52-551: Cassville may refer to several places in the United States: Cassville, Georgia Cassville, Indiana Cassville, Missouri Cassville, New York Cassville, Pennsylvania Cassville, West Virginia Cassville, Wisconsin , village Cassville (town), Wisconsin See also [ edit ] List of places named for Lewis Cass [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
104-538: A century before women's history and public history emerged as fields of inquiry and action, the UDC, with other women's associations, strove to etch women's accomplishments into the historical record and to take history to the people, from the nursery and the fireside to the schoolhouse and the public square. "The number of women's clubs devoted to filiopietism and history was staggering," says historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage , noting that women were much more likely to be involved in
156-446: A chain of protests across the city in the wake of the murder of George Floyd . The Richmond Fire Department extinguished the fire using nine fire trucks. The President-General of the UDC reported that the building's windows had been broken and fire was set to the curtains hanging in the building's Caroline Meriwether Goodlett Library. The fire was largely contained to the library, but there was extensive smoke and water damage throughout
208-545: A council of war at the William Neal McKelvey residence May 19. They discussed the advisability of holding the position east and south of Cassville. Present were: Johnston; Polk; Hood; Maj. General S. C. French; and Captain W.J. Morris, Chief Engineer, Polk's aide-de-camp . After hearing the statements of the council, Johnston ordered the withdrawal of the army at midnight. May 19, 1864: Butterfield's (3rd) Division, XXth Corps [US], moving southeast from McDow's, left
260-476: A mythical past in order to legitimize racial segregation and white supremacy . The UDC worked to "define southern identity around images from an Old South that portrayed slavery as benign and slaves as happy and a Reconstruction that portrayed blacks as savage and immoral." In 1919 their lost cause narrative was codified in Mildred Rutherford's Measuring Rod to Test Text Books and Reference Books , which
312-600: A school for boys was established in January 1854. This was a large three-story brick building flanked by two-story wings. It burned in 1856, was rebuilt in 1857, and was destroyed by Federal forces on October 12, 1864. This, and the Methodist Female College 3/4 miles northeast, were the first chartered institutions of higher education in Cherokee Georgia. Their destruction, together with the burning of Cassville, marked
364-439: A sort of public relations agency for the terrorist group." The organization restricted membership to whites at one time, but later lifted the requirement. As of 2011, there were 23 so-called "Real Daughters" (that is, actual children of Confederate veterans) still living, one of whom was black. There are no longer any living children of Civil War veterans. The last, Irene Triplett , died in 2020. The group's headquarters are in
416-524: A variety of (historical) organizations than men, who devoted their energies to fraternal societies. Brundage notes that after women's suffrage came in 1920, the historical role of the women's organizations eroded. After 1900 the UDC became an umbrella organization coordinating local memorial groups. The UDC women specialized in sponsoring local memorials. After 1945, they were active in placing historical markers along Southern highways. The UDC has also been active in national causes during wartime. According to
468-528: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Cassville, Georgia Cassville is an unincorporated community in Bartow County in the U.S. state of Georgia . It was originally the county seat before the name was changed from Cass County. The seat was moved to Cartersville after General Sherman destroyed Cassville in his Atlanta Campaign of 1864. Cassville, although no longer incorporated,
520-613: Is said to encompass an area beginning at the Cassville Road-Firetower Road intersection and extending a mile in all directions. Cassville lies in between Adairsville and Cartersville , off U.S. Route 41 . It is considered part of metro Atlanta but maintains its small town atmosphere. Other points of interest include the Cassville History Museum, Cassville Visitors Information, and Cassville Confederate Cemetery, located on Cass-White Road. The town of Cassville
572-842: The Memorial to the Women of the Confederacy building in Richmond, Virginia , the former capital city of the Confederate States . In May 2020, the building was damaged by fire during the George Floyd protests . The group was founded on September 10, 1894, by Caroline Meriwether Goodlett and Anna Davenport Raines as the National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy. The first chapter
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#1732868792955624-638: The Sons of the Confederate Veterans . They are dedicated to celebrating the Confederacy and rather thinly veiled support for white supremacy. And I think that also is the again not very deeply hidden agenda of the Confederate flag issue in several Southern states. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) considers the UDC as part of the Neo-Confederate movement, intrinsically white supremacist, that began in
676-642: The 1950s. Across the Southern United States , associations were founded after the Civil War , chiefly by women, to organize burials of Confederate soldiers, establish and care for permanent cemeteries, organize commemorative ceremonies, and sponsor impressive monuments as a permanent way of remembering the Confederate cause and tradition. The organization was "strikingly successful at raising money to build monuments, lobbying legislatures and Congress for
