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Memorial Day
While the South was figjhting to
its wo.Memo-
.Memofree itself from the Union, men were planting the beginnings of one of the most reverent national holidays of the U. Srial Day.
The nation was still torn by the Civil War when Southern women began to honor the dead from both sides of the Mason-Dixon line by scattering flowers on their graves.
According to research experts the women of Columbus, Miss., decorated the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers in 1863. Two years later, Mrs. Sue j Landou Vaughan, a descendant I of John Adams, second president of the U.S., led some women ini strewing flowers at a military cemetery in Vicksburg, Miss.
As the custom spread), General John A. Logan, comrhander-inchief of the Grand Army of the Republic, was persuaded! to set a uniform date on which i to honor the Union dead. In 1868, Logan issued a^Tgeneral order to all Grand Army posts; setting aside May 30 “for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country.” 1
The first celebrations in the North exalted the Union armies for their victory over the South. But the theme victor and vanquished gradually disappeared.
As the U. S. passed through the S p a ni sh-A merican War, the World Wars and the Korean War, Memorial Day became a tribute to the nation and to all those who have died for it.
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