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298: 676: 563:. Boalsburg promotes itself as the birthplace of Memorial Day. However, no published reference to this event has been found earlier than the printing of the History of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers in 1904. In a footnote to a story about her brother, Mrs. Sophie (Keller) Hall described how she and Emma Hunter decorated the grave of Emma's father, Reuben Hunter, and then the graves of all soldiers in the cemetery. The original story did not account for Reuben Hunter's death occurring two months later on September 19, 1864. It also did not mention Mrs. Elizabeth Myers as one of the original participants. A bronze statue of all three women gazing upon Reuben Hunter's grave now stands near the entrance to the Boalsburg Cemetery. Although July 4, 1864, was a Monday, the town now claims that the original decoration was on one of the Sundays in October 1864. 852: 709: 907: 613: 926:"—one with no association with any religious denomination or viewpoint—that has incorporated Memorial Day as a sacred event. With the Civil War, a new theme of death, sacrifice, and rebirth enters the civil religion. Memorial Day gave ritual expression to these themes, integrating the local community into a sense of nationalism. The American civil religion, in contrast to that of France, was never anticlerical or militantly secular; in contrast to Britain, it was not tied to a specific denomination, such as the 753: 45: 514:, "Southern women decorated the graves of soldiers even before the Civil War’s end. Records show that by 1865, Mississippi, Virginia, and South Carolina all had precedents for Memorial Day." The earliest Southern Memorial Day celebrations were simple, somber occasions for veterans and their families to honor the dead and tend to local cemeteries. In following years, the Ladies' Memorial Association and other groups increasingly focused rituals on preserving Confederate culture and the 4268: 604:. With his proclamation, Logan adopted the Memorial Day practice that had begun in the Southern states two years earlier. The northern states quickly adopted the holiday. In 1868, memorial events were held in 183 cemeteries in 27 states, and 336 in 1869. One author claims that the date was chosen because it was not the anniversary of any particular battle. Logan's wife noted that the date was chosen because it was the optimal date for flowers to be in bloom in the North. 527: 1443: 788: 269: 367:, the recently freed Black population held a parade of 10,000 people to honor 257 dead Union soldiers. The soldiers had been buried in a mass grave at the Washington Race Course, having died at the Confederate prison camp located there. After the city fell, the freed Black population unearthed and properly buried the soldiers, placing flowers at their graves. The event was reported contemporaneously in the 1429: 2961: 668:, commemorations were extensive. The more than 600,000 soldiers of both sides who fought and died in the Civil War meant that burial and memorialization took on new cultural significance. Under the leadership of women during the war, an increasingly formal practice of decorating graves had taken shape. In 1865, the federal government also began creating the 656:, as the holder of the title. This action followed House Concurrent Resolution 587, in which the 89th Congress had officially recognized that the patriotic tradition of observing Memorial Day had begun one hundred years prior in Waterloo, New York. The legitimacy of this claim has been called into question by several scholars. 398:. . . e can keep alive the memory of debt we owe them by dedicating at least one day in the year, by embellishing their humble graves with flowers, therefore we beg the assistance of the press and the ladies throughout the South to help us in the effort to set apart a certain day to be observed, from the 279:
A variety of cities and people have claimed origination of Memorial Day. In some such cases, the claims relate to documented events, occurring before or after the Civil War. Others may stem from general traditions of decorating soldiers' graves with flowers, rather than specific events leading to the
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While these customs may have inspired in part rituals to honor military dead like Memorial Day, numerous differences exist between Decoration Day customs and Memorial Day, including that the date is set differently by each family or church for each cemetery to coordinate the maintenance, social, and
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Memorial Day speeches became an occasion for veterans, politicians, and ministers to commemorate the Civil War and, at first, to rehash the "atrocities" of the enemy. They mixed religion and celebratory nationalism, allowing Americans to make sense of their history in terms of sacrifice for a better
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By the 20th century, various Union memorial traditions, celebrated on different days, merged, and Memorial Day eventually extended to honor all Americans who fought and died while in the U.S. military service. Indiana from the 1860s to the 1920s saw numerous debates on how to expand the celebration.
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According to scholars Alan and Karen Jabbour, "the geographic spread ... from the Smokies to northeastern Texas and Liberia, offer strong evidence that the southern Decoration Day originated well back in the nineteenth century. The presence of the same cultural tradition throughout the Upland South
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to decorate the graves of the Confederate soldiers. They also felt moved to honor the Union soldiers buried there, and to note the grief of their families, by decorating their graves as well. The story of their gesture of humanity and reconciliation is held by some writers as the inspiration of the
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played a key role in using Memorial Day rituals to preserve Confederate culture. Various dates ranging from April 25 to mid-June were adopted in different Southern states. Across the South, associations were founded, many by women, to establish and care for permanent cemeteries for the Confederate
