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It is unclear how many Confederate dead were disinterred and reburied in the new Confederate section. In 1912, the House Committee on Appropriations observed that legal authority existed for interment of 264 Confederate soldiers—128 of which came from the Soldiers' Home National Cemetery and 136 of which came from Arlington National Cemetery ...
The site operated as the Old Soldiers Home for Confederate Veterans from 1902 to 1939. In 1964, the Alabama State Legislature established the memorial park, which now hosts a museum and archives [89] Miami: Robert E. Lee Park; Mountain Creek: Confederate Memorial Park [90] and Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home
The home was founded on January 1, 1885, [1] by the R. E. Lee Camp No. 1 as a support home for veterans of the Confederate States Army. The camp home was built with private funds from both Confederate and Union veterans (the Grand Army of the Republic being one of its biggest donators). Due to the bipartisan support of the home, the Confederate ...
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 ...
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A Confederate memorial is to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia in the coming days, part of the push to remove symbols that commemorate the ...
Following the Battle of Island Number Ten, about 1400 Confederate soldiers who surrendered there, many from the 1st Regiment Alabama Infantry, were taken at the end of April, 1862, to the Union training field Camp Randall in Madison, Wisconsin, which was found to be unsuitable, [3] resulting in the deaths of 140 prisoners before the remaining survivors were sent to Camp Douglas (Chicago) at ...
A Confederate memorial is to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia in the coming days, part of the push to remove symbols that commemorate the Confederacy from military ...
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]