Post by Graveyardbride on Apr 22, 2018 10:22:57 GMT -5
Confederate Memorial Day 2018 
Events in remembrance of our Confederate dead will take place today and tomorrow in numerous counties and cities throughout Alabama, Florida and Georgia.
An observance will be held at 2 p.m. this afternoon at Resaca Confederate Cemetery in Resaca, Georgia, featuring keynote speaker Robert Jones. The event is sponsored by the Sons of Confederate Veterans and United Daughters of the Confederacy. Farther south, in Moultrie, Georgia, members of the Moultrie-McNeill Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy will hold the 115th annual Confederate Memorial Observance at 3 p.m. at the Confederate Monument on the Colquitt County Courthouse Square, where the list of the county’s casualties will be read.
The first Confederate Memorial Day service in Georgia was held April 26, 1866, under the auspices of the Ladies’ Memorial Association (the predecessor of the UDC) in Columbus, and in 1874, April 26 was declared Confederate Memorial Day. In Alabama and Georgia, state government offices will be closed Monday, April 23, in observance of Confederate Memorial Day.
Recently, Governor Kay Ivey of Alabama released a campaign ad supporting the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017, which protects monuments and symbols more than 40-years-old. “Our ad highlights a law that was passed by the legislature and signed by the governor to protect all of our historical monuments,” the governor said. “We can’t – and we shouldn’t – change, erase, or tear down our history. We should learn from all of it.”
Confederate Memorial Day is a public holiday, the purpose of which is to acknowledge and remember the approximately 260,000 soldiers, sailors and marines of the Confederate States of America who gave their lives in defense of their homeland. In Alabama, Florida and Georgia, it is celebrated on the fourth Monday in April. In Mississippi, the day is observed on the last Monday in April and in 2016, Governor Phil Bryant declared the entire month of April Confederate Heritage Month.
In North and South Carolina, the observance is usually observed on May 10. In Texas, Confederate Heroes Day is celebrated January 19, the birth date of General Robert E. Lee. Arkansas also observes Confederate Memorial Day in January. In Louisiana and Tennessee, Confederate Memorial Day is celebrated June 3, the birth date of President Jefferson Davis.
Sources: The Moultrie Gazette, April 17, 2018; The Calhoun Times, April 18, 2018; The Associated Press, April 21, 2018; United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Events in remembrance of our Confederate dead will take place today and tomorrow in numerous counties and cities throughout Alabama, Florida and Georgia.
An observance will be held at 2 p.m. this afternoon at Resaca Confederate Cemetery in Resaca, Georgia, featuring keynote speaker Robert Jones. The event is sponsored by the Sons of Confederate Veterans and United Daughters of the Confederacy. Farther south, in Moultrie, Georgia, members of the Moultrie-McNeill Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy will hold the 115th annual Confederate Memorial Observance at 3 p.m. at the Confederate Monument on the Colquitt County Courthouse Square, where the list of the county’s casualties will be read.
The first Confederate Memorial Day service in Georgia was held April 26, 1866, under the auspices of the Ladies’ Memorial Association (the predecessor of the UDC) in Columbus, and in 1874, April 26 was declared Confederate Memorial Day. In Alabama and Georgia, state government offices will be closed Monday, April 23, in observance of Confederate Memorial Day.
Recently, Governor Kay Ivey of Alabama released a campaign ad supporting the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017, which protects monuments and symbols more than 40-years-old. “Our ad highlights a law that was passed by the legislature and signed by the governor to protect all of our historical monuments,” the governor said. “We can’t – and we shouldn’t – change, erase, or tear down our history. We should learn from all of it.”
Confederate Memorial Day is a public holiday, the purpose of which is to acknowledge and remember the approximately 260,000 soldiers, sailors and marines of the Confederate States of America who gave their lives in defense of their homeland. In Alabama, Florida and Georgia, it is celebrated on the fourth Monday in April. In Mississippi, the day is observed on the last Monday in April and in 2016, Governor Phil Bryant declared the entire month of April Confederate Heritage Month.
In North and South Carolina, the observance is usually observed on May 10. In Texas, Confederate Heroes Day is celebrated January 19, the birth date of General Robert E. Lee. Arkansas also observes Confederate Memorial Day in January. In Louisiana and Tennessee, Confederate Memorial Day is celebrated June 3, the birth date of President Jefferson Davis.
Sources: The Moultrie Gazette, April 17, 2018; The Calhoun Times, April 18, 2018; The Associated Press, April 21, 2018; United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans.
