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Is it odd or unexpected that women became the principal advocates for "memory preservation" in the south (as demonstrated in Augusta) through the formations of female memorial groups? - Aaskins | Is it odd or unexpected that women became the principal advocates for "memory preservation" in the south (as demonstrated in Augusta) through the formations of female memorial groups? - Aaskins | ||
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| + | Do you agree with Evans' assertion that southerners were forced to "divorce" themselves from the Confederate cause while still embracing the Confederate dead? Or would you take Blight's approach and argue that the image of the "noble dead" served as an outlet for the frustrations stemming from defeat? DRadtke | ||
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| + | Do we see similar issues regarding the Fredericksburg City Cemetery arising shortly after the war? Was the expansion of the cemetery to include Confederate dead also an effort to "guarantee that their version of the story would outlast them and even their own families"? DRadtke | ||
