Mary Tucker Clipping, Scrapbook #1, United Daughters of the Confederacy Collection, John S. LeeAnn Whites, The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender (Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia, 1995), 160–198Ĭatherine Bishir, “A Strong Force of Ladies: Women, Politics and Confederate Memorial Associations in Nineteenth Century Raleigh,” North Carolina Historical Review, 77, no. Foster, Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South, 1865–1913 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1987), 36–46. On the Ladies Memorial Association, see Gaines M. John Bodnar, Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1992) Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (New York, Belknap Press, 2001) On the role of monuments and memorialization more generally in mediating contemporary social conflicts see, David W. Poppenheim et al., The History of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (Raleigh, NC, Edwards Broughton Company, 1925).
Cox, Dixies’ Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture (Gainesville, Florida, University Press of Florida, 2003) On the history of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, see Karen L. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. With their eyes trained firmly on the past, as their motto, “lest we forget,” would indicate, the women of the UDC hoped that the Rock would continue to serve to bind the generations that followed them to a memory of what was for them still, even in the early twentieth century, a lived experience of the Civil War and Civil War loss. 1 This ignominious end was hardly the future that the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy envisioned for the Rock when they first unveiled it with great pomp and ceremony some 40 years earlier.
There it stood, its original 1935 bronze plaque of dedication to the “valor and patriotism of Confederate Soldiers of Boone County,” virtually obscured by the spray paint and graffiti of a younger generation of students. Placing the pink granite boulder on a flat bed truck trailer, workers transported it to an outlying weed-infested field in a city park. On August 16, 1974, in the depths of the Missouri summer heat, and when most university students were far from campus, the city of Columbia quietly removed a five-and-a-half-ton Confederate Memorial from the center of the University of Missouri campus.
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