Confederate holidays

Robert Edward Lee, chief military leader of the Insurrection against the United States of America

 

   Well, some of you may be northerners [damyankees]. It may be difficult for sum ya'll to recognise Confederate holidays. I give ya'll the point, dat dere has been some calendar dancin', from time to time, and place to place. The internets may not be much he'p, it is in dusty books where ya have to gather the individual facts. To-day, is Robt. E. Lee's birthday, the commander of all southern armies. He surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant on Good Friday 1865. The war was lost on July 4th 1863, on that day Grant took Vicksburg, and the day before, Lee had lost at Gettysburg. The war was continued, so as to continue the war. Yet, the traitor Lee is celebrated, and Grant is not.

   Virginia, the home state of Lee and Stonewall Jackson, had Lee Day(1889) in Lee-Jackson Day(1904), then Lee-Jackson-King Day(1983/6) after Martin L. King Jr. Day became a federal holiday; after 2000, the Lee-Jackson Day was on Friday, and the King Day on Monday. And that is how one state rewrote the calendar (and history).

   Now, there are several Confederate Memorial Days, a Confederate Flag Day, a Jefferson Davis Birthday, a Confederate History Month, a Nathan Bedford Forrest Day (Grand Wizard KKK, and Confederate General). These different 'days', are not all on the same dates in the states that celebrate them. Robt. E. Lee's birthday is, now, on the day after Thanksgiving in Georgia, and listed as "State Holiday".

   How this activity? MLK Day was catalyst for some changes. There had been a Black History Month, so...
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postscriptum: Abraham Lincoln's birthday is a holiday in eight states.