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The Confederate Memorial State Historic Site is a state-owned property occupying approximately 135 acres (55 ha) near Higginsville, Missouri.From 1891 to 1950, the site was used as an old soldiers' home for veterans of the Confederate States Army after the American Civil War.
Confederate Soldiers' Home and Widows' and Orphans' Asylum, Georgetown, Kentucky [44] Kentucky Confederate Soldiers' Home, Pewee Valley, Kentucky [45] Soldiers' Home at Harrodsburg, Kentucky [14] Soldiers' Home of Louisiana a.k.a. Camp Nicholls Soldier's Home, New Orleans, Louisiana [46] Eastern Branch National Military Home, Togus, Maine [47]
This category is for permanent military cemeteries established for Confederate soldiers and sailors who died during campaigns or operations. A common difference between cemeteries of war graves and those of civilian peacetime graves is the uniformity of those interred. They generally died during a relatively short period, in a small geographic ...
In 1924 a scandal arose over mistreatment of the soldiers at the home. [6] The oldest veteran of the Civil War, Lorenzo Grace, died there in 1928. [7] The last veteran to share the home was Henry Taylor Dowling whose entry was recorded on April 17, 1941. The Home housed widows of Confederate veterans beginning in the 1940s before closing in 1963.
The federal government's policy toward Confederate graves at Arlington National Cemetery changed at the end of the 19th century. The 10-week Spanish–American War of 1898 marked the first time since prior to the Civil War that Americans from all states, North and South, were involved in a military conflict with a foreign power. [11]
The Association of Confederate Soldiers (Tennessee Division) was an organization formed by veterans of the American Civil War in 1887, and helped to form the United Confederate Veterans in 1889. Dr. Joseph Jones served as the association's surgeon general and helped sponsor efforts in 1890 to archive and maintain Confederate army medical records.
This monument was commissioned in 1912 by Greenlawn Cemetery and memorializes Confederate soldiers who died at Camp Morton, a Union prison camp. Efforts by public officials active in the Ku Klux Klan in 1928 lead to the monument's relocation to Garfield Park to make it more visible. A resolution to remove the monument passed the Indianapolis ...
Albert O'Connor (July 15, 1843 – April 3, 1928) served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.He received the Medal of Honor. [1]O'Connor was born on July 15, 1843, in East Hereford, Canada East.