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Collection Reference Number GLC06559.154.08
From Archive Folder Collection of Sarah Perot Ogden 
Title Carte de Visite of W.H. Gray, wounded at Gettysburg
Date ca. 1862-1864
Document Type Photograph
Content Description Taken from an album. The album contains 27 photographs of the military patients and staff of the U. S. Hospital in Philadelphia. Includes 20 identified patients (one of whom is John Walker, a 13 year old drummer boy), 4 male nurses and stewards. All of the patients are dressed in military uniforms. Information on the reverse of the Cartes de visite, written in ink, gives the subject’s identity, wounds or illness, and other details. The initial leaf of the album is inscribed ”Sallie M. Ogden, December 25, 186-.” The second leaf is inscribed ”Sick & Wounded at U. S. Hospital, Broad and Cherry Sts. Phila.” The photographs have been removed from the album pages.
Subjects Civil War  Military History  Union Forces  Women's History  Soldier's Letter  Union Soldier's Letter  Hospital  Photography  Health and Medical  Injury or Wound  
People Gray, W.H. (fl. 1864)  
Place written Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Theme The American Civil War
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
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