![]() “Perhaps a thousand veterans kept step to the tones of their various drum corps and as the bands would play patriotic airs, cheers from the crowd would inspire the aged soldiers to quicken their step and not notice the beating sun pouring down on their gray locks,” the Lima Daily News wrote June 19, 1908. The encampment drew an estimated 25,000, including veterans as well as their families and friends from throughout Ohio, and culminated with a parade on June 18, 1908. ![]() The Lima chapter of the G.A.R., known as Mart Armstrong Post 202, was host of the event that year. ![]() Late that spring the men, veterans of the Union Army, most well into their 60s with their ranks thinned by time, gathered for the annual state encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.). LIMA - By 1908 the men newspapers called “the gallant boys in blue,” who had marched off to war full of youthful bravado in 1861, had grown gray.
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