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Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause (Civil War America) by Caroline E. Janney is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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 res
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- Author
- Caroline E. Janney
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press; University of North Carolina Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780807872253
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Science, Social Science
- Rating
- 3.71 / 5 (19 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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