Friendship Cemetery

Friendship Cemetery in Columbus is a historic burial ground best known as the setting of the 1866 Decoration Day, when local women decorated the graves of both Confederate and Union soldiers who died in the war, an act that is often cited in the history of Memorial Day. Mississippi tourism lists the cemetery for its ghost stories: a Confederate soldier said to patrol the back of the cemetery near the war graves, and a weeping angel statue over one grave that visitors say feels strangely lifelike, like flesh, to the touch.