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

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Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organised the retrieval of 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 whi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Janney, Caroline E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ladies' Memorial Association.
Ladies' Memorial Association > History.
Frauenverein.
Einfluss
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Sezessionskrieg > 1861-1865
Popular culture.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Civilization.
Culture populaire > États-Unis (Sud)
Popular culture > Southern States.
USA > Südstaaten
United States.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Civilisation.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence.
Southern States > Civilization.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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