Virginia Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy
Virginia Division Elects New Officers for 2003-2005
Virginia Daughters traveled to Staunton in the Shenandoah Valley October 10-12 for their 108th annual Division convention. Southern Cross Chapter member Dolores C. Smith was elected to the office of Division President.
Dolores Smith, VA Div President
Miss Martha Anthony Virginia Division Establishes Scholarship in Memory of Miss Martha Anthony
Poet, essayist, and public speaker, Miss Martha Anthony was one of Virginia's best-loved Daughters. When she passed away at the age of 91, the Division decided to honor her by establishing a scholarship in her memory.
Virginia Division Honorary Associate Member Transcribes Lee Letters
In 1998, Captain Robert C. Peniston, USN Ret., former Director of Lee Chapel and an Honorary Associate Member of Virginia Division UDC, began transcribing letters written by General Robert E. Lee and held in the collections of Washington and Lee University. W&L has now placed the first of Captain Peniston's transcriptions online.
R.E. Lee
Coat Jackson Uniform Coat to be Restored
A donation from Virginia Division UDC has completed the funding necessary to restore the uniform frock coat of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, which was donated to the Virginia Military Institute by the General's granddaughter in 1925.
Educator Turned Soldier Saved Virginia's Oldest College from Wartime Ruin
The College of William and Mary in Virginia, a nationally recognized institution of higher learning founded in 1693, is known as the alma mater of Thomas Jefferson and the home of Phi Beta Kappa and the collegiate honor code. What most people do not know is that there would be no William and Mary today without the determination and dedication of one Confederate soldier.
Benjamin Stoddert Ewell
Confederate soldiers fold the battle flag The Thin Gray Line: Confederate Veterans in the New South
The Veterans of Foreign Wars have taken an insightful look at the difficult position in which former Confederate soldiers found themselves in the years following Appomattox and what they did about it.
Virginia's Generals
Although the generals who commanded the Confederate armies hailed from across the South, perhaps no other state supplied as many of the Confederacy's leading military lights as the Old Dominion.
Lee, Jackson, and Stuart
Teddy Roosevelt Teddy Roosevelt Speaks Out
In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt and his wife made a tour of the South. His remarks are even more compelling today than they were 95 years ago and should be taken to heart by all Americans.
Wisconsin Honors Confederate Spy from Virginia
Although the remains of Virginian Belle Boyd rest not in her native soil but in the far northern state of Wisconsin, her connection with the Confederacy -- and with the Old Dominion -- has not been forgotten.
Belle Boyd