by Steve Michaels Lydia Docenia Ely was born in 1835 in Clinton, Michigan, the daughter of two of Milwaukee’s earliest pioneers, …
Forest Home Cemetery
The Home Cemetery at the Northwestern Branch did not open until 1871. Prior to that time, many members of the Home were interred …
Bivouac of the Dead
Cast-iron tables inscribed with stanzas of Theodore O'Hara's "Bivouac of the Dead' were fabricated at the War Department’s Rock …
Arcadia Book
Book chronicles 100 years of Soldiers’ Home history through 205 photographs. With interest in the Soldiers’ Home on the rise due …