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Memorial Day origins traced to Civil War era flowers by Columbus women
A historic note recounts how Columbus Mississippi women first scattered flowers on Confederate and Union graves in 1867 sparking a national healing gesture. It covers the 1868 Arlington observances, Garfield’s address, and later growth into Memorial Day, with Pryor’s 1877 Brooklyn speech urging reconciliation.
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New York
Columbus
Miss
Fiys
New York Times
Wille Witle
Sual
Adji
NI. I’. Chipman
John A. Logan
Grand Army of the Republic
Women of
Arlington
Logan
James A. Garfield
United States
Cleveland
Ohio
Monument Cemetery
Philadelphia
Department of Pennsylvania
G. A. St
Academy of Music
Brooklyn
Roger A. Pryor
Union
Pryor
Supreme Court
Academy
Tie
France