The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-30
Exercises Commenced This
Morning with Decoration
of Graves by Veterans.
MAIN PROGRAM AT
METHODIST CHURCH
'rand Army of the Republic is Pass,
ing In Final Review-Deat3, fs %ro---
Ing the Ranks-Obseryance q, n.v
Recalls Features Of the War.

Inc observation of Memorial dav
opened auspiciously with one OF IN.
hnest days Of the year. Early today
a detail of the G. A. R., con.ist,ns
OF comrades knudson. wilkins wehe
ana secord. proceeded by automobila
70 Memorial park and decorated with
mowers every grave Of a deceased
veteran son Of veteran and veteran
OF the spanish-American war.
AL $3.50 o'clock this morning tha
veterans assembled at the G.. n
nall in the Odd Fellows bloch and
from there proceeded in special car.
10 the park where the usual memorial
exercises We're held. The firing squad
OF the Sons of Veterans accompan,.d
the old soldiers.
AT noon refreshments are h.,n.
served by the women's Relief Corn.
at the post hall for veterans and their
friends. At o'clock this afternoon
me me following program will be rem.
!. Assembly call by the buRier.
2. Music. Star Spansled Banner
Band 'a'''e'@
.. Invocation-Rev. F. NJ. Mccov
| =. singing. America
.: Reading of Orders-Adtutan
A. ]. Pierce.
s. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Master Clarence E. Robbins.
Y. Address to the Unknown Dead
Francis Templeton.
o: Irinutes to union and confed.
a. President McKinley's tribute -
union dead, Frank DeLone.
united Confederate Veterans" How
ard DeLong
9. Decoration of Monument-
Senior Vice Commander A. s. bur
rows o.
10 eoration-Rev. Homer Cook.
Camp Ground." y" '"e vi"
T. Patriotic Medley-Band.
-. Renediction-Rev. Martin Hep.
"a. First and last verses OF Battle
Flynn Of the Republic.
Recalls Great War.
The day calls to mind MANY events
OF the great struggle which are indel-
IDLY impressed upon the minds Of the
Ie.erans: Gettysburg was the greatest
nattle Of the war; Antietam the blood
lest. The loss of both armies aeere-
gated 25.011 in one day. The union
and confederate dead, missing and
wounded during the mighty struggle
at gettysburg totalled $4,000. Com
pared to other battles of modern times
u1 ,ne hgures are. however. small. At
100000 and at Mukden, the greatest
nattle since the invention OF gunpow-
der, 100000 Russians and laps Re.
NAMED Oh the field after the smoke
had cleared. Over 100000 union SOL
diers We're killed and 100000 were
wounded in the civil war.
The total number of men furnished
by the various states for the union
side during the war totalled 2,859,253.
the extremes being the sparsely set
tied Dakota territory which furnished
306 and the populous empire state Of
New York which furnished 467,o47.
The total number of interments in
the various national cemeteries Of
which there are eighty-three. is over
355, 900. The six largest are Arling-
ton. Va, 10000; Nashville. Tenn, 1S,.
526: Vicksburg. Miss. 16,600; Freder-
icksburg. Va. 15,257; Memphis Tenn,
1897. and Andersonville. Ca, 49,
"a. The unknown dead number
$4,000.
The Grand Army.
The Grand Army of the Republic
is passing in final review. The total
number Of survivors is now less than
100000. The old guard is passing
away at the rate of almost 100 day.
Had the soldiers of the civil war not
been mere lads in their teens the
Grand Army would long ere this had
perished. But the union was saved
literally by boys. Startling as this
statement seems 1t is borne out by
official records: 47,ooo were A years:
100000 were 22 and under: 2,157,7Se
were 21 and under: 1.151,43s were
1s and under; S44.s9l were II and
under; 23,051 were 16 and under; 500
were IL and under and 225 were 10
and under.