Suggested Readings

Elizabeth Corbett, Out at the Soldiers' Home: A Memory Book. New York: Appleton, 1941.

Beverly Gordon, "The Excitement and Lasting Legacy of the Civil War Sanitary Fairs," in Bazaars and Fair Ladies: The History of the American Fundraising Fair. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1998.

Ethel Alice Hurn, Wisconsin Women in the War Between the States. Madison, WI: Wisconsin History Commission, 1911.

Jeanette L. Jerger, Old Soldiers Home: A History and Necrology of the Northwestern Branch, National Hoome for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1864-1900. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2001.

Patrick J. Kelly, Creating a National Home: Building the Veterans' Welfare State, 1860-1900. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

James Marten, "A Place of Great Beauty, Improved by Man: The Soldiers' Home and Victorian Milwaukee." Milwaukee History, The Magazine of the Milwaukee County Historical Society, Spring 1999, pp. 2-15. (Available for purchase from the Soldiers Home Foundation and the Milwaukee County Historical Society)