Memorial Day, there are many stories in their with real principles, concluded two dozen cities and towns laying claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day. There is also evidence that groups of ordained women in the South decorated graves before the end of the Civil War: a hymn published in 1867, “Kneel where our fans are Sleeping” by Nella L. Sweet carried the dedication “to the ladies of the South who are decorating the graves of the Confederate Dead”. While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of.
Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it is difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day. It is more likely to have many early separated. Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on May 5, 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in general order No. 11, and first observed on May 30, 1868, when flowers were placed in the graves of Union soldiers and Confederate in Arlington National Cemetery. The South refused to acknowledge the Memorial Day, honoring their dead on Separate days until after World War.
I. Memorial Day is now celebrated in almost every state on Monday in May, though several southern states have an extra day, separated to honor the Confederate war dead: January 19 in
Texas, on April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi, May 10 in South Carolina, and June 3 in Louisiana and Tennessee.
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