Michelle Malkin mentioned during this interview that it was women from former Confederate states who decorated the graves of fallen confederate and federal soldiers. That got my attention as I do not remember ever having heard such a thing as one of the reasons for Memorial Day.
Lo and behold, I found this archived article (presumably published in 2019) from the U.S. Library of Congress where it says:
"When a women’s memorial association in Columbus, Mississippi, decorated the graves of both Confederate and Union soldiers on April 25, 1866, this act of generosity and reconciliation prompted an editorial piece, published by Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune, and a poem by Francis Miles Finch, “The Blue and the Grey,” published in the Atlantic Monthly. The practice of strewing flowers on soldiers’ graves soon became popular throughout the reunited nation."
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Recommendable! Malkin is a great journalist!
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