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Confederate Memorial Day (called Confederate Heroes Day in Texas and Florida, and Confederate Decoration Day in Tennessee) is a cultural holiday observed in several Southern U.S. states on various dates since the end of the Civil War to remember the estimated 258,000 Confederate soldiers who died in military service.

It is an official state holiday in South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Tennessee. The holiday is observed in late April in some states. That recalls the surrender of the last major Confederate field army at Bennett Place on Wednesday, April 26, 1865.