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Native Americans Sign Confederate Veterns Home Register With Their Pictographs
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| Large guest register book from the Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers Home in Richmond, Virgina, 11 x 16, +/- 300 pages, with large graphic printed advertising from many local businesses surround the area of the page for visitors to sign, May 17, 1912 through October 15, 1914. There are hundreds of visitor signatures including some well-known figures, fine. The highlight of the book is a complete page signed by ten Blackfeet Indians including four Chiefs. The contingent of Blackfeet leaders from Glacier National Park, likely in Washington on tribal business visited the Confederate veterans home in Richmond on May 19, 1914. All have signed the book with their pictograph and include Chief Eagle Calf, Medicine Owl, Two Guns White Calf, Mrs. Two Guns White Calf, Lazy Boy, Fish Wolf Robe, Mrs Medicine Owl, Frank White Quiver. Minnie Sky Eagle, Chief Red Eagle, Pineridge Agency, South Dakota. registered Jan. 15, 1913. Additionally there are many notable whites. On April 18, 1883 a group of concerned Confederate Veterans met in Richmond, Virginia, to form the Camp Lee Soldiers Home (also called Confederate Soldiers Home, Confederate Veterans Soldiers Home, R. E. Lee Camp Soldiers Home, Lee Camp Soldiers Home, or Old Soldiers Home) as a benevolent society to aid their needy former comrades. The Robert E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans was incorporated March 13, 1884. In the year that followed, the camp raised funds and acquired land in Western Richmond for a home. The Home opened on January 1, 1885. | |||||||||||
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