Woman's Relief Corps
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- Mar 9, 1894The Woman Who Crossed the Lines: A Civil War Journey Ends in SeattleMrs. W. Harlan, who defied army orders and carried a lunch basket of soldiers' savings through Confederate country to reach her wounded husband, dies in Seattle.Seattle, WA
- May 30, 1895The Old Soldiers Wept as Seattle's Schoolchildren SangMemorial Day 1895 found Grand Army veterans in Seattle classrooms, trading Antietam memories for recitations of 'Barbara Frietchie'—then preparing a parade to the Seattle Theater and View Cemetery.Seattle, WA
- Jun 2, 1895Washington's First Soldiers' Monument Rises in Port TownsendOn May 30, 1895, the Woman's Relief Corps presented a cannon-on-pedestal monument to Farragut Post—the first soldiers' monument in the state—as two little girls pulled the cord and an evening crowd gathered at the courthouse.Laurel Grove Cemetery, Port Townsend, WA
- Jun 2, 1910The Fading Ranks of the Grand Army of the RepublicTwenty elderly Civil War veterans observed Memorial Day in Lynden, marching with the local Woman's Relief Corps to honor the fallen.Lynden, WA