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“Dolly Blount Lamar of Macon, Georgia, remembered as a little girl spending Sunday afternoons in the local graveyard with her father who “would read [her] the tombstone inscriptions and discourse on the dead with considerable pomp and oratory.”13”
― Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913
― Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913
“Faced with defeat, they judged their actions against their consciences and ruled themselves righteous.”
― Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913
― Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913
“Memorial activities during the first two decades after the war increased the importance of the voice of the Confederate dead—gave authority to the ghosts of the Confederacy. But the South had not yet decided who would speak for the ghosts of the Confederacy and to what larger purpose.”
― Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913
― Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913
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