728-640: The Confederacy and its founding principles (which included the enslavement of African Americans). The Southern Cross of Honor was a commemorative medal established by the United Daughters of the Confederacy for members of the United Confederate Veterans . It was proposed at a meeting in 1898, with 78,761 crosses issued by 1913. The medal was never authorized to be worn on the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps uniform. During
780-519: The Gravelly Plateau to Cassville. Johnston placed Lt. General Leonidas Polk 's corps behind Two Run Creek northwest of Cassville to oppose Schofield in front as he began crossing the creek. Johnston then sent Lt. General John B. Hood 's corps northward along the Spring Place Road, to ambush Schofield on the left. Atlanta Campaign . On May 19, 1864, Johnston, entrenched on the ridge east of
832-597: The Hawkins Price house. Battery C, 1st Ohio Light Artillery , supported by 73rd Ohio Infantry , 19th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment and 20th Connecticut Infantry regiment [US] occupied the ridge and shelled the town as Johnson's Army [CS] withdrew to a ridge east of it. At night Cassville was seized by the 19th Mich. & 20th Conn. the Female College and town were burned by the union. Noble Hill Rosenwald School, now known as Noble Hill-Wheeler Memorial Center,
884-619: The South for its slaves after abolition, that slaves in the South were faithful to their owners, who were caring and gentle people: cruel slave owners existed only in the North. Before 2015, the "Creed" of the CofC read: Because we desire to perpetuate, in love and honor, the heroic deeds of those who enlisted in the Confederate Services and upheld its flag through four years of war, we, the children of
936-502: The South, have united in an Organization called the "Children of the Confederacy," in which our strength, enthusiasm and love of justice can exert its influence. We therefore pledge ourselves to preserve pure ideals, to honor the memory of our beloved Veterans, to study and teach the truths of history (one of the most important of which is that the War Between the States was not a rebellion, nor
988-522: The South, where its main role was to preserve, uphold and romanticize the memory of the Confederate veterans, especially those husbands, sons, fathers and brothers who died in the Civil War. Memory and memorials became the central focus of the organization. Historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall notes that the UDC had a particular interest in the position of Southern (Confederate) women, with "a commitment to bolstering vanquished and disheartened veterans and keeping
1040-482: The South. "Rallying behind powerful women such as Mildred Lewis Rutherford , the UDC relentlessly lobbied legislatures for public school textbooks that presented a pro-Confederate version of regional history and successfully blacklisted" other books. "By targeting the region's middle- to upper-class children, they ensured an army of future teachers and leaders would carry forward and defend their message for decades to come. Embedding their version of Confederate history into
1092-413: The UDC endorsed and successfully used in debates over history textbooks across the South. More recently, historian James M. McPherson has said that the UDC promotes a white supremacist and neo-Confederate agenda: I think I agree a hundred percent with Ed Sebesta, though, about the motives or the hidden agenda not too deeply hidden I think of such groups as the United Daughters of the Confederacy and
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#17328687929551144-402: The UDC sponsors essay and poetry compositions, in which the participants are not to use the phrase "Civil War," " War Between the States " being the preferred term. The Children of the Confederacy, also known as the CofC, is an auxiliary organization to the UDC. The official name is Children of the Confederacy of the United Daughters of the Confederacy . It comprises children from birth through
1196-557: The UDC unanimously endorsed The Ku Klux Klan, or The Invisible Empire , a book written by UDC historian Laura Martin Rose , then president of the UDC's Mississippi Division, which alleged that the Klan had rescued the South from carpetbagger-inspired racial violence. Published near the height of the UDC's Confederate statue-installation and textbook-vetting efforts, the book became a supplementary reader for Southern school children. A local chapter of
1248-465: The UDC's role "in demanding textbooks for public schools that told the story of the war and the Confederacy from a definite southern point of view." He adds that their work is one of the "essential elements [of] perpetuating Confederate mythology." The UDC was incorporated on July 18, 1919. Its headquarters is in the Memorial Building to the Women of the Confederacy , Richmond, Virginia , built in
1300-473: The UDC's true nature more than its relationship with the Ku Klux Klan . Many commentators have said the UDC simply supported the Klan. That is not true. The UDC during Jim Crow venerated the Klan and elevated it to a nearly mythical status. It dealt in and preserved Klan artifacts and symbology. It even served as a sort of public relations agency for the terrorist group." At its 1913 annual national convention,
1352-471: The building and charring on the building's Georgia marble façade. Staff reported that all the books in the building's library had incurred some damage and that library shelving had been destroyed. Meredith College history professor and former Children of the Confederacy member Daniel L. Fountain states that organizations like the UDC have deeply "implanted the Lost Cause's falsified version of history" in
