women played a significant role in memorializing the losses and portraying them in a positive light. They engaged in fundraising, lobbying for, and erecting Confederate monuments and memorials. Founded in the 1890s, the United Daughters of the Confederacy viewed the raising of monuments as a core objective of their organization, and by all accounts, they and several other organizations proved successful. To date, North Carolina has over 140 Confederate monuments scattered in various public spaces. Texas has nearly 180 such pieces, and there are hundreds of others found in both northern and
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