Decoration/Memorial Day

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(05-25-2019 06:00 PM)JMadonna Wrote:  sssh, don't let it be known that the South started the Decoration Day, it would probably be condemned as racist.

Jerry - As you may or may not know, Surratt House now maintains a Facebook page on its website. This week, I was asked to write a short blurb about Mary Surratt's "other" son, Isaac Douglas, who fought in the Civil War, as a lead-in to our participating in the Blue Star Program from Memorial Day through Labor Day (free admission to active military and up to five dependents with current ID and free admission to regular retired veterans with ID). I was very careful not to mention that Isaac fought for the Confederacy; I only said that he went west and joined a Texas cavalry unit known as Duff's Rebel Rangers.