United Daughters of the Confederacy, Turner Ashby Chapter #184 Collection

1325 WFCHS

Inventory created by Archives Staff 09/1992. Last revised 03/2021.

ACCESS RESTRICTIONS: Collection is open to all researchers.

USE RESTRICTIONS: Restrictions may apply concerning the use, photoduplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult a member of the archives staff for information concerning these restrictions. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright. Note: Some items in this collection are copies of materials belonging to another institution. These documents are identified in the organization section. Consult the holding institution with questions about copyright and use of these materials.

EXTENT: 5.17 linear feet

ALTERNATIVE FORM AVAILABLE: The Genealogical Society of Utah digitized selected materials from this collection in 2007. [GSU Discs 009-04 – 009-09]. Not online.

SCOPE AND CONTENT: This collection contains records of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (U.D.C.), Turner Ashby Chapter #184, Winchester, VA. There are copies of applications for membership in the local U.D.C. and minute books from 1891-1904, 1909-1920, 1926-1962, 1965-1974, 1987-1989, 1993-1996 are in the collection. These items, and especially the application records, are valuable sources for genealogical research. The collection also includes articles and news clippings about Confederate veterans’ events in Virginia and other southern states, as well as materials produced by the U.D.C. to memorialize the Confederacy.

BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL: The National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy was founded in 1894, primarily to memorialize the Confederacy through memorials and other activities. The name changed to the United Daughters of the Confederacy soon after. The Turner Ashby Chapter #184, U.D.C. is one of nine chapters in the Virginia Division, which were chartered on November 11, 1897. The Turner Ashby Chapter was originally referred to as Chapter #54, Virginia Division. In 1997, the designation #184 was put into use.

Women in Winchester and Frederick County began to organize very soon after the end of the Civil War. In 1865, in Winchester, Va., a group of women led by Mary Dunbar Williams formed the Ladies’ Stonewall Memorial Association to provide for the burial of Confederate dead. The forerunner of the Turner Ashby Chapter was first organized in 1894 under the leadership of Miss Kate Conrad as an auxiliary to Turner Ashby Camp, Confederate veterans. At this time, members began to assist with the annual June 6^th Confederate Memorial Day ceremony.

RELATED MATERIAL: Stonewall Cemetery Records, 500 THL; Turner Ashby Camp #22 of Confederate Veterans Papers, 302 WFCHS

CITE AS: United Daughters of the Confederacy Turner Ashby Chapter #184 Collection, 1325 WFCHS, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA.

ORGANIZATION:

BOXES 1 and 2

Descendant files A-Z. Click here to view index organized alphabetically by descendant and veteran. (PDF)

BOX 3 – Local Area

"Historic Winchester and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia," 1 item, printed

Opequon Church, Frederick Co., VA – Dedication services, Oct. 30, 1897, 1 item, printed

"Shenandoah Valley National Bank–A Century of Service, 1866-1966," 1 item, printed

Stonewall Brigade—Battles, 1 item, printed, 4 pages

Stonewall Jackson’s Headquarters – Dedication of marble bench, 2 items, printed

UDC, Turner Ashby Chapter – 98^th Anniversary, Nov. 11, 1995, 4 leaves, typescript

UDC, Turner Ashby Chapter—News articles, unnumbered pages, printed (photocopy)

"Warren County Civil War Centennial Commemoration," May 19-20, 1962, 1 item, printed

Winchester Female Academy, 1851-1852, 1 item, printed

Women’s Patriotic Aid Society of Staunton, VA, 1 item, printed

BOX 3A – Confederate Memorial Day

Grand floral procession – excerpt from Winchester News, June 8, 1866, 4 leaves, typescript

Stonewall Cemetery – Confederate soldiers, 1 item, printed

Alabama Confederate Soldiers buried at Stonewall Cemetery

Confederate Memorial Day – News Clippings, unnumbered leaves, photocopy/printed

Confederate Memorial Day – Programs, unnumbered leaves, print

Grand Floral Procession – Excerpt from Winchester News, June 8, 1866 – 4 leaves, typescript (photocopy)

Veterans Parade – poem by G. W. Hendon, reprinted from the Confederate Sailor, Jan., 1925, compliments of Miss Lucy [Kurtz], Winchester, Virginia, 1 item, printed

BOX 4

Alexandria, VA – Historic homes and landmarks, 1931, 1 item, printed—Not digitized

Battlefield Markers Association, Western Division, 1929, 1 booklet, printed

Capitols of the South, 1917, 1 item, printed

Civil War Centennial Commission bulletins – April 1960-June 1965, unnumbered items, printed—Not digitized

Civil War Times Illustrated, June 1963, 1 item, printed—Not digitized

Confederate States Post Office Department – Its Stamps and Stationary, by August Dietz, 1948, 1 item, printed

Congressional Record – Address of Hon. A. Willis Robertson at Staunton ,April 10, 1954, 3 pages, printed

The Courier – Newsletter of Children of the Confederacy, 6 booklets, printed—Not digitized

October 1991	Summer 1992
December 1991	September 1992
Spring 1992	October 1992

Davis, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis a Character Sketch, by H.H. Smith, no date, printed, 1 item

District meetings, 1 item, printed—Not digitized

Elmira, NY, Woodlawn Cemetery- List of Confederate Soldiers buried in, 1 item, printed

