ellis arrived in 1934. she was 73. she was honorably discharged. sometimes they will give the reason if you are dishonorably discharged. one woman was discharged for drunkenness. not anna ellis. she was discharged a month after she came into the home. she returned in july of 1935, an amazing woman. she returned to the home of july of 1935. she stays for only 11 days. she returned again in 1936, 1943, and 1944. just for the short stays. remember how i told you, we do have some official records of the home. we have meeting minutes of the board. we have official two year reports. we have some hospital records. for the years she was there, we do not have records. i cannot prove she was coming in for medical care. i can show other people that would be there for a little while and be gone. you can match them up with the home register. again, indicating that this home wasn't just a retirement home. it was almost like a v.a. facility. mississippi was very proud of this facility as this symbol of this new south modernity and what the state was capable of doing. now, i gave you all my data. you got it. i wanted to show you a couple of more images to make sure i don't separate this. i don't want to go to the other extreme. i don't want to separate this home from the civil war and confederate experience. that is why a lot of the individuals were there. this is a photograph of residents of the home getting on a train. the train went right past the home. you could take the train and visit with the veterans and leave. they are loading up on a train we are pretty sure to go to the 1913 reunion at gettysburg. i won't guess where they are. historians aren't allowed. you can see everyone gathered together. letters talk about the fact that residents could take the food back to their room and eat in privacy, if being around people was making them crazy. we all get like that sometimes. you can see the chapel where they had weekly services and a number of funerals. beauvoir has its own cemetery , and this is where the weddings often took place. here's the very famous hospital. this is the fireproof version as they called it. there were several fires at the beauvoir hospital. there were several fires at the hospital. the state raised a tremendous amount of money. not quite fireproof. the doctors on staff really provided probably better care -- i talked to medical historians. i sent them a page from the hospital registry. i showed them these are prescriptions being given to patients. i can't make any sense of this. they said, that's on par for the mid-20th century. this is the library cottage where locals were encouraged to share books and donate readings. come in for what we would call the book club, to talk with residents as we talk about books we are all reading. these were the dormitories. as i mentioned, the three african-american residents of the home lived in segregated quarters. they did receive the same allowance. residents gave up their pensions when they came to the home, but they did receive an allowance. originally, it was five dollars. during the depression, it went down to two dollars. black and white residents received the same allowance in the home. here you can see a number of these dormitories. takenphotographs were right as the home is about to be closed. here, one of the last photos of some local young women at a gathering with the widows. everyone is having a sunday picnic with watermelon. finery,up in some enjoying their time at the home. hopefully what i have done today is changed a little bit about the way that you thought about these homes. or, maybe i have introduced you to how these homes were run and how they work. if you want to learn more about this, i decided to take the work that the team had produced and put it online. we also ended up deciding that this work really needed to get into the literature. if you want to look at our findings, that is beauvoir veteran project.org. if you want to look at it in terms of how historians analyze this information, the journal of the civil war era did a special issue on veterans. i really thought -- works like jim martin's book in brian jordan, if you have not read marching home about union veterans coming home, you need to. works like that had really improved the way that we were thinking about what happened to a lot of the soldiers, north and south, when they came home. i felt like, let's take it to the next level. let's see what we are not quite understanding. what do we possibly have wrong that needs to be tweaked? we did a special issue on veterans in march 2019. that includes my beauvoir article. you can find more of my thoughts on this, the experiences of the african-american residents, the stories of the veterans. if you are interested in the stories and data, all of that is available at beauvoir veteran project.org. a couple of biographies of the individuals were there. wayne says i have time for some questions. great. my timer has been running. i will be happy to repeat the questions as they are asked. [indiscernible] >> how much scrutiny did they give to those issues? >> this is a great question. he's asking to be approved for a pension today, it's an incredible amount of paperwork, time, processing, what was it like during that time? a little bit less paperwork but not much less. that's the good news for us. the bad news is, so much of that paperwork is at the county courthouse level. it's hard for individuals to go around to find it. as we start to digitize these, we are getting into it. the other point your question brings up, who