In Her Own Right: Jane and Marianne Campbell

...ge. I saw the Providence Journal of yesterday...but there was nothing from Tennessee where the battle of the 36th state is being fought, maybe it is already decided but I have no means of knowing for perhaps some days.” (Five days later, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the

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

A lengthy and active military career

...illy's letters to his mother that he wrote while stationed in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Order for O'Reilly to report to the General Field Hospital near Chattanooga Creek, Chattanooga, Tennessee, March 12, 1864 In 1867, O'Reilly was sent to several army posts in the southwest and was then stationed in Wyoming Territory

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Collection Development Policy

...ls, including Archdiocesan and National Catholic directories, Philadelphia City directories, and encyclopedias. Secondary sources include scholarship relating to the history of Catholicism in the United States as well as social and cultural histories of the various ethnicities that shaped the American Catholic Church. CHRC does not actively collect non-institutional records,

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Irish Land War

...testaments, and booklets on a variety of topics. I recently came across a number of documents related to the “Irish Question.” The Irish Question, concerning Irish nationalism and independence, spanned the time period from around the mid 19th to the mid 20th century. Religion and politics were both prominent topics

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