The Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives in Frankfort maintains some original and microform materials relating to the Home.
The brief biographies of inmates included in this book are most often derived from information included on their applications for admission, their Kentucky death certificates, and the Federal census rolls. Where I have supplemented this basic information with other Home records, newspaper accounts, family correspondence, or other miscellaneous records, I've cited those sources in the notes.
Listed below are the Home documents I made greatest use of when researching this book and the institutions in which they can be found.
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort
Annual Report of the Kentucky Confederate Home
Applications for admission
Discipline reports
Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort
Board of Trustees, Minutes
Miscellaneous correspondence
Register of Inmates Received
Report of Inmates in the Home
Report of Occupation and Use of Rooms in Home
Statement of Resources in Sight for Confederate Home
Subscription Ledger
Other Manuscript Sources
Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort
Confederate Veteran Association of Kentucky. Constitution, By-Laws and Membership. [Lexington, Ky.:] Transylvania Printing Co., 1890.
Kentucky United Daughters of the Confederacy. Annual Meeting Minutes.
United Daughters of the Confederacy Records, 1855-1999.
Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky
Charter, Confederate Home Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, May 7, 1904.
Ford, Emmett B. “Reminiscences of S. H. Ford, Captain of Company ‘F,’ 2nd Reg.—General Jos. O. Shelby's Brigade of Missouri Confederate Cavalry—1861-1865.” Typewritten manuscript dated April 2, 1956, from handwritten original dated March 8, 1909.
Letter from Florence Barlow to Henry L. Martin, May 8, 1917.
Letter from Mrs. A. W. (Mary) Bascom to “Cousin Anna,” October 27, 1902.
Letter from Commandant Coleman to the Tom Barrett Chapter, UDC, Ghent, August 18, 1903.
Letter from Florent D. Jaudon to Mrs. George L. Danforth, September 26, 1916.
Petition to Capt. S. H. Ford, signed by inmates and employees, February 4, 1903.
St. James Episcopal Church, Rev. E. C. McAllister's Journal, 1911-1929.
State Records
Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery. Civil War Service Database.
Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts History, Frankfort.
Kentucky birth, marriage, and death records.
Kentucky Journal of the Regular Session of the House of Representatives.
Kentucky Journal of the Regular Session of the Senate.
Kentucky Vital Statistics. Original death certificates.
Published Works
Two books are especially useful on the days of the Lost Cause and the Confederate soldiers’ home movement. R. B. Rosenburg's Living Monuments: Confederate Soldiers’ Homes in the New South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993) is the definitive study of Confederate veterans’ homes: why they were created, who built them, who lived there, and how they were operated. Rosenburg laments that “the Confederate soldiers’ home movement, which began in the 1880s, has received scant attention” (5). He provides a partial remedy, offering concise institutional histories of the homes and statistical analyses of inmates, but from the states of the original Confederacy only. The challenges of Kentucky, a state that was never officially part of the Confederacy, in establishing, financing, and operating a Confederate veterans’ home earn just a few paragraphs in Rosenburg's volume.
Gaines M. Foster's Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988) describes the attraction of the Confederate celebration during the half-century following Gettysburg. The work is scholarly, the writing sprightly.
Abel, E. Lawrence. Singing the New Nation: How Music Shaped the Confederacy, 1861-1865. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1999.
Ainsworth, Fred C., and Joseph W. Kirkley, eds. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Series 2, Vol. 6. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1899.
Allen, Frederick Lewis. The Big Change: America Transforms Itself, 1900–1950. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1993.
Barry, John M. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History. New York: Viking, 2004.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005. (Online at http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp.)
Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century. Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Co., 1878.
Blair, William A. Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Blanck, Peter David, and Michael Millender. “Before Civil Rights: Civil War Pensions and the Politics of Disability in America.” Alabama Law Review 52, no. 1 (Fall 2000): 1-50.
Boswell, Harry James. Representative Kentuckians: City Builders. Louisville, Ky: [self-published,] 1913.
Brady, William. Personal Health: A Doctor Book for Discriminating People. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co., 1916.
Cannon, Devereaux D., Jr. The Flags of the Confederacy: An Illustrated History. Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Co., 1994.
Caron's Louisville Directory. Vol. 32. N.p., 1902.
City of Louisville and a Glimpse of Kentucky. Louisville: Committee on Industrial and Commercial Improvement of the Louisville Board of Trade, 1887.
Clift, G. Glenn. Governors of Kentucky, 1792-1942. Cynthiana, Ky.: The Hobson Press, 1943.
Cobb, Irwin S. Exit Laughing. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1941.
Cox, Karen. Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.
Crichton, Judy. America 1900: The Turning Point. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1998.
Davis, William C. The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983.
Dean, Eric T. Shook over Hell: Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Deiss, Ruth. “Thirteen Stars—Thirteen States.” United Daughters of the Confederacy Magazine 15, no. 1 (January 1952): 7.
Dennett, John Richard. The South as It Is: 1865-1866. New York: Viking Press, 1965.
Duke, Basil W. History of Morgan's Cavalry. Cincinnati: Miami Printing & Pub. Co., 1867.