"Essays on American History," by Mary H. Flournoy, 1956, 1 booklet, printed—Not digitized

Facsimiles, historic letters, unnumbered items, printed

Flags of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865, booklet, 1 item

History Committee of Grand Camp and Sons of Confederate Veterans – Reports, 1902 and 1938, 2 booklets, printed

Jefferson, Thomas (folder contains the following):
The Bloom of Monticello, by Elizabeth H. Sadler, 1926, 1 item, bound, printed
"The Sage of Monticello," 1926, 1 item, printed

Lee, Robert E. (folder contains the following):
Robert E. Lee -Soldier, Patriot, Educator, no date, 1 item, printed, published for the Lee Memorial Fund,                                                                                                                       
Robert E. Lee, A Character Sketch by H. H. Smith,  no date,1 item, printed,

"Lincoln Herald," Summer 1979, 1 item, printed—Not digitized

Monument to Confederate Soldiers, invitation to unveiling, Richmond, VA, Oct. 25, 1902,                       1 item, printed

BOX 5

Orchard Lake, Michigan – "The Story of Orchard Lake Community Church," 1959, 1 item, printed—Not digitized

Organization of camps in the United Confederate Veterans, May 1912, 1 booklet, printed

Reunion programs – Grand Camp and Sons of Veterans, 5 booklets, printed

1923	1927
1924	1928
1925

Turner Ashby Scrapbook—includes news articles and poetry about Turner Ashby, his service and death, typescript, 55 leaves; transcribed by Patricia Walenista, 2006. Scrapbook housed in Virginia Historical Society, Mss. 5:7 on 3:15; unidentified compiler, Scrapbook, no date—Do Not Copy in Entirety or Publish without Written Permission of Virginia Historical Society
—Not digitized

United Daughters of the Confederacy - Not digitized (folder contains the following):
"Articles of Incorporation, By-Laws, Standing Rules," 1958, 1 item, printed
"Handbook," 1959, 1 item, printed

United Daughters of the Confederacy Magazine, Sept. 1994, v. LVII, #8, 1 item, printed—Not digitized

United Daughters of the Confederacy Magazine, March, 2011, 38 pages, printed (two copies) –Not digitized

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Virginia Division, 1 item, printed—Not digitized

Virginia Municipal Review – 20^th annual convention program, Oct. 1925, v. II, #10, 1 booklet, printed

"Women’s Dress in the 1860s," by Diane J. Kelly, 1987, 9 leaves, bound, typescript

BOX 6

Attendance Record and Meeting Notes 1900-1908, 1 item, manuscript

Treasurer’s Report–1958-1963, 1 item, manuscript

BOX 7

Minute book, 1909-1920, 1 item, bound, manuscript

Minute book, September 1926-December 1931, 1 item, bound, manuscript

Minute book, January 1932-December 1940, 1 item, bound, manuscript

Minute book, February 1941-March 1950, 1 item, bound, manuscript

Minute book, April 1950-February 1962, 1 item, bound, manuscript

BOX 8

Minute book, 1965-1974, 1 item, typescript

Minute book, 1987-1989, 1 item, typescript

Minute book, 1993-1995, with some attendance notes (1994-1995), 1 item, typescript and manuscript

Minute book, 1993-1996, with some attendance notes (1995-1996), 1 item, typescript and manuscript

BOX 9

Programs, for the following years:

1957	1963	1968	1972-1972	1976-1977
1959	1965	1969	1973-1974
1960	1966	1969-1970	1974-1975
1962	1967	1970-1971	1975-1976

Yearbooks –Turner Ashby Chapter (#54 until 1996; #184 after 1997)

1963-1964	1985-1986	1993-1994	2000-2001	2010-2011	2019-2020
1978-1979	1986-1987	1994-1995	2001-2002	2011-2012
1979-1980	1988-1989	1995-1996	2002-2003	2013-2014
1981-1982	1989-1990	1996-1997	2003-2004	2014-2015
1982-1983	1990-1991	1975-1998	2004-2005	2015-2016
1983-1984	1991-1992	1998-1999	2006-2007	2017-2018
1984-1985	1992-1993	1999-2000	2008-2009	2018-2019

BOX 10

Selected items from scrapbooks, unnumbered items

1949-1979	1965-1968	1983-1985	1994-1995
1940s	1969-1970	1985-1986	1996
1950-1960s	1971-1976	1986-1987	2002
1955	1979-1980	1987-1988
1960-1961	1980-1981	1991-1992
1963-1965	1982-1983	1992-1993

BOX 11

Membership certificate – Ada Thompson Cather, March 30, 1929, 1 item, printed with manuscript

Selected items from scrapbooks, unnumbered items

1989-1991	1994-1995
1993-1994	1995

Dixie’s Land—actual size facsimile of the original manuscript of sheet music

United Daughters of the Confederacy–Stonewall Cemetery roster prepared by Lucy F. Kurtz and Ben Ritter

OVERSIZE

Scrapbook, 1953-1954

Scrapbook, 1960-1961

Scrapbook, 1977-1978

Scrapbook, 1979-1980

Scrapbook, 1981-1982

Scrapbook, 1990-1991

MAPCASE 1 DRAWER 6

Charters for Children of the Confederacy June 12, 1967 (reactivated June 28, 1989), includes list of members, manuscript on printed form