January 8: General James Longstreet's Birthday
[1821]
January 16: General Pickett's Birthday
January 19: General Robert E. Lee born [1807];
Texas Confederate Heroes' Day
January [3rd Monday]: Confederate Heroes Day
January 21: This day in 1824 General Thomas J.
[Stonewall] Jackson was born in West Virginia
February 2: The Birthday of General Albert
S.Johnston
February 3: The Birthday of General Joseph E.
Johnston
February 8: Establishment of the Confederate
States of America [1861]
February 22: President Jefferson Davis
Inaugurated [1862]
March 4: Confederate Flag Day
April 12: Confederate batteries opened fire on
Fort Sumter, War for Southern Independence began [1861]
April 26: Memorial Day [Ala., Fla, Ga., and
Miss.]
May 10: General Thomas J. Jackson died [1863]
Memorial Day [N.C.&S.C.]
May 30: Memorial Day [Va.]
June 3: Jefferson Davis born [1808] Memorial Day
[Ky., La., and Tenn.]
July 22: The US House of Representatives joined
the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate
Gen. Robert E. Lee [1975]
July 25: The US Senate passes a resolution 30 to
5 stating that the war is being fought to maintain the Union, not to end
slavery [1861]
October 12: General Robert E. Lee deceased
[1870]
December 6: President Jefferson Davis deceased
[1889]