1404-514: The construction of a Confederate memorial hall on the campus of the George Peabody College for Teachers which merged with Vanderbilt University in 1979. A university effort to remove the inscription "Confederate" from the building, resisted by the UDC, led to a 2005 Tennessee appeals court ruling that the inscription could be removed only if the UDC donation was returned at present value. In 2016 an anonymous source donated $ 1.2 million to
1456-639: The early 1890s. The SPLC contends that the UDC promotes "a reactionary conservative ideology that has made inroads into the Republican Party from the political right, and overlaps with the views of white nationalists and other more radical extremist groups." In August 2018, its website still stated that " Slaves, for the most part, were faithful and devoted . Most slaves were usually ready and willing to serve their masters." According to lawyer Greg Huffman, writing in Facing South , "perhaps nothing illuminates
1508-459: The early 1900s by Sara Pryor , Virginia Clopton , Louise Wright and others. They also recommended structures for the memoirs. By the turn of the twentieth century, a dozen memoirs by southern women were published. These memoirs were part of the growing public memory about the antebellum years and the Lost Cause narrative, which critics have described as white supremacist, as they vigorously defended
1560-426: The first decades of their existence, the UDC focused on caring for Confederate soldiers and their widows. When the numbers of Confederate veterans began to dwindle, they focused on their remaining objectives. Education of the descendants of those who served the Confederacy became one of the key interests of the organization. Some state divisions within the UDC built dormitories and sponsored scholarships, but there
1612-421: The marker, planned to give battle but Sherman threatened his flank and his corps commanders objected to the position. He therefore withdrew to Allatoona Pass. Rather than attack this strong position Sherman moved past it toward New Hope Church. Confederate Army of Tennessee at Cassville. Johnston’s forces, reaching Cassville May 18, 1864 from Resaca , 30 miles (48 km) north, took positions on ridge west of
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1664-660: The memory of the dead alive. But it was also committed to immortalizing the heroism of Confederate women, whose valor, its leaders believed, had been every bit as important as men's." The UDC's methods were wide-ranging and ahead of their times: UDC leaders were determined to assert women's cultural authority over virtually every representation of the region's past. This they did by lobbying for state archives and museums, national historic sites, and historic highways; compiling genealogies; interviewing former soldiers; writing history textbooks; and erecting monuments, which now moved triumphantly from cemeteries into town centers. More than half
1716-546: The night of May 19, 1864, the Confederate Generals Johnston, Polk and Hood, conferred and decided to abandon Cassville and to move south of the Etowah, although Johnston originally had intended to fight here. Cassville Female College was founded in 1853. On May 19, 1864, skirmishers of Polk's Army Corps [CS] withdrew from this ridge east to Cassville when pressed back by Butterfield's (3d) Div., XXth Corps [US], from
1768-608: The organization established the Children of the Confederacy to impart similar values to younger generations through a mythical depiction of the Civil War and Confederacy. According to historian Kristina DuRocher , "Like the KKK's children's groups, the UDC utilized the Children of the Confederacy to impart to the rising generations their own white-supremacist vision of the future." The UDC denies assertions that it promotes white supremacy. The communications studies scholar W. Stuart Towns notes
1820-515: The organization should have realized that the "grandest monument (they) could build in the South would be an educated motherhood." The UDC combined education with support of the military during World War II by establishing a nurses' training fund. Each scholarship provided approximately $ 100 per year for a three-year nursing program. When a scholarship was offered, local Chapters were encouraged to contact local schools to locate students who needed assistance to fund their education. In addition,
1872-666: The organization, during World War I , it funded 70 hospital beds at the American Military Hospital on the Western front and contributed over US$ 82,000 for French and Belgian war orphans. The homefront campaign raised $ 24 million for war bonds and savings stamps. Members also donated $ 800,000 to the Red Cross . During World War II , they gave financial aid to student nurses. In 1933 the Tennessee branch of UDC donated $ 50,000 for
1924-552: The passing of a notable educational center in this section of the state. List of county seats in Georgia (U.S. state) 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
1976-581: The path of the invading Federal forces. In May 1899, the Cassville Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy , to honor these unknown soldiers, placed headstones at each of their graves in the local cemetery. On May 19, 1864, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston tricked Sherman into dividing his forces at Adairsville and sending the XXIII Corps under General John M. Schofield across
