பிரான்சிஸ் மைல்கள் பிஞ்ச் News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Stay updated with breaking news from பிரான்சிஸ் மைல்கள் பிஞ்ச். Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.

Top News In பிரான்சிஸ் மைல்கள் பிஞ்ச் Today - Breaking & Trending Today

The forgotten history of Memorial Day

Preparing to decorate graves, May 1899 Library of CongressIn the years following the bitter Civil War, a former Union general took a holiday originated by former Confederates and helped spread it across the entire country. The holiday was Memorial Day, an annual commemoration was born in the former Confederate States in 1866 and adopted by the United States in 1868. It is a holiday in which the nation honors its military dead. Gen. John A. Logan, who headed the largest Union veterans’ fraternity at that time, the Grand Army of the Republic, is usually credited as being the originator of the holiday. Yet when General Logan established the holiday, he acknowledged its genesis among the Union’s former enemies, saying, “It was not too late for the Union men of the nation to follow the example of the people of the South.” I’m a scholar who has written – with co-author Daniel Bellware – a history of Memorial Day. Cities and towns across Americ ....

United States , New York , Daniel Bellware , Abraham Lincoln , Gray Finch , Johna Logan , Francis Miles Finch , Army Of The Republic , Civil War , Memorial Day , Confederate States , Grand Army , General Logan , Cleveland Daily Leader , New York Commercial Advertiser , Philadelphia Evening Telegraph , Colonel Leaming , New Hampshire Patriot , Johna Logan , Francis Miles Finch , Confederate States , Library Of Congress , Union Veterans , Memorial Day , Former Confederates , The Holiday ,