———. Reminiscences of General Basil W. Duke. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1911.
Eagle, Mary Kavanaugh Oldham, ed. The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U.S.A., 1893. Chicago: Monarch Book Co., 1894.
Edwards, John N. Shelby and His Men; or, The War in the West. Kansas City, Mo.: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co., 1897.
Emerson, Mrs. B. A. C., ed. Historic Southern Monuments. New York: The Neale Publishing Co., 1911.
Evans, Clement A., ed. Confederate Military History: A Library of Confederate States History. Extended ed. Atlanta, Ga.: Confederate Publishing Company, 1899 (reprinted, Wilmington, N.C.: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1988).
The Executive Branch of Kentucky State Government. Informational Bulletin no. 171. Frankfort: Legislative Research Commission, 2002.
Faust, Drew Gilpin. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. New York: Vintage Books, 2008.
Foster, Gaines M. Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of t
he New South, 1865-1913. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
George, Henry. History of the 3d, 7th, 8th and 12th Kentucky C.S.A. Louisville, Ky.: C. T. Dearing Printing Co., 1911.
Going Back to Civilian Life. War Department Pamphlet no. 21-4. [Washington, D.C.:] War and Navy Departments, 1945.
The Gray Book. N.p.: Gray Book Committee, Sons of Confederate Veterans, 1920.
Halberstam, David. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War. New York: Hyperion, 2007.
Harris, T. M. Assassination of Lincoln: A History of the Great Conspiracy. Boston: American Citizen Co., 1892.
Hay, Melba Porter, and Thomas H. Appleton Jr., eds. Roadside History: A Guide to Kentucky Highway Markers. Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 2002.
Headley, John W. Confederate Operations in Canada and New York. New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1906.
Historical Sketch Explanatory of Memorial or Certificate of Membership in the U.C.V's. New Orleans: Hopkins’ Printing Office, 1897.
History of Daviess County, Kentucky. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co., 1883.
Horan, James D. Confederate Agent, a Discovery in History. New York: Crown Publishers, 1954.
Johnson, E. Polk. A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1912.
Johnston, J. Stoddard. Memorial History of Louisville. Vol. 1. Chicago: American Biographical Publishing Co., 1896.
Kentucky: A Guide to the Bluegrass State. American Guide Series. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1939.
Kerr, Charles, ed. History of Kentucky. 5 vols. Chicago: American Historical Society, 1922.
Kinchen, Oscar A. Daredevils of the Confederate Army: The Story of the St. Albans Raiders. Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1959.
———. General Bennett H. Young, Confederate Raider and a Man of Many Adventures. Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1981.
Kinkead, Elizabeth Shelby. A History of Kentucky. Boston: American Book Co., 1924.
Kirwan, A. D., ed. Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier. [Lexington:] University of Kentucky Press, 1956.
Kleber, John E., ed. The Encyclopedia of Louisville. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001.
Kleber, John E., ed. The Kentucky Encyclopedia. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992.
Klotter, Freda C. A Concise History of Kentucky. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008.
Kolb, Richard K. “Thin Gray Line: Confederate Veterans in the New South.” VFW Magazine 46, no. 6 (June 1997).
Krock, Arthur. Myself When Young: Growing Up in the 1890s. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.
La Bree, Ben, ed. Camp Fires of the Confederacy. Louisville, Ky.: Courier–Journal Job Printing Co., 1898.
———, ed. The Confederate Soldier in the Civil War, 1861–1865. Louisville, Ky.: Courier-Journal Job Printing Co., 1895.
———, ed. Notable Men of Kentucky at the Beginning of the 20th Century. Louisville, Ky.: Geo. G. Fetter Printing Co., 1902.
———, ed. Press Reference Book of Prominent Kentuckians. Louisville, Ky.: Standard Printing Co., 1916.
Levin, Aaron. “Civil War Trauma Led to Combination of Nervous and Physical Disease.” Psychiatric News 41, no. 8 (April 21, 2006): 2.
Levin, H., ed. The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1897.
Lewis, Samuel E. The Treatment of Prisoners-of-War, 1861-1865. Richmond, Va.: W. E. Jones, Printer, 1910.
Lexington Cemetery, Meeting of the Lot Owners Held March 11th, 1895. Lexington, Ky.: Transylvania Printing Co., 1895.
Lexington City Directory. Lexington, Ky.: R. L. Polk & Co., 1909.
Livermore, Thomas L. Numbers and Losses in the Civil War in America, 1861-65. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1900.
Longacre, Edward G. “July 2-26, 1863: John Hunt Morgan's Ohio Raid.” Civil War Times 42, no. 3 (August 2003).
“Louisville of To-Day: A Souvenir of the City for Distribution during the G.A.R. Encampment.” Louisville, Ky.: Consolidated Illustrating Co., 1895.
Matthews, Gary Robert. Basil Wilson Duke, CSA: The Right Man in the Right Place. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
McAfee, John J. Kentucky Politicians—Sketches of Representative Corn-Crackers and Other Miscellany. Louisville, Ky.: Press of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Co., 1886.
