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U. S. CIVIL WAR
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CONFEDERATE CHAPEL SIGN
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CONFEDERATE
MEMORIAL CHAPEL
The chapel was erected in 1887 in memory of
the more than 260,000 Confederate war dead
and as a place of worship for the veterans
who resided here in the Robert E. Lee Camp
Confederate Soldiers' Home. The veterans
themselves, many of them disabled and
impoverished, funded the construction. Marion J.
Dimmock, Sr., designed the Gothic Revival
structure and Joseph F. Wingfield built it. The
chapel was used regularly until the last
resident veteran died in 1941. The home was
then closed and the buildings were demolished,
except for the chapel and the Robinson
House, the superintendent's dwelling. The
chapel was restored in 1960-1961.
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