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Whistler, Simon Mower [Soldier's archive] [Decimalized .01- .06]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08362 Author/Creator: Whistler, Simon Mower Place Written: s.l. Type: Header Record Date: 1860-1865 circa Pagination: Order a Copy

Simon Mower Whistler, soldier's archive of Harrisburg, PA physician. With three war