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  United Daughters of the Confederacy - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
The first United Daughters of the Confederacy chapter in Arkansas—and the second west of the Mississippi River—was Pat Cleburne Chapter 31, chartered on March 7, 1896, in Hope (Hempstead County).
The United Daughters of the Confederacy was the outgrowth of consolidating benevolent organizations and auxiliaries of United Confederate Veterans Camps, which were formed after the Civil War.
Another function of the United Daughters of the Confederacy is the preservation of public reminders of the Civil War era.
encyclopediaofarkansas.net /encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2710   (499 words)

  
 Martha Reid Chapter 19 of the UDC
It became a charter of the newly formed United Daughters of the Confederacy, as Jacksonville Chapter # 19, on November 7, 1895 and in January, 1897, was renamed Martha Reid Chapter # 19.
I am a Daughter of the Confederacy because I was born a Daughter of the Confederacy.
I am a Daughter of the Confederacy because I can no more help being a Daughter of the Confederacy than I can help being an American, and I feel that I was greatly favored by inheriting a birthright for both.
www.geocities.com /mrc19udc/home.htm   (392 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY
The name Daughters of the Confederacy was suggested after Gen. John B. Gordon so introduced Winnie Davis to the veterans; several of the groups during the 1860s had also used similar names.
Confederate veterans' graves are actively sought and marked by the appropriate government marker and dedicated by the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
An auxiliary organization known as the Children of the Confederacy is sponsored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/UU/vsu1_print.html   (785 words)

  
 US Civil War Online / United Daughters of The Confederacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Alexander S. (Mary Ann Lamar Cobb) Erwin of Athens, Ga., conceived the idea of the United Daughters of the Confederacy bestowing the Southern Cross of Honor on Confederate veterans while attending a reunion of Confederate veterans in Atlanta, Ga., in July 1898.
The Crosses of Military Service and Medals currently awarded by the United Daughters of the Confederacy are an outgrowth of the Southern Cross of Honor.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy presents complete sets of the Crosses to libraries and museums if they agree to display the sets.
www.uscivilwaronline.com /forums/viewtopic.php?id=47   (599 words)

  
 Search Results for confederacy - Encyclopædia Britannica
The members of the confederacy were related ethnolinguistic groups who had migrated from the north into what is now central...
Material on this museum in Richmond, Virginia, and the historic White House of the Confederacy.
Covers its strategic importance to the Confederacy and the battles that were fought to win control of it.
www.britannica.com /search?query=confederacy&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT   (539 words)

  
 Alabama Review: Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture
Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture.
The Daughters believed reconciliation would have to wait until the Confederate generation was fully acknowledged as patriots of the Constitution and hence national heroes rather than traitors.
Daughters worked to erect (and fund) monuments to Confederates, to support the aging Confederate soldiers and their widows, to educate a rising generation of children of Confederate parents and grandparents, to oversee and censor the teaching of Civil War history, and to claim and sustain race and class privilege.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3880/is_200410/ai_n9433980   (816 words)

  
 United Daughters of the Confederacy Home Page
This memorial is the permanent headquarters of the American Red Cross Society in Washington, D.C. Three Tiffany stained glass memorial windows were donated to the building: one by the Women's Relief Corps of the Grand Army of the Republic, one by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and one jointly by the two organizations.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy placed memorials to General Robert E. Lee and General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., in 1957.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy honors men and women of Confederate descent who have served their country in time of war by bestowing a variety of military service awards.
www.hqudc.org /objectives/index.html   (1228 words)

  
 Home Page Mollie Moore Davis United Daughters of the Confederacy
The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is a heritage organization made up of the direct and collateral descendants of the soldiers, sailors, statesmen, and those who gave aid to the Confederate States of America (1861-1865).
A Daughters of The Confederacy chapter was chartered in Tyler, Texas, on April 9, 1898, with eighty-one members.
On September 8, 1962, the Col. "Rip" Ford's Rangers 608, Children of the Confederacy was chartered.
www.molliemooredavis.com   (378 words)

  
 Confederacy on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Guerrilla warfare, democracy, and the fate of the confederacy.
A mother and daughter walk past the monument to Confederate heroes, which was erected by the Daughters of Confederacy on Jefferson Davis Day in 1900.
Loretta Finnegan, a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, drapes a Confederate flag over the grave stone of a veteran from the 17th Mississippi.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/c/confeder.asp   (645 words)

  
 Dixie's Daughters The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confed-Karen L. Cox- A new book from ...
Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South--all in the name of preserving Confederate culture.
The Daughters, as UDC members were popularly known, were literally daughters of the Confederate generation.
To the extent they were successful, the Daughters helped to preserve and perpetuate an agenda for the New South that included maintaining the social status quo.
www.upf.com /Spring2003/Cox.htm   (319 words)

