WEST SIDE SOLDIERS AID SOCIETY, INC.

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Events and Activities 2009-2010

February 13, 2010, Saturday
An Old-Fashioned Sleigh Ride

Apple Holler, 6 P.M.
$15 per person. 7 P.M. dinner is optional. Period dress encouraged.
RSVP to Terry Arliskas 414-810-3182

February 27, 2010, Saturday
American Heroes Ball

A Fundraiser for Friends of Reclaiming Our Heritage
7 P.M., Marian Center for Nonprofits
Music for Dancing by "Torn Jacket"
Tickets are now available: $20 non-refundable general admission/$15 for FOROH members
Contact Patricia Lynch 414-427-3776

March 22, 2010
An Address by Cordelia Harvey

Regarding the Enlistment of Aid for the Benefit of Sons of Wisconsin in the War!
A Presentation of the Kenosha Civil War Museum Theater Program
7 P.M., Matousek Auditorium, Milwaukee VA

Saturday, April 10, 2010
Tickets are now available: $20 non-refundable general admission/$15 for WSSAS members
Contact Patricia Lynch 414-427-3776



Sunday, May 30, 2010
Decoration Day

1 P.M., Forest Home Cemetery, 2405 W. Forest Home,  Milwaukee
Our annual tribute to the Union soldiers of the Wisconsin Soldiers’ Home and National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers


Elizabeth Corbett lived with her family at the Northwestern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Milwaukee, from 1891 to 1915—a total of twenty-five years. In an autobiographical sketch composed after she had moved to New York City to pursue her literary career, she wrote, “I suppose I’m the only author in America who was brought up in a Soldiers’ Home....As the only author who knows the ground, I shall some day have to write that book.”

Elizabeth published that book, Out at the Soldiers' Home,  in 1941. This expanded edition of her Soldiers' Home classic includes photographs of the Milwaukee Soldiers’ Home, a foreword by historian James Marten and a selection of Miss Corbett’s correspondence and short poems.

The wider availability of this resource will be welcomed by scholars of the Civil War era. But many others will also find value in Out at the Soldiers’ Home. It is nostalgic but never cloying, breezy but not glib, a reflection of an earlier time, but with modern sensibilities. It honors “those who have borne the battle” by providing a loving but honest look at their lives long after the battle was over.

—James Marten in the Foreword

256 pages, paperback, 52 photographs, $25.00 (includes shipping and handling)
ISBN: 978-0-87946-363-2

Individual Orders:
Call 414-427-3776 for information.

Trade Orders:
ACTA Publications

Now Available: January 2010 Newsletter
Request an introductory copy by sending an email with "Newsletter" in the subject field to info(at)wssas(dot)org.



 


 

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