In this Book
- Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
- Series: Civil War America
summary
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 new ways in which gender played a vital role in shaping the politics, culture, and society of the late nineteenth-century South.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-v
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- Epilogue: A Mixed Legacy
- pp. 195-200
- Bibliography
- pp. 257-270
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469602226
Related ISBN(s)
9780807831762, 9780807872253, 9780807882702
MARC Record
OCLC
608395213
Pages
304
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No