Children of the Confederacy

Most of the quilts are from online auctions

My picture files of crazy quilts made at the end of the 19th century include an unsettling number of Confederate flags. An article in the Washington Post this week gives me a glimpse into the culture behind the continuing mystique of these memorials.

Lewis Allen Collection

The article: "Why Young Southerners Still Get Indoctrinated in the Lost Cause" is by Daniel L. Fountain, professor of history at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina.

George Washington & Jefferson Davis

Pocahontas Gay, National Museum of American History

Fountain begins:

"Statues can be torn down. The lies on which they were built are harder to topple. At the age of two, four years before I was baptized, I was inducted into the Children of the Confederacy, the children’s auxiliary of the United Daughters of the Confederacy."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/05/16/why-young-southerners-still-get-indoctrinated-lost-cause/?utm_term=.cf81f4da246b

Northerners like me have never heard of the Children of the Confederacy.

From the Digital Library of Georgia

From the Digital Library of Georgia

Current project of a chapter of the 

Children of the Confederacy