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Decoration Day Speech by Gen. James A. Garfield (1868)

Published on May 25, 2025 By sirrahc

Some of you may remember that several years ago I put together “A Brief History of Memorial Day”. In that post, I discussed the calling for a national day “for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and […]