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1   Link   National Park Service
The National Park Service has the National Register paperwork for the National Soldiers Home Historic District in Milwaukee as well as information collected for a National Landmark study of soldiers homes in the U.S., including the Milwaukee site. This link takes you to the National Landmark summary. To find more information, visit the National Park Service Home Page at www.nps.gov. 		108
2   Link   National Archives
The National Archives has several articles and documents about America's National Soldiers Home, including the Milwaukee site. 		85
3   Link   Wisconsin State Historical Society
The Wisconsin Historical Society has several documents regarding the National Soldiers Home district in Milwaukee. 		89
4   Link   National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places lists the National Soldiers Home Historic District, also known as "Northwestern Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District." 		82
5   Link   Milwaukee County Historical Society
Milwaukee County Historical Society has many documents and several articles about the National Soldiers Home Historic District in Milwaukee. 		88
6   Link   New York Times Nov. 1883
The Milwaukee (Wis.) Sentinel prints the report of a committee of the Robert Chivas Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, giving the results of its investigation of the charges made respecting the treatment of the inmates of the National Soldiers' Home, near that city. 		132
7   Link   History of the National home for disabled volunteer soldiers By J. C. Gobrecht
Posted by Google books: Written in 1875, 248 pages. Download the entire book as a PDF. 		79
8   Link   West Side Soldiers Aid Society
The West Side Soldiers Aid Society, Inc., is a research-based living history organization, a modern-day soldiers' aid society, and a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity. It was created in 2006 to promote awareness of the Wisconsin Soldiers Home/National Soldiers Home movement in Milwaukee and the lasting contribution of this movement to veterans' health care. Activities include Quilting Circle, Civil War Dance events, ongoing history and genealogy projects. 		84
9   Link   1865 Soldiers Home Fair Letter
A family found this letter, written in 1865 about the fair that raised money to help create the Soldiers Home in Milwaukee. They donated it to the Soldiers Home Foundation, which loaned it to the VA Medical Center Library in Milwaukee so it would be more accessible to researches. 		73
10   Link   Pre-Civil War Soldiers’ Home, Washington, DC
A precursor of the later National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers of which Milwaukee's was the Northwestern Branch. Founded in 1851 as a home for retired and disabled veterans of American wars, the Soldiers’ Home stood on 250 acres atop the third highest area in the District of Columbia. During the Civil War, President Lincoln and his family resided seasonally (June – November 1862-64) at the Soldiers’ Home in Washington, DC. 		89

1889 Chapel Update

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The Milwaukee Soldiers Home Foundation, Inc. has, to date, raised over $200,000 toward restoring the National Soldiers Home Historic District's 1889 Chapel. We've used donations to complete lead, asbestos and animal abatement at the Chapel as well as architectural plans and the required Historic Structures Report. In addition, we've obtained $1.37 million in National Park Service tax credits toward the $6 million project. We need your help to meet the immediate need of raising $500,000 to begin Phase I of the Chapel Restoration project, restoring the damaged Chapel's roof, the first Phase of the Chapel Restoration Project. To donate cash, goods, or time and talent to the project, visit the Chapel Restoration section of this Web site.