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Excerpt from History of the "Soldiers' Home," Washington, D. C IN publishing the History of what is now known as the Soldiers' Home, I lay before the Officers of the Army, the Senate, the House of Representa tives, and the American people, photographic reproductions Of proofs that Major Robert Anderson was the Originator and Founder, Of that Institution. These proofs consist of Bills introduced into Congress, Petitions, Papers, and a few of the very many original letters I have to and from him in this connection, with as few words of my own as possible to connect them in sequence. These will be preceded by extracts from Histories by various authors, unpublished, but of which I have the mss. And Editorials from newspapers of various dates from 1 840. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.