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Bickerdyke, Mary Ann Ball (1817-1901) Nurse
Papers, 1856-1905. ca. 1,800 items.
In part, transcripts.
Includes correspondence with medical and field officers,
officials of the U.S. Christian Commission, the Soldiers Aid
Society, the Western Sanitary Commission, and convalescent
soldiers concerning hospital care and management, supplies,
disease, diet, and the care of blacks. Provides a few details on
the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, and
the Atlanta and Savannah campaigns.
Finding aid available.
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Biddle Family
Papers, 1733-1886.
Microfilm, 1 reel.
Miscellaneous letters, 1861-65, concerning aid to prisoners
of war, military appointments and promotions, black
citizenship, and routine affairs. Correspondents include Nathaniel
P. Banks, John Gibbon, Henry W. Halleck, Joseph Hooker,
George B. McClellan, George G. Meade, Robert Patterson, Winfield
Scott, William Smith, Roy Stone, and Isaac J. Wistar.
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Bigelow, John (1854-1936) Historian
Papers, 1866-1936. ca. 25,000 items.
In part, transcripts and photocopies.
Contains correspondence and reports on military operations
in Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana,
1861-64; research notes on the Chancellorsville Campaign;
and notes on an unpublished study of Robert E. Lee and the
secession movement. Also, an autograph collection of Civil War
letters with telegrams by Gens. Ulysses S. Grant, Leroy Pope
Walker, and P. G. T. Beauregard.
Finding aid available.
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Bikle, Philip Melanchton (b. 1844) Professor,
Pennsylvania College
Reminiscence, 1930. 1 item.
Transcript.
Contains a few personal observations on Lincoln's Gettysburg
Address.
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