Confederated Southern Memorial Association

Confederated Southern Memorial Association (U.S.)
AbbreviationCSMA
FormationMay 30, 1900
Founded atLouisville, Kentucky, on
TypeNonprofit
Purpose"Strictly Memorial and Historical"
OriginsLadies' Memorial Associations
Region served
Southern United States
FieldsNeo-Confederate organization that unified state and regional associations
AffiliationsUnited Confederate Veterans
Kate Walker Behan, president general, CSMA
Margaret O'Connor Wilson, president general, CSMA

Confederated Southern Memorial Association (Confederated Southern Memorial Association (U.S.); acronym CSMA; est. 1900) was a Neo-Confederate women's organization of unified memorial associations of the Southern United States. It was composed of 70 women's memorial associations,[1] which had formed between 1861 and 1900.[2] The CSMA was established at Louisville, Kentucky, on May 30, 1900. At that meeting, the women stated that they were unwilling to lose their identity as memorial associations, or to merge themselves into the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Instead, by this union of all Memorial Associations, it was believed that the women of the South would perpetuate more certainly the purposes for which each association had been individually laboring, and would more firmly cement the ties which already existed between them. An increase in membership and more intelligent knowledge of the history of the Confederate Cause would also be the natural result of annual meetings.[3]

  1. ^ Southern Historical Society (1909). Southern Historical Society Papers. Virginia Historical Society. p. 50. Retrieved 17 November 2024. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ Decker, Juilee (15 October 2019). Enid Yandell: Kentucky's Pioneer Sculptor. University Press of Kentucky. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-8131-7865-3. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
  3. ^ Confederated Southern Memorial Association (U.S.), ed. (1904). History of the confederated memorial associations of the South. New Orleans: The Graham Press. Retrieved 17 November 2024 – via Internet Archive. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.