Soldiers Homes

[RaggedAssSecond]

Was Lincoln the first to foresee the need for Soldiers (Veterans) Homes?

 

[Stryker65]

The Soldiers' Home in Washington DC was actually established in 1851 by GiC/Bvt Lt Gen Winfield Scott, during Millard Fillmore's administration. James Buchanan used it as a summer cottage for vacations, and this tradition was later adopted by Lincoln.

 

[Fairfield]

President Lincoln's creation may not have been the earliest but it surely was the largest--and longest lasting. Called the National Asylums for Disabled Veterans (later, the National Homes for Disabled Veterans), the first of the homes was in Chelsea, Maine, set in a converted hotel. Togus accepted its first vet in 1866 and is still part of the VA medical system.

 

[John Hartwell]

Caring for Veterans of the Civil War | Medical Care

Hello, I was wondering how the need to properly help care for disabled veterans of the war helped to push forward the development of modern medicine. I am a caregiver, though not for a military veteran. I'm just wondering how the postwar era medicine helped lead to today's caregiving, both in...

civilwartalk.com

During the Civil War, the U.S. Sanitary Commission maintained a series of about 30 Soldiers' Homes and Lodges -- these were closed within a few years after the war.