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Confederate History Month is a month designated by seven state governments in the Southern United States for the purpose of recognizing and honoring the Confederate States of America. April has traditionally been chosen, as Confederate Memorial Day falls during that month in many of these states. The designation of a month as Confederate ...
In Georgia, the fourth Monday in April was formerly celebrated as Confederate Memorial Day, but beginning in 2016, in response to the Charleston church shooting, the names of Confederate Memorial Day and Robert E. Lee's Birthday were struck from the state calendar and the statutory holidays were designated simply as "state holidays". [37]
The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway [1] republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 5, 1865. [8]
South Carolina is one of five states in the nation to recognize Confederate Memorial Day as a holiday. Confederate Memorial Day is in May. Here's what to know about the controversial 'holiday.'
Confederate Memorial Day is observed to remember Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. There are several southern states that observe the holiday including Alabama, Florida, Georgia ...
Caroline McGavock was in failing health the last eighteen months of her life. She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George L. Cowan, on the Lewisburg Pike, [3] near Franklin, Tennessee, on February 22, 1905, age 76. She was buried in the family burying ground at Carnton, near the graves of the Confederate dead. [1]
Confederate Memorial Day was started in Georgia in April 1866 to commemorate the deaths of Confederate soldiers on the first anniversary of the day that Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnson surrendered ...
The Cross of Honor is in the form of a cross pattée suspended from a metal bar with space for engraving. It has no cloth ribbon. The obverse displays the Confederate battle flag placed on the center thereof surrounded by a wreath, with the inscription UNITED DAUGHTERS [of the] CONFEDERACY TO THE U. C. V. (the UCV is the United Confederate Veterans) on the four arms of the cross.