A Southern contemporary calls attention to the fact that the 26th of April, the day chosen by the ladies of the South for decorating the graves of our loved and lost, in the late terrible but unsuccessful struggle for independence, will soon be at hand. On that day let all work be laid aside by fair and lovely “woman,” that she may wend her way to the last resting place of our hero dead, and enshroud their low and earthly mounds with wreaths of evergreen and beautiful spring flowers, and drop on silent tear upon the spot which enshrines the manly forms of those who yielded up their lives for us, so cheerfully.

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 20 April 1867, Page 4. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.