Confederate Veterans
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Display Name:
Confederate Veterans
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Unnamed Confederate Veterans
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
MultiClass Group
Rank:
Peripheral
Vitality:
Alive
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Biography:
The "veterans in the neat brushed hand-ironed gray and the spurious bronze medals that never meant anything to begin with" whom Shreve imagines are decked out for a "Decoration Day" ceremony "fifty years" after Bon's June visit to Sutpen's Hundred (262). "Decoration Day" is better known as "Confederate Memorial Day," out of which the U.S. Memorial Day holiday eventually came. It was first observed soon after the Civil War ended, and in fact is still unofficially observed in some places in the South - in April, however, not "June" (262).
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Individual or Group:
Group
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