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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

By NATIONAL ARCHIVES, U.S. GOVERNMENT

May 25, 2020

Memorial Day, initially referred to as Decoration Day, was observed by many communities after the Civil War, when the nation suffered more than 620,000 military deaths, roughly 2 percent of the total population at the time.

John A. Logan, the Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of Republic, chose May 30, 1868, as a day to decorate the graves of Union troops across the nation.   From this ...

Memorial Day, initially referred to as Decoration Day, was observed by many communities after the ...

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