Stories & Essays: At War with Ourselves

United Daughter of the Confederacy Mary-Margaret Swofford waits to present the Texas state flag during the UDC's annual Massing of the Flags ceremony in Richmond. The UDC, and its younger off-shoot, the Children of the Confederacy, is a legacy organization whose outlined objectives are memorial, eduction, patriotic, historical and benevolent. Member Barbara Joyner said she other Daughters struggle to get their message across that the UDC "hasn't got a daggone thing to do with racism."
United Daughter of the Confederacy Mary-Margaret Swofford waits to present the Texas state flag during the UDC's annual Massing of the Flags ceremony in Richmond. The UDC, and its younger off-shoot, the Children of the Confederacy, is a legacy organization whose outlined objectives are memorial, eduction, patriotic, historical and benevolent. Member Barbara Joyner said she other Daughters struggle to get their message across that the UDC "hasn't got a daggone thing to do with racism."