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Canada and the United States

Karen L. Cox. Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Foreword by John David Smith. (New Perspectives on the History of the South.) Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2003. Pp. xvii, 218. $55.00.

For almost a generation, from 1894 to 1919, the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) held sway as the largest voluntary organization of women in the U.S. South. In the process they did, according to Karen L. Cox's new history of the organization, what their fathers, brothers, and husbands failed to do during the Civil War: they won the war for the South. These white women of the postwar South were steely in their commitment to carry on the battle on their own turf: in their homes, in their communities, in their schools, and in their churches. Of course, this was war reframed through the gendered location of women, reframed most particularly as winning the minds and hearts of the younger generation of the white South. This book details the cultural war of the UDC in great detail, tracing its roots back to the Confederate Soldier's Aid Societies of the war years, and noting that it reemerged after the war in the Ladies Memorial Associations that memorialized the Confederate dead.

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