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Preferred Citation

Preferred citation: [Identification of item], United Daughters of the Confederacy Collection, WLU Coll. 0204, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA

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Scope and Contents

Consists of miscellaneous correspondence related to the Lee Memorial Fund at Washington and Lee University in 1921. Includes newspaper clippings and pamphlets concerning the Confederacy, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and primarily, the passing of a resolution naming Lincoln's birthday as a national holiday. Also includes correspondence with Douglas Southall Freeman and others.

Related Material

WLU Coll. 0205, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Winnie Davis Chapter Minute Book

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Correspondence
• Holidays
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
• Memorials
• Printed ephemera
• United Daughters of the Confederacy
• United States -- Confederate States of America
• Washington and Lee University