State offices throughout Mississippi will be closed Monday in recognition of Confederate Memorial Day, and state employees will receive a paid day off. Mississippi is one of four states to still ...

Confederate Memorial Day was started in Georgia in April 1866 to commemorate the deaths of Confederate soldiers on the first anniversary of the day that Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnson surrendered ...

South Carolina started observing Confederate Memorial Day around 1866 to honor the lives of fallen soldiers, because no other such day existed. Since then, Memorial Day has become a national holiday.

Confederate monuments have been at the heart of heated debates in the US about how the war should be remembered. This memorial was erected by Robert's brother. Image caption, The memorial ...