General Lee\u27s Army: From Victory to Collapse

The Rise and Fall of the Army of Northern Virginia Historians of the U.S. Civil War era do not lack biographies of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Nor do we suffer too few examinations of the other officers, military units, and battles that comprised that army’s history. Never befo...

Every Comfort, Freedom, and Liberty : A Case Study of Mississippi\u27s Confederate Home

This case study of Mississippi\u27s Confederate veteran home, popularly known as Beauvoir, challenges historians to see these southern facilities as more than relics of the Lost Cause. This state-run home had a diverse resident population that included women as early as 1904 and that also included three African-American residents. It provided well-trained physicians in the Beauvoir hospital, and a powerful and popular woman superintendent ran the home as early as 1926. This article analyzes the lives of the veterans, wives, and widows of Mississippi\u27s Confederate home as well as the state\u27s policies for them, revealing a facility connected to the Civil War, but grounded in New South efficiency, regulation, and reform