Anonymous ID: bc3f48 May 21, 2019, 8:45 p.m. No.6555634   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

Decoration Day

By proclamation of General John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic, the first major

Memorial Day observance is held to honor those who died โ€œin defense of their country during

the late rebellion.โ€ Known to some as โ€œDecoration Day,โ€ mourners honored the Civil War dead

by decorating their graves with flowers. On the first Decoration Day, General James Garfield

made a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, after which 5,000 participants helped to decorate

the graves of the more than 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers buried in the cemetery.

>https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/civil-war-dead-honored-on-decoration-day