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, 1879, occurred the first extensive celebration of Decoration Day in Arlington, in honor of the soldiers of the late war. The Revolutionary tablets and the Revolutionary monument were appropriately decorated, with the stones over the remains of the two Revolutionary soldiers in the old burying-ground. A procession in the afternoon moved in the following order: Chief Marshal, James A. Bailey. Aids—Maj. Robert L. Sawin Lieut. John H. Hardy, Lieut. Edmund W. Noyes. Maplewood Band, John A. Spofford, Leader. William Penn Hose Co., Warren A. Pierce, Foreman, twenty men. Menotomy H. & L. Truck Co., William N. Winn, Foreman, seven men. Highland Hose Co., E. B. Moore. Foreman, six men. Returned Soldiers and Sailors, Wilson W. Fay, Commander; J. A. Blanchard, E. F. Kenrick, Aids. Cambridge Brigade Band. Mt. Horeb Lodge, No. 19, L. O. I., James Durgin (mounted), Commanding. The following programme was carried out in the Town Hall: Overture.—Maplewood Band, twenty
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