Memorial Day ceremonies, parades and events are planned across the Tri-Lakes for this coming weekend and on Memorial Day itself Monday, May 29. Memorial
LAKE PLACID This village’s annual Memorial Day parade will return on Monday, May 29 after a three-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic and the M
Members of Augustus van Horne Ellis Camp #124 Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War held a Memorial Day service for Colonel Alexander Wilkin, of the 9th Minnesota Infantry, who was buried in Slate H.
A graveside remembrance ceremony by the grave of Colonel Alexander Wilkin has been announced by Colonel Augustus van Horne Ellis Camp #124 of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. The gathering.
by Bill Batson
On May, 1, 1865, three weeks after General Robert E. Lee surrendered at the Appomattox Court House, ending the Civil War, the first Memorial Day was observed. Recently liberated enslaved Africans and Colored troops held the commemoration in Charleston, South Carolina to consecrate a new and proper burial site for 250 Confederate prisoners who died from exposure and disease.
A Memorial Day service that will be held in West Nyack on May 31, 2021 at 10:00am at Mount Moor Cemetery provides a direct connection to the origins of the solemn holiday. One of the ten veterans, whose headstones were replaced this month by the Department of Veteran Affairs and will be unveiled on Monday is Solomon Miller, a witness to Lee’s surrender.