Burying the dead but not the past : Ladies' Memorial Associations and the lost cause / Caroline E. Janney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Janney, Caroline E.

Series:

Civil War America.

Civil War America (Series)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--Southern States.

Popular culture.

Southern States--Civilization.

Southern States.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.

United States.

Ladies' Memorial Association--History.

Ladies' Memorial Association.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

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, Ja

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Patriotic Ladies of the South: Virginia Women in the Confederacy; 2 A Fitting Work: The Origins of Virginia's Ladies' Memorial Associations, 1865-1866; 3 The Influence and Zeal of Woman: Ladies' Memorial Associations during Radical Reconstruction, 1867-1870; 4 A Rather Hardheaded Set: Challenges for the Ladies' Memorial Associations, 1870-1883; 5 The Old Spirit Is Not Dying Out: The Memorial Associations' Renaissance, 1883-1893; 6 Lest We Forget: United Daughters and Confederated Ladies, 1894-1915; Epilogue: A Mixed Legacy; Appendix

TABLE A.1. Confederate Burials in LMA Cemeteries from Five Virginia CommunitiesTABLE A.2. Number of LMA Members in Five Virginia Communities, 1860s; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-270) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-270-0

979-88-908817-6-2

1-4696-0222-9

0-8078-8270-4

OCLC:

793510871