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Article: Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause.(Civil War America)(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- May 1, 2009
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Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause. By Caroline E. Janney. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. c. 2008. Pp. [xiv], 290. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3176-2.)
In Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause, Caroline E. Janney argues that it is the Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) founded in the immediate post-Civil War period, rather than the male veterans' organizations or the better-remembered United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), that deserve credit as the first group to honor the Confederate dead and to redefine military defeat as a ...