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About the UDC
The United Daughters of the Confederacy is the outgrowth of many local memorial, monument, and Confederate home associations and auxiliaries to camps of United Confederate Veterans that were organized after the War Between the States. It is the oldest patriotic organization in our country because of its connection with two statewide organizations that came into existence as early as 1890 -- the Daughters of the Confederacy (DOC) in Missouri and the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Confederate Soldiers Home in Tennessee.
The National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy was organized in Nashville, Tenn., on September 10, 1894, by founders Mrs. Caroline Meriwether Goodlett of Nashville and Mrs. Anna Davenport Raines of Georgia. At its second meeting in Atlanta, Ga., in 1895, the Organization changed its name to the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The United Daughters of the Confederacy was incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia on July 18, 1919.
Membership is open to women no less than 16 years of age who are blood descendants, lineal or collateral, of men and women who served honorably in the Army, Navy or Civil Service of the Confederate States of America, or gave Material Aid to the Cause.
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Objectives
The objectives of the organization are Historical, Educational, Benevolent, Memorial and Patriotic:
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So who was the Confederate soldier?
He was a man of every color, every income range, every religion, a man who was
highly educated or had no education at all. A farmer, a lawyer, a politician, a store
clerk, a blacksmith, a ship captain, a dock worker, a military man, a civilian, a slave,
a slave owner, a native American, a doctor. He was every man who resisted the
despotic Government of Abe Lincoln, and all had one thing in common, they were
"Southerners".
Men to whom Honor was more than an idea, it was a way of life.
Men of courage outnumbered with supplies. Men who when the enemy had
repeating rifles and endless amounts of ammunition, stood their ground an threw
rocks at the invaders.
Men who at Appomattox upon General Lee's return from the surrender, told the general, "Just give us the word General and
we'll charge 'em again!
That is who they were, and that is why we honor them.
The name "United Daughters of the Confederacy" is a registered trademark of the General Organization and may not be used outside the Organization without the express written consent of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The official UDC insignia is a registered trademark of the General Organization and may not be used without the express written consent of the President General.
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About the UDC
The United Daughters of the Confederacy is the outgrowth of many local memorial, monument, and Confederate home associations and auxiliaries to camps of United Confederate Veterans that were organized after the War Between the States. It is the oldest patriotic organization in our country because of its connection with two statewide organizations that came into existence as early as 1890 -- the Daughters of the Confederacy (DOC) in Missouri and the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Confederate Soldiers Home in Tennessee.
The National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy was organized in Nashville, Tenn., on September 10, 1894, by founders Mrs. Caroline Meriwether Goodlett of Nashville and Mrs. Anna Davenport Raines of Georgia. At its second meeting in Atlanta, Ga., in 1895, the Organization changed its name to the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The United Daughters of the Confederacy was incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia on July 18, 1919.
Membership is open to women no less than 16 years of age who are blood descendants, lineal or collateral, of men and women who served honorably in the Army, Navy or Civil Service of the Confederate States of America, or gave Material Aid to the Cause.
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Objectives
The objectives of the organization are Historical, Educational, Benevolent, Memorial and Patriotic:
- To collect and preserve the material necessary for a truthful history of the War Between the States and to protect, preserve, and mark the places made historic by Confederate valor
- To assist descendants of worthy Confederates in securing a proper education
- To fulfill the sacred duty of benevolence toward the survivor of the War and those dependent upon them
- To honor the memory of those who served and those who fell in the service of the Confederate States of America
- To record the part played during the War by Southern women, including their patient endurance of hardship, their patriotic devotion during the struggle, and their untiring efforts during the post-War reconstruction of the South
- To cherish the ties of friendship among the members of the Organization
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So who was the Confederate soldier?
He was a man of every color, every income range, every religion, a man who was
highly educated or had no education at all. A farmer, a lawyer, a politician, a store
clerk, a blacksmith, a ship captain, a dock worker, a military man, a civilian, a slave,
a slave owner, a native American, a doctor. He was every man who resisted the
despotic Government of Abe Lincoln, and all had one thing in common, they were
"Southerners".
Men to whom Honor was more than an idea, it was a way of life.
Men of courage outnumbered with supplies. Men who when the enemy had
repeating rifles and endless amounts of ammunition, stood their ground an threw
rocks at the invaders.
Men who at Appomattox upon General Lee's return from the surrender, told the general, "Just give us the word General and
we'll charge 'em again!
That is who they were, and that is why we honor them.
The name "United Daughters of the Confederacy" is a registered trademark of the General Organization and may not be used outside the Organization without the express written consent of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The official UDC insignia is a registered trademark of the General Organization and may not be used without the express written consent of the President General.