MEMORIAL DAY

add. ·- a day, may 30, appointed for commemorating, by decorating their graves with flowers, by patriotic exercises, ·etc., the dead soldiers and sailors who served the civil war (1861-65) in the united states; decoration day. it is a legal holiday in most of the states. in the southern states, the confederate memorial day is: may 30 in virginia; april 26 in alabama, florida, georgia, and mississippi; may 10 in north carolina and south carolina; the second friday in may in tennessee; june 3 in louisiana.