Today's Memorial Day was originally designated Decoration Day with its rootsreaching back to the Civil War era. This class examines how the hundreds ofthousands of deaths during the Civil War brought rise to the notion of remembranceand memorialization of fallen soldiers. We will also discuss how southern womenassociations sprang up across the South in their own attempts to bring home theirlost husbands, fathers, and sons; the rise of the Confederate Memorial Day, andhow Decoration Day evolved into our modern Memorial Day.

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