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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 ...
The second White House of the Confederacy is a gray stuccoed neoclassical mansion built in 1818 by John Brockenbrough, who was president of the Bank of Virginia.Designed by Robert Mills, Brockenbrough's second private residence in Richmond was built on K Street (later renamed Clay Street) in Richmond's affluent Shockoe Hill neighborhood (later known as the Court End District), and was two ...
1865 photograph of Libby Prison. Libby Prison was a Confederate prison at Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War.In 1862 it was designated to hold officer prisoners from the Union Army, taking in numbers from the nearby Seven Days battles (in which nearly 16,000 Union men and officers had been killed, wounded, or captured between June 25 and July 1 alone) and other conflicts of the ...
Texas Confederate Home for Men, Austin, Texas [81] Texas Confederate Woman's Home, north of Austin, Texas [82] Vermont Soldiers' Home, Bennington, Vermont [83] Soldier's Home, Hampton, Va. Southern Branch National Military Home, Hampton, Virginia [37] Virginia Confederate Soldiers' Home a.k.a. Lee Camp Soldiers' Home, Richmond, Virginia [84]
The American Civil War Museum is a multi-site museum in the Greater Richmond Region of central Virginia, dedicated to the history of the American Civil War. The museum operates three sites: The White House of the Confederacy , the American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar in Richmond , and the American Civil War Museum at Appomattox .
Confederate Memorial Chapel is a historic interdenominational memorial chapel located in Richmond, Virginia. Dedicated on May 8, 1887, it is a white frame, Gothic Revival style structure with a clipped gable roof of grey tin and a belfry. The funds to build the chapel, which totaled $4,000, were raised by private citizens, veterans, and through ...
Chimborazo Hospital was a Civil War-era facility built in Richmond, Virginia, to serve the Confederate Army. It functioned between 1862 and 1865, treating over 76,000 wounded Confederate soldiers. It functioned between 1862 and 1865, treating over 76,000 wounded Confederate soldiers.
Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Libby Hill Park (1894). Defaced with graffiti in 2015. [50] Hunter Holmes McGuire statue, on Capitol Square. McGuire was a Confederate veteran, Stonewall Jackson's personal physician, and an influential supporter of the "Lost Cause" view of the Confederacy and the Civil War.