FROM SOLDIERS' HOME TO MEDICAL CENTER (A GLANCE AT THE 125 YEAR HISTORY OF THE BATH SOLDIERS' HOME)

the long version

The history of the New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home (now the Bath VA Medical Center). This 200 page book accompanied by 150 b/w photos, details the Bath Soldiers' Home from its inception in 1863 to the Grand Army of the Republic raising the $100,000 needed to build the Home in 1877; right up to the recording-breaking ECHO-TAPS of 2006! Read about the scandals and triumphs throughout its fascinating 128 year history. From General Henry W. Slocum, Corporal James Tanner and Henry Ward Beecher to US Grant, Theodore Roosevelt and Robert Kennedy; it's all here.