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of a pension upon these old heroes, and we appreciate
the fact that this feeling exists. In the year 1901
a few Kentucky Confederate soldiers, realizing that
a number of their comrades were in need, decided in
a conference held, to undertake to build a Home for
Confederates in Kentucky. They appointed a meet-
ing to be held in October of that year in the city of
Louisville, to which they extended a general invita-
tion to persons who felt an interest in the matter to
attend. That meeting was held, and a movement
was set on foot to raise money by private subscription
to buy ground and build a home for indigent and
dependent Confederate soldiers. Committees were
appointed to solicit funds, and the work was im-
mediately commenced. After a considerable sum
had been raised by contribution, from Confederate
soldiers and their friends, an opportunity presented
itself to buy the splendid property at Pewee Valley,
now occupied as a Confederate Home. That prop-
erty was bought and paid for and became the prop-
erty of the persons who had contributed the money.
A committee was appointed to appear before the
State Legislature and propose to deed to the State
that property, upon condition that it should be used
as a Confederate Home as long as it might be needed
for that purpose; the consideration on the part of
the State to be that the State care for the inmates
of the home. The proposition was accepted by the
Legislature, and an Act was passed which was ap-
proved by the Governor on the 27th day of March,
1902, in which the State pledged itself to appropriate
annually 125.00 for each inmate of the Home to
be used in caring for them. Later that sum was
increased to 175.00. Who were to be the inmates