Juneteenth has been recognized as a US federal holiday since 2021 and acts as a day to celebrate the end of slavery in the country -- but millions of Americans will not have the day off today, 19 June, to mark the occasion.
Mississippi and Alabama each celebrate three Confederate holidays -- paid holidays for state employees: Confederate Memorial Day; the birthday of Jefferson Davis, the leader of the Confederacy; and Robert E Lee Day, to commemorate the leader of the Confederate army. In both states, Robert E Lee Day is also used to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr Day.
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Sherman sought to "make Georgia howl" in his march from Atlanta to Savannah. "We are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people," he reasoned, "and we must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war." Why? "We cannot change the hearts and minds of those people of the South, but we can make war so terrible ... [and] make them so sick of war that generations would pass away before they would again appeal to it."
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