Dorothy Blount Lamar

Lamar with her fellow executive committee members at a Confederate Reunion in Macon in 1911. Picture from her autobiography When All Is Said and Done.[1]

Eugenia Dorothy (also Dolly) Blount Lamar (crediting herself Mrs Walter D Lamar[2]) was an American historian and activist from Macon, Georgia. A staunch defender of the values of the American South during the early 20th century, she was the president of the Georgia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (GDUDC)[3][4] and for many years was the organization's historian.[5]

Lamar was interested in Southern history and literature as well. She left a sum of money to Mercer University, to fund an annual lecture named for her; the Lamar Lectures have been held at Mercer since 1957.[4] She was also a supporter of the reputation and legacy of poet and Confederate veteran Sidney Lanier, and was the president of the Lanier association in Macon.[6]

  1. ^ McRae 1998, p. 803.
  2. ^ Taylor 1959, p. 16.
  3. ^ Lamar 1915, p. 318.
  4. ^ a b Kreyling 2003, p. 107.
  5. ^ Manis 2004, p. 180.
  6. ^ Barefoot 2000, p. 26.