United Daughters of the Confederacy
The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is an American neo-Confederate hereditary association for female descendants of Confederate Civil War soldiers engaging in the commemoration of these ancestors, the funding of monuments to them, and the promotion of the pseudohistorical Lost Cause ideology and corresponding white supremacy.
Headquarters Building of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia
Monument dedicated by the UDC on August 8, 1908, Bentonville, Arkansas
Battlefield memorial dedicated by the UDC on September 19, 1928
Confederate Memorial Day observance in front of the Monument to Confederate Dead, Arlington National Cemetery, on June 8, 2014
Neo-Confederates are groups and individuals who portray the Confederate States of America and its actions during the American Civil War in a positive light. The League of the South, the Sons of Confederate Veterans and other neo-Confederate organizations continue to defend the secession of the former Confederate States.
Maryland Sons of Confederate Veterans marching in Arlington National Cemetery in 2014