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| The following may be found at your library, interlibrary loan, or bookstore. All items listed below were found in at least one US library catalog during research for the Memorial Day website, however libraries do weed their collections from time to time, this is no guarantee that every book listed below will always be found. |
We would like this list to be as exhaustive as possible: if you know of any print item that is not on this list, please email the title and author, and if known, the publisher (company and city) and date of the work to webmaster@suvcw.org.
| Title | An address at Johnson's Island in memory of the Confederate soldiers who while prisoners died, and are buried on the island. By Landon C. Bell. |
| Author | Bell, Landon Covington |
| Published | Columbus, Ohio: NP, 1929 |
| Title | Address / by Geo. C.S. Southworth ; delivered before the citizens of West Springfield, and the delegates of the Grand Army of the Republic, on Decoration Day, May 30, 1870. |
| Author | Southworth, George Champlin Shepard |
| Published | Springfield, MA: Samuel Bowles & Company, printers, 1870 |
| Title | Address by Jasper T. Darling, delivered at Springfield, Illinois, on Memorial day, 1912, under auspices of the G.A.R. ... |
| Author | Darling, Jasper Tucker |
| Published | n.p., 1912 |
| Title | An address by Oliver Wendell Holmes : delivered on Memorial Day, May 30, 1895, at a meeting called by the graduating class of Harvard University |
| Author | Holmes, Oliver Wendell |
| Published | Boston : Little, Brown, and Company, 1895 |
| Title | Address delivered before Oakwood memorial association, Saturday, May 7, 1910 |
| Author | Pollard, Henry Robinson |
| Published | Richmond, VA: Whitter & Shepperson, printers, 1910 |
| Title | Address delivered before Philip H. Sheridan post, Grand army of the republic |
| Author | Sargent, Horace Binney |
| Published | Boston: Press of Rockwell & Churchill, 1873 |
| Title | Address of President Coolidge at the memorial exercises, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, May 30, 1927. |
| Author | Coolidge, Calvin |
| Published | Washington, Govt. print. off., 1927 |
| Title | Address of President Coolidge at the memorial exercises, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, May 31, 1926. |
| Author | Coolidge, Calvin |
| Published | Washington, Govt. print. off., 1926 |
| Title | Address of the President of the United States on Memorial Day, May 30, 1921, at Arlington Cemetery |
| Author | Harding, Warren G. |
| Published | Washington, Govt. print. off., 1921 |
| Title | Camp-fire, Memorial-day, and Other Poems |
| Author | Sherwood, Kate Brownlee |
| Published | Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Company, 1885 |
| Title | Confederate memorial address, delivered at Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk, Va., May 19, 1887, by Baker P. Lee, on invitation of Pickett-Buchanan Camp. |
| Author | Lee, Baker P. |
| Published | ichmond, G. R. Tenser, 1887 |
| Title | Dead, yet living. An address delivered at Keene, N.H., Memorial day, May 30, 1884, by Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ... |
| Author | Holmes, Oliver Wendell |
| Published | Boston, Ginn, Heath, and Company, 1884 |
| Title | Decoration Day. Address of William E. Chandler ... May 30, 1889, at Nashua, N.H., before John G. Foster Post No. 7, G.A.R. |
| Author | Chandler, William E. |
| Published | Concord, N.H., Republican Press Association, 1889 |
| Title | Decoration Day in Lockport : floral tributes to the honored dead : the day generally observed--impressive ceremonies at the cemeteries / oration by James F. Fitts |
| Author | Fitts, James Franklin |
| Published | Lockport, N.Y. : Post Donnelly No. 67, 1871 |
| Title | The deeds of our fathers : a Memorial Day address delivered in the Town House, Dover, Massachusetts, May 30, 1904 / by Frank Smith |
| Author | Smith, Frank |
| Published | [Dover?] MA: Printed by the Memorial Day Committee, 1904 |
| Title | Eight occasional addresses, by John W. Frost |
| Author | Frost, John William |
| Published | New York, Printed for private distribution by Kennerly press, inc., 1941 |
| Title | George Gordon Meade; an address delivered by Colonel James C. Biddle, formerly aide-de-camp to Maj.-Gen. Meade, at Gen. Meade's statue, Fairmont Part, Philadelphia, on Memorial Day, May 30, 1888, under the auspices of Geo. G. Meade Post no. 1, G.A.R., Department of Pennsylvania. |
| Author | Biddle, James Cornell |
| Published | Philadelphia [J. Beale, printer] 1888 |
| Title | The history and origin of Memorial Day in Waterloo, New York |
| Author | Waterloo Memorial Day Centennial Committee |
| Published | Waterloo: NP, 1966 |
| Title | A history of the origin of memorial day as adopted by the Ladies' memorial association of Columbus, Ga., and presented to the Lizzie Rutherford chapter of the Daughters of the confederacy ... |
| Author | United Daughters of the Confederacy. Georgia Division. Lizzie Rutherford Chapter, no. 60, Columbus. |
