Burying the Dead But Not the Past

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ReadHowYouWant.com, 2009 - History - 290 pages
Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve and rebury the remains of Confederate soldiers scattered throughout the region. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers, nearly 28 percent of the 260,000 Confederate soldiers ...
 

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Patriotic Ladies of
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A Fitting
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The Influence and Zeal
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