and Confederate holidays have been quietly removed, renamed, or dropped from "paid day off" status around the country. The effort picked up steam after the murder of George Floyd and the rise in ...

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 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 ...