Burying the dead but not the past : Ladies' Memorial Associations and the lost cause
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Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008.
Status
Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction
369.17 JANNE
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369.17 JANNE
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Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xiii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Signed copy.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-270) and index.
Description
Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve and rebury the remains of Confederate soldiers scattered throughout the region. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers, nearly 28 percent of the 260,000 Confederate soldiers who perished in the war. Challenging the notion that southern white women were peripheral to the Lost Cause movement until the 1890s, Caroline Janney restores these women's place in the historical narrative by exploring their role as the creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition between 1865 and 1915. Although not considered "political" or "public actors," upper- and middle-class white women carried out deeply political acts by preparing elaborate burials and holding Memorial Days in a region still occupied by northern soldiers. Janney argues that in identifying themselves as mothers and daughters in mourning, LMA members crafted a sympathetic Confederate position that Republicans, northerners, and, in some cases, southern African Americans could find palatable. Long before national groups such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the United Daughters of the Confederacy were established, Janney shows, local LMAs were earning sympathy for lost Confederates. Janney's exploration introduces new ways in which gender played a vital role in shaping the politics, culture, and society of the late nineteenth-century South.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Janney, C. E. (2008). Burying the dead but not the past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the lost cause . University of North Carolina Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Janney, Caroline E. 2008. Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause. University of North Carolina Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Janney, Caroline E. Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Janney, Caroline E. Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
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