Daughters of the Confederacy

Mildred Lewis Rutherford (1851–1928) was a prominent educator, speaker, and author from Athens, Georgia, who served for over forty years at the Lucy Cobb Institute. She became the historian general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) from 1911 to 1916, advocating the Lost Cause narrative through her extensive writings, speeches, and a historical journal published from 1923 to 1927. Her 1916 UDC speech was the first by a woman recorded in the Congressional Record.[1]