Memorials and Commemorations

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Ladies' Memorial Associations were locally organized groups of southern white women who, following the American Civil War (1861–1865), tracked down the scattered remains of Confederate soldiers and reinterred them in Confederate cemeteries. Following Robert E. Lee's surrender in April 1865, more than 260,000 Confederate war dead were buried throughout the South, a majority of them in Virginia. Most of these soldiers would not be returned home; instead, they eventually would be placed in Confederate cemeteries. . .

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Association–Historical

Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Civil War Battlefield Preservation
Colonial Williamsburg
Cox, Lucy Ann White (d. 1891)
Historical Highway Marker Program

Honorary–Lee

Honorary Virginians
Jamestown 350th Anniversary, 1957
Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition of 1907
Ladies' Memorial Associations
Lee, Robert E. in Memory

Limber–United

Limber, Jim
Lost Cause, The
Museum of the Confederacy
National D-Day Memorial
United Daughters of the Confederacy

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Memorials and Commemorations

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Honorary–Lee

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