  
 United Daughters of the Confederacy
The United Daughters of the confederacy is the outgrowth of many local memorial, monument, Confederate home associations and auxiliaries to Camps of Confederate Veterans which were organized after the War Between the States.
The National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy was organized in Nashville Tennessee September 10, 1894 by Caroline Meriwether Goodlett of Nashville and Mrs.
William Taft agree the Daughters of the Confederacy may place a statue at the Confederate section.
www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/america/lu4.htm   (423 words)

  
 United Daughters of the Confederacy - A talk given by June Murray Wells
One as President General, United Daughters of the Confederacy and the other as a lifetime genuine Charlestonian and South Carolinian whose family came on the first ship 330 years ago and liked it so well, we’re still here.
I joined the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1958 and not much later became the Director of the Confederate Museum in Charleston, a position I still am proud to have.
The National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy was organized in Nashville, Tennessee in 1894.
www.electricscotland.com /History/america/udctalk.htm   (3201 words)

  
 The Brunswick News
The Sons of Confederate Veterans and United Daughters of the Confederacy will pay homage to the South's gallant soldiers and their doomed cause with ceremonies in Hanover Square in Brunswick on Saturday and again April 30.
To this day, the Daughters of the Confederacy salute the Confederate flag "with affection, reverence and undying remembrance." Part of the organization's stated mission is to educate children about the war and its true cause, Nugent said.
Another 30 miles to the east is Cartersville, where the General P.M.B. Young Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy holds its Confederate Memorial Day Observance at the 1903 gold-dome courthouse.
www.thebrunswicknews.com /front/283131078950357.php   (1095 words)

  
 Sarah Jean Owen Dunaway
Sarah Jean Owen Dunaway was born in Atlanta, GA, the daughter of James Newton Owen and Hattie Maybelle King.
Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861
Dunaway was a board member of the DeKalb History Center; the Hebron Historic Society; the Georgia Women of Achievement; the Historical Oakland Cemetery Foundation; and the Marietta Conferate Cemetery Foundation, Inc. She also served as Chairman of "Save Georgia's Historic Flags" collection in the State Capitol Museum's Hall of Valor.
www.hereditary.us /dunaway.htm   (446 words)

  
 United Daughters of the Confederacy Home Page
The United Daughters of the Confederacy placed memorials to General Robert E. Lee and General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., in 1957.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy has always come to the aid of the nation in times of crisis.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy honors men and women of Confederate descent who have served their country in time of war by bestowing a variety of military service awards.
hqudc.org /objectives   (1222 words)

  
 Children of the Confederacy, Drew County, Arkansas
I am the son of Katherine Duke Tucker, daughter of Willie Slemons Duke, daughter of Col. Wm.F. Slemons, who was discharged at the close of the war from Long Island, NY prison.
I am the son of LaDelle Allen Bonner, daughter of Caddy McKennon Allen, daughter of B.H. McKennon, who enlisted Aug. 28, 1861 at Memphis, TN and was paroled May 1, 1865 at Greensboro, NC.
I am the daughter of Eric Hardy, who is the son of Ida Harris Hardy, who was the daughter of Viola Collins Harris, who was the daughter of Moses Collins.
bethg.shutdown.com /drew/dchildofconfed.html   (3625 words)

  
 About the United Daughters of the Confederacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy was organized in Nashville, Tennessee, September 10, 1894, by Mrs.
The emblem of the United Daughters of the Confederacy is a five-pointed star with superimposed cotton boll.
The Insignia of the United Daughters of the Confederacy is the First National Flag (Stars and Bars) of the Confederacy surrounded by a laurel wreath with the letters “UDC” under the flag, tied with a ribbon on which are the dates “1861-1865.”
users.rcn.com /johnonline/UDC163/AboutUDC.htm   (151 words)

  
 The Anniston Star - The Confederate Dames United Daughters of the Confederacy met recently
The Confederate Dames United Daughters of the Confederacy Chapter 1786 met Jan. 21 at Classic on Noble in Anniston with 16 present.
She discussed manufacturing and fortifications, and the influences of religion, government and the militia.
Confederacy required six million bushels of salt a year, and when the Union blockade shut off the usual sources of supply, salt production in the South became a necessity.
www.dailyhome.com /community/2003/as-nycu-0226-0-3b26c3038.htm   (381 words)

