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MEMORIAL DAY (or DECORATION DAY)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 106 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MEMORIAL DAY (or DECORATION DAY) , a holiday observed in the northern states of the United States on the 3oth of May, in honour of soldiers killed in the American Civil War, and especially for the decoration of their
graves
  with flags and
flowers
 . Before the close of the Civil War the 3oth of May was thus celebrated in several of the southern states; in the North there was no fixed day commonly celebrated until 1868, when (on the 5th of May)
Commander
 -in-
Chief
  John A. Logan, of the Grand Army of the Republic, issued a general order designating the 3oth of May 1868 " for the purpose of strewing with
flowers
  or otherwise decorating the graver of comrades who died in defense of their country during the
late
  rebellion "; Logan did this " with the
hope
  that it will be kept up from year to year." In 1882 the Grand Army urged that the " proper designation of May 30 is Memorial Day "not Decoration Day. Rhode Islandmade it a legal holiday in 1874,
Vermont
  in 1876, and New
Hampshire
  in 1877; and by 1910 it was a legal holiday in all the states and territories save
Alabama
 , Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and
Texas
 . In Virginia the 30th of May is observed as a Confederate Memorial Day. The 3rd of June (the birthday of Jefferson Davis) is observed as Confederate Memorial Day in Louisiana and Tennessee; the 26th of April in
Alabama
 , Florida, Georgia and Mississippi; and the loth of May in North Carolina and South Carolina.


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