| Published | Columbus, GA: T. Gilbert, 1898 |
| Title | Many a way for Memorial day: a collection of recitations, quotations, words for familiar tunes, exercises, dialogues and plays, arranged with many helpful notes and suggestions, with the purpose of supplying teachers of the grades and of rural schools with modern and interesting material for use in Memorial day programs. |
| Author | Faxon, Grace B., ed. |
| Published | Boston: Walter H. Baker Co., 1926 |
| Title | Memorial address by Hon. Philander C. Knox: on the battlefield of Gettysburg, May 30, 1908. |
| Author | Knox, Philander Chase |
| Published | NP: NP, 1908? |
| Title | Memorial address by William H. Thomas; delivered at Montgomery, Ala., April 26th, 1902, by invitation of Ladies' memorial association ... |
| Author | Thomas, William Holcombe |
| Published | Montgomery, AL: Press Brown printing co., 1902. |
| Title | Memorial address delivered May 30, 1892, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire : before Storer Post No. 1, Grand Army of the Republic |
| Author | Hackett, Frank Warren |
| Published | Portsmouth, N.H.: M. Goodrich, 1893 |
| Title | Memorial Day |
| Author | Frost, Helen |
| Published | MN: Pebble Books, 2000 |
| Title | Memorial Day |
| Author | Ansary, Mir Tamim |
| Published | IL: Heinemann Library, 1999 |
| Title | Memorial Day |
| Author | Scott, Geoffrey |
| Pictures | Hanson, Peter E. |
| Published | MN: Carolrhoda Books, 1983 |
| Title | Memorial day adress. Address delivered by Hon. Moses E. Clapp, United States Senator from Minnesota, at the memorial exercises held at Gettysburg, Pa., on May 30, 1914 |
| Author | Clapp, Moses Edwin |
| Published | Washington [Govt. Print. Off.] 1914 |
| Title | Memorial day address, by Franklin G. Fessenden, before Edwin E. Day Post, G. A. R., Greenfield, Mass., May 31th, 1915 |
| Author | Fessenden, Franklin Goodridge |
| Published | Greenfiled, Mass., Edwin E. Day Post, G. A. R., 1915 |
| Title | Memorial day address, by Franklin G. Fessenden, before Edwin E. Day Post, G. A. R., Greenfield, Mass., May 30th, 1913 |
| Author | Fessenden, Franklin Goodridge |
| Published | Greenfield, Mass., Edwin E. Day Post, G. A. R., 1913 |
| Title | Memorial day address, by Sumner Welles ... delivered at Arlington National Amphitheater, May 30, 1942 |
| Author | Welles, Sumner |
| Published | DC: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1942 |
| Title | Memorial Day and Other Poems |
| Author | Burton, Richard |
| Published | Boston: Copeland and Day, 1897 |
| Title | Memorial day (Decoration day) its celebration, spirit, and significance as related in prose and verse, with a non-sectional anthology of the civil war |
| Author | Schauffler, Robert Haven, ed. |
| Published | NY: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1911 (also published in 1926) |
| Title | Memorial Day, May 30 1870 : oration / by I.F. Shepard, at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Mo. |
| Author | Shepard, I. F. |
| Published | St. Louis : Missouri Democrat Book and Job Printing House, 1870 |
| Title | Memorial Day, May 30, 1898; special union service of prayer for our country, our rulers, and for our Army and Navy. George D. Baker, pastor. |
| Author | Philadelphia. First Presbyterian Church |
| Published | Philadelphia: Press of H. B. Ashmead, 1898 |
| Title | Memorial Day oration : delivered at the Grand Opera House, San Francisco : Wednesday evening, May 30, 1888 / by Charles A. Sumner. |
| Author | Sumner, Charles Allen |
| Published | San Francisco : James H. Barry, Printer, 1888 |
| Title | Memorial day oration, May 30, 1913, delivered by James Shera Montgomery ... at Arlington Cemetery, Va. Printed by the Department of the Potomac, G.A.R. |
| Author | Montgomery, James Shera |
| Published | DC: G.R. Gray, printer, 1913 |
| Title | Memorial Day: oration of Gen'l J. Warren Keifer, of Ohio: at Arlington National Cemetery: May 30th 1879 |
| Author | Keifer, Joseph Warren |
| Published | DC: Gibson Brothers, Printers, 1879 |
| Title | Memorial Day oration of William H. Lambert, at the National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., May 30th 1883 |
| Author | Lambert, William Harrison |
| Published | Philadelphia: Grant, Faires & Rogers, printers, 1883. |
| Title | Memorial Day: Poems |
| Author | Ratti, John |
| Published | NY: Viking Press, 1974 |
| Title | Memorial lessons. A sermon preached at King's chapel, Boston, on Sunday, May 29th, 1870, with a list of the sons of the church who entered the service of the country. By Henry W. Foote ... |
| Author | Foote, Henry Wilder |
| Published | Boston, Barker, Cotter & co., printers, 1870 |
| Title | Memorial sermon preached by invitation before the Department of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic ... By Rev. Frank M. Bristol ... at Metropolitan M.E. Church, Washington, D.C., Sunday evening, May 26, 1901. |
| Author | Bristol, Frank Milton |
| Published | DC: Dept. of the Potomac, G.A.R., 1901 |
