Western Military Asylum

Metadata
Citation
Documents
Download

Creation Date

1853-03-03

Dissolution Date

1858-10-19

Entity Type

Organization

"Western Military Asylum" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/O00011551, (accessed March 17, 2025).

Download XML

Harrodsburg, Kentucky, home for aged and infirm U.S. military veterans. Established by U.S. Statute. An act was further passed to sell the buildings and grounds during 1860-61.

John P. Deeben, Caring for Veterans in the Nation’s Capital: Records of the U.S. Soldiers’ Home in Washington, D.C., 1851–1943, Spring 2015, Vol. 47, No. 1, Genealogy Notes, https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2015/spring/soldiers-home.html#page-header (accessed December 16, 2019).
Martha Stephenson, "Old Graham Springs: At Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Once the Most Fashionable Summer Resort in the State—Now Only a Memory of the Past." _Register of Kentucky State Historical Society, Vol. 12, no. 34 (1914): 25-35. www.jstor.org/stable/23367448 (accessed December 16, 2019).
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1924), 81.

Civil War Governors of Kentucky is always evolving. Help us improve the edition by suggesting a correction or addition to this record.

Suggest a correction