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A day, May 30, appointed for commemorating, by decorating their graves with flowers, by patriotic exercises, etc., the dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War (1861-65) in the United States; Decoration Day. It is a legal holiday in most of the States. In the Southern States, the Confederate Memorial Day is: May 30 in Virginia; April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in North Carolina and South Carolina; the second Friday in May in Tennessee; June 3 in Louisiana.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Memorial Day'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/memorial-day.html. 1828.
 
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