Letters, November 14, 1863-March 29, 1865.

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Letters, November 14, 1863-March 29, 1865.

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31 letters to her stepmother and brother Charles describe her activities feeding and caring for the soldiers, her relationships with coworkers including Mrs. Cordelia Harvey (later Chester) and Newton Mann, her distribution of tracts and other papers to prisoners, and her observations about the conditions of refugee blacks. Includes copy of photo of her brother Edward who died at Vicksburg, July 27, 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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United States Sanitary Commission

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The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) was a private relief agency created by federal legislation on June 18, 1861, to support sick and wounded soldiers of the United States Army (Federal / Northern / Union Army) during the American Civil War. It operated across the North, raised an estimated $25 million in Civil War era revenue (assuming 1865 dollars, $422.66 million in 2021) and in-kind contributions to support the cause, and enlisted thousands of volunteers. The president was Henry Whit...

Wiswall, Edward, 1842-1863.

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Wiswall, Charles, 1841-fl. 1880.

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Western Sanitary Commission

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Wiswall, Elizabeth Lovejoy, 1815-1893.

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Mann, Newton, 1836-1926.

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United States Christian Commission

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Chester, Cordelia Adelaide Perrine (Harvey), 1824-1895.

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Wife of Wisconsin governor Louis Powell Harvey, who died in office April 1862; appointed sanitary agent, September 1862. From the description of Recollections of hospital life, and personal interviews with President Lincoln, [no date]. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28165821 ...

Yeatman, James E., 1818-1901

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Vicksburg (Miss.) Soldiers Home.

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Wiswall, Harriet (Hattie), 1833-1880.

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Wiswall, of Princeton, Illinois, became a nurse in the Union army hospital at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri on May 1, 1863. In November 1863 she began work as a matron at the Vicksburg, Mississippi, Soldiers Home, a rest and feeding facility for soldiers in transit, both healthy and ailing, where she spent the rest of the war supervising and doing cooking, cleaning, and nursing. From the description of Letters, November 14, 1863-March 29, 1865. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Li...