United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1914/1950

Containers:

Box 4 [X030899292], Folder 2

Language:

English

Extent:

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 4.

Scope and content:

Correspondence and printed materials related to the United Daughters of the Confederacy including meeting minutes from the 1917 22nd Annual Convention. There is correspondence of Celestia Essie Wade Butler Smith, and Arlene Walker Harrold about the politics of the Georgia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and their officers.

There are also personal accounts about the Civil War such as, "Southern Women in the War Between the States", written by Mrs. A. J. Ellis, and others.

Of interest is a brief mention of Governor of Virginia, Lindsay Almond, and the closing of the schools due to desegregation in 1959.

There is also a photograph of Mrs. James Alexander.

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