His two sons are killed in the war ; the older Darcy at Gettysburg, and the younger Phil as a member of the Confederate Home Guard during the Battle of Atlanta.

The Jefferson Davis Presidential Library was established at Beauvoir Plantation, the white-columned Biloxi mansion that was Davis's final home, in 1998, after its use for some years as a Confederate Veterans Home.

From 1893 to 1938 Jacksonville was the site of the Florida Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home with a nearby cemetery.

Confederate General James Longstreet was headquartered at Home Hill ( now the Lawton House on Lawton Street ) following the First Battle of Manassas.

Vienna, Austria immigrant Erath ( 1813 – 1891 ) was a Texas Ranger and member of Billingsley ’ s Company C, 1st Regiment of Texas Volunteers, under the command of Col. Charles Burleson at the Battle of San Jacinto, and a member of the Confederate Home Guard.

The state of Georgia fought back against these men by organizing Confederate Home Guard Units.

Here they met the Confederate Home Guard and the Battle of Bucktown ensued.

The town became a scene for local Confederate recruiting during the Civil War, and was the site of a battle in March 1865 between local Home Guard units and pro-Union irregulars operating out of Florida.

Sweet Home was the site of the Arkansas Confederate Soldiers ' Home from 1890 to 1955, but the home was moved to the grounds of the Schools for the Deaf and Blind in Little Rock from 1955-1963.

Various skirmishes took place at Bayport between Union troops and the Confederate Home Guard during the course of the war.

After the fall of Atlanta, a detachment of Sherman's cavalry was sent to raid the county ; but the Confederate Home Guard, made up of men too old for military duty, left the mountains on which Cornelia is situated and met the Yankee raiders at a narrow pass about four miles east of the town.

It includes several distinctive residences such as the Judge Ira Fields home ( 1897 ); the cut stone Palumbo House, and Italian villa-inspired house built by master stonemason John Palumbo ; the stately Salyers House Bed and Breakfast, built for Confederate States of America Col. Logan Henry Neal Salyer in the early 20th century ; and a Dutch Colonial style home ordered from the Sears Modern Home Catalog and delivered to its owner, in pieces, by railcar in 1928.

In July 1861 Confederate militia from Lewis County entered Edina, and the Union Home Guard retreated to Macon, Missouri.

Led by Henry Berry Lowry, a 17-year old Indian boy whose father and brother were murdered at the hands of the Confederate Home Guard, a clan of North Carolinian Indian, African-Americans and whites waged a seven year guerilla war against the Confederacy in the areas near Robeson and Pembroke.

During the 1960s, he continued his television career, with guest appearances on such series as The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Route 66 ( a moving portrayal of a doomed pilot in the two-part episode " Fly Away Home "); Alfred Hitchcock Presents ; Perry Mason ( one of four actors in four consecutive episodes substituting for series star Raymond Burr, who was recovering from surgery ); Wagon Train ( a 90-minute colour episode as an English big game hunter who, in a display of amazing marksmanship, is able to kill an Indian chief from a great distance ); The Great Adventure ( in an installment of this anthology series about remarkable events in American history, he portrayed Confederate president Jefferson Davis ); Daniel Boone, ( in episodes " The Sound of Wings " and " First in War, First in Peace "); Lost in Space ( another two-part episode — as an all-powerful alien zookeeper, " The Keeper ", he worked one last time with his Third Man costar Jonathan Harris ); The Time Tunnel ( as Captain Smith of The Titanic, in the series ' 9 September 1966 premiere episode ); Batman ( as the villainous Sandman, in league with Julie Newmar's Catwoman ); three episodes of The Invaders ( as a malign variation of the Klaatu persona, culminating in a parallel plot also involving an assembly of world leaders ); an episode of I Spy (" Lana "); and two episodes of The F. B. I.

It was related to older lineage societies such as the Daughters of the Confederacy in Missouri and the Ladies ’ Auxiliary of the Confederate Soldiers Home in Tennessee.

For example Johnny Reb meant a Confederate soldier, and a popular song was " When Johnny Comes Marching Home ".

When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front.

After he left office, Fleming served on the board of trustees of the new Florida Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home.

In many cases, in the early years of the war, the Confederate Home Guard dealt with deserters.

* Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home a. k. a. Jefferson Manly Falkner Soldiers ' Home, Mountain Creek, Alabama

* Arkansas Confederate Soldiers ' Home, Sweet Home, Arkansas

During the Civil War, the county contributed to the Confederate cause raising two infantry companies, the Nottoway Rifle Guards, and Capt.

* George William Dawson, Confederate officer from Alabama, first captain of the Perote Guards

::* Forces: Confederate Missouri State Guard, Union Home Guards and 21st Missouri Infantry

::* Forces: Confederate cavalry, Union Missouri Home Guards.

::* Forces: Confederate cavalry, Union Missouri Home Guards.

::* Forces: Confederate Arizona Guards and civilians, Chiricahua, Minibreno, and allied Apaches

Approved by the Confederate Congress, the Davis Guards Medal is believed to be the only official military decoration issued by the CSA.

Swilling was elected second in command of the company, or First Lieutenant, and retained that rank when the Arizona Guards were absorbed into the Confederate Army.

Confederate defenders at New Market Heights were Lee's " Grenadier Guards ", the First, Fourth and Fifth Texas and the Third Arkansas, numbering about 1, 800 men.

The Home Guards retreated to the city with heavy losses, but by this time Beauregard had been able to bring reinforcements from Richmond to bear: the 4th North Carolina Cavalry, part of the 7th Confederate States Cavalry from the Bermuda Hundred line, and an artillery battery.

The Confederate Freedom Party Guards, unlike their Army counterparts, wore mottled brown camouflage uniforms ( in a reference to the mottled grey uniforms worn by the Waffen SS in our WW2.

Residents generally supported the Confederacy during the Civil War, as the Confederate flag flew over the county courthouse for many years following the end of the Civil War.

Although Union ships imposed a blockade on the port of Bayport, runners enjoyed a great deal of success — enough to lead the Union in June 1864 to order some 150 – 250 troops to destroy Confederate stockpiles in the county.

However Baine County was established on December 7, 1866, named for General David W. Baine of the Confederate Army, with its county seat at Gadsden.

This began with a Confederate train robbery of a Union gold shipment during the American Civil War, then moved to a post-war Texas county thoroughly controlled by a rich, arrogant rancher.

The county was a frequent site of conflict during the civil war, as Union and Confederate lines moved back and forth along the Shenandoah valley.

There were seven companies of soldiers recruited from the county: five for the Confederate Army and two for the Union Army.

" The Virginia Central Railroad ran through the county linking the Shenandoah Valley to the Confederate capital at Richmond.

Unlike most of Virginia, during the Civil War, the county was not under Confederate control, but held by the forces of the United States government.

The county is named for Clinton M. Winkler, a Colonel in the Confederate Army.

The county is named for two brothers: John C. and William F. Upton, both Colonels in the Confederate army.

The county was established by the state legislature on March 13, 1874, and named for Thomas Green, a Confederate brigadier general.

The county is named for Benjamin Franklin Terry, a colonel in the Confederate Army.

The county is named for Stonewall Jackson, a general of the Confederate States Army.

The county was originally named Buchanan County, after U. S. President James Buchanan, but was renamed in 1861 for Alexander H. Stephens, the vice president of the Confederate States of America.

The county benefitted financially from Confederate government contracts.

Outside the building the Dick Taylor Camp of Confederate veterans erected a monument to honor the county ’ s dead in the American Civil War.

Lochlin Johnson Farrar raised the first Confederate company from the county.

Camp Henderson became the new county seat and the settlement was renamed Cleburne in honor of Confederate General Patrick Cleburne.

The proposed name was later changed to honor Texas leader and Confederate Genearal John Gregg, and the county seat was determined by popular election.

* 1862 Fifty-four Gillespie county men join the Confederate Army.

From 1861 to 1871, this county was known as Davis County, after Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America.

The county produced six men who served in the American Civil War as Confederate generals: Joseph Brevard Kershaw ( 1822-1894 ), James Chesnut ( 1815-1885 ), James Cantey ( 1818-1873 ), Zack Cantey Deas ( 1819-1882 ), John Bordenave Villepigue ( 1830-1862 ), and John Doby Kennedy ( 1840-1896 ).

McCarthy held the county during the subsequent Irish Confederate Wars and his forces were some of the last to surrender to the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1652.

During the Civil War, Morgan's Raid ( a Confederate cavalry campaign from Kentucky ) passed through the northern part of the county during the summer of 1863.