Our Views: ; Memorial Day; On a Day of Remembrance,; Thanks Are Given to the Past
Charleston Daily Mail › May 31, 2007
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MANY towns lay claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day, but history shows that Gen. John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, declared the first one.
And so on May 30, 1868, mourners placed flowers on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery, barely three years after the Civil War. Perhaps it was meant to help heal a nation that still needed federal troops in the Southern states to keep the peace.See the full content of this document
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Our Views: ; Memorial Day; On a Day of Remembrance,; Thanks Are Given to the Past
Five years later, New York became the first state to recognize Memorial Day. By 1890, all ...
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