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First meeting of Texas Division of United Daughters of the Confederacy
On this day in 1896, the Texas Division of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy met for the first time in Victoria. The United Daughters of
the Confederacy was established in 1894 by the merger of state groups in
Georgia, Missouri, and Tennessee. The Texas Division was organized by
Kate Cabell Muse, who had earlier organized a local chapter in her
hometown, Dallas. The Texas Division has been active in marking historic
locations and holds annual memorial observances to remember not only
Confederate veterans but veterans of all wars. The division formerly
sponsored the Texas Confederate Home and the Confederate Woman's Home
and each year awards thousands of dollars in scholarships to descendants
of Confederate veterans. It also maintains the Texas Confederate Museum.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY
- MUSE, KATIE CABELL
- TEXAS CONFEDERATE MUSEUM
- TEXAS CONFEDERATE HOME
- CONFEDERATE WOMAN'S HOME
- DAFFAN, KATIE LITTY
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
- Woman joins Union army in male disguise (1861)
- American Academy of Arts and Letters honors black Texas poet (1966)
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