{"id":7522,"date":"2022-05-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/?p=7522"},"modified":"2022-05-24T16:31:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T20:31:04","slug":"memorial-day-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/memorial-day-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Representing Decoration Day in a 19th Century Political Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“The 30th day of May, 1868 is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet churchyard in the land. …”<\/p>GENERAL ORDERS No. 11<\/a>
May 5, 1868<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

What is now known as Memorial Day\u2014a day to remember those U.S. military personnel who died while serving\u2014was originally known as Decoration Day. Below are a selection of images from Harper’s Weekly<\/a><\/em> published during the first decade after General John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic first called for this official day of national mourning in 1868. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Honoring Our Dead Heroes” from the June 6, 1868, issue of Harper’s Weekly<\/em> (365).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Continued text from “Honoring Our Dead Heroes” (366).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“‘In Memorium’\u2014Decoration Day, 1872” from the June 8, 1872, issue of Harper’s Weekly<\/em> (441).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Caption text for “In Memorium” (442).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Decoration Day” article from the June 14, 1873, issue of Harper’s Weekly<\/em> (498).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Illustration from later in the same June 14, 1873, issue (501).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A happy Memorial Day to you and yours<\/em>
from all of us in Notre Dame\u2019s Special Collections!<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

2016 post: Memorial Day: Stories of War by a Civil War Veteran<\/a>
2017 post: “Memorial Day” poem by Joyce Kilmer<\/a>
2018 post: “Decoration Day” poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/a>
2019 post: Myths and Memorials<\/a>
2020 post: Narratives about the Corby Statues\u2014at Gettysburg and on Campus<\/a>
2021 post: An Early Civil War Caricature of Jefferson Davis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rare Books and Special Collections is closed today (May 30th) for Memorial Day and will be closed on July 4th for Independence Day. Otherwise, RBSC will be open regular hours this summer \u2014 9:30am to 4:30pm, Monday through Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During June and July the blog will shift to our summer posting schedule, with posts every other Monday rather than every week. We will resume weekly publication on August 1st.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The 30th day of May, 1868 is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet churchyard in the land. …” GENERAL ORDERS No. 11May 5, … Continue reading Representing Decoration Day in a 19th Century Political Magazine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":7587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37784,12646,75052],"tags":[77948,77929],"class_list":["post-7522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journalism","category-miscellaneous","category-us-history-culture","tag-otd-holidays","tag-periodicals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7522"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7599,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7522\/revisions\/7599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}