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Title: Dedication of the monument on Boston Common erected to the memory of the men of Boston who died in the Civil War
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Boston (Mass.)
Subjects: Army and Navy Monument (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher: Boston, Printed by order of the City council
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ising Architect. That deposited by the Grand Army of the Republic, Depart-ment of Massachusetts, contained the following memorial, withthe list of articles annexed : — THE GRAND ARMIT OF THE REPUBLIC Is a Fraternal, Loyal, and Charitable Association of honorably dis-charged soldiers and sailors, who aided in resisting the attempt of theslave-holding States of the American Union to secede from that Union ofthe United States of North America, in the great rebellion of the years1861-1865 ; which rebellion, causing a gigantic civil war, then resultedin the emancipation of four millions of slaves, the supremacy of theFederal Government, and the consequent restoration of the Union. The motto of this Association is Fraternity-, Charity, and Loyalty ;and the Association is divided into departments, coinciding territoriallywith States of the Union; and subdivided into smaller local organiza-tions called Posts, devoted to the charitable care of soldiers and theirfamilies, widows, and orphans.
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THE AE:\rT AND NAVT MOXUMEXT. 47 The Department of Massachusetts deposits in this box, nndei theArmy and jSTav)- Monument, erected bjthe Cit)-of Boston, the followingarticles, Anno Domini 1877 : — Duplicate of Post Cliarter. Proceedings of National Encampments, 1866 to 1877, inclusive. Rules and Regulations. Service Book and Memorial Service. One each of every kind of blank used in the G.A.R. Roster of Department and complete file of G-eneral Orders, series of 1877. A G.A.R. Badge: No. 2,521. Alphabetical list of the battles of the War of the Rebellion. Copy of the U. S. Army and NaAy Pension Laws. Horace Bixxey Sargext, Department Commander.James F. Meech, Assistant Adjutant-General. The following declaration and list of articles were deposited inthe IMonument by the Order of the Loyal Legion : — The Commandery of the State of Massachusetts of the Militaiy Orderof the Loyal Legion of the United States deposits in the box to beplaced under the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Bost

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