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English
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“This Splendid Outpouring of Welcome” : Salt Lake City and the 1909 National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic
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Civil War Saints
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Provo, UT
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Religious Studies Center
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341–63
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"Thirty-eight men and seven women left Salt Lake City in August 1908 with a mission : to capture an army and bring it back to Utah. Their targets were the quarter million members of the Grand Army of the Republic, meeting in national encampment at Toledo, Ohio, and their mission was to convince that army to hold its 1909 convention in Salt Lake City. The ranks of that association of Union veterans of the Civil War were thinning by the passing of aged veterans, but the Grand Army was still a formidable political and social power. Its national encampments—1909 would be its forty-third such annual gathering—were prizes eagerly sought by cities that competed with promises of unsurpassed hospitality." [Author]