Confederate Memorial Day

[Gruntcap]

Do they also represent the African-American and Native Americans?

Going to agree with Memorial day.For all American service members.

[Cstafford]

And here we go

[[WDW]Megaraptor]

Do they also represent the African-American and Native Americans?

Those that fought in C.S.A. forces, yes.

[OldCode]

Captures the feeling pretty well, I reckon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOi0tC00Luc

(RIP, Levon)

[SBL]

I dig that. Virginia used to have Lee-Jackson Day but it falls on MLK Jr. Day now.

It still exists. It was changed back some years ago.

[Hollis]

Do they also represent the African-American and Native Americans?

Going to agree with Memorial day.For all American service members.

Yes. Native Americans served the Confederacy 2:1 over the North.

First Black regiment raised was CSA New Orleans home guard. Blacks did serve the South.. Just not in the same numbers of the North. You can google Black Confederate Veterans.

[California Joe]

Nothing, but the regular Memorial Day was originally created to honor Union soldiers only. Hence the South created their own Memorial Days.

Memorial Day was originally Decoration Day and it was celebrated by the South as well as the North.

Do they also represent the African-American and Native Americans?

Going to agree with Memorial day. For all American service members.

States fought as individual entities during the Civil War in a meaningful way, the regiments all carried the names and honor of their respective states. To think that a particular state would decide to honor their dead on any day they chose is not a foreign concept...It's history, full of prejudice and honor, hatred and heroism. F*ck revisionism. Revisionist PC bullsh*t isn't real.

[Laconian]

Memorial Day was originally Decoration Day and it was celebrated by the South as well as the North.



States fought as individual entities during the Civil War in a meaningful way, the regiments all carried the names and honor of their respective states. To think that a particular state would decide to honor their dead on any day they chose is not a foreign concept...It's history, full of prejudice and honor, hatred and heroism. F*ck revisionism. Revisionist PC bullsh*t isn't real.

GET SOME, CJ!

They are doing a service at Ft McAllister State Park, near me. It's also my wedding anniversary, fly the guidon at half mast.

[Dirtydiaper]

The healing process of the war was slow. The name. Civil War was not adopted till the early 1990s.

Pardon my ignorance, but was what it called before?
Wiki's introduction article didn't help.

[Spartan10k]

Pardon my ignorance, but was what it called before?
Wiki's introduction article didn't help.

Let me just list all the names that I know for it.

The War Between the States
The War of Secession
The War for Southern Independence
The War of Northern Aggression
The Second American Revolution

And I feel like I'm forgetting one.....but yeah, take your pick of those. Most commonly though it is referred to as The War Between the States.

EDIT: Here's the wiki article on it. It's got Union names for it too, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_...ican_Civil_War

[Dirtydiaper]

Ah, The War of Secession even rings a bell. Did not know you guys had so many names for it. Thank you.

[Soldat_Américain]

Having spent four and a half years in Virginia...Lee-Jackson day is on MLK day, however in VA they celebrate MLK day the next week.

Keep it classy GA...good thing I didn't need any essential services that day.

[mas-36]

Having ancestors which fought on both sides, I have no problems with Confederate Memorial Day. Rather appropriate in fact.

[Soldat_Américain]

It's just the Civil War for most people...but Southern Insurrection works.

[sgt_G]

The healing process of the war was slow. The name. Civil War was not adopted till the early 1990s.

Don't you mean 1890's Hollis???