Editing Memorial Day (section)

=== Other Southern precedents ===
According to the [[United States Library of Congress]], "Southern women decorated the graves of soldiers even before the Civil War’s end. Records show that by 1865, Mississippi, Virginia, and South Carolina all had precedents for Memorial Day."<ref>{{cite web |title=Today in History – May 30 – Memorial Day |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/may-30/ |publisher=United States Library of Congress |access-date=May 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525183156/https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/may-30/ |archive-date=May 25, 2019}}</ref> The earliest Southern Memorial Day celebrations were simple, somber occasions for veterans and their families to honor the dead and tend to local cemeteries.<ref name="Center(Firm)2000">{{cite book|title=America, history and life|publisher=Clio Press|date=2000|page=190|author1=University of Michigan|author2=EBSCO Publishing (Firm)}}</ref> In following years, the Ladies' Memorial Association and other groups increasingly focused rituals on preserving Confederate culture and the [[Lost Cause of the Confederacy]] narrative.<ref name="auto1">{{cite book|author=Karen L. Cox|title=Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U_jpxKJDleQC&pg=PA11 |date=2003 |publisher=University Press of Florida|page=11|isbn=978-0813031330 }}</ref>