  
 United Daughters of the Confederacy - South Carolina Division
Welcome to the South Carolina Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
I am a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy because I feel it would please my ancestor to know that I appreciate what he did and delight his soldier love to know that I do not consider the cause which he held so dear to be lost or forgotten.
Rather, I am extremely proud of the fact that he was part of it and was numbered among some of the greatest and bravest men that any such cause ever produced.
www.scudc.org   (535 words)

  
 southern_life
It is the oldest patriotic organization in our country because of its connection with two statewide organizations which came into existence as early as 1890, namely the Daughters of the Confederacy (DOC) in Missouri and the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Confederate Soldiers Home in Tennessee.
The National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy was organized in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 10, 1894, by founders Mrs.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy was incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia on July 18, 1919.
www.scarlettonline.com /southern_life.htm   (733 words)

  
 udcpamlico43
The United Daughters of the Confederacy is an organization which developed from local memorial, monument, and Confederate Home Associations to Camps of Confederate Veterans which were organized after the War for Southern Independence.
The objectives of the Children of the Confederacy are to broaden the scope of interest in projects which are Historical, Benevolent, Educational, Patriotic, and Memorial.
To be eligible to join the Children of the Confederacy, an individual must be less than 18 years of age and unmarried, and must have a linear or collateral ancestor who served honorably in or gave material aid to the Confederate States of America.
udcpamlico43.homestead.com   (1383 words)

  
 Daughters of Confederacy marks 100 years - Topix
Daughters of Confederacy marks 100 years - Topix
The Levy Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy will celebrate its 100th anniversary with a tea reception at a downtown Longview home significant to the organization's history.
Daughters of Confederacy marks 100 years - Longview News-Journal
www.topix.net /city/troup-tx/2007/04/daughters-of-confederacy-marks-100-years   (294 words)

  
 UDC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
During this period, the organization embarked on a series of massive campaigns to educate the nation about the Confederate cause and to commemorate the struggle in marble and bronze.
The group of Southern women, united by the desire "to instruct and instill into the descendents of the people of the South a proper repect for and pride in the glorious war history," sought to memoiralize both the Confederacy's military heroes and the women involved in the Confederate cause.
The Daughters hoped that by constructing grand memorials they could "tell of the glorious fight against the greatest odds a nation ever faced, that their hallowed memory should never die." As a part of their nationwide program, the Daughters led the movement to establish a monument at Stone Mountain, Georgia.
xroads.virginia.edu /~UG97/stone/udc.html   (504 words)

  
 Butler Center Manuscript Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Arkansas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was formed in 1896.
On November 29 of that year, Articles of Incorporation of the Supreme Lodge of the Sons and Daughters were filed with the Pulaski County Circuit Court.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy has supported numerous charitable and civic projects, both for the descendants of the Confederate veterans and for the larger community.
www.cals.lib.ar.us /butlercenter/manuscripts/collection/mss97-22.html   (322 words)

  
 United Daughters of the Confederacy Objectives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
United Daughters of the Confederacy is the outgrowth of many local memorial, monument and Confederate Home Associations, which were organized after the War Between the States.
After several changes of name, United Daughters of the Confederacy was organized on September 10, 1894.
United Daughters of the Confederacy is, because of its connection with the previous organizations, the oldest patriotic organization in our country.
www.nkclifton.com /objectvs.htm   (191 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: United Daughters of the Confederacy, politicians
Member, League of Women Voters; United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Daughters of the American Revolution; United Daughters of the Confederacy; Zonta.
Daughters of the American Revolution; United Daughters of the Confederacy.
www.politicalgraveyard.com /group/un-dtrs-confederacy.html   (393 words)

  
 United Daughters of the Confederacy Chapter History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
There will be a meeting at the Library rooms at the Courthouse, Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock, to organize a chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy.
The wives, daughters, sisters and other relatives of Confederate soldiers are urged to meet on that occasion with Mrs.
The Fredericksburg Chapter is proud of its history and the contributions the chapter had made both to the Virginia Division, United Daughter of the Confederacy and the General Organization.
users.rcn.com /johnonline/UDC163/UDCHisty.htm   (207 words)

  
 Monocacy National Battlefield - United Daughters of the Confederacy Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
The United Daughters of the Confederacy dedicated this monument on July 9, 1914, the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Monocacy.
It commemorates the Confederate soldiers who lost their lives during the battle and is the only monument at the battlefield dedicated to southern soldiers.
This boulder overlooks the Monocacy Battlefield and is in memory of the Southern soldiers who fell in the battle fought July 9, 1864 which resulted in a Confederate victory.
www.nps.gov /mono/historyculture/confederate-monument.htm   (165 words)

  
 The United Daughters of the Confederacy » Tour Period Rooms » The Period Rooms » Exhibits » Old ...
Despite the fact that most of state agencies which remained at the State House were to follow within a year, preservationists were unable to persuade the General Assembly to bring up the question of the landmark's fate.
The gallery of the United Daughters of the Confederacy is set up as a parlor of the 1860s.
On the secretary is a letter opener said to be made from wood taken from the staircase of the Confederate Capitol in Richmond.
www.oldstatehouse.com /exhibits/permanent/period-rooms/tour-period-rooms/united-daughters-confederacy.asp   (663 words)

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