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The First Official Memorial Day

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John A. Logan

Civil War Commander in Chief John A. Logan declared the first official Memorial Day in 1868

CREDIT: Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington, D.C.), photographer. "Portrait of Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, Officer of the Federal Army." Between 1860 and 1865. Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress.



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