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 Home