Today is Confederate Memorial Day in North and South Carolina. It is the anniversary of the death of Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson.Memorial Day as we know it began in April 1866 when US General John A. Logan, commanding occupying forces in the South, noticed Southern women decorating the graves of fallen Southern soldiers in Columbus, Mississippi, at the Shiloh battlefield. He was outraged.
Logan then ordered his department the next May 30 to observe a memorial service for fallen federal soldiers. In 1868 at Arlington Cemetery, the home that the US government stole from Robert E. Lee, President Ulysses S. Grant observed the first large memorial day exercise for the United States on May 30 each year. The tradition has continued.
| Ode: Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867 by Henry Timrod |
Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,
- Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;
Though yet no marble column craves
- The pilgrim here to pause
In seeds of laurel in the earth
- The blossom of your fame is blown,
And somewhere, waiting for its birth,
- The shaft is in the stone!
Meanwhile, behalf the tardy years
- Which kept in trust your storied tombs,
Behold! your sisters bring their tears,
- And these memorial blooms
Small tributes! but your shades will smile
- More proudly on these wreaths to-day,
Than when some cannon-moulded pile
- Shall overlook this bay.
Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!
- There is no holier spot of ground
Than where defeated valour lies,
- By mourning beauty crowned.
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ReplyDeleteThe internet is certainly a great
to have a great witness to many.
If you're interested, I've posted
some blog links (including yours -
hope that's alright) of others who
are doing the same...
I think it's great when people
ReplyDeleteuse the internet in an evangelistic
way like you're doing.
That's what I'm trying to do
also with my blog. I try not
to look religious and my
hook is humor and yet
controversial issues are
also discussed. As long
as it's evangelical with
a Biblical Worldview
and interesting, I try
to include it.
Please pray for us -
we're often under
attack and have
been for our entire
10 year existence.
Thanks again for
what you're doing...
Your Internet Friend,
Professor Howdy
Dear eDOT,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the links. I pray that someone will be helped. I also have a website: http://www.geocities.com/genebrooks. You might like to look at that sometime. I'll check out your site soon. Have a new baby in the church to go see in Durham!
Dear Professor Howdy,
ReplyDeleteThanks for two days of great notes to Sunday in the South. I think your site is hilarious. I change from UNC to Duke for one of our church members.