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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Confederate Memorial Day. 
The anniversary of the battle of Shiloh, is set 
apart as the day for decorating the graves of con- 
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MONUMENT To CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS, GREENWOOD 
CEMETERY, NEW ORLEANS. 
federate soldiers in Louisiana. On this date 
the sad ceremonies are carried out with the 
same devotion to the memory of the fallen brave 
as characterizes that of the north, with perhaps the 
added opportunities of floral sacrifice 
that the semitropical conditions make 
available. It is certain that the char- 
acter of the floral offerings are necessa- 
rily more diverse and of grander pro- 
portions, due to the natural conditions ' 
of the locality, than would be possible 
under similar circumstances in the north. 
Then again the Southern women passed 
through such a terrible ordeal, suffered 
such in conceivable deprivations and 
hardships, that the bitter memories of 
what they endured serve to stimulate their sympa- 
thies into active work, and much of the elaborate 
decorations on the graves of southern soldiers on 
their decoration day, display not only the labor of 
love, but labor in its sterner signification of active 
work. 
The ceremonies attending this memorial day in 
New Orleans, were perhaps more than usually ela- 
borate and according to press reports were the 
most successful of any ever witnessed in that city. 
The confederate veterans were out in force, assisted 
by the other naval and military organizations, state 
and otherwise. A delegation of Mexican war vet- 
erans also participated. 
The line of march took in the Lee monument. 
MONUMENT T 
GINIA, 
Metairie Cemetery, with its many monuments, the 
Soldiers Home, and the Confederate Monument in 
Greenwood Cemetery. At the several monuments 
floral decorations were deposited and salutes fired, 
while a formal oration was delivered at the Confed- 
erate monument. 
A noteworthy incident of the day was the floral 
offering of the G. A. R. veterans, consisting of a 
massive shield of the United States in flowers, 
bearing a streamer of white ribbon on which in let- 
ters of gold appeared; “The Union Veterans.’’ 
It was conspicuously placed on the Confederate 
monument. 
The illustrations represent three of the principal 
monuments that have been erected. Two of them 
are of granite, the one to the Washington Artillery, 
the other that of the Army of Virginia, and 
are located in Metairie Cemetery. In the 
vault under the monument to the Army of 
Virginia, the remains of Jefferson Davis 
were temporarily deposited prior to their 
removal to Richmond. 
The third illustration is that of the mon- 
ument to the Confederate Soldiers in Green- 
wood Cemetery, and the posts around the 
dies represent prominent generals. 
Altogether, the day in New Orleans was 
one to be remembered, not alone from the 
increased general interest in the impressive 
customs attending the annual 
decoration of the soldiers’ 
graves, but from the partici- 
pation of both sides in these 
hallowed observances. Sure- 
ly peace and good- 
’ will receives an im- 
petus on such a day, 
o ARMY OF NORTHERN viR U U caiTy it forward in 
LOUISIANA DIVISION. vE' work-a-day life. 
WASHINGTON ARTILLERY MONUMENT'. 
