Statutes of the United States. Revised Statutes of the United States and State Acts affecting the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. By-Laws and Resolutions (Hartford, Conn : Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1892), 8. [Cover title: Laws and regulations - N.H.D.V.S.]
Statutes of the United States. Revised Statutes of the United States and State Acts affecting the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. By-Laws and Resolutions. (Hartford, Conn : Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1892), 16. [Cover title:Laws and regulations - N.H.D.V.S.]
“RESOLVED – That the President of the Board be, and is hereby authorized to ask Congress to change the name of this establishment, by striking out the word “Asylum,” and inserting the word “Home,” so that the name shall read as follow: NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.
Proceedings of the Board of Managers of the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Volume 1, March 9, 1872, page 146.
Executive Order 5398
General Order No.46 officially changed the Post Office address.
VETERANS ADMINISTRATION WISCONSIN
June 29, 1937, General Order, No. 46
On July 1, 1937, the Post Office address of Veterans' Administration, Wisconsin, is changed to "WOOD, WISCONSIN." It is requested that all persons residing at this station cooperate with the Post Office department in the change of address and that you will notify your relatives and others promptly so that there will be no confusion in the delivery of your mail.
It is suggested that men in the domiciliary status advise their correspondents to place the Company number on the envelope.To those members in the hospital it is suggested that the ward number not be used but merely "care of hospital" as frequently men are transferred from one ward to another and mail delayed if the ward number is placed on same.
The new name of the Post Office, Wood, Wisconsin, is honoring General George H. Wood, who, for so many years, served so efficiently and unselfishly as President of the Board of Managers, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. After the World War General Wood was particularly interested and active in seeing that this station was restored to its former size and the buildings rehabilitated.
General Wood served in both the Spanish War and World War with great honor and also served as Adjutant General of the State of Ohio. He is now a resident of Dayton, Ohio, and a member of the Federal Board of Hospitalization.
CHARLES M. PEARSALL, Manager
Public Law 98-528, signed by President Ronald Reagan.