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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC06559.055 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of Sarah Perot Ogden |
| Title | Ira D. Jones to Sarah Ogden requesting a loan to pay for his home |
| Date | 8 February 1863 |
| Author | Jones, Ira D.(fl. 1862-1863) |
| Recipient | Ogden, Sarah Perot |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Requests a loan of two hundred dollars to pay for his home. Says he will pay the loan back over four years. Offers to give Ogden a mortgage on the house if she grants him this favor. Identifies himself to Ogden as a soldier she nursed in a Philadelphia hospital, whose left hand was wounded, and to whom she gave a pillow to rest the hand on during his journey home. |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Union Forces Women's History Soldier's Letter Union Soldier's Letter Hospital Injury or Wound Health and Medical Finance Mortgage Debt |
| People | Ogden, Sarah Perot (b. 1831) Jones, Ira D.(fl. 1862-1863) |
| Place written | North Eagle, Michigan |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Health & Medicine |
| 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 |