print email comment close Today in History: May 30, Soldiers' Memorial Day URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may30.html Description: Collection of resources about this holiday, "[established] in 1868, [when] Commander in Chief John A. Logan ... issued General Order Number 11 designating May 30 as a memorial day 'for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country.'" Includes links to sheet music and to photos of veterans, memorials, cemeteries, and more. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. Publisher: The Library of Congress Extra Keywords decoration day Library of Congress Subject Headings: Holidays Memorial Day Veterans -- United States LII Database Information: Record 21468 created by Jennifer English on 05/08/2006 Last modification on 05/09/2006 Published: 05/11/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21468