ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
​
1. Bennett, S. (2007, June 26). Veterans' administration Medical Center. WikiMarion.
https://wikimarion.org/Veterans%27_Administration_Medical_Center
​
Marion, IN local history wiki page. Includes many pictures that aren’t available elsewhere and seem to be digitized items held at the Marion Public Library Indiana Room. Works cited shows list of sources that would be helpful to consult.
​
2. Congress. (1863, Jan 08). New York Times.
​
Reports on the congressional resolution that was adopted to “inquire into the expediency of providing a suitable location for a Soldier’s Home for destitute and disabled soldiers honorably discharged.”
​
3. Gobrecht, J. C. (1875). History of the national home for disabled volunteer soldiers: With a complete guide-book to the central home, at Dayton, Ohio. Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library. https://digital.cincinnatilibrary.org/digital/collection/p16998coll15/id/41006
​
A book about the Central NHDVS with chapters including: The soldier’s reward; The Nation’s defenders; The government nobly performs its duty; Care for the survivors - pension and pension rolls; The establishment of Soldier’s Homes; The central home at Dayton, Ohio; The eastern branch near Augusta, Maine; The northwestern branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; The southern branch, near Fortress Monroe, Virginia - the objects and purposes of the National Homes; Requirements for admission; Historical incidents of the central home. It also includes a section dedicated to the campus and its many facilities, including the Martindale Conservatory, flower gardens, parks, entertainment halls, band pagoda, etc.
​
4. Groups veterans' bureaus: measure to consolidate all activities reaches house. (1930, Mar 11). New York Times. http://ulib.iupui.edu/cgi-bin/proxy.pl?url=http://search.proquest.com.proxy.ulib.uits.iu.edu/historical-newspapers/groups-veterans-bureaus/docview/99035087/se-2?accountid=7398
Discusses President Hoover’s “program for departmental consolidation...grouping all war veterans’ relief and military pension activities into one bureau.” “This consolidation was one of the specific recommendations made by President Hoover in his message to Congress. It is one of the several departmental consolidations for which the President is known to favor.”
​
5. History of the national home for disabled volunteer soldiers. (2017, November 14). U.S. National Park Service (NPS). https://www.nps.gov/articles/history-of-disabled-volunteer-soldiers.htm
​
Article begins with how the United States took care of their veterans. Starting with paid pensions to injured and disabled Revolutionary War veterans and the expansion of pension benefits, established Philadelphia’s U.S. Naval Asylum in 1811 followed by the 1851 opening of the U.S. Soldiers Home in Washington D.C. The U.S. fought more wars thus creating more veterans that needed resources. The article stresses how the Civil War especially had many volunteers who weren’t career military veterans, and the solution was to be the National Home(s) for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. It is also stressed that “President Lincoln signed the NHDVS bill March 1865, just a month before his assassination.” Includes the NHDVS mission statement as described by the Board of Managers.
​
6. History of national homes for volunteer soldiers. (2015). Save the Soldiers Home. https://www.savethesoldiershome.com/history-of-national-homes ⇧
​
Focuses on the Milwaukee, Northwest branch of NHDVS and includes a documentary style video and interview with historian and author Patricia A. Lynch. A wealth of knowledge about the beginnings of NHDVS branches.
​
7. Hubbard, N. J. (1999, March 15). National register of historic places registration form for Marion branch, national home for disabled volunteer veterans historical district. State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD). https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/r/4db55/N/Marion_Branch,_National_Home_for_Disabled_Volunteer_Soldiers_Historic_District_nomination.pdf
​
Contents include extensive descriptions of each building on the grounds (p. 7-26), list of photographs submitted (p. 29-34), Statement of Significance (p. 35-60) and endnotes with resources (p. 61-69 ).
​
8. Kelly, P. J. (1997). Creating a national home: Building the veterans' welfare state, 1860-1900. Harvard University Press.
“Kelly explores the efforts of the Home’s managers to glean support for this institution by drawing upon the reassuring language of domesticity and “home.” He also describes the manner in which the creators of the National Homes used building design, landscaping, and tourism to integrate each branch into the cultural and economic life of surrounding communities, and to promote a positive image of the U.S. state. Drawing upon several fields of American history—political, cultural, welfare, gender—Creating a National Home illustrates the lasting impact of war on U.S. state and society. The building of the National Home marks the permanent expansion of social benefits offered to citizen-veterans.” (from Publisher’s website, https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674418837)
9. Marion VA Medical Center. (n.d.). U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
https://www.va.gov/directory/guide/facility.asp?id=755
​
This is a look at what the Marion NHDVS is being used for today. It includes the current capacity counts for patients (243 Medical, Surgical and Mental Health & 180 Nursing Home Care Unit Beds), Affiliated universities, types of facilities, and special programs.
