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Preferred Citation

[identification of item], [box #, folder #], United Daughters of the Confederacy, Turner Ashby Chapter Records, 1896-1990, SC 0121, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.

Acquisition Information

Placed on deposit through contract with the Turner Ashby Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy dated November 7, 1989 with additions in March 1991 and February 1993.

Processing Information

In order to streamline the process of applying collection numbers, Special Collections staff completed a large-scale renumbering campaign in the spring of 2017. This collection was previously cataloged as SC 3010. Audiocassettes were digitized in May 2019.

Administrative History

The United Daughters of the Confederacy were formed by the outgrowth of local and memorial groups related the United Confederate Veterans, formed after the Civil War. It was first founded in Nashville, Tennessee on September 10, 1894 under the name the National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy. At its second meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1895, the name of the organization was changed to the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Membership into a chapter of the UDC requires that women applying must be at least 16 years of age who are lineal or collateral blood descendants of men and women who served in the Army, Navy, or Civil Service for the Confederate States during the Civil War. On October 21, 1895, four chapters charted by the UDC met in Alexandria, Va. and organized the first statewide organization with the UDC: the Virginia Division. The Turner Ashby Chapter was chartered by about two dozen Harrisonburg women in the late 1890s. Today, the chapter has taken on a variety of education and historic preservation efforts, especially the Turner Ashby monument.

Scope and Content

The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Turner Ashby Chapter Records, 1896-1990s, consists of 1 Hollinger box and 2 flat boxes containing the records of the chapter up until the present day. These records are mainly comprised of membership application forms, along with some incomplete forms and several Confederate banners. In the accompanying flat boxes, there are the original charters, programs, yearbooks, and scrapbooks.

There are also 9 cassette tapes with recordings of the proceedings of the Centennial celebration of the Stonewall Jackson Valley Campaign events, held in 1962, as well as other events hosted by the UDC. The recordings include interviews with local persons, including Dr. John Wayland and Rev. John G. Dubosq, by local radio personality Wip Robinson. The Mr. Robinson's wife Jane was a very active chapter president. An index to the tapes is available in Box 1.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in the following three series:

Related Material

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Southern Cross of Honor Records, 1905-1941, SC 0097, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Ashby, Turner, 1828-1862 -- Monuments
• Confederate States of America -- History -- Societies, etc.
• Confederate States of America -- History -- Sources
• Confederate States of America -- History, Military -- Sources
• Confederate States of America. Army -- Flags
• Confederate States of America. Army -- History
• Mountain people -- Virginia -- Shenandoah National Park -- Social life and customs
• Robinson, Wip, 1910-1990
• Shenandoah National Park (Va.) -- History
• Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources
• Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History -- Sources
• United Daughters of the Confederacy. Turner Ashby Chapter, No. 162 (Harrisonburg, Va.) -- Records and correspondence
• United States -- Armed Forces -- History
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Flags
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Societies, etc. -- Confederate
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources
• Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources