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United Daughters of the Confederacy (U.S.)

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Introduction
UDC Chapter flag

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Introduction

The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is a nonprofit organization classified as a charitable, patriotic, historical, and benevolent organization for female descendants of Confederate Civil War soldiers engaging in the commemoration of these ancestors, the funding of monuments to them established on September 10, 1894 in Nashville, Tennessee first as "a national 'federation of all Southern Women's Auxiliary, Memorial, and Soldiers' Aid Societies". The UDC is the outgrowth of numerous ladies' hospital associations, sewing societies and knitting circles that worked throughout the South during the War Between the States to supply the needs of the soldiers. After the War, these organizations kept pace with the changing times and evolved into cemetery, memorial, monument and Confederate Home Associations and Auxiliaries to Camps of Confederate Veterans. Out of these many local groups, which for nearly 30 years rendered untold service to the South and her people, two statewide organizations came into existence as early as 1890: the Daughters of the Confederacy in Missouri and the Ladies Auxiliary of the Confederate Soldier’s Home in Tennessee. The association with these two organizations makes the UDC the oldest patriotic lineage organization in the country.

When the organizing meeting was held in Nashville in 1894, the ladies chose the name National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy. The source of inspiration for the name was Gen. John B. Gordon’s introduction of Winnie Davis on April 30, 1886, at a train platform in West Point, Georgia. He presented her to an applauding throng of Confederate Veterans as “the Daughter of the Confederacy.” In 1895 in Atlanta, Georgia, at the second meeting of the ladies, the name was changed to United Daughters of the Confederacy.

The UDC was incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia on July 18, 1919. As stated in the Articles of Incorporation, the Objects of the society are Historical, Benevolent, Educational, Memorial and Patriotic and include the following goals:
- To honor the memory of those who served and those who fell in the service of the Confederate States.
- To protect, preserve and mark the places made historic by Confederate valor.
- To collect and preserve the material for a truthful history of the War Between the States.
- To record the part taken by Southern women in patient endurance of hardship and patriotic devotion during the struggle and in untiring efforts after the War during the reconstruction of the South.
- To fulfill the sacred duty of benevolence toward the survivors and toward those dependent upon them.
- To assist descendants of worthy Confederates in securing proper education.
- To cherish the ties of friendship among the members of the Organization.

Sources: https://hqudc.org/about/history-of-the-udc
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/united-daughters-of-the-confederacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Daughters_of_the_Confederacy

For additional information go to HQ (Headquarters) UDC (official website): https://hqudc.org/

Esteban Rivera, 2 March 2026

UDC Chapter flag

image located by Esteban Rivera, 2 March 2026
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Hand made First National flag design 18 by 12 inches. Ida Harris Culbertson Chapter No. 596 U.D.C, Kiowa, Okla. The ancestor of Ida Culbertson was Dr. E. Poe Harris Co. C 2nd Missouri, noted Physician and Indian History writer, the flag is hand stitched to white cardboard, is very good original condition, this flag is believed to be about 1896 or earlier, while Dr. Harris was still living.

Esteban Rivera, 2 March 2026