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unusual facts about Confederate Soldiers' Home


Thomas E. Winn

He died in Atlanta, Georgia at the Confederate Soldiers' Home, on June 5, 1925 and was buried in the Ridge Grove Cemetery, near Greensboro, Georgia.


Arizona Pioneers' Home

Kate, once the common-law wife of Doc Holliday and later the wife of blacksmith George M. Cummings for only a year, had first gained notoriety as the madam of a brothel.

Bath, New York

It is the site of Bath VA Medical Center – established in 1877, and dedicated in 1879 as New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home – and the adjacent Bath National Cemetery.

Got No Reason Now for Goin' Home

"Got No Reason Now for Goin' Home" is a song written by Johnny Russell, and recorded by American country music artist Gene Watson.

Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home

Major League Baseball player Billy Sunday transferred from another orphanage to the Home in 1872 when he was twelve, and musician Wayne King entered the Home in 1908 at the age of seven, though neither of them were actually orphans.

John Lourie Beveridge

He also approved the Illinois School for the Deaf, Illinois School for the Blind, Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane and restorations of the Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane, Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane, Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' Home and Anna State Hospital.

Kansas Soldiers' Home

The Kansas Soldiers' Home (KSH), located at Fort Dodge, Kansas, was established February 7, 1890.

New York State Route 220

It heads through a small residential neighborhood to the New York State Veterans' Home at Oxford, a large old soldiers' home located adjacent to both the eastern bank of the Chenango River and the NYSW rail line.

Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home

Currently used by Xenia Christian School.

Its former location is now home to Xenia Christian School, Athletes in Action, and other various Christian ministries.

It currently is the main building for Xenia Christian School.

President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home

The historic Cottage, built in the Gothic revival style, was constructed from 1842 to 1843 as the home of George Washington Riggs, who went on to establish the Riggs National Bank in Washington, D.C. Lincoln lived in the cottage June to November 1862 through 1864 and during the first summer living there, Lincoln drafted the preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Soldiers' Home

The Soldiers' House is located at 739 E. 35th St. The house was built in a series of phases from 1864 to 1923 by William W. Boyington and other various architects.

The Chicago Theme

# "Going Home" (Antonín Dvořák) - 4:56

The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef

# "Goin' Home" (Antonín Dvořák, William Arms Fisher) - 5:02

Unorthodox Australian Poet

followed by Middle Swan State School, de La Salle Catholic day School and Castledare Catholic Boarding College.

You're Like Comin' Home

Canadian country music band Emerson Drive originally recorded this song, (under the title "You're Like Coming Home") on their 2004 album, What If? Their version was not released as a single, unlike Lonestar's version.

Ziggy Modeliste

In 2006, he released the single "Let's Get Fired Up" described as "A Fight Song for Our Saints." In 2007, he participated in Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino, contributing his version of Domino's "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday", with Herbie Hancock and Renard Poche.


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W. James Morgan

In December 1861, Morgan ordered two Confederate soldiers home either on furlough or on expiration of their terms of enlistment executed at Bee Creek Bridge and subsequently was responsible for the Burning of Platte City, Missouri.