Site of the E. L. More, Fox Maull, Lizzie Cameron,

Site of the E. L. More, Fox Maull, Lizzie Cameron,. The Blue and the Gray, Flowers and "Last Chance" Cottages. The individual cottages at the Alabama Confederate Soldiers' Home contrasted with the large barracks found at many other Civil War veterans homes across the country during the early 1900's. The cottages in this row were paid for by private donations. All nine cottages of the Soldiers' Home had unique exteriors but identical interiors with four bedrooms housing eight "inmates" per cottage. , Five of the ten cottages were aligned in a row running roughly east to west in front of you facing north (toward the roadway you are standing on which curves northward in a great semicircle)., A sixth cottage, the "E.L. More" cottage, was located to the east (up the hill across the present day paved County road). It served as the residence for the Home's Commandants. , One cottage in the middle of this row was unique among the Soldiers' Home cottages. In 1903 as a gesture of brotherhood and reconciliation, the northern Civil War veterans' organization, "The Grand Army of the Republic" paid for construction of this cottage. Accordingly, it was named, "The Blue and The Grey" cottage., The "E.L. More" and "Flowers" cottages were named for lumbermen whose companies donated lumber for the cottages., The "Fox Maull" cottage was named for John Fox Maull who was a Confederate veteran, board member of the Soldiers' Home and a donor of lumber to the Home. , The "Lizzie Cameron" cottage was named for Elizabeth Cameron Falkner, wife of the Soldiers' Home founder, Jefferson Manly Falkner., The "Last Chance" cottage was so named by the veterans because terminally ill "inmates" were housed there., The Fox Maull cottage burned in 1903 and was rebuilt. It burned again in 1930 and was not replaced. The rest of the cottages long vacant and becoming dilapidated were torn down when the Home closed in 1939.