McDowell, Robert E. City of Conflict: Louisville in the Civil War, 1861–1865. Louisville, Ky.: Louisville Civil War Roundtable, 1962.
McMeekin, Isabella McLennan. Louisville, the Gateway City. A Cities of America Biography. New York: J. Messner, 1946.
Memorial Record of Western Kentucky. 2 vols. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1904.
Morgan, Mrs. Irby. How It Was: Four Years among the Rebels. Nashville, Tenn.: Publishing House, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1892.
Mosgrove, George Dallas. Kentucky Cavaliers in Dixie; or, The Reminiscences of a Confederate Cavalryman. Louisville, Ky.: Courier Journal Job Printing Co., 1895.
Nicosia, Gerald. Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans’ Movement. New York: Crown, 2001.
Noble, G. W. New Age. Jackson, Ky.: Jackson Times Printing Co., 1928.
Perrin, W. H., J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky: A History of the State. 6th ed. Louisville, Ky.: F. A. Battey and Co., 1887.
Peter, Robert. History of Fayette County, Kentucky. Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1882.
Plante, Trevor K. “The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.” Prologue. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration 36, no. 1 (Summer 2004): 57-59.
Poems and Songs of the Civil War. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1996.
Poppenheim, Mary Barnett. The History of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Vol. 1. N.p.: Richmond, Garrett and Massie, 1938.
Prince, Cathryn J. Burn the Town and Sack the Banks! Confederates Attack Vermont! New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006.
Richardson, Benjamin Ward. The Field of Disease: A Book of Preventive Medicine. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea's Son & Co., 1884.
Ripley, Amanda. The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why. New York: Random House, 2008.
Rosen, Marvin. Understanding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. New York: Chelsea House, 2003.
Rosenburg, R. B. Living Monuments: Confederate Soldiers’ Homes in the New South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Scott, Anne Firor. The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Seekamp, Alwin, and Roger Burlingame, eds. Who's Who in Louisville. Louisville, Ky.: Louisville Press Club, 1912.
Short, Joanna. “Confederate Veterans Pensions, Occupation, and Men's Retirement in the New South.” Social Science History 30, no. 1 (2006): 75-101.
Simpson, Alicia, ed. Kentucky Confederate Veteran and Widows Pension Index. Hartford, Ky.: Cook & McDowell, 1979.
Slone, Laurie B., and Matthew J. Friedman. After the War Zone: A Practical Guide for Returning Troops and Their Families. Cambrdige, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2008.
Smith, Suzanne Wooley. “The Tennessee Monument to the Women of the Confederacy: A Study in Conflicting Ideas of Public Commemoration and Collective Memory, 1895-1926.” Border States: Journal of the Kentucky-Tennessee American Studies Association, no. 11 (1997): 1-7.
Southard, Mary Young, ed. Who's Who in Kentucky: A Biographical Assembly of Notable Kentuckians. Louisville, Ky.: Standard Printing Co., 1936.
Sturgis, Thomas. Prisoners of War, 1861-65: A Record of Personal Experiences, and a Study of the Condition and Treatment of Prisoners on Both Sides during the War of the Rebellion. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912.
Thompson, Edwin Porter. History of the Orphan Brigade. Louisville, Ky.: Lewis N. Thompson, 1898.
Townsend, John Wilson. Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 1. Cedar Rapids, Ia.: Torch Press, 1913.
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United States Sanitary Commission. Narrative of Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers and Soldiers while Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Rebel Authorities. Boston: Littell's Living Age, 1864.
“VA History in Brief.” Washington, D.C.: Department of Veterans Affairs. Online at http://www1.va.gov/opa/publications/archives/docs/history_in_brief.pdf.
Vogel, Jeffrey E. “Redefining Reconciliation: Confederate Veterans and the Southern Responses to Federal Civil War Pensions.” Civil War History 51, no. 1 (2005): 67-93.
Waller, Willard Walter. The Veteran Comes Back. New York: Dryden Press, 1944.
Wetherington, Mark V. “Kentucky Joins the Confederacy.” Kentucky Humanities, April 1999.
White, A. N. Cleon Keyes: An Appreciation. Louisville, Ky.: Published under the Auspices of Kentucky Baptist Historical Society, [1912?].
White, William W. The Confederate Veteran. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Confederate Publishing Co., 1962.
Willis, George Lee. Kentucky Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members—Past and Present. Louisville, Ky.: Democratic Historical Society, 1935.
Wilson, Charles Morrow. “The Hit-and-Run Raid.” American Heritage 12, issue 5 (August 1961): 28-32.
Wilson, Charles Reagan. Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1982.
Wines, Frederick H. Report on Crime, Pauperism and Benevolence in the United States at the Eleventh Census: 1890 (Part 1, Analysis). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1896.
Wols, H. D., and J. E. Baker. “Dental Health of Elderly Confederate Veterans: Evidence from the Texas State Cemetery.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 124, no. 1 (May 2004): 59-72.
Young, Bennett H. Confederate Wizards of the Saddle. Boston: Chapple Publishing Co., 1914.
Young, Lot D. Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Orphan Brigade. Louisville, Ky.: Courier-Journal Job Printing Co, 1918.
Index
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