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  2. United Daughters of the Confederacy - Wikipedia

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    The Children of the Confederacy, also known as the CofC, is an auxiliary organization to the UDC. The official name is Children of the Confederacy of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It comprises children from birth through the time of the Children of the Confederacy Annual General Convention following their 18th birthday.

  3. Varina Anne Davis - Wikipedia

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    Varina Anne "Winnie" Davis was born one year before the end of the American Civil War in the White House of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia. She was the second daughter and the sixth child of Varina Banks (Howell) Davis and Jefferson F. Davis.

  4. Varina Davis - Wikipedia

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    Jefferson Davis resigned from the U.S. Senate in 1861 when Mississippi seceded. Varina Davis returned with their children to Brierfield, expecting him to be commissioned as a general in the Confederate army. He was elected as President of the Confederate States of America by the new Confederate Congress.

  5. Dorothy Blount Lamar - Wikipedia

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    Lamar with her fellow executive committee members at a Confederate Reunion in Macon in 1911. Picture from her autobiography When All Is Said and Done. [1]Eugenia Dorothy (also Dolly) Blount Lamar (crediting herself Mrs Walter D Lamar [2]) was an American historian and activist from Macon, Georgia.

  6. Caroline Meriwether Goodlett - Wikipedia

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    Goodlett was elected president of The Auxiliary of the Confederate Soldiers' Home in Tennessee in 1890. The organization was established to assist widows, wives, and children of Confederate veterans. The Auxiliary later changed its name to The Daughters of the Confederacy in 1892. She served as the state president of the organization. [4]

  7. DeKalb County Confederate Monument - Wikipedia

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    The DeKalb County Confederate Monument is a Confederate memorial that formerly stood in Decatur, Georgia, United States. The 30-foot stone obelisk (9.1 m) was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy near the old county courthouse in 1908.

  8. Judah P. Benjamin - Wikipedia

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    Judah Philip Benjamin QC (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to Britain at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister.

  9. Mary Anna Jackson - Wikipedia

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    Mary Anna Morrison – popularly known by friends and family as Anna – was born at Cottage Home, the family plantation near Lincolnton, North Carolina. [1] [2] Her father, Robert Hall Morrison, was a Presbyterian preacher and the first president of Davidson College, and her mother, Mary Graham, was the sister of William Alexander Graham, a Senator and later Governor of North Carolina, as ...