​
10. Marion branch NHDVS. (n.d.). Indiana Historical Bureau (IHB).
https://www.in.gov/history/state-historical-markers/find-a-marker/marion-branch-nhdvs/
​
Sign reads: (Front side) At the end of the Civil War, U. S. undertook care of disabled Union veterans in a system of homes known by 1873 as National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS). The offer of free natural gas by Grant County residents and the efforts of local Congressman George W. Steele persuaded Congress to establish the Marion Branch of the NHDVS, July 23, 1888. (Back side) Members had access to health care, training, work, and recreation. In 1920, this Branch was converted into a neuropsychiatric hospital for World War I veterans; in 1930, consolidated within new Veterans Administration. As part of VA Northern Indiana Health Care System, facility continues to care for veterans. Some original buildings and National Cemetery remain.”
​
11. Marion Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. (n.d.). U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. https://www.northernindiana.va.gov/news/marionhistory.asp
​
Provides an overview of important dates and events pertaining to the NHDVS campus, including Congressional approval, land selection and purchases, phases of additional construction, and changes in Hospital specializations, etc.
​
12. Marion, Indiana VA Medical Center Project: ‘Coordinate Section 106 Compliance’: Architectural Documentation Final Report. (2018, May). State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD). https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/r/cfbe6/N/DHPA_%2322414_-_Coordinate_Section_106_Compliance_-_Marion_-_Final_Report.pdf
​
Contains 84 pages of plans/blueprints, maps, photographs, building evaluations, lists of architectural features, etc.
​
13. Marion national cemetery. (n.d.). National Cemetery Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. https://www.cem.va.gov/pdf/InterpretiveSigns/MarionNationalCemetery.pdf
​
A National Cemetery Administration pamphlet covering the history of the site, cemetery, and the Soldiers monument unveiled in 1914.
​
14. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers - Marion Branch, Discover Indiana. Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. https://publichistory.iupui.edu/items/show/193.
​
Discusses the fluctuation in number of disabled veterans during different periods, changes in the medical needs of veterans from different wars, and the phases of the oversight departments.
​
15. National military home in Marion. (2005, September 19). Moment of Indiana History, Indiana Public Media. https://indianapublicmedia.org/momentofindianahistory/national-military-home-in-marion/ ⇧
​
A short narration of the text article. Unlike other sources, it also discusses social aspects of life at the NHDVS. “The Home was also racially integrated: white and black veterans lived together here a full eighty years before the integration of the military troops.”
​
16. National register of historic places continuation sheet for Marion branch, national home for disabled volunteer veterans historical district. (n.d.). State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD). https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/r/4db58/N/Marion_Branch,_National_Home_for_Disabled_Volunteer_Soldiers_Historic_District_map.pdf
​
Map of the Historic District recognized by the National Register of Historic Places.
​
17. Our soldiers' homes. (1869, Sep 19). New York Times.
​
This article discusses the woes of veterans and how they coped with life after they were disabled while fighting our wars. At this time the homes were called the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. It also outlines the requirements for admission: “an honorable discharge from the volunteer service, and disability by sickness contracted or wounds received in the line of duty,” and who to contact for admission to the Asylums. The article also refers to those who are admitted as “inmates.”
