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Confederate Memorial Day of Southern memories
Canada Free Press ^ | April 22, 2014 | Calvin E. Johnson, Jr.

Posted on 04/22/2014 4:17:42 PM PDT by BigReb555

Memorial Day in America was first held in the South in honor of both the soldiers of Confederate gray and Union blue.

(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: confederate; dixie; southern
Sir Winston Churchill once said:

“The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.”

You ain’t just whistling Dixie!

Memorial Day in America was first held in the South in honor of both the soldiers of Confederate gray and Union blue.

Some folks call the War Between the States, 1861-1865, a lost cause but stories of the heroic—brave men and women who stood for Southern Independence are still cherished in the hearts and souls of many people throughout the South.

Saturday, April 26th is Confederate Memorial Day in Georgia and other states.

The only surviving copy of the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States of America — a part of the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library collections — will be displayed a day earlier on Friday April 25 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries at the University of Georgia, 300 S. Hull Street, Athens, Georgia. Read more at:

http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=8612

Confederate Memorial Day has been a legal holiday in Georgia since 1874 by an act of the Georgia General Assembly and bill signed by then Governor James Smith, who also served as Confederate Colonel, Lawyer and Congressman.

Some say one of the first Confederate Memorial Days took place in Columbus, Mississippi on April 25, 1866. Today, it is held on April 26th in some states and May and June in others. For over 100 years the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Ladies Memorial Association have kept the memory of the Confederate soldier eternal.

Southern newspapers once reported Confederate soldiers marching in Confederate Memorial Day parades and sounding off with a husky Rebel Yell of "Yip, yip, yip" that turned the tides of many battles.

There was a time when businesses and schools closed in observance of Confederate Memorial Day. It was a day when many thousands of people would congregate at the Confederate cemetery for the day's events that included: a parade, memorial speeches, military salute and children laying flowers on the soldiers' graves. The band played "Dixie" and the soldier played taps.

Today, those of little knowledge about those men of gray attack the Confederate flag that was bravely carried in many battles...And they want the Confederate flag removed from the Confederate statue at the State Capitol in Columbia, South Carolina. When the soldiers of Blue and Gray walked the earth, few criticized these men. Did you know that Black Confederate soldiers are buried at a historic Black College for men in Atlanta, Georgia? April is Confederate History and Heritage Month. Read more on face book at: https://www.facebook.com/ConfederateHeritageMonth

1 posted on 04/22/2014 4:17:42 PM PDT by BigReb555
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To: BigReb555
All-American World War II hero General George S. Patton's grandfather was a Confederate Colonel in the WBTS.

George S. Patton, Senior (above)

2 posted on 04/22/2014 4:24:10 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: BigReb555; rockrr
Memorial Day in America was first held in the South in honor of both the soldiers of Confederate gray and Union blue.

Evidence? From the rest of what's written here it sounds like that is a baldfaced lie. Why call it "Confederate Memorial Day" if that's not what it was?

3 posted on 04/22/2014 4:25:06 PM PDT by x
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I agree. As far as I know we ain’t memorializing the Union on Confederal Memoral Day here in GA. Thats some Libtard wishful dreaming. :-)


4 posted on 04/22/2014 4:33:20 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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agree. As far as I know we ain’t memorializing the Union on Confederate Memoral Day here in GA. Thats some Libtard wishful dreaming. :-)


5 posted on 04/22/2014 4:34:23 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: BigReb555
Rare Footage of Civil War Veterans Doing the Rebel Yell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6jSqt39vFM
6 posted on 04/22/2014 4:43:36 PM PDT by HoneysuckleTN (Where the woodbine twineth... || FUB0! 0MG! AB0! || Palin 2016)
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To: BigReb555

Have a Confederate Day parade, give away free goodies and the descendents of slaves will line the streets.


7 posted on 04/22/2014 4:52:39 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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I prefer to use the term: “The War Of Northern Aggression”. I do believe that it fits like a glove. Then, as now.


8 posted on 04/22/2014 5:11:55 PM PDT by Howie66 ("Tone down the tagline please." - Admin Moderator)
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Don’t worry - any needed revisions can be made when he posts this as second time in a day or two...


9 posted on 04/22/2014 5:27:02 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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Evidence? From the rest of what's written here it sounds like that is a baldfaced lie. Why call it "Confederate Memorial Day" if that's not what it was?

The linked article is fairly clear on the progression of events.

10 posted on 04/22/2014 5:32:40 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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Today, those of little knowledge about those men of gray attack the Confederate flag that was bravely carried in many battles...And they want the Confederate flag removed from the Confederate statue at the State Capitol in Columbia, South Carolina

Memorial Day is not and should not be about division. It is about reconciliation - it's about coming together to honor those who gave their all.

11 posted on 04/22/2014 6:19:33 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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The linked article is fairly clear on the progression of events.

I don't see anything in the article proving that Confederate Memorial Day commemorated Union, as well as Confederate, soldiers. Do you? That's the lie in the article:

Memorial Day in America was first held as “Decorations Day” in the South in honor of both the soldiers of Confederate gray and Union blue.

I did find out elsewhere that an early memorial celebration was held by Charleston African-Americans in commemoration of the Union dead, but I've yet to see anywhere that Confederate Memorial Day involved tributes to the Union, as well as the Confederate dead or that celebrations of a Confederate Decoration Day had anything to do with the graves of the Union dead.

12 posted on 04/23/2014 1:42:47 PM PDT by x
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I don't see anything in the article proving that Confederate Memorial Day commemorated Union, as well as Confederate, soldiers. Do you? That's the lie in the article

I only skimmed the article, but it seemed to start out referring to Decoration Day / Memorial Day (when the graves of both blue and gray were tended to), then shifted to discussing the later Confederate-only memorial date. I concede that the beginning of the piece doesn't mesh well with the article title.

13 posted on 04/23/2014 2:42:51 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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