HISTORY OF THE FIRST DECORATION DAY.....
The war was over, and Decoration Day had been founded by African Americans in a ritual of remembrance and consecration. A New York Tribune correspondent witnessed the event, describing “a procession of friends and mourners as South Carolina and the United States never saw before.”
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