Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1910 — Origin of Decoration Day. [ARTICLE]

Origin of Decoration Day.

As a matter of chronology It is interesting to know that -the observance of Decoration Day first originated in Richmond, Va., with a little band of New England school teachers on May 30, 1860, and was adopted the next year, 1867, by Confederate Women throughout the south, to be systematized the year after, 1868, as a Grand Army ceremonial by order of Gen. John A. Logan, then commander-in-chief, until, its popularity becoming general, the day was made a legal holiday in all the northern states and so observed in the south by the Confer erate Veterans’ Association.