Before Memorial Day: For 50+ Years, 'Decoration Day' was Observed to Honor and Remember Civil War Dead

Before it became the national holiday we now know as Memorial Day, it was a day celebrated across the country for at least five decades as Decoration Day, a day to honor both the Union and Confederate dead from the Civil War. 

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