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From: Southern Living | Date: May 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

A War of the Words: May 31 marks the contem

porary observance of Memorial Day. * Many folks also think of it as Confederate Memorial Day, although April 26 (the anniversary of the final surrender in 1865 by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in Durham, North Carolina) and June 3 (Jefferson Davis's birthday) still have a stronghold on many small towns.

A holiday created to honor the Confederate and Union dead (Vicksburg, Mississippi; Petersburg, Virginia; Columbus, Mississippi; Charleston, South Carolina; and Columbus, Georgia, all claim the first observance of Confederate Memorial Day), it reminds us ...

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