Living Monuments: Confederate Soldiers’ Homes in the New South

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At the same time as battlefield parks and memorials erected on the town squares and cemeteries have served to commemorate southern valor in the Civil War, Confederate soldiers’ homes were in truth ‘living monuments’ to the Lost Cause, housing the very men who made that cause their own. R. B. Rosenburg provides the first account of the establishment and operation of these homes for disabled and indigent southern veterans, which had their heyday between the 1880s and the 1920s. These institutions were frequently perceived as dignified retreats, where veterans who had seen better days could find peace, quiet, comfort, and happiness. But as Rosenburg shows, the harsher reality incessantly included strict disciplinary tactics to deal with order and the remedy of indigent residents as wards and inmates somewhat than honored veterans. Many men chafed under the rigidly paternalistic administrative regulate and resented being told by their ‘betters’ the way to behave. Rosenburg makes clear the idealism and sense of social responsibility that motivated the homes’ founders and administrators, At the same time as also showing that from the outset the homes were enmeshed in political self-interest and the exploitation of the Confederate heritage.

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