​
18. Public gratitude to soldiers and sailors--national homes and asylums. (1867, Dec 08). New York Times.
​
This article outlines the public response to war heroes including “hundreds of scholarships for the sons of fallen soldiers...established in the best colleges throughout the country--partly on the foundations from wealthy patrons, partly by gift from the colleges themselves, partly by the laws of States.” Other proposed measures such as “increase the pensions of widows and orphans,...provide pensions for the survivors of the earlier wars of the country,...(and) providing bounties of land for patriot soldiers.” There is also a mention of hospitals and asylums open throughout the country and that “newer and grander ones are building or planning.” The article also speaks to the future, “so probably, within ten years after the smoke has rolled away from the last battle-field of the war, America will be prepared, probably, to do at Gettysburgh, Dayton, Augusta, Philadelphia, what England does at Greenwich and Chelsea”
​
19. Role of women in founding of the Milwaukee Soldiers Home. (2015). Save the Soldiers Home. https://www.savethesoldiershome.com/role-of-women ⇧
​
Focused on the Northwest branch in Milwaukee. Because soldiers were exclusively men for so long the discussion of veterans during this time doesn’t include women. “During the Civil War, beginning in 1861, a group of Milwaukee-area women formed the West Side Soldiers’ Aid Society and worked to provide care and transitional housing to returning Civil War veterans in Wisconsin.” The women held fundraising fairs with a goal to create a permanent home. Because of the work the women were doing local big wigs lobbied to have a NHDVS in Milwaukee and the West Side Soldiers’ Aid Society agreed to combine forces and transfer their assets to the government. “The Lady Managers of the Wisconsin Soldiers’ Home stipulated that the Northwestern Branch admit veterans of all wars, not just the Civil War.”
​
20. Sanger, G. P. (1866). The Statutes at Large of the U. S. A., December 1863 to December 1865 (13). Little Brown and Company. (p 509-510) https://books.google.com/books?id=EyM3AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
​
March 3, 1865: “An Act to incorporate a national military and naval Asylum for Relief of the totally disabled Officers and Men of the Volunteer Forces of the States” (Chap XCI, Sections 1-11). The act in its entirety that was later passed by congress to establish and fund National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
​
21. Sanger, G. P. (1873). The Statutes at Large of the U. S. A., March 1871 to March 1873 (17). Boston: Little Brown and Company. (p 417) https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/42nd-congress/c42.pdf
​
Congressional record including “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to incorporate a national military and naval Asylum for the Relief of the totally disabled Officers and Men of the Volunteer Forces of the United States,’ approved March twenty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for other Purposes.” The proposal, approved January 23, 1873, which substitutes the word “home” and eliminates the term “asylum.”
22. The home for disabled soldiers.: annual report of the board of managers no charitable institution in the country conducted at so small an expense. (1875, Apr 19). New York Times. http://ulib.iupui.edu/cgi-bin/proxy.pl?url=http://search.proquest.com.proxy.ulib.uits.iu.edu/historical-newspapers/home-disabled-soldiers/docview/93461122/se-2?accountid=7398
​
This article shows a steady growth of disabled soldiers seeking treatment at the four existing NHDVS homes (Central, Dayton, OH; Northwest, Milwaukee, WI; Eastern, Augusta, ME; Southern, Hampton, VA). This documented increase in need is the reason for expanding from four hospitals in 1975 to establishing three additional NHDVS locations from 1885-1888. It also discusses the demographics of the soldiers treated, including the conflicts they fought in, age, disability details, race, marital status, and whether they are native or foreign born.
​
23. Unified veterans' relief. (1930, Mar 14). New York Times.
​
Reports on the bill to “consolidate the Pension Bureau, the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and the Veterans’ Bureau” into a single organization, the Administration of Veterans’ Affairs. The purpose of this unification was to “erect a new structure of legislation which will tend to equalize and remove discriminations with respect to benefits now received by the veterans of various wars.”
​
24. VA Marion Appendix, Technical Evaluation. (n.d.). State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD). https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/r/c6241/N/va_marion_appendix.pdf
​
Contents: Maps, Building Summaries for standing structures including floor plans/blueprints
25. VA Northern Indiana Health Care System Facility (VANIHCS). (n.d.). U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
https://www.northernindiana.va.gov/locations/Marion.asp
​
Notes hours of operation and medical services offered currently. “The Marion Campus also offers programs for Mental Health Intensive Case Management, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Extended Substance Abuse Treatment and Intensive Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment. Marion Campus also has an OEF/OIF (Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom) case manager assigned to the new returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan to ensure their transitions back to civilian life are as seamless as possible.”
​
​
26. Veterans home name changed. (1930, Sep 28). New York Times.
This article outlines the name change from National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to the Bureau of National Homes. It seems as though the name is mainly in reference to the Central branch of the NHDVS in Dayton, Ohio “which has jurisdiction over ten branches.” It also discusses title and responsibility changes of some administrators.
[ ⇧ signifies resources that serve as inspiration for final project ]