Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-01
MEMORIAL DAY.
Interesting Observance Joined
in by All Our People.
Decoration of Dead Soldiers Graves
and Eloquent Address
In the Evening by Zion. Frank L. Dut-
ton of Augusta.

Hc NCHlpIitl uttS C->SlSIHSc III thA7
city were of unusual interest. In the
forenoon the members of John i. Hub
bard Post, escorted by the Olympia
Band of Augusta, and Hallowell Com
pany, U. r.. X. of p, made a short pa
rade and attended to the decorating of
soldiers graves.
The procession moved in the follow
ing order:
Hallowell Police.
c. A. Brown, Marshal.
Aides.
Olympia Band, Augusta.
Uniform Rank, X. of L.
John B. Hubbard Post. No 20. G. A Il.
Ex-Soldiers and Sailors.
DiSa ble1 Soldiers i'll Carriages.
Carriage with Flowers.
President of the Day.
Members Of City Government In Car
riagcS.
Clergy in Carriages.
Citizens in Carriages.
In the evening the following program
was carried out:
Singing. Quartet
Prayer, Rev. w. ID. Il1mmcr
Singing Quartet
Remarks, President OF the Day
Grafton, Hon. Frank l.. button
Singing. Quartet
Benediction. Rev. c. A. Wight
President of the Day Fuller said:
Mayor FuIIer's Introduction.
In introducing the speaker of the
evening, Mayor Fuller, president of the
day, spoke as follows
My thoughts go back today to the
early days of the Civil War and to the
part that Hallowcll and Hallowell men
and women took in that fight for the
life of the nation.
LAS boy l remember the opening OF
the war in 81. The telegraph brought
the news that the rebels had fred on.
the flag at Fort Sumptcr and that the
President had called for $4,000 vOlun-
tecrs to protect the government. 1t
was but day or two later that Capt.
john NJ Nash, opened a recruiting office
in one of the rooms under the Hallowell
House and in a short time 100 young
mon from this city and adjoining towns
had enlisted and were drilling and
marching through our streets to the
music of fife and drum. 1t was a
strange and stirring sight for Halloween.
In another week they went into camp
on the State grounds and were organ
lied as 90. l., of the Sd Maine ReGi-
ment, commanded by Col. o. o. How
ard. soon to become so well known as
one of the most successful generals of
the war. On the fifth Of June they left
Augusta for the South and from that
time were part of the Army of the
Potomac and shared both the good and
the i'll fortunes of that army.
But not all the representation of Hal
lowell were in Co. +. Some were in
other companies Of the same regiment
and that summer saw others cnlistinS
in the 18th. Sth and 9th regiments and
in the fall and winter in the 18th also
th2 1st Cavalry and the LIST Battery. of
which Capt John 3. Hubbard was an
officer, received many. Later good
many went with Capt. Charles E. Nash
to the 10Th Maine and in fact nearly
every organization that went from
Maine had Fallowcll men on their rolls.
THE navy also had it's share of Hal
lowell boys. all able. willing and ready
to do their duty. with honor to them
selves, and with honor to the State Of
Maine. There was hardly a family in
the city but had some member in the
service of the u. S. Many of those who
had gone to the front left families at
home ana they had the promise of our
citizens that they should be cared for.
One of the first acts of the City Coun-
Gil in the spring of 81, was to appro-