Seattle's first Memorial Day - 1879
In 1878, the nation's leading organization of Union veterans of the Civil War, the Grand Army of the Republic, was established for the...
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Mar 15, 20222 min read
The last man to join the G.A.R. in Seattle
By August 1942, Seattle’s Grand Army of the Republic membership was down to just 2 men. Daniel Reams and Hiram Gale were all that...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20221 min read
Seattle Civil War vet witnessed 12 great grandchildren enlist in WWII
December 8, 2021 marked the 80th anniversary of the United States' formal entry into World War II. Remarkably, in 1941, there were...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20221 min read
An uncommon legacy - Seattle Civil War Veteran saw a great-granddaughter become an officer in WWII
This is the Seattle gravesite of Catherine M. Henry at Evergreen cemetery. Miss Henry was the great-granddaughter of Seattle Civil War...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20221 min read
"I wouldn't be in favor"
January 4th, 1941, Seattle Civil War veteran Rustan O. Reed celebrated his 94th birthday. On the occasion, he offered some thoughts on...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20222 min read
---An Old Wound Opened---
The Confederate battle flag, to put it bluntly, was generally not welcomed by Union veterans of the Civil War. While great strides had...
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Mar 15, 20221 min read
Lincoln's Birthday becomes a holiday in Washington State in 1895
On February 12, 1895 Washington State became the second state, following Illinois, to recognize Abraham Lincoln’s birthday as a legal...
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Mar 15, 20221 min read
Lincoln's Birthday, Seattle 1921
101 years ago, on this very same evening, the Union Civil War veterans of the John F Miller post Grand Army of the Republic and the women...
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Mar 15, 20222 min read
A Seattle talk that “carried the boys back some thirty years”
—March 7, 1893 in Seattle— On the evening of March 7, 1893, the men of Seattle’s John F Miller post of the Grand Army of the Republic met...
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Civil War Seattle
Mar 15, 20223 min read
"Gleeful As A Band Of Children"- Civil War veterans’ Christmas at the Orting Soldiers’ Home
"Gleeful As A Band Of Children" - Civil War veterans’ Christmas at the Orting Soldiers’ Home - In the early 1900’s, Washington State...
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