• Boy Scout volunteers placing flags in the Andersonville National Cemetery for Memorial Day

    Andersonville

    National Historic Site Georgia

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American flags in front of white headstones

The earliest commemorative service in the National Cemetery was held on Emancipation Day, January 1, 1869. Teachers and students of the Freedman's school, along with the Rev. Dr. Hamilton Pierson held memorial services and superintended the decoration of the the National Cemetery.