Burying the dead but not the past: : Ladies' Memorial Associations and the lost cause

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Label

Burying the dead but not the past: : Ladies' Memorial Associations and the lost cause

Title remainder

Ladies' Memorial Associations and the lost cause

Statement of responsibility

Caroline E. Janney

Creator

• Janney, Caroline E

Subject

• Electronic books
• Ladies' Memorial Association -- History
• Popular culture -- Southern States
• Southern States -- Civilization
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

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

Member of

• Civil War America (Series)
• hoopla (Digital media service)

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

369.17

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Civil War America

Target audience

adult