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Confederate Memorial Day (called Confederate Heroes Day in Texas and Florida, and Confederate Decoration Day in Tennessee) is a holiday observed in several Southern U.S. states on various dates since the end of the American Civil War.
Apr 23, 2018 · Bust out your Civil War bugles and start whistling Dixie, because it’s Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama. The official state holiday is one of three Alabama celebrates related to the...
- Molly Olmstead
May 24, 2013 · In the midst of the nation's observation of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, battle anniversaries and encampments of Union and Confederate reenactors are reminders of the Civil War's long legs in American society. One of the lesser-known legacies of the Civil War, however, is Memorial Day.
Apr 23, 2018 · Now, 157 years after the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter — marking the beginning of the Civil War — Americans still debate its causes. But the underlying reasoning for the secession of ...
May 26, 2019 · The contested Confederate roots of Memorial Day. More than two dozen U.S. cities claim to the be the “birthplace of Memorial Day." Members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at the ...
Apr 24, 2017 · Confederate Memorial Day remembers those who died during the Civil War as part of the Confederacy, where slavery played an important role. Here's a look at the day and...
Apr 24, 2017 · E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, quickly became the single most iconic event in Lost Cause cultism, it was also registered in national memory as a day of joyous northern triumph...
