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Memorial Day was a response to the unprece- dented carnage of the Civil War, in which some 620,000 soldiers on both sides died. The loss of life and its effect on communi- ties throughout the country led to spontaneous com- memorations of the dead:
• In 1864, women from Boalsburg, Pa., put flowers on the graves of their dead from the just-fought Battle of Gettysburg. The next year, a group of women decorated the graves of sol- diers buried in a Vicksburg, Miss., cemetery.
• In April 1866, women from Columbus, Miss., laid flow- ers on the graves of both Union and Confederate sol- diers. In the same month, in Carbondale, Ill., 219 Civil War veterans marched through town in memory of the fallen to Woodlawn Cemetery, where Union hero Maj. Gen. John A. Logan delivered the princi- pal address. The ceremony gave Carbondale its claim to the first organized, com- munity-wide Memorial Day observance.
• Waterloo, N.Y. began holding an annual commu- nity service on May 5, 1866. Although many towns claimed the title, it was Waterloo that won congres- sional recognition as the "birthplace of Memorial Day."
Gen. Logan, the speaker at the Carbondale gathering, also was commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans. On May 5, 1868, he issued General Orders No. 11, which set aside May 30, 1868 "for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise deco- rating the graves of com- rades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion."
The orders expressed hope that the observance would be "kept up from year to year while a survivor of the war remains to honor the memory of his departed comrades."
The holiday was long known as Decoration Day for the practice of decorat- ing graves with flowers, wreaths, and flags. The name Memorial Day goes back to 1882, but the older name didn't disappear until after World War II. Federal law declared "Memorial Day" the official name in 1967.
Calling Memorial Day a "national holiday" is a bit of a misnomer. While there are 10 federal holidays cre- ated by Congress—includ- ing Memorial Day—they apply only to Federal employees and the District of Columbia. Federal Memorial Day, established in 1888, allowed Civil War veterans, many of whom were drawing a government paycheck, to honor their fallen comrades without being docked a day's pay.
For the rest of us, our holi- days were enacted state by state. New York was the first state to designate Memorial Day a legal holi- day, in 1873. Most Northern states had followed suit by the 1890s. The states of the former Confederacy were unenthusiastic about a holi- day memorializing those who, in Gen. Logan's words, "united to suppress the late rebellion." The South didn't adopt the May 30 Memorial Day until after World War I, by which time its purpose had been broadened to include those who died in all the country's wars.
In 1971, the Monday Holiday Law shifted Memorial Day from May 30
to the last Monday of the month.
On May 30, 1868, President Ulysses S. Grant presided over the first Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery—which, until 1864, was Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's plan- tation.
Some 5,000 people attend- ed on a spring day which, The New York Times report- ed, was "somewhat too warm for comfort." The prin- cipal speaker was James A. Garfield, a Civil War gener- al, Republican congress- man from Ohio and future president.
"I am oppressed with a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occa- sion," Garfield began, and then continued to utter them. "If silence is ever golden, it must be beside the graves of fifteen-thou- sand men, whose lives were more significant than speech, and whose death was a poem the music of which can never be sung." It went on like that for pages and pages.
As the songs, speeches and sermons ended, the participants helped to deco- rate the graves of the Union and Confederate soldiers buried in the cemetery.
It is customary on Memorial Day to fly the flag at half staff until noon, and then raise it to the top of the staff until sunset.
In 2000, Congress estab- lished a National Moment of Remembrance, which asks Americans to pause for one minute at 3pm in an act of national unity. The time was chosen because 3pm "is the time when most Americans are enjoying their freedoms on the national holiday."
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