Portrait photograph of Robert M. O'Reilly, circa 1870

A lengthy and active military career

...g members of women's religious orders. O'Reilly writes: There hasn't been any fever- yellow fever I mean- in Tampa. There is or was a good deal of typhoid as this is pretty ?? to be in camps of green troops. My associations since the General and staff went to Huntsville

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Our Lady of Czestochowa Dedication

...ucation. On October 16, 1966, 135,000 people attended the dedication ceremony. Among the guests of honor was President Lyndon B. Johnson, who spoke for 25 minutes of history and heritage of Polish Americans, and the need to build “bridges of friendship and trade” with Poland. Halvey_T201_004 Halvey_T201_002 Halvey_T201_038 Halvey_T201_011  

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Robert M. O’Reilly papers, 1862-1925 (MC 34)

...units during the Spanish-American War. He also served as a delegate at the International Conference for the Revision of the Geneva Convention in Geneva in 1906. During his time as surgeon general, O’Reilly made significant improvements by elevating the status and personnel of the army medical corps and furthering medical

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