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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Patriotic Ladies of the South: Virginia Women in the Confederacy; 2 A Fitting Work: The Origins of Virginia's Ladies' Memorial Associations, 1865-1866; 3 The Influence and Zeal of Woman: Ladies' Memorial Associations during Radical Reconstruction, 1867-1870; 4 A Rather Hardheaded Set: Challenges for the Ladies' Memorial Associations, 1870-1883; 5 The Old Spirit Is Not Dying Out: The Memorial Associations' Renaissance, 1883-1893; 6 Lest We Forget: United Daughters and Confederated Ladies, 1894-1915; Epilogue: A Mixed Legacy; Appendix.