remember the dead
From the June 8, 1872 issue of Harper’s Weekly:
DECORATION-DAY.
In the beautiful and touching illustration on our first page this week our artist expresses the universal feeling of the country. While the people have no wish to keep alive the smouldering fires of old feuds and sectional hatreds, they will not let the memory of their dead heroes perish, or the freshness of their laurels fade. Year by year affectionate hands will strew their graves with flowers and hang wreaths upon their portraits. Not in hatred or anger, but in love and gratitude, the nation’s voice will every year repeat,
“How sleep the brave who sink to rest
By all their country’s wishes blest!”
Southerners might have considered May 30th a Northern holiday. From the May 31, 1872 issue of The Charleston Daily News:
rain and amputation
