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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC06559.129 |
From Archive Folder | Collection of Sarah Perot Ogden |
Title | E.H. Vickrey to Sarah Ogden regarding her husband's health |
Date | 12 April ca. 1860-1870 |
Author | Vickrey, E.H. (fl. 1860-1870) |
Recipient | Ogden, Sarah Perot |
Document Type | Correspondence |
Content Description | Writes she received Ogden's letter and is glad to hear that her husband has improved in health. In his last letter, he wrote that he would be rejoining his battery. Says she wants to discourage him from doing so because she does not think it wise considering his weak back. Asks that Mrs. Ogden accept her many thanks for her kindness and care. State is not listed, but was likely written from Greenwich, New York. |
Subjects | Civil War Military History Union Forces Women's History Soldier's Letter Union Soldier's Letter Hospital Health and Medical Marriage Woman Author |
People | Ogden, Sarah Perot (b. 1831) |
Place written | Greenwich, New York |
Theme | Reconstruction; Health & Medicine; Women in American History |
Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
Additional Information | Sarah Perot Ogden was a Quaker from Philadelphia who took part in variety of philanthropic works such as assisting the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. She was a member of the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames of America, the Philadelphia Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, and President of the Philadelphia Home for Incurables. Both Ogden and her husband, Edward H. Ogden, were strong supporters of the Union cause. During the Civil War Ogden volunteered in a military hospital where she made daily visits. Her husband served as a Union soldier. |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
Civil War: Theater of War | Main Eastern Theater |