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One of the First Memorial Days held was in Columbus, Miss., April 25, 1866, when a group of women visited a cemetery to decorate the graves of Confederate soldiers who had fallen in battle at Shiloh, there are some folks in Georgia who claim it started with them as early as 1865. Confederate Memorial Day. a day set aside in the South to pay tribute to those who served with the Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The founder of the Federal Memorial Day, Gen. John A. Logan (Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic), was so impressed with the way the South honored their dead with a special day, he became convinced that such a day must be created to honor Union dead. The battlefield graves all around Richmond could be seen "marked with little white flags, faded wreaths of laurel" where family and friends of Confederate soldiers had placed them. Logan is reported to have been "deeply touched" and said "it was most fittting; that the ancients, especially the Greeks, had honored their dead, particularly their heroes, by chaplets of laurel and flowers, and that he intended to issue an order designating a day for decorating the grave of every soldier in this land, and if he could he would have made it a holiday." This of course was done at a later date, thus our National Memorial Day.

The Confederate Memorial Day is observed on;
April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi
May 10 in North Carolina and South Carolina
May 30 in Virginia
June 3 in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee.
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