| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause. By Caroline E. Janney. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xiv, 290 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3176-2.)

Caroline E. Janney's remarkable new book on the history of ladies' memorial associations (LMA) in Virginia from 1865 to 1915 opens with a telling anecdote. The current sign describing the origins of the Groveton Confederate Cemetery at the Manassas National Battlefield Park identifies its establishment in 1866 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). This is impossible, Janney explains, for the UDC was not founded until 1894; creating the cemetery—including acquiring the land and finding and identifying the bodies interred there—was, in fact, the work of a local LMA. The UDC, established at the cusp of the southern boom in Confederate monument building and central to many of their constructions, has come to dominate the narrative of southern white women's organizations, memory, and the Lost Cause. Yet the UDC's contributions were preceded by extensive, if now forgotten or misremembered work by community-based LMAS. These women not only took the lead in publicly mourning the Confederate dead beginning with the first Memorial Day celebrations in 1866 (on which the national holiday was later modeled), but, Janney contends, they were politically active and key early architects of the Lost Cause.

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