2028-683: The promotion of the pseudohistorical Lost Cause ideology and corresponding white supremacy . Established in Nashville, Tennessee in 1894, the group venerated the Ku Klux Klan during the Jim Crow era , and in 1926, a local chapter funded the construction of a monument to the Klan. According to the Institute for Southern Studies , the UDC "elevated [the Klan] to a nearly mythical status. It dealt in and preserved Klan artifacts and symbology. It even served as
2080-431: The reburial of Confederate dead, and working to shape the content of history textbooks." They also raised money to care for the widows and children of the Confederate dead. Most of these memorial associations gradually merged into the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which grew from 17,000 total members in 1900 to nearly 100,000 by World War I . The UDC was influential primarily in the early twentieth century across
2132-427: The road here and marched to the Hawkins Price house, en route to Kingston The 1st and 2nd Divisions [US], on roads west, had the same objective - an erratic move by Sherman who assumed that Johnston's Army [CS] had retreated on Kingston. Butterfield's march disclosed that Johnston's Army was at Cassville, not Kingston. The XXIII Corps (Schofield) [US] marched on this road from McDow's, reaching Cassville at dark. Here
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2184-501: The sacred spaces of Southern society (the home, cemeteries, churches, city squares, street names, colleges and schools) made erasing it physically difficult and personally painful." During the period 1880–1910, the UDC was one of many groups that celebrated Lost Cause mythology and presented "a romanticized view of the slavery era" in the United States. The UDC promoted white Southern solidarity, allowing white Southerners to refer to
2236-426: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cassville&oldid=894073396 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
2288-506: The success of the Confederacy in the First Battle of Bull Run. But as a direct result, the town was burned by Union General William T. Sherman in 1864 and never fully recovered. About 300 unknown Confederate soldiers died of wounds or disease in Cassville's several Confederate hospitals. These hospitals operated from late 1861 until May 18, 1864, when ambulances moved patients south out of
2340-613: The time of the Children of the Confederacy Annual General Convention following their 18th birthday. All Children of the Confederacy chapters are sponsored by UDC chapters. Children are taught Lyon Gardiner Tyler 's "Catechism on the History of the Confederate States of America, 1861–1865," which says that Northerners did away with slavery because the climate was unsuitable, that they had no intention of ever paying
2392-526: The town and prepared to withstand the advancing Federals. On May 19: Pursuant to this intention, Hood's corps moved north of the town to oppose the Federal XX and XXIII Corps marching south from Adairsville. But Hood's corps, diverted by an attack on its right by McCook's cavalry [US], changed front and was ordered with the rest of the Army [CS] to withdraw to ridge east and south of the town. The Confederates held
2444-441: The university specifically for that purpose, and the inscription was removed. The UDC encouraged women to publish their experiences in the war, beginning with biographies of major southern figures, such as Varina Davis 's of her husband Jefferson Davis , President of the Confederacy . Later, women began adding more of their own experiences to the "public discourse about the war," in the form of memoirs, such as those published in
2496-537: Was platted in 1833, as the seat of justice for Cass County. It was soon the center of trade and travel in the region recently comprising the Cherokee Nation . Both the county and town were named in the honor of General Lewis Cass , Michigan statesman and Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President Andrew Jackson . It was the county seat of Cass County from 1832–1861. The name was changed to Manassas in 1861 after
2548-523: Was built in 1923 as the first standard school for black children in the Bartow County School System. The school closed in 1955 when all the county's schools for black children were consolidated to form Bartow Elementary School at a central location. Today the restored building is a cultural heritage museum with emphasis on black life in Bartow from the early 1900s to the present. On Chapman Hill,
2600-437: Was formed in Nashville . The name was soon changed to United Daughters of the Confederacy. Their stated intention was to "tell of the glorious fight against the greatest odds a nation ever faced, that their hallowed memory should never die." Their primary activity was to support the construction of Confederate memorials . The UDC has said that its members also support U.S. troops and honor veterans of all U.S. wars. In 1896,
2652-552: Was its underlying cause to sustain slavery), and always to act in a manner that will reflect honor upon our noble and patriotic ancestors. The phrase "nor was its underlying cause to sustain slavery" was deleted by the UDC General Convention of 2015. During the early morning hours of May 31, 2020, the Memorial to the Women of the Confederacy headquarters building in Richmond was vandalized with graffiti and set ablaze during
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#17328687929552704-431: Was no coordinated support for education by the national organization. The divisions were responsible for scholarships and building dormitories for women. At the 1907 General Convention, Caroline Meriwether Goodlett spoke of the shift in the UDC's focus. As monuments were erected, she "sat by ... thinking that the monument fever would abate." She believed that "the most thoughtful and best educated women" in
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