Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause

by Caroline E. Janney

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807872253
• ISBN13: 9780807872253
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"