Colonel Paul R. Goode's history of The United States Soldiers' Home.
Shortly after the Mexican War, General Winfield Scott and several other
senior Army officers suggested the establishment of a "Military Asylum"
for the relief and support of invalid and disabled soldiers of the Army
of the United States. Congress agreed, and on March 3, 1851, enacted the
initial legislation which authorized the United States Soldiers' Home.
After more than one hundred years of existence, a history of the
operations, problems, and achievements of the Soldiers' Home has been
long overdue and here Colonel Goode has produced, through diligent
effort and research of all available records, an accurate account of the
activities of the Home. He has also clearly pointed up what a great
haven the Home is to the enlisted men of the Army and, in recent years,
to those of the Air Force.