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

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Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 Patriotic Ladies of the South Virginia Women in the Confederacy 15 2 A Fitting Work The Origins of Virginia’s Ladies’ Memorial Associations, 1865–1866 39 3 The Influence and Zeal of Woman Ladies’ Memorial Associations during Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1870 69 4 A Rather Hardheaded Set Challenges for the Ladies’ Memorial Associations, 1870–1883 105 5 The Old Spirit Is Not Dying Out The Memorial Associations’ Renaissance, 1883–1893 133 6 Lest We Forget United Daughters and Confederated Ladies, 1894–1915 167 Epilogue: A Mixed Legacy 195 Appendix table a.1. Confederate Burials in lma Cemeteries from Five Virginia Communities 201 table a.2. Number of lma Members in Five Virginia Communities, 1860s 201 Notes 203 Bibliography 257 Index 271 This page intentionally left blank Illustrations Confederate soldiers laid out for burial in Spotsylvania, May 20, 1864 33 Remains on the Manassas battlefield 41 Union soldiers’ graves, City Point, Virginia 45 Petersburg’s First Memorial Day, June 9, 1866 59 Mourners at Stonewall Jackson’s grave in Lexington, Memorial Day, 1866 75 Masthead of the Southern Opinion 86 Plan for Stonewall Cemetery, Winchester 91 Watercolor by W. L. Sheppard of the Hollywood Memorial Pyramid 96 Officers of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, 1896 161 Blandford Church 185 Window representing North Carolina in Blandford Church 187 This page intentionally left blank ...