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SOLDIERS' HOMES.1
At the session of 1867 the Legislature most humanely and opportunely appropriated twenty thousand dollars to maintain for two years a temporary "Soldiers' Home" at the Harper Hospital in Detroit. At the session of 1869 an. additional sum was appropriated for its support for two years more. This home was established for the maintenance of infirm, maimed, and destitute Michigan soldiers and sailors of the late war, its management to be under the direction of the State Military Board, then consisting of Colonel D. H. Jerome, of Saginaw, President; Colonel Jerome Croul, of Detroit; Colonel Alvin T. Grossman, of Flint; Colonel Henry L. Hall, of Hillsdale; and Col. S. M. Cutcheon, of Ypsilanti.
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