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unusual facts about President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home


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.


Albert G. Riddle

He served as a Republican in the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863), making speeches in favor of arming slaves, the first on this subject that were delivered in Congress, and others on emancipation in the District of Columbia and in vindication of President Lincoln.

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.

Beatrix Hoyt

She was born in Westchester County, New York, the granddaughter of Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873), the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Lincoln and later, Chief Justice of the United States.

Branscomb, California

According to family tradition, Joseph was shot and killed 3 days before President Lincoln was assassinated, but a contemporary newspaper account says Joseph was murdered, shot to death by a Mr. Stoffel in Maysville on July 31, 1865, after Lincoln's assassination.

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.

James William Marshall

He was graduated from Dickinson College in 1848, and later was made a Professor of Ancient Languages, which chair he filled until the outbreak of the American Civil War, when President Lincoln appointed him United States Consul to Leeds, England.

John Lothrop Motley

In 1861, just after outbreak of the American Civil War, Motley wrote two letters to The Times defending the Federal position, and these letters, afterwards reprinted as a pamphlet entitled Causes of the Civil War in America, made a favourable impression on President Lincoln.

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.

Joseph H. Allen

In early 1862, the 125th Volunteer Infantry Regiment had been put together in Brunswick and a call by President Lincoln for more troops was answered by Allen that September.

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.

Parkhurst

George A. Parkhurst (1841–1890), actor who was on stage the night John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre

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

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.

Unorthodox Australian Poet

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

William Weston Patton

Patton took an earnest part in the anti-slavery movement, and was chairman of the committee that presented to President Lincoln, 13 September 1862, the memorial from Chicago asking him to issue a proclamation of emancipation.

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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