Living monuments: Confederate soldiers' homes in the New South

478 Pages·1993·2.92 MB·English

by  Randall Britt Rosenburg

Living Monuments : Confederate Soldiers'
title:
Homes in the New South
author: Rosenburg, R. B.
publisher: University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin: 0807821098
print isbn13: 9780807821091
ebook isbn13: 9780807864210
language: English
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-
1865--Veterans, Soldiers' homes--
subject Confederate States of America, Soldiers'
homes--Southern States--History--19th
century.
publication date: 1993
lcc: E545.R65 1993eb
ddc: 973.7/42
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-
1865--Veterans, Soldiers' homes--
subject: Confederate States of America, Soldiers'
homes--Southern States--History--19th
century.
LIVING MONUMENTS
Confederate Soldiers' Homes in the New South
R. B. ROSENBURG
The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London
© 1995 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and
durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book
Iongevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Portions of Chapter 4 appeared earlier, in somewhat different form, in
R. B. Rosenburg, "The House that Grady Built: The Fight for the
Confederate Soldiers' Home of Georgia," Georgia Historical
Quarterly 74 (Fall 1990): 399-432, and are reprinted here with
permission.
Frontispiece (p. iii): Past and present merge in a scene outside the
main building of the Lee Camp Home, Richmond, Virginia, c. 1910.
(author's collection)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rosenburg, R. B. (Randall Britt), 1956-
Living monuments : Confederate soldiers' homes in the
New South / by R.B. Rosenburg.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN D-8078-2109-8 (hard : alk. paper)
1. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865-
Veterans.2. Soldiers' homesConfederate States of
America.3. Soldiers' homesSouthern StatesHistory
19th century.I. Title.
E545.R651993
973.7'42dc20 93-12465
CIP
97 96 95 94 93 5 4 3 2 1
For Max
CONTENTS
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
CHAPTER ONE Johnny Reb: Hero and Symbol 3
CHAPTER TWO Southern Poor Boys 13
CHAPTER THREE The Sacred Duty 26
CHAPTER FOUR The Home That Grady Built 46
CHAPTER FIVE A Discipline for Heroes 73
CHAPTER SIX Inside the Walls 93
CHAPTER SEVEN Twice a Child 111
CHAPTER EIGHT Patterns of Change and Decline 132
Epilogue 153
Appendix 155
Notes 175
Bibliography 215
Index 233
Page ix
ILLUSTRATIONS
Scene outside the main building of the Lee Camp Home iii
Image of Johnny Reb 6
Confederate veterans on the grounds of the Lee Camp 10
Home
The North Carolina Soldiers' Home 11
The Arkansas Confederate Home 16
Inmates and staff of the South Carolina Confederate 20
Infirmary
Tennessee home on the grounds of the Hermitage 24
The Lee Camp Home 29
The Texas Confederate Home for Men 31
Louisiana's Camp Nicholls 34
Wounded veterans in front of the Mississippi home 40
Receipt for medical care for Florida home inmate 43
The Confederate soldiers' home as an object of 51
sectional pride and of commercialism in a 1928
advertisement
Atlanta Constitution drawing published in reaction to 58
the rejection of plans for a Georgia soldiers' home
The controversial home that Grady built for Georgia's 63
veterans
The main building of the new home for Georgia's 68
Confederate veterans erected in place of the one that
burned down
Page x
Plat of the Lee Camp Home 77
The admission form used to screen applicants to the 84
South Carolina Confederate Infirmary
Honorable discharge paper issued by the Lee Camp 89
Home
The mess hall of the Lee Camp Home 97
Inmates George L. Cathey and G. F Beavers at the 103
North Carolina home
Officials and staff of the Jefferson M. Falkner 108
Soldiers' Home
Interior view of the hospital chapel at Beauvoir 115
Boy scout visiting with veterans at the Mississippi 122
home
Scene in front of Camp Hardee cottage at the Alabama128
home
Ex-body servants Frank Childress and Nathan Best at 136
Beauvoir
Postcard to an Arkansas Confederate Home inmate 146
Young women visiting veterans at the Lee Camp 151
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