NATIONAL HOME
FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
historicmilwaukeeva.org
A Service to the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
managed and funded by the West Side S.A.S.
March 10, 2012, 7 p.m.
Marian Center for Nonprofits, Milwaukee
Decoration Day 2012
Tread sofly o’er the sacred grave
That holds their sleeping dust;
For liberty their all they gave,
To us reverts the trust.
from Memorial Poems, 1888
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Annual Tribute to Union Soldiers buried at
historic Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Service of Remembrance at 1 o’clock p.m.
followed by Decoration of Graves.
The Public is Welcome.
COMING TO MILWAUKEE VA
IN MARCH 2015
This exhibition was developed and produced
by the National Library of Medicine,
National Institutes of Health
The 2015 local presentation is sponsored
by the West Side Soldiers Aid Society.
Learn more about "Life and Limb"
and visit the online exhibit.
Free and Friendly!
at Hales Corners Village Hall
Our West Side Victorian Dancers offer open dance sessions each month
for all levels, beginning through experienced.
We'd love to have you join us
at Hales Corners Village Hall.
Sessions are held 6:30-8:30 p.m.
National Soldiers' Home
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, $15.00 (includes shipping and handling)
ISBN: 978-0-87946-363-2
