On May 30, 1899, a group of students gathered daisies in a classroom decorated with American flags for Decoration Day. The flowers were meant to be placed on the graves of Civil War soldiers, a tradition that had taken root in communities across the country. By the late nineteenth century, schools played a role in marking the holiday, teaching children to remember the Union dead. More than thirty years after the war, its memory was still woven into everyday American life.
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