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usual taken in the proper observance of the day, and we regret that our space does not allow us to give in detail accounts which come to us from all parts of the Confederacy of how loving hands strewed with flowers the graves of sleeping heroes, or of how, in several instances, fitting monuments to our Confederate dead were unveiled. But we must speak briefly of two memorial services which it was our privilege to attend. At Loudoun Park Cemetery, near Baltimore, on Thursday evening, June the 5th, we had the privilege of uniting with our comrades of the Confederate Army and Navy Society of Maryland, and the large crowd of ladies and citizens who were present, in paying respect to the memory of the Confederate braves who sleep in this beautiful city of the dead. The statue of finely chiselled marble, which stands guard over the bivouac of the dead --the marble head-stones, which mark each grave — the perfect order in which the cemetery is kept, and the tasteful decorations of ev
Richmond, who made an address of rare appropriateness, eloquence and power. The Secretary was the recipient of many courtesies at the hands of Maryland comrades, which he highly appreciated. The ceremonies at Winchester, Virginia, on Friday, June the 6th, were of deepest interest, and we esteemed it a high privilege to be permitted to mingle in them. Winchester--battle-scarred, heroic, glorious old Winchester — has been first to carry out the eloquent suggestion of Bishop Elliott, of Geitutional freedom. Always in the lead in efforts to honor our Confederate dead, a few ladies in Winchester organized themselves together as the Virginia Shaft Association, and by their earnest efforts secured, paid for, and unveiled, on the 6th of June, a beautiful marble shaft for the Virginia section, which has been greatly admired, and is considered very cheap, at $1,500. Cannot our devoted women of other States do the same for their respective sections? But besides these marked graves
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