Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers.
Long before national groups such as.
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.
In Virginia alone, these Ladies\' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers.
Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers