[Pelham]

Memorial Day was originally Decorations Day. IIRC Mrs General Logan saw Southerners decorating the graves of their dead when she was on a train trip down into Virginia with her husband. Southerners had been doing so all during the war, the majority of the battles having been in the South.

She suggested to her husband that the same should be done for Union dead and that occurred soon after the war. Decorating graves of fallen soldiers is a very old practice. Someone toss a flower at Gettysburg for my Confederate ancestor who was killed there on the 2nd day.

[rockinqsranch]

Thanks for your post.

[Big Red Badger]

Gettysburg,