JOHNSON COUNTY MEMORIAL DAY ORDER OF 1868 MEMORIAL
MEMORIAL DAY WAS OFFICIALLY PROCLAIMED ON MAY 5, 1868 BY GENERAL JOHN LOGAN, NATIONAL COMMANDER OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC IN HIS GENERAL ORDER N. 11 AND WAS FIRST OBSERVED ON MAY 30, 1868, WHEN FLOWERS WERE PLACED ON THE GRAVES OF UNION SOLDIERS AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY. THIS EVENT LED TO THE DAY ALSO BEING CALLED "DECORATION DAY" TO DECORATE THE GRAVES WITH FLOWERS. GENERAL LOGAN URGED ALL AMERICANS TO OBSERVE MEMORIAL DAY AS A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR THE FALLEN UNION SOLDIERS.
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- CIVIL WAR
- Plaques On Stone
- JOHNSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE-CLINTON STREET AND COURT STREET
- 52240
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