United Daughters of the Confederacy
The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Inc., founded in 1894, is an association of female descendants of Confederate veterans. Its role in the first half of the 20th century was to preserve and uphold the memory of the Confederate veterans, especially those husbands, sons, fathers and brothers who died in the war. Their long-term impact was to promote the Lost Cause image of the antebellum plantation South as an idealized society crushed by the forces of Yankee modernization.