The Battle of Antietam: a Philadelphia soldier’s experience
....we expected another battle to day but they have skedadled... September 19, 1862, page 1 September 19, 1862, page 2 One week later, White continues to discuss the horror he had experienced: after i wrote the last letter i took a walk over to the battlefield it was an awful
Temperance Movement
...the CTAU’s decision to allow women societies to become honorary members in 1878 and then full active members by 1880; although they had to send male delegates to the annual convention.[11] Membership began to increase by the turn of the century, with over 1,000 societies associated with the CTAU, giving
Priest and Rosary Calm Tension – Oral History Interview
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Robert M. O’Reilly, Surgeon General
...is new position as Assistant Surgeon. Letter from War Department, August 5, 1867 Letter from War Department, August 5, 1867 A high point in the collection is a scrapbook kept while O’Reilly was abroad serving as a delegate at the 1906 International Conference for the Revisions of the Geneva Convention