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That Moment by Antonymes
Nocturne by Sololi
Watching it Unfold by Lawrence English
Notes
You can access the self-produced history of the Sophie Bibb Chapter of the UDC here.
The Alabama Encyclopedia site does a nice job with some of this stuff.
You might want to check out Caroline Janney's book, Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Mermorial Associations and the Lost Cause.
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