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PS: the #federal Parks Services has a page recognizing the South Carolina event as the first #MemorialDay, aka #DecorationDay

❝ …one of the earliest recorded observations of the holiday indisputably took place in Charleston, South Carolina, in the closing days of the Civil War… On May 1, 1865, the freed people of Charleston gathered at the old racetrack to decorate the graves of 257 Union prisoners of war who had been hastily buried by the retreating Confederate army.

https://www. nps.gov/articles/000/african-a merican-memorial-day.htm

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PS: the #federal Parks Services has a page recognizing the South Carolina event as the first #MemorialDay, aka #DecorationDay

❝ …one of the earliest recorded observations of the holiday indisputably took place in Charleston, South Carolina, in the closing days of the Civil War… On May 1, 1865, the freed people of Charleston gathered at the old racetrack to decorate the graves of 257 Union prisoners of war who had been hastily buried by the retreating Confederate army.

https://www. nps.gov/articles/000/african-a merican-memorial-day.htm