Harper's Weekly looks at Memorial Day

Decorating 3,000 Graves of Civil War casualties at Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York from Harper's Weekly

 Charles S. Reinhart Illustration, Harper's Weekly June 4, 1870  Floral Tribute to the Nation's Dead

 Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York 1869 Decoration Day

 Harper's Weekly 1873. Decoration Day

Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia Decorating Graves of the Fallen

Harper's Weekley Decorating the Graves of Civil War Soldiers