Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is an American neo-Confederate [1] hereditary association for female descendants of Confederate Civil War soldiers engaging in the commemoration of these ancestors, the funding of monuments to them, and the promotion of the pseudohistorical Lost Cause ideology and corresponding white supremacy.
in part, "By the Asheville Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy and Friends, This monument is erected commemorating the heroic part taken by the 60th Regt. N.C. volunteers in the great battle of Chickamauaga, Sept. 20, 1863 where it was given post of honor by "State Commission" appointed in 1893 to locate the position of each N.C. regt ...
May Faris McKinney (née Faris; after marriage, Mrs. Roy Weaks McKinney; nickname, "May-Roy"; [1] 1874-1959) was an American clubwoman and non-profit executive. She was the first Kentucky woman to serve as President General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), an honor conferred upon her November 13, 1919, at the national convention at Tampa, Florida.
United Daughters of the Confederacy was founded in 1894 and is open to membership by female descendants of individuals who served in the Confederate military or who “gave Material Aid to the ...
The Memorial to the Women of the Confederacy, also known as the U.D.C. Memorial Building, is a historic building located in Richmond, Virginia, that serves as the national headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [2]
One of the groups that sought to build a memorial was the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). Mrs. Mary Taliaferro Thompson of Stonewall Jackson Chapter No. 20 [e] (located in Washington, D.C.) asked the War Department in 1902 for permission to construct a memorial in the Confederate section. Her request was not granted.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy named a chapter in Alabama after Col. Rucker about 37 years ago. But an even bigger honor came back in 1942, when the US military named an Army base in ...
The United Daughters of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis Chapter 900 voted on October 5, 1906, to begin raising funds for the monument, which was intended to serve as a memorial to unknown dead Confederate soldiers. [1]