The History of Manassas Chapter, United Daughters of Confederacy, with appended Historical and Genealogical Data; A new and enlarged History of Manassas Chapter, UDC, written by Ether Maddox Byrd, Chapter Historian
Manassas, VA: United Daughters of Confederacy, 1973. Enlarged Edition, Presumed First printing Flyer laid in states this is a limited edition. Wraps. 76 pages. Flyer laid in. Illustrations. Pages 38/39 have discoloration. A briefer history was produced in 1968. Miss Carolyne Jackson (Chapter recorder of crosses) and Mrs. James E. King (Certified Genealogist) and Mrs. Paul Dibble assisted in this updated and expanded edition. In addition to the history, the document includes an account of the Manassas Chapter UDC transfer of deed of Groveton Cemetery to Manassas Battlefield Park; Manassas Chapter extracts from the Virginia Division Minutes 1905-19973; a report of the Va. Division Convention of 1938 by Mrs. Byrd, Photocopy of an application for a Cross of Honor award by J.F. Manuel in 1902; List of Southern Cross of Honor Awards by Manassas Chapter; List of Crosses of Military Service awarded by Manassas Chapter; Chronological Membership Roll of Manassas Chapter from 1896 to 193; A Historical Sketch of Ewell Camp, Confederate Veterans from a Manassas Journal article May 19, 1911; History of the Ladies Memorial Association copied from the Manassas Journal of May 19, 1911; List of all know Confederate soldiers buried in the Manassas Cemetery; and a List of Photographs of Confederate soldiers from Prince William County in possession of Manassas Chapter UDC. Perhaps the greatest event of the entire seventy seven years was in 1908, when the chapter invited the state convention to meet in Manassas. Just a short time before the stated date for the convention, the new, commodious hotel caught fire and burned to the ground. The people of the town opened their doors, everyone was comfortable, and no one went hungry. The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is an American hereditary association of Southern women established in 1894 in Nashville, Tennessee. The stated purposes of the organization includes the commemoration of Confederate soldiers and the funding of the erection of memorials to these men. Many historians have described the organization's treatment of the Confederacy, along with its promotion of the Lost Cause movement, as advocacy for white supremacy. "It was women," specifically those of the UDC, who "founded the Confederate tradition.”
Across the Southern United States, associations were founded after the Civil War, chiefly by women, to organize burials of Confederate soldiers, establish and care for permanent cemeteries, organize commemorative ceremonies, and sponsor impressive monuments as a permanent way of remembering the Confederate cause and tradition. The organization was "strikingly successful at raising money to build monuments, lobbying legislatures and Congress for the reburial of Confederate dead, and working to shape the content of history textbooks." They also raised money to care for the widows and children of the Confederate dead. Most of these memorial associations gradually merged into the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which grew from 17,000 total members in 1900 to nearly 100,000 by World War I.
The group was founded on September 10, 1894, by Caroline Meriwether Goodlett and Anna Davenport Raines as "the National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy." The first chapter was formed in Nashville. The name was soon changed to "United Daughters of the Confederacy." Their stated intention was to "tell of the glorious fight against the greatest odds a nation ever faced, that their hallowed memory should never die." Their primary activity was to support the construction of Confederate memorials. The UDC also holds that members support U.S. troops and honor veterans of all U.S. wars. In 1896, the organization established the Children of the Confederacy to impart similar values to younger generations through a mythical depiction of the Civil War and Confederacy. According to historian Kristina DuRocher, "... the UDC utilized the Children of the Confederacy to impart to the rising generations their own ... vision of the future." The UDC denies assertions that it promotes white supremacy. The communications studies scholar W. Stuart Towns notes UDC's role "in demanding textbooks for public schools that told the story of the war and the Confederacy from a definite southern point of view." He adds that their work is one of the "essential elements [of] perpetuating Confederate mythology." The UDC was incorporated on July 18, 1919. Its headquarters is located in the Memorial Building to the Women of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia. The UDC encouraged women to publish their experiences in the war, beginning with biographies of major southern figures, such as Varina Davis's of her husband Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy. Later, women began adding more of their own experiences to the "public discourse about the war," in the form of memoirs, such as those published in the early 1900s by Sara Pryor, Virginia Clopton, Louise Wright and others. They also recommended structures for the memoirs. By the turn of the twentieth century, a dozen memoirs by southern women were published. These memoirs were part of the growing public memory about the antebellum years and the Lost Cause narrative. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: United Daughters of Confederacy, Manassas, Virginia, Genealogy, Civil War, Ewell Camp, Confederate Veterans, War Memorials, Monuments, Southern Cross of Honor
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