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- Normand R. Bussiere of Lewiston places a flag next to a headstone at Riverside Cemetery on the banks of the Androscoggin River in Lewiston on Friday afternoon. He and several other members of the Gen. George Armstrong Custer Post 7, Grand Army of the Republic Association, conducted services as ordered by Gen. John A. Logan, commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, setting May 30 as Decoration Day in 1866. The day is to remember all who lost their lives in the Civil War. The service was held at the memorial stone of Stephen L.T. Mariner, who died Dec. 1, 1864, as a prisoner of war in the Confederate prison in Salisbury, N.C., where he is buried.
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- Members of the Gen. George Armstrong Custer Post 7, Grand Army of the Republic Association of Lewiston, conduct Decoration Day services at Riverside Cemetery on the banks of the Androscoggin River in Lewiston on Friday. Decoration Day was established 1866 to remember all who lost their lives in the Civil War.
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- Members of the Gen. George Armstrong Custer Post 7, Grand Army of the Republic Association of Lewiston, conduct Decoration Day services at Riverside Cemetery on the banks of the Androscoggin River in Lewiston on Friday. Decoration Day was established 1866 to remember all who lost their lives in the Civil War.
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