Decoration Day Become Memorial Day

Decoration day was celebrated to honor confederate dead and later the north began followed suit with memorial day.

Decoration day become memorial day. The memorial day weekend has become the gateway holiday to summer when people enjoy recreational activities or host barbecues and are less engaged with the original intention of the holiday. According to the information please almanac. It was a long road from decoration day to an official memorial day. Many people visit cemeteries and memorials on memorial day to honor and.

Before it became the national holiday we now know as memorial day it was a day celebrated across the country for at least five decades as decoration day a day to honor both the union and. The holiday is now observed on the last monday of may having been observed on may 30 from 1868 to 1970. John logan national commander of the grand army of the republic to honor those that died in the civil war. Memorial day previously but now seldom called decoration day is a federal holiday in the united states for honoring and mourning the military personnel who have died while serving in the united states armed forces.

Decoration day became memorial day in 1868 when it was officially proclaimed a holiday by gen. As time went on memorial day began to supplant decoration day as the name of the holiday and it soon became a day to. Although the term memorial day was used beginning in the 1880s the holiday was officially known as decoration day for more than. Eventually the days names and dates were merged into memorial day.

Likewise while it was largely known as memorial day it was still officially decoration day until the uniform monday holiday act of 1968 finally went into effect. On decoration day memorial wreaths were placed on the graves of the confederate dead.