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Title: Creating a National Home: Building the Veterans' Welfare State 1860-1900 by Patrick J. Kelly ISBN: 0-674-17560-3 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Essential precursor to the Veterans Administration.
Comment: The Civil War was a medical and social disaster of unprecedented proportions, the battle of Gettysburg, alone, producing more casualties than all previous American wars together. The victorious North, as unprepared and disorganized for the shattered human residue of battle as they had been in prosecuting the War, developed some surprisingly effective private relief measures and institutions, but political forces (and the sheer dimensions of the need) formed an irresistible force for the creation of Federal institutions for the care of the maimed and indigent veteran.
The resulting National Home for Disabled Volunteer (note, Union only) Soldiers, "a significant example of the state's capacity to assume a social welfare responsibility previously accepted on the local level", became an important cultural institution in nineteenth-century America and formed the groundwork for the later Veterans' Administration.

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