Brian Matthew Jordan

Brian Matthew Jordan, assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University, is the author of Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War (Liveright, 2015), a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History.

REMEMBER

The Day Soldiers Honored Fallen Comrades

Decoration Day, which later became Memorial Day, was created by ex-Civil War soldiers as a way to preserve and honor the memories of those who fought and died.

Brian Matthew Jordan