Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause
(Part of the Civil War America Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807872253
ISBN13:9780807872253
Release Date:February 2012
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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