Decoration Day - Law Dictionary Search Results
Decoration Day
a day May 30 originally appointed for decorating with flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors who fell in the Civil War in the United States now called Memorial Day and established as the last Monday in May and designated as a day for commemorating those who died in all wars of the United States...
Memorial Day
A day originally May 30 appointed for commemorating by decorating their graves with flowers by patriotic exercises etc the dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War 1861 65 in the United States Also called Decoration Day It is a legal holiday in most of the States In the Southern States the Confederate Memorial Day is May 30 in Virginia April 26 in Alabama Florida Georgia and Mississippi May 10 in North Carolina and South Carolina the second Friday in May in Tennessee June 3 in Louisiana...
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