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Burying the dead but not the past : Ladies' Memorial Associations and the lost cause /
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 wo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Civil War America (Series)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (552 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807882702 0807882704 9781469602226 1469602229 9780807872253 0807872253 |