Chapter Twelve
CHAPTER TWELVE: Memorial Day Commemorations Additional Photos On Memorial Day, 1936, family members placed flowers at the grave of Herman Smith of the Thirty-first New York, a Civil War veteran who had died two years earlier. * * * For years, schoolchildren decorated Fredericksburg’s graves with flags on Memorial Day. In 1934, fourth-grade students […]
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EPILOGUE: Fredericksburg National Cemetery under the National Park Service Additional Photos An aerial view of Fredericksburg National Cemetery as it looked under the National Park Service in the mid-20th century. Note the sparsity of trees compared to earlier years. * * * The National Park Service constructed an interpretive station on the brow […]
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