Confederate Soldiers' Homes

"The Kentucky Confederate Home was the brightest jewel in a necklace of Confederate veterans’ homes draped across the South and the border states.

Confederate veterans in various states acted largely independent of one another as they planned, financed, built, and opened soldiers’ homes in Louisiana, Virginia, Texas, Maryland, Arkansas, North Carolina, Missouri, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. (South Carolina would open a home in 1909, Oklahoma in 1911, and California in 1929.)

R. B. Rosenburg’s Living Monuments: Confederate Soldiers’ Homes in the New South (University of North Carolina Press, 1993) is a terrific source for information about these unique institutions.

Virginia—The Lee Camp Soldiers Home in Richmond, Virginia, resulted from a nationwide fundraising effort by Confederate and Union veterans in that city. With money raised from Northern philanthropists, theatrical benefits, charity bazaars, and gifts from Confederate veterans everywhere, the home opened in February 1885."
========
Confederate Soldiers' Homes