Author: Georgia. Confederate Soldiers' Home, AtlantaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soldiers' homes
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Report of Board of Trustees of Confederate Soldiers' Home
Author: Georgia. Confederate Soldiers' Home, AtlantaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soldiers' homes
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Living Monuments
Author: R. B. RosenburgPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807849552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
While battlefield parks and memorials erected in town squares and cemeteries have served to commemorate southern valor in the Civil War, Confederate soldiers' homes were actually 'living monuments' to the Lost Cause, housing the very men who made that cau
Report
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A List of the Official Publications of the Confederate States Government in the Virginia State Library and the Library of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States literature
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Park's Annotated Code of the State of Georgia, 1914
Author: GeorgiaReport of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: Report and Opinions of the Attorney General of Georgia
Author: Georgia. Attorney-General's OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Attorneys general's opinions
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
My Old Confederate Home
Author: Rusty WilliamsPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813125820
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In the wake of America's Civil War, hundreds of thousands of men who fought for the Confederacy trudged back to their homes in the Southland. Some -- due to lingering effects from war wounds, other disabilities, or the horrors of combat -- were unable to care for themselves. Homeless, disabled, and destitute veterans began appearing on the sidewalks of southern cities and towns. In 1902 Kentucky's Confederate veterans organized and built the Kentucky Confederate Home, a luxurious refuge in Pewee Valley for their unfortunate comrades. Until it closed in 1934, the Home was a respectable -- if not always idyllic -- place where disabled and impoverished veterans could spend their last days in comfort and free from want. In My Old Confederate Home: A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans, Rusty Williams frames the lively history of the Kentucky Confederate Home with the stories of those who built, supported, and managed it: a daring cavalryman-turned-bank-robber, a senile ship captain, a prosperous former madam, and a small-town clergyman whose concern for the veterans cost him his pastorate. Each chapter is peppered with the poignant stories of men who spent their final years as voluntary wards of an institution that required residents to live in a manner which reinforced the mythology of a noble Johnny Reb and a tragic Lost Cause. Based on thorough research utilizing a range of valuable resources, including the Kentucky Confederate Home's operational documents, contemporary accounts, unpublished letters, and family stories, My Old Confederate Home reveals the final, untold chapter of Kentucky's Civil War history.