decides you are worthy? this is like when vietnam scholars, they would love to investigate draft boards. who decides who should be drafted? who decides who was a good confederate or a bad confederate? it's a very loaded question. these are made up of elites in your community at the county level. there will be a lot of local politics. you being an outside family or an inside family. there were complaints about that. if your family got involved with any kind of support for the union, you are going to have a hard time getting support as a loyal confederate in the state of mississippi in the postwar time. you are probably not going to be able to prove enough support to get federal aid. you are in a pickle. >> [inaudible] confederate soldiers were granted a stipend from the u.s. government under wilson. are you familiar with that? >> no. the question is a previous speaker mentioned that under president wilson, confederate soldiers were granted a stipend. look, i've been doing this long enough to never say never. i've not heard of that. there were some efforts, what should i say? there were some discussions about forgiveness and reconciliation and moving on. you,eason i am looking at like a golden retriever. really? i'm doing that because pensions were pretty controversial in the north. it was such a huge part of the u.s. federal budget. the thought of expanding this, i will look into it. it is fascinating. >> it was many years later. i do not know how many -- >> if it was during the wilson administration, the home was at its peak in terms of the number of residents. there's a training camp as guys are getting ready to leave for world war i. they are visiting the veterans. that would be a sizable population to take on. i don't know. it's a great question. that's the fun of history. never heard it. now you know what i am going to do this afternoon. [laughter] anybody else? revoir was the only home in mississippi and how does it compare to other states? the story i told you about, strauss had already been approved for a pension in atlanta and was already living in new orleans he could have gone into the new orleans home, but it was only for veterans. so he ends up going across a rivoir, because you did not have to serve in a mississippi unit to get a mississippi pension. you had to be a resident of mississippi who served the confederacy. states like texas had a home for veterans and a home for winter with -- home for widows. virginia had separate homes as well, but mississippi only had the one. mississippi may have been late building their home, but it allowed the udc to go around and investigate how other states were doing this, what was working, what wasn't working. i can't find a smoking gun that says, we should just build this home with everybody living together. i haven't found evidence of that, but that is what they did. i have often wondered if looking at these other homes, instead of having two separate homes, let's have everybody live together. [indiscernible] during what years did jefferson davis and his wife live there? it was after the civil war. he purchases the home from sarah dorsey for very little money. the argument is, she wanted to give her the home, he insisted on paying. die,did jefferson davis 1879? don't quote me on that. so he lives therefrom right near the end of the civil war. his in prison for two years, he gets out, is going to live there, this is where he is writing his memoirs, the history i can't telleracy, you his death date, but it is until he dies. he ends up dying they are the coast. his wife is there for a little while but for health reasons she needs to get out of the climate, and this is when she moves to a couple of locations up north, one is in new york city. if you look at her letters with misses kim bro, she is talking about -- look at her letters, it is the tremendous upkeep of the property. nobody is living there at that point. but it is the former home of the president of the confederacy. she is going, what is my responsibility? and the agreement was that she would sell it to the sons of the confederate veterans while the veteran's home was open as a veterans home, but once it closed it went back and is still today in the ownership of the sons of confederate veterans. and it also was this understanding that she would sell it for the care of veterans wives, servants and widows, this is phrasing, but it would always be a shrine, that is the word specifically, a shrine to her husband. that is why you see reference to the jefferson davis shrine, that is what they are talking about, the grounds of this facility. the american battlefield trust says it was 1889. >> thank you, american battlefield trust, for the information. my students use that all the time. >> [indiscernible] what is theion is, fee, how do you handle paying for all of this? it is paid for by the state of mississippi out of state tax dollars. when you went in, you would give up your pension. so people like anna alice, she went off the pension rolls when she came in and every time she left, we have found couple of ellis ismisses going into the home again, so when you go in, you lose your pension. the allowance started in 1912 or so, because a lot of veterans were men who should have some money or something. didn't like not necessarily having a little bit of money to spend however they chose. so that is how the allowance got started, five dollars a month, later two dollars a month as cuts went into place. any more questions? thank you, all, so much. 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