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Walt Whitman, John Burroughs, and J. P. Irvine signify a small number of the thousands of government clerks who proved helpful in Washington, DC, after the Civil War. But Irvine, a small-town poet from the Illinois prairies, was the main one selected to address President Ulysses S. Grant and a audience of 10,000 on Memorial Day, 1873. Those words were lost along with the legacy of the man. Until now.
