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My Old Confederate Home - A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans (Hardcover)
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My Old Confederate Home - A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans (Hardcover)
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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contemporary accounts, unpublished letters, and family stories, My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.
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