The Battle of Antietam: a Philadelphia soldier’s experience
...anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single-day battle in American history. The 69th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, with which Philadelphia native William C. White served, participated in this harrowing conflict. Several letters that White wrote to his parents shortly after the battle describe some his experiences. In a
John W. Keogh papers, 1906-1960 (MC 50)
...movement. He served as president of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of American. He also served as president and was instrumental in the founding of the Priests’ Total Abstinence League of America. The collection is mostly comprised of correspondence, both personal and professional, that mainly documents his work as chaplain
Robert M. O’Reilly, Surgeon General
...Surgeon of the First Independent Division at the beginning of the Spanish-American War, and delegate at the International Conference for the Revision of the Geneva Convention in Geneva in 1906. The collection contains correspondence, general orders, assignments, certificates of appointment, circulars, clippings, invitations, a notebook and a scrapbook. O’Reilly led
Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...m the journal kept at the hospital by a Sister of Charity." Records of the American Catholic Historical Society 8, no. 4 (December 1897): 399-449. West, Nathaniel. History of the Satterlee U.S.A. Gen. Hospital at West Philadelphia from October 8, 1862 to October 8, 1863. The Hosptial Press, 1863. (Call#