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As the Northern and Southern boys
would not walk together in the proces-
sion, it was a nice point to settle which
should be lucky enough toget in. They
could not have a real battle to decide the
matter. It must be settled by arbitra-
tion. There was a committee of arrange-
ments for the parade, and it was mutually
agreed that the two leaders should lay
the matter before these persons. Each
leader was required to argue the case of
his party. Lee said that the Virginia
boys certainly should be given the place
in line because they were natives of that
community, and their fathers owned the
soil. But the Northerners contended
that Decoration Day was a national
holiday, that the Southerners would have
belonged to a separate government if
. they had had their way, that their buried
soldiers had fought against the Union,