Daughters Confederacy facts
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The Daughters of the Confederacy has a children's auxiliary. The Children of the Confederacy is dedicated to teaching blood descendants of Confederate soldiers the glory of the Lost Cause and that slave owners were quite nice really.
There still exists a monument in Andersonville, GA, near the site of the former Confederate Prisoner Camp, that memorializes Henry Wirz, the officer in charge of Andersonville who committed horrible atrocities on prisoners. It was put up in 1909 by the Daughters of the Confederacy.
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12th US president Zachary Taylor's daughter was married to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy.
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The US government is still paying a Civil War military pension to the last surviving daughter of a soldier who fought for both the Confederacy and the Union
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) formed in 1894 in Nashville, Tennessee to fund Confederate memorials and honor Confederate veterans of the Civil War.
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The primary group in the southern states that influenced the erection of most of the confederate monuments as well as the ensured continuation of racist education in public schools was a group exclusively made up of women called "The United Daughters Of The Confederacy".
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy were responsible for spreading the romanticized "Lost Cause" version of slavery and the Civil War including teaching materials for children that were used through the 1970s
