A little-known holiday means Alabama State offices will be closed Monday, April 26.
Confederate Memorial Day is commemorated on the fourth Monday in April. On that day, state offices and courts, including license and tag offices, are closed. City and county offices, as well as federal buildings and services and schools, will remain open.
Mail will run as normal and banks will remain open.
Alabama is one of only three states that have official holidays honoring those who died in the Civil War. Mississippi’s commemoration takes place on the last Monday of the month; South Carolina celebrates Confederate Memorial Day on May 10.
Two other states – Texas and Tennessee – also commemorate the day but do not make it a state holiday. Texas marks Confederate Heroes Day on Jan. 19; Tennessee marks Confederate Decoration Day on June 3.
Alabama has three Confederate-related holidays: Robert E. Lee’s birthday on third Monday in January (celebrated along with the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King); Confederate Memorial Day on the fourth Monday in April; and the birthday of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on the first Monday in June.
Confederate Memorial Day traces its roots back to 1866 when the Ladies Memorial Association of Columbus, Georgia passed a resolution to set aside a day to honor Confederate soldiers who lost their lives in the Civil War. Almost 260,000 Civil War soldiers were killed in the line of duty.
The holiday is typically observed in late April to mark the surrender of the last major Confederate field army at Bennett Place on April 26, 1865.
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Monday is a state holiday in Alabama: Confederate Memorial Day is April 26 - AL.com
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