The United States Soldiers' Home - A History Of Its First Hundred Years

Colonel Paul R. Goode's history of The United States Soldiers' Home.Shortly after the Mexican War, General Winfield Scott and several other senior Army officers suggested the establishment of a "Military Asylum" for the relief and support of invalid and disabled soldiers of the Army of the United States. Congress agreed, and on March 3, 1851, enacted the initial legislation which authorized the United States Soldiers' Home.After more than one hundred years of existence, a history of the operatio