Burying the Dead But Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause by Caroline E. Janney

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

Civil War America

Caroline E. Janney

304 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction gender history informative medium-paced
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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 soldier...

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