Confederate Soldiers' Home

Grady proposed the idea first in 1889, and began to raise funds through "subscriptions".

[3] It stood at 410 E. United Avenue on the south edge of the Ormewood Park neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.

[6] The oldest veteran of the Civil War, Lorenzo Grace, died there in 1928.

[7] The last veteran to share the home was Henry Taylor Dowling whose entry was recorded on April 17, 1941.

The Home housed widows of Confederate veterans beginning in the 1940s before closing in 1963.