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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.
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The Day Soldiers Honored Fallen Comrades
REMEMBERDecoration 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 | Published May 30, 2016
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