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on the day itself, the post assembled and marched to the local cemetery to decorate the graves of the fallen, an enterprise meticulously organized months in advance to assure that none were missed. Finally came a simple and subdued graveyard service involving prayers, short patriotic speeches, and
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The holiday was observed in Atlanta, Augusta, Macon, Columbus and elsewhere in Georgia as well as Montgomery, Alabama; Memphis, Tennessee; Louisville, Kentucky; New Orleans, Louisiana; Jackson, Mississippi, and across the South. In some cities, mostly in Virginia, other dates in May and June were
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In 1913, an Indiana veteran complained that younger people born since the war had a "tendency ... to forget the purpose of Memorial Day and make it a day for games, races, and revelry, instead of a day of memory and tears". In 1911 the scheduling of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway car race, later
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In 1868, some Southern public figures began adding the label "Confederate" to their commemorations and claimed that Northerners had appropriated the holiday. The first official celebration of Confederate Memorial Day as a public holiday occurred in 1874, following a proclamation by the Georgia
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of predominantly Christian cultures in 19th century Southern Appalachia with pre-Christian influences from Scotland, Ireland, and African cultures. Appalachian and Liberian cemetery decoration traditions are thought to have more in common with one another than with United States Memorial Day
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gave the main address. Heflin was a noted orator; his choice as Memorial Day speaker was criticized, as he was opposed for his support of segregation; however, his speech was moderate in tone and stressed national unity and goodwill, gaining him praise from newspapers.
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By the 1880s, ceremonies were becoming more consistent across geography as the GAR provided handbooks that presented specific procedures, poems, and Bible verses for local post commanders to utilize in planning the local event. Historian Stuart McConnell reports:
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After the Civil War, search and recovery teams visited hundreds of battlefields, churchyards, plantations and other locations seeking wartime interments that were made in haste. By 1870, the remains of nearly 300,000 Civil War dead were reinterred in 73 national
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are a tradition which arose by the 19th century. Decoration practices are localized and unique to individual families, cemeteries, and communities, but common elements that unify the various Decoration Day practices are thought to represent
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to the press on March 11, 1866 asking for assistance in establishing an annual holiday to decorate the graves of soldiers throughout the South. The letter was reprinted in several southern states and the plans were noted in newspapers in
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decorated the graves of Confederate and Union soldiers according to her account. The first reference to this event however did not appear until many years later. Mention of the observance is inscribed on the southeast panel of the
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turned it into a day of remembrance for all members of the U.S. military who fought and died in service. In 1971, Congress standardized the holiday as "Memorial Day" and changed its observance to the last Monday in May.
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they saved from dishonor; let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us as a sacred charge upon a Nation's gratitude—the soldiers' and sailors' widow and orphan.
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In 1873, New York made Decoration Day an official state holiday and by 1890, every northern state had followed suit. There was no standard program for the ceremonies, but they were typically sponsored by the
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Changing the date merely to create three-day weekends has undermined the very meaning of the day. No doubt, this has contributed a lot to the general public's nonchalant observance of Memorial Day.
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and be handed down through time as a religious custom of the country, to wreathe the graves of our martyred dead with flowers. . . Let the soldiers’ graves, for that day at least, be the Southern
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argues for the age of the tradition, which was carried westward (and eastward to Africa) by nineteenth-century migration and has survived in essentially the same form till the present."
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was the founder of Memorial Day. However, Chicago journalist Lloyd Lewis tried to make the case that it was Lincoln's funeral that spurred the soldiers' grave decorating that followed.
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attended a YWCA Overseas War Secretaries' conference three years later wearing a silk poppy pinned to her coat and distributed over two dozen more to others present. The
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dead, organize commemorative ceremonies, and sponsor appropriate monuments as a permanent way of remembering the Confederate dead. The most important of these was the
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traditions which are focused on honoring the military dead. Appalachian and Liberian cemetery decoration traditions pre-date the United States Memorial Day holiday.
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In the national capital in 1913 the four-day "Blue-Gray Reunion" featured parades, re-enactments, and speeches from a host of dignitaries, including President
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Sacco, Nicholas W. (2015). "The Grand Army of the Republic, the Indianapolis 500, and the Struggle for Memorial Day in Indiana, 1868–1923".
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Official recognition as a holiday spread among the states, beginning with New York in 1873. By 1890, every Union state had adopted it. The
