Pewee Valley Confederate Cemetery is the site of the old Kentucky Confederate Home. The cemetery is not only on the National Register of Historic Places, but an individual monument within it, the Confederate Memorial in Pewee Valley, is separately on it as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS. It is the only cemetery for Confederate veterans, 313 in total, that is an official state burying ground in Kentucky.
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“Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
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—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“Figure a man’s only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.”
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