From: Richard Titterington <[address removed]>
Date: July 26, 2016 at 11:44:06 AM CDT
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Subject: Fwd: FW: GAR Kansas City National Encampment Commemoration - 28 August 2016

Hello all,

Here is an event happening next month you may be interested in ...

Regards,
Dick Titterington
Editor, The Border Bugle

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From: Lane Smith <[address removed]>
Date: Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:41 AM
Subject: FW: GAR Kansas City National Encampment Commemoration - 28 August 2016
To: Richard Titterington <[address removed]>
Cc: [address removed]

Dick:  see attached.  Is this an event that could be eblasted to our membership?  Lane

 

From: Dale Crandell [mailto:[address removed]]
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Subject: GAR Kansas City National Encampment Commemoration - 28 August 2016

 

Kansas Brothers,

 

Please join the SUVCW and DUVCW for the centennial commemoration of the GAR’s 50^th National Encampment:

 

Time:  2:00 pm

Date:   Sunday, 28 August 2016

Place: Ilus Davis Park, 9th & Oak, Kansas City, Missouri: http://kcparks.org/park/ilus-davis-park. 

 

The 1916 National Encampment in Kansas City was special, being the GAR's 50th anniversary and their Golden Jubilee Reunion. It was also the era when an aging GAR was losing thousands of members each year. The Kansas City Journal reported during the encampment that "ninety older soldiers hear taps each day" referring to the 33,000 Civil War veterans that died the prior year in 1915. Even with members in their 70s and 80s, 4,000 veterans from the GAR accompanied by military bands and 6,000 from the Sons of Veterans, Woman's Relief Corps, and Ladies of the GAR paraded through 12 blocks in downtown Kansas City to a crowd the Kansas City Star reported at over 100,000.

 

Feel free to forward this email and flyer to other Civil War enthusiast.  Thanks.

 

Organizing contacts:

Michael Lundeen, SUVCW Westport at: [address removed]

Dee Wolfe, DUVCW Macklind at: [address removed]

 

In FC&L,

 

Dale Crandell, PCC

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