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Professor Blight closes his lecture with a description of the first Memorial Day, celebrated by African Americans in Charleston, SC 1865.
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Memorial Day: Its Celebration, Spirit, and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse, with a Non-sectional Anthology of the Civil War
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It is a day for visiting cemeteries and memorials to mourn the military personnel who died in the line of duty. Volunteers will place
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has called this commemoration the first Memorial Day. However, no direct link has been established between this event and General
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issued a proclamation calling for "Decoration Day" to be observed annually and nationwide; he was commander-in-chief of the
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Becoming American under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship during the Civil War Era
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Blight, David W. "Decoration Day: The Origins of Memorial Day in North and South" in Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh, eds.
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Memorial Day endures as a holiday which most businesses observe because it marks the unofficial beginning of summer. (
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The name "Memorial Day", which was first attested in 1882, gradually became more common than "Decoration Day" after
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Since 1867, Brooklyn, New York, has held an annual Memorial Day parade which it claims to be the nation's oldest.
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nation. People of all religious beliefs joined, made that German and Irish soldiers â€“ ethnic minorities that
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position, where it remains only until noon. It is then raised to full-staff for the remainder of the day. The
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with originating the "idea of strewing the graves of Civil War soldiers—Union and Confederate" with flowers.
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David Blight, cited by Campbell Robertson, "Birthplace of Memorial Day? That Depends Where You're From",
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but was not declared the official name by federal law until 1967. On June 28, 1968, Congress passed the
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observed. General John Logan commented on the observances in a speech to veterans on July 4, 1866, in
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designated an "official" birthplace of the holiday by signing the presidential proclamation naming
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in 1906. This decoration was for the funeral of the first soldier killed during the Civil War,
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of Philadelphia urged the decoration of patriot's graves. E.J., "The Soldier's Grave", in
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on November 11, which honors all those who have served in the United States Armed Forces.
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national proclamation. Soldiers' graves were decorated in the U.S. before and during the
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in Jackson, erected in 1891. Vaughan's account is contradicted by contemporary sources.
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to observe May 30, 1868, the earlier version of the holiday began to be referred to as
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The first national observance of Memorial Day occurred on May 30, 1868. Then known as
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On July 4, 1864, ladies decorated soldiers' graves according to local historians in
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Two other days celebrate those who have served or are serving in the U.S. military:
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for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the
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argues, the theme of American nationalism shared equal time with the Confederate.
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have also had an ongoing parade since 1868. However, the Memorial Day parade in
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towns are often marked by dedications and remarks by veterans and politicians.
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is raised briskly to the top of the staff and then solemnly lowered to the
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legislature. By 1916, ten states celebrated it, on June 3, the birthday of
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Act, asking people to stop and remember at 3:00 pm. On Memorial Day, the
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and observed on May 30, the holiday was proclaimed by Commander in Chief
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of May. Memorial Day is also considered the unofficial beginning of
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depicting Civil War veterans parading during Decoration Day, 1896
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adopted in 1920 the poppy as its official symbol of remembrance.
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and local officials wanted the big race to continue, so Governor
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soldier's grave to be decorated, according to an article in the
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Index

Memorial Day (disambiguation)
Decoration Day (disambiguation)

Arlington National Cemetery
Federal
U.S. military
Decoration of military graves
American flags
federal holidays in the United States
United States Armed Forces
the last Monday
summer
American flags
national cemeteries
John A. Logan
Grand Army of the Republic
Union
American Civil War
National Cemetery Administration
Department of Veterans Affairs
Mary Ann Williams
world wars
Armed Forces Day
Veterans Day

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
American Civil War

Richmond, Virginia
Hollywood Cemetery

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