Papers of George Cuvier Harlan, 1858-1909, (bulk 1861-1864)

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Papers of George Cuvier Harlan, 1858-1909, (bulk 1861-1864)

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Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of George C. Harlan, chiefly covering his Civil War experience. The bulk of the collection consists of his letters to his mother Margaret Simmons Hart Howell Harlan and younger brother Edward S. Harlan. A keen observer, Dr. Harlan regularly reported to his "Philadelphia headquarters" war news and rumors, recounted the details of his hospital work, including the numerous challenges he faced in his effort to keep his camp and field hospitals up to the "hospital standards of Pennsylvania," and described his patients, colleagues, commanders, fellow officers, soldiers, "contrabands" (fugitive slaves), and Southern "secessionists." His letters contain accounts of the military operations and events he witnessed, including the capture of blockade-runners, the rampage of the Confederate armored warship, the Merrimack, the Monitor, the Peninsular Campaign of 1862, and the siege of Petersburg in 1864. The letters written from Confederate prisons describe Harlan's capture and his medical work in Confederate hospitals

183 pieces, also ephemera.4 boxes.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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