| Title | The ministry of war : a discourse spoken in the Unitarian Church of Keokuk, Iowa to the Grand Army Post : on Decoration Day, 1887 |
| Author | Gunning, W. D. |
| Published | Keokuk, Iowa?, 1887? |
| Title | The more excellent sacrifice; memorial-day sermons, by Rev. John W. Sayers. |
| Author | Sayers, John W. |
| Published | Cincinnati, Jennings and Graham; New York, Eaton and Mains, [c1905] |
| Title | The nation they died to save : an address delivered by Eugene G. Hay at Summit, N.J., May 30th, 1912 / Under the form of government created by the Constitution and the existing machinery for its administration, the people can control. |
| Author | Hay, Eugene Gano |
| Published | N.J: N.P. 1912 |
| Title | The Old South: Addresses delivered before the Confederate Survivor's Association in Augusta, Georgia on the occasion of its ninth annual reunion of Memorial Day, April 26, 1887 |
| Author | Gordon, John Brown |
| Published | Augusta: Chronicle Pub Co., 1887. |
| Title | Oration by his honor Albert Palmer, mayor of Boston, delivered before the Suffolk County Association of the Grand Army of the Republic : in Faneuil Hall on Decoration Day, May 30, 1883. |
| Author | Palmer, Albert |
| Published | Boston : Rockwell & Churchill, 1883 |
| Title | Oration delivered at Chalmette National Cemetary, New Orleans, May 30th, 1877 |
| Author | |
| Published | New Orleans: By The Grand Army of The Republic, Geo. Ellis & Bro., Printers and Stationers, no. 82 Camp Street, 1877. |
| Title | Oration of General John A. Logan ... delivered upon the occasion of the decoration of Union soldiers' graves, at the National Cemetary, Arlington, Va., on Memorial Day, May 30, 1870. |
| Author | Logan, John Alexander |
| Published | Washington, Office of the Grand Army Journal, 1870. |
| Title | Oration of Hon. James A Garfield: delivered at Arlington, VA, May 30, 1868, on the occasion of strewing flowers on the graves of Union soldiers. |
| Author | Garfield, James Abram |
| Published | Cleveland: Fairbanks, Benedict & Co, 1868. |
| Title | Oration of Hon. Theodore S. Wilkinson, delivered at the celebration of Decoration Day, under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of the Gulf, at Chalmette Cemetery, near New Orleans, La., on May 31, 1887 |
| Author | Wilkinson, Theodore Stark |
| Published | New Orleans: NP, 1887 |
| Title | Our Holidays in Poetry |
| Author | Harrington, Mildred Priscilla |
| Published | NY: The H. W. Wilson company, 1935 |
| Title | Our soldier-dead. An address on Decoration Day, Northville, May 30th, 1884, by George Duffield. |
| Author | Duffield, George |
| Published | Detroit? 1884? |
| Title | Plays for our American Holidays... |
| Author | Schauffler, Robert Haven |
| Published | NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928 |
| Title | The proceedings on the evening of Decoration Day, May 30th, 1877, at the Academy of Music, city of Brooklyn, N.Y. |
| Author | |
| Published | Brooklyn: Eagle Job and Book Printing, 1877 |
| Title | Ricordando gli eroi! Discorso per la ricorrenza del "Decoration day" tenuto addì 30 maggio 1917 sotto gli auspicii de Rev. Metello Galanti nella chiesa di S. Antonio di Padova in Tory, N. Y. |
| Author | Palmieri, Aurelio |
| Published | Troy, Italian printing, 1917 |
| Title | The stars and stripes: a manual of information concerning our nation flag, its origin, history, development through many original designs into our present beloved stars and stripe: and a supplemnet containing a brief history of the G.A.R. and of Memorial day |
| Author | Cowgill, Joseph Ewing |
| Published | Davenport: NP, 1926 |
| Title | To aid the veteran organizations of the District of Columbia in their joint Memorial Day services at Arlington National Cemetery and other cemeteries on and preceding May 30. Hearings before subcommittee no. 2 of the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, Second session, on H. R. 10388. February 28, 1936. |
| Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs. |
| Published | Washington: U.S. Govt. print. off., 1936. |
| Title | The Union: a plea for reconciliation, being an address by Hon. Roger A. Pryor, delivered in the Academy of music, Brooklyn, N.Y. on Decoration day, May 30th, 1877. |
| Author | Pryor, Roger Atkinson |
| Published | Brooklyn: Eagle job and book printing department, 1877. |
| Title | Decoration day : second movement of A symphony, New England holidays |
| Composer | Ives, Charles |
| Published | NY : Peer International, 1989 |
| Title | Commemoration folio : music for victory day, Armistice day, Memorial day, Thanksgiving day |
| Composer | Hennefield, Norman |
| Published | NY: The Liturgical Music Press, Inc., 1944 |
| Title | Decision now! Program 69, Memorial Day. In memoriam |
| Composer | |
| Published | NY: NBC Radio-Recording Division, 1948. |
| Title | Vision of War: Memorial Day speech / R.G. Ingersoll [ sound recording ] |
| Author | Ingersoll, Robert Green |
| Published | Camden, N.J.: Victor, 1917 |