Description
Participants in the pageant titled Heroines of the Confederacy pose for a group photograph on November 17, 1932. Organized by Mrs. John H. Anderson, the historian-general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the pageant was presented at the organizations general convention in Memphis, Tennessee. The women represented various figures deemed heroic in their defense of the Confederate cause. Among them were Varina Davis, the wife of the Confederate president Jefferson Davis; Rose ONeal Greenhow, a Confederate spy; and Captain Sally Tompkins, a Confederate nurse and the only woman given a commission in the Confederate army.
