Records reveal that Board President Benjamin Butler was “instructed to devise a suitable badge to be firmly attached to the uniform, and at all times worn, by each beneficiary of the Asylum” (1867). In addition to a modified uniform and a daily routine reminiscent of their days on those tented fields, the Home used the image of Columbia offering relief to a disabled soldier as its common seal. The Board of Managers of the National Home (as it came to be known in 1873) created an institution that met the physical, emotional and social needs of the “old soldiers” while maintaining a military style of life. See here for tour dates and registration information.Įstablished by an act of Congress and signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on March 3, 1865, the creation of the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers expressed the nation’s desire to honor those who had served so nobly during the Civil War. This book will also be available for a $20 donation at all Soldiers Home tours offered by Milwaukee Preservation Alliance throughout weather-friendly months. ![]() Order above now for only $25 (includes shipping) Little did they know that their efforts and their stories would survive all these years, and lead to what is now a National Historic Landmark - our beloved Soldiers Home! Their dream Home opened in May of 1867, the second of the three original Soldiers Homes. Lynch’s Introduction provides a great summary of the work of the women of the West Side Soldiers Aid Society, who took care of returning Civil War Soldiers in the days before the Soldiers Home, raising funds and laying the groundwork for locating the Soldiers Home in Milwaukee. The book’s 126 pages are full of stories and historic photographs giving you a glimpse into the Home’s early history and growth. ![]() We are pleased to offer Milwaukee’s Soldiers Home (2013, Arcadia Books, Images of America series), a photographic history book researched and written by local historian Patricia A. Milwaukee's Soldiers Home by Patricia A Lynch
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