As the Veterans aged, and the Population declined at the Soldiers Home, The Campus of the Old Soldiers Home became the Center for Cultural Development in Richmond, Virginia and the South. The R. E. Lee Camp No. 1 worked with a Confederate Cavalry Veteran from Lynchburg, who had become a very successful businessman in New York, Charles “Broadway” Rouss to Help Place a “Confederate Memorial Institute Museum” to Honor all Confederates in the Civil War. The Confederate Memorial Institute after opening became known as the “Battle Abbey of the South”, and later in the 1940′s merged with the Virginia Historical Society.

The UDC “United Daughters of the Confederacy”, the Confederate Home for Women, and the Virginia Museum Foundation of the Arts “VMFA”, all now occupy the 36 Acres of the R. E. Lee Camp No. 1 -Soldiers’ Home , which is Interperted on a Weekly Basis by the Same Camp that Merged with the Jackson Camp, and became the Lee-Jackson Camp No. 1, CSA.

History Lives On – Faithfully Interperted by the Chapel Guide, and the Tours are Free.