Burying the Dead but Not the Past Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause

Name: Burying the Dead but Not the Past Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause
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ISBN: 9780807872253

ISBN-10: 0807872253

ISBN-13: 9780807872253

Edition: 2012

Authors: Caroline E. Janney

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Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern white women were peripheral to the Lost Cause movement until the 1890s, Caroline Janney restores these women as the earliest creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition. Long before national groups such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the United Daughters of the Confederacy were established, Janney shows, local LMAs were earning sympathy for defeated Confederates. Her exploration introduces…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Patriotic Ladies of the South: Virginia Women in the Confederacy



A Fitting Work: The Origins of Virginia's Ladies' Memorial Associations, 1865-1866



The Influence and Zeal of Woman: Ladies' Memorial Associations during Radical Reconstruction, 1867-1870



A Rather Hardheaded Set: Challenges for the Ladies' Memorial Associations, 1870-1883



The Old Spirit Is Not Dying Out: The Memorial Associations' Renaissance, 1883-1893



Lest We Forget: United Daughters and Confederated Ladies, 1894-1915


Epilogue: A Mixed Legacy


Appendix



Confederate Burials in LMA Cemeteries from Five Virginia Communities



Number of LMA Members in Five Virginia Communities, 1860s


Notes


Bibliography


Index