obedience to national orders
and regulations; in compliance with the beau
tiful custom now happily estaDnshed through
out our whole land in recognition or the ira
terna IMPULSES Of our own hearts; and in con-
sonance with the patriotic feeling accorded
the custom in the past, idonaay, the 5Oth day
of May, will 10 observed as Memorial day by
every post of this department. On that day,
impressed with the sacred character of the
duty which it is ours o perform as we gather
together in the valleys and on the hill
sides Of our beloved state again to
strew with living flowers the quiet resting
places of the dead. and over their stilled
hearts to plant onCeaga in the flag for
which they lived and hoped and died, let us
carry with US in our hearts n recognition and
remembrance beyond our memory OF them
even, of the cause and principles their valor
upheld. save for the little mound mark sd,
For the Unknown Dead" your rarest bloc
SONS and sweetest flowers that III II be given
revisit the places most loved by them on
earth that wherever thor bodies may lie
whether by the dark river, In tho dense
swalnps. or under the sorrQwing, sad and
murinuriug pines of the South and, they shall
feel that they shall not have been forgotten
Let our Memorial service sc everywhere given,
not as pcrfunctory, duty, but a. a feeling
tribute TO the slant uead.
Three decades have passed since they and we
first donned the blue. In the villages of the
dead the little narrow houses are multiplying
rapidly. nUoa to other hands we must give
wholly this reverontinl duty now in part per
formed by US. Let the spirit Of our observance
the trust.
Call TO your aid the willing hearts and
hands OF all loyal citizens, girinR them Il share
in arrangements for the day. first Of all to tn,
Woman's Relief Corps, that truest and
staunChUsl friend of our order; to the sons OF
Veterans, whose kindrcdship unites them sc
closely with US; the scnoo! children, in whose
hands rests the future Of our land Tor veal OF
woe; the fraternal orders, whose ties less
strong only than those welded IN the fire OF
battle" bind them in hrothorhoOd, ana finally
all that great conCourse OF citizenship tina
love their land and rel oiee that to-day it lives
in its integrity. Ga the sabbath preceding
Memorial day it IS tLe earnest desire of the
commander that every post as body attenC
divine service, that thus we may testify OUT
| pratit;lde 10 the Great Commander who gu 0ed
| our footsteps through danger and disaster int {
| the communities about us tho assurance that
our duty during the days of strife Is supple
mented by the best of citizenship i'll time oil
peace.
1t is earnestly requested that Post Cha plains
W i'll be mindful Of their duty, and as soon rs
possible thereafter forward to the department
| chaplain, Rev. J. c. Bodwen OF Lyndonvile
| VT. a full report Of Memorial day services, in
Guiding the attendance Of Comrades. number
Of graves decorated and also the reports o.
| local newspapers.
| would commend TO the teachers OF public
schools the setting aport, OF some portion o.
the Friday preceding Memorial Day to til,
recitation OF patriotic pieces and such other
exercises az viii help 10 build up in thu
thought Of their pupils love and veneration
for liberty and union.
BY Command Of
HUGU Henry,
Department Commander.
Official,
| &. CANNON, jr.
Assistant Adiutant.G General.