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HISTORICAL – EDUCATIONAL – BENEVOLENT – MEMORIAL – PATRIOTIC. “United in Service” Thank you for visiting the United Daughters of the Confederacy Official Website. If you are interested in learning more about our Organization, we invite you to explore the pages of our Website where Confederacy”. Placed on the National Registry of the Historic Places, we invite you to schedule a visit to see the wonderful items housed within our beautiful building and visit the Helen Walpole Brewer Library where you will find many genealogical records and historical articles regarding the War Between the States as well as the current activities of our members. In keeping with our objectives, which are Historical, Educational, Benevolent, Memorial and Patriotic, I have chosen as my theme Veterans and those in our communities as we have for the past 122 years.                     Patricia M. Bryson                     President General, 2016-2018 The United Daughters of the Confederacy appreciates the feelings of citizens across the country currently being expressed concerning Confederate memorial statues and monuments that were erected by our members in decades past. To some, these memorial statues and markers are viewed as divisive and thus unworthy of being allowed to remain in public places. To others, they simply represent a memorial to our forefathers who fought bravely during four years of war. These memorial statues and markers have been We are grieved that certain hate groups have taken the Confederate flag and other symbols as their own. We are the descendants of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and patriots. Our members are the ones who have spent 123 years honoring their memory by various activities in the fields of education, history and charity, promoting patriotism and good citizenship. Our members are the ones who, like our statues, have stayed quietly in the background, never engaging in public controversy.