Burying the Dead But Not the Past
Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause
The University of North Carolina Press · Print & ebook · February 1, 2012
Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers.
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- Who it’s for
- Caroline Janney traces how local memorial associations helped shape Confederate tradition and the postwar South.
- Themes
- Ladies' Memorial Associations, The Lost Cause and Confederate tradition, Gender in the postwar South
- Genres
- Civil War Era, Women's History, Women's Studies
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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.
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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.
Memorial Associations
Caroline Janney traces how local memorial associations helped shape Confederate tradition and the postwar South.
Come here for
- Virginia LMAs’ work relocating and reinterring Confederate soldiers’ remains
- Women’s role in shaping Confederate tradition before national groups formed
Expect
- The work of Ladies’ Memorial Associations across the South
- An account of gender’s role in late nineteenth-century politics, culture, and society
Where it sits
| Civil War Era | 94% |
|---|---|
| Women's History | 66% |
| Women's Studies | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- 19th-Century America
- Civil War Era
- Women's Studies
- Authors
- Caroline E. Janney
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Published
- February 1, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Ladies' Memorial Associations · The Lost Cause and Confederate tradition · Gender in the postwar South
- Reading lane
- 19th-Century America