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Submitted: 5/31/14 • Approved: 5/31/14 • Last Updated: 6/3/14 • R1008444-G0-S3
In 1894, the strong Judsonia post of the Grand Army of the Republic purchased the memorial and had it set in place in Evergreen Cemetery. On the day of its dedication, two daughters of Federal soldiers, Ethel Newman and Carly Kinney, and two daughters of Confederate soldiers, Nell Young and Laura Hanson, pulled the strings that removed the curtain from the shaft. The crowd included many veterans of both the Blue and the Gray, and there was no resentment to be seen or heard when they read the inscription, “In Memory of the Defenders of the Union, 1861-1865.”
Contributed on 5/31/14 by hawkinsdonna
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