Mount Auburn. Headquarters John A. Andrew Encampment, Post 15, Department of Mass., G.A.R.
Subtitle: Wadman Hall, no. 176 Tremont Street. Boston, May 1, 1873. On Friday, the 30th inst., the Grand Army of the Republic are to engage in the beautiful ceremony of decorating with flowers the graves of brother soldiers and sailors who sacrificed their lives on the shrine of our country ... This post will proceed to Mount Auburn Cemetery, where repose the remains of some three hundred heroes of the late rebellion ... As a great quantity of flowers is needed to adorn these graves properly, we feel obliged to call upon our friends for donations of bouquets, wreaths, baskets ... and money. ...
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1873
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Memorial Day; Patriotic societies; Veterans; Societies; History; Grand Army of the Republic. John A. Andrew Post 15 (Boston, Mass.); Mount Auburn Cemetery (Cambridge, Mass.)
Notes: Caption title.

Signed: Per order of the committee. D.G. Macnamara, chairman. William S. Frost, secretary.

Followed by: Dear [blank] I shall be happy to receive your contribution and add it to my list. Yours respectfully, [blank].

"Memento mori. General committee. ... Special committees. ... Regimental organization. ...--leaf [2].

Signatures: [A]Â² ([A]1 recto, [A]2 verso blank).