Complex sentence: Some of the women's societies also saw reburial of Confederate dead in the South as a way of maintaining their relevance and recruiting new members, while others wanted reburial in the South so they could erect pro-Confederate monuments over the graves and keep the Confederate cause alive.
Split into simpler sentences: Some of the women's societies also saw reburial of Confederate dead in the South as a way of maintaining their relevance and recruiting new members. Some associations wanted reburial in the South so they could erect pro-Confederate monuments over the graves and keep the Confederate cause alive.