Show Memorial 1959 While the South was fighting to free itself from the planting- the beginnings of one of its women were the most reverent national holidays of the U. S. Memorial The nation was still torn by the Civil War when Southern women began to honor the dead from both shies of the Mason-Dixon by scattering on their According to research experts with The World the women of decorated the of Union and Confederate soldiers in Two years later Sue Landon a descendant of John second president of the United led some women in strewing flowers at a military cemetery in As the custom General John A. commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the was persuaded to set a uniform date on which to honor the Union In Logan issued a general order to all Grand Army setting aside May the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their The first celebration In the North the Union armies for their victory over tho But the theme of victor and vanquished gradually As the U. S. passed through the Spanish-American the World Wars and the Memorial Day became a tribute to the nation and to all those who have died for |