Sisters of the Confederacy

Sisters of the Confederacy
Author: Lauraine Snelling
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2000
Genre: Christian fiction
ISBN: 0739414836

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When Jesselynn Highwood discovers that her destination in Missouri has been ravaged, she sets out on the Oregon Trail, while her "sister Louisa has taken on the daunting task of smuggling desperately needed supplies for the hospital in Richmond."--Cover.

Dixie s Daughters

Dixie s Daughters
Author: Karen L. Cox
Publsiher: University Press of Florida
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2019-02-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813063898

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Wall Street Journal’s Five Best Books on the Confederates’ Lost Cause Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South—all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen Cox traces the history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate generation and honor the Lost Cause. In this edition, with a new preface, Cox acknowledges the deadly riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, showing why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure. The Daughters, as UDC members were popularly known, were daughters of the Confederate generation. While southern women had long been leaders in efforts to memorialize the Confederacy, UDC members made the Lost Cause a movement about vindication as well as memorialization. They erected monuments, monitored history for "truthfulness," and sought to educate coming generations of white southerners about an idyllic past and a just cause—states' rights. Soldiers' and widows' homes, perpetuation of the mythology of the antebellum South, and pro-southern textbooks in the region's white public schools were all integral to their mission of creating the New South in the image of the Old. UDC members aspired to transform military defeat into a political and cultural victory, in which states' rights and white supremacy remained intact. To the extent they were successful, the Daughters helped to preserve and perpetuate an agenda for the New South that included maintaining the social status quo. Placing the organization's activities in the context of the postwar and Progressive-Era South, Cox describes in detail the UDC's origins and early development, its efforts to collect and preserve manuscripts and artifacts and to build monuments, and its later role in the peace movement and World War I. This remarkable history of the organization presents a portrait of two generations of southern women whose efforts helped shape the social and political culture of the New South. It also offers a new historical perspective on the subject of Confederate memory and the role southern women played in its development.

Sisters and Rebels A Struggle for the Soul of America

Sisters and Rebels  A Struggle for the Soul of America
Author: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Publsiher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2019-05-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393355734

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Three sisters from the South wrestle with orthodoxies of race, sexuality, and privilege. Descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin grew up in a culture of white supremacy. But while Elizabeth remained a lifelong believer, her younger sisters chose vastly different lives. Seeking their fortunes in the North, Grace and Katharine reinvented themselves as radical thinkers whose literary works and organizing efforts brought the nation’s attention to issues of region, race, and labor. In Sisters and Rebels, National Humanities Award–winning historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall follows the divergent paths of the Lumpkin sisters, who were “estranged and yet forever entangled” by their mutual obsession with the South. Tracing the wounds and unsung victories of the past through to the contemporary moment, Hall revives a buried tradition of Southern expatriation and progressivism; explores the lost, revolutionary zeal of the early twentieth century; and muses on the fraught ties of sisterhood. Grounded in decades of research, the family’s private papers, and interviews with Katharine and Grace, Sisters and Rebels unfolds an epic narrative of American history through the lives and works of three Southern women.

Daughter of Twin Oaks A Secret Refuge Book 1

Daughter of Twin Oaks  A Secret Refuge Book  1
Author: Lauraine Snelling
Publsiher: Bethany House
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2000-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781585589937

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Will the Wounded Soldier She Rescues From Certain Death be Able to Break Down the Walls of Bitterness That Surround Her Heart? Seeking to fulfill the promise she made to her dying father, eighteen-year-old Jesselynn Highwood determines to take her little brother and the family's remaining Thoroughbreds from Twin Oaks plantation in Kentucky to her uncle's farm in Missouri, where they will be safe for the remainder of the Civil War. Jesselynn is also fleeing a cruel man in Confederate uniform who has pledged to take revenge against her for refusing his hand in marriage. No longer safe at Twin Oaks, she embarks on a perilous journey, taking on the momentous responsibility for the lives and welfare of all who go with her. They ride at night and hide during the day, dodging both Confederate and Union troops along the way. Encountering hunger, sickness, and the devastation of war, they finally arrive in Missouri only to discover that the situation there puts them in even greater danger. Discouraged, disillusioned, and facing a severe testing of her faith, Jesselynn will stop at nothing to save her family, the horses, and whatever remains of Twin Oaks.

The Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan
Author: Annie Cooper Burton
Publsiher: Good Press
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2019-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: EAN:4064066171667

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"The Ku Klux Klan" by Annie Cooper Burton is a personal account of the Ku Klux Klan by the daughter of the Grand Dragon which includes secret KKK information first exposed by Burton. The Ku Klux Klan, with its long history of violence, is the oldest and most infamous of American hate groups. This book is difficult to read, but in order to learn from the past, it's important to understand the events and mistakes that have occurred in history, this book is a reference for such learning.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy Magazine

The United Daughters of the Confederacy Magazine
Author: United Daughters of the Confederacy
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2002
Genre: Confederate States of America
ISBN: UVA:X006174099

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A Secret Refuge

A Secret Refuge
Author: Lauraine Snelling
Publsiher: Bethany House Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Alienation in families
ISBN: 0764206516

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Daughter of Twin Oaks, Sisters of the Confederacy, The Long Way Home.

First Lady of the Confederacy

First Lady of the Confederacy
Author: Joan E. Cashin
Publsiher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2009-07-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674029262

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When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. For this highly intelligent, acutely observant woman, loyalty did not come easily: she spent long years struggling to reconcile her societal duties to her personal beliefs. Raised in Mississippi but educated in Philadelphia, and a long-time resident of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Davis never felt at ease in Richmond. During the war she nursed Union prisoners and secretly corresponded with friends in the North. Though she publicly supported the South, her term as First Lady was plagued by rumors of her disaffection. After the war, Varina Davis endured financial woes and the loss of several children, but following her husband's death in 1889, she moved to New York and began a career in journalism. Here she advocated reconciliation between the North and South and became friends with Julia Grant, the widow of Ulysses S. Grant. She shocked many by declaring in a newspaper that it was God's will that the North won the war. A century after Varina Davis's death in 1906, Joan E. Cashin has written a masterly work, the first definitive biography of this truly modern, but deeply conflicted, woman. Pro-slavery but also pro-Union, Varina Davis was inhibited by her role as Confederate First Lady and unable to reveal her true convictions. In this pathbreaking book, Cashin offers a splendid portrait of a fascinating woman who struggled with the constraints of her time and place.