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The United Daughters of the Confederacy, or U.D.C., still exists.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2017
According to a newspaper account from 1912, U.D.C. members learned about the Robert E. Lee tree through the church’s rector, who attended one of the group’s events at the Waldorf-Astoria.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2017
Today, a second, smaller plaque on the tree notes that it survived until 1935, when the U.D.C. planted the current maple as a replacement.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2017
To save the state's credit�and housing developments already abuilding �Carey had to persuade the legislature to bail out U.D.C. temporarily while he bargained with reluctant bankers to get new underwriting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, then I attended a meeting of my parish branch of the U.D.C.
From Non-combatants and Others by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
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