REMEMBER
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, 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.
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.