Description
Straight away after the Civil War, white ladies around the South organized to retrieve the is still of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia by myself, these Girls’ Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the is still of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern white ladies were peripheral to the Lost Result in movement until the 1890s, Caroline Janney restores these ladies because the earliest creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition. Long before national groups such because 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 wherein gender played an important role in shaping the politics, culture, and society of the overdue nineteenth-century South.