Independence Day

The following item appeared in the Richmond Dispatch on July 4, 1886:

Yesterday at Defuniak Springs, Fla., Independence-day was celebrated with the grandest ceremonies and largest crowd ever assembled in Florida. The gray and blue mingled in doing honor to the day.

[Contributed by Robert Daniel]

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