Soldiers Home Store
All proceeds support our work to advocate for the protection and stewardship of the three remaining vacant Soldiers Home buildings: Ward Memorial Theater, the Soldiers Home Chapel and the Governor’s Mansion, which are currently unused and deteriorating.
Out at the Soldiers Home book
by Elizabeth Corbett $25 shipped |
Milwaukee's Soldiers Home book by Patricia A. Lynch
$25 shipped |
Soldiers Home badge $12 shipped |
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Milwaukee's Soldiers Home by Patricia A Lynch
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. Lynch. The book’s 126 pages are full of stories and historic photographs giving you a glimpse into the Home’s early history and growth. 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. Their dream Home opened in May of 1867, the second of the three original Soldiers Homes. 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!
Order above now for only $25 (includes shipping)
This book will also be available for a $20 donation at all Soldiers Home tours offered by Milwaukee Preservation Alliance throughout weather-friendly months. See here for tour dates and registration information.
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. Lynch. The book’s 126 pages are full of stories and historic photographs giving you a glimpse into the Home’s early history and growth. 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. Their dream Home opened in May of 1867, the second of the three original Soldiers Homes. 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!
Order above now for only $25 (includes shipping)
This book will also be available for a $20 donation at all Soldiers Home tours offered by Milwaukee Preservation Alliance throughout weather-friendly months. See here for tour dates and registration information.
Soldiers Home Badge
Established 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. 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. 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. 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). Later instructions were issued to place the emblem on tableware, serving dishes, hospital equipment - almost everything connected with the Home. Photographic records show the badge in use by some of the first Governors of the Home.
Now you can wear this emblem thanks to the generosity and craftsmanship of Ret. Major General Robert Erffmeyer. Growing up in the vicinity of the Soldiers Home, Gen. Erffmeyer had many fond memories of childhood walks through the grounds and of encounters with the men who lived there. A descendant of Pvt. Charles Erffmeyer, Company A, Sixth Wisconsin Infantry (one of the regiments of the Iron Brigade), Gen. Erffmeyer offered the services of his company - ESCO, Inc - to create a copy of the original badge at a very reasonable price. Gen. Erffmeyer passed away on September 20, 2012 at the age of 86.
Badge is 1½” x ⅞”
Order above now for only $12 (includes shipping)
This badge will also be available for $10 donation at all Soldiers Home tours offered by Milwaukee Preservation Alliance throughout weather-friendly months. See here for tour dates and registration information.
Established 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. 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. 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. 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). Later instructions were issued to place the emblem on tableware, serving dishes, hospital equipment - almost everything connected with the Home. Photographic records show the badge in use by some of the first Governors of the Home.
Now you can wear this emblem thanks to the generosity and craftsmanship of Ret. Major General Robert Erffmeyer. Growing up in the vicinity of the Soldiers Home, Gen. Erffmeyer had many fond memories of childhood walks through the grounds and of encounters with the men who lived there. A descendant of Pvt. Charles Erffmeyer, Company A, Sixth Wisconsin Infantry (one of the regiments of the Iron Brigade), Gen. Erffmeyer offered the services of his company - ESCO, Inc - to create a copy of the original badge at a very reasonable price. Gen. Erffmeyer passed away on September 20, 2012 at the age of 86.
Badge is 1½” x ⅞”
Order above now for only $12 (includes shipping)
This badge will also be available for $10 donation at all Soldiers Home tours offered by Milwaukee Preservation Alliance throughout weather-friendly months. See here for tour dates and registration information.
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