Eli Metcalfe Bruce

Eli Metcalfe Bruce (February 22, 1828 – December 15, 1866) was a philanthropist and a Representative from Kentucky in the First and Second Confederate Congresses. He was the principal financier of the Confederate government of Kentucky during the Civil War.

Early life Eli Metcalfe Bruce was born near Flemingsburg, Kentucky, the son George S. and Sabina Metcalfe Bruce.

Civil War Near the outbreak of the Civil War, Bruce sold all of his enterprises in the north and moved to the south. When Kentucky was admitted to the Confederacy in December 1861, Bruce was elected to one of the Commonwealth's ten congressional seats. He later moved to New York City, New York, where he became a cotton broker and opened a hotel for the use of former Confederate soldiers. The Northern Kentucky chapter of Sons of Confederate Veterans is named in his honor.