March 26, 1896

The Alabama Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was founded by Camden resident Sallie Jones. Founded a year and a half after the National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy, the Alabama Division was created to preserve and honor the memory of the Confederate States of America and its soldiers who served in the Civil War. The organization started with seven chapters and, as of 2006, had 1,710 members spread among 58 chapters. Notable projects from the organization’s history include the preservation of Confederate Memorial Park near Marbury, raising funds for numerous battlefield monuments and memorials throughout Alabama and providing books, scholarships and awards to students across the state.

Read more at Encyclopedia of Alabama.

The starting point of the great war between the states, c. 1888. (Lithograph by A. Hoen & Co., Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

Confederate Memorial Monument, Montgomery, 2010. (The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

Rear view of the First White House of the Confederacy, 1934. (Photograph by W.N. Manning, HABS, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

View of a bedroom at the First White House of the Confederacy, 1934. (Photograph by W.N. Manning, HABS, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

Executive residence of President Jefferson Davis and family while the capitol of the Confederacy was in Montgomery, 2010. (The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

View from the drawing room into the dining room of the First White House of the Confederacy, 1934. (Photograph by W.N. Manning, HABS, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

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