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Creating a National Home

Building the Veterans' Welfare State, 1860-1900

Creating a National Home( )
Author: Kelly, Patrick J.
ISBN:978-0-674-41883-7
Publication Date:Oct 2013
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $65.00
Book Description:

For tens of thousands of Union veterans, Patrick Kelly argues, the Civil War never ended. Many Federal soldiers returned to civilian life battling the lifelong effects of combat wounds or wartime disease. Looking to the federal government for shelter and medical assistance, war-disabled Union veterans found help at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Established by Congress only weeks prior to the Confederate surrender, this network of federal institutions had...
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Book Details
Pages:258
Detailed Subjects: History / Military / Veterans
Political Science / American Government / General
Book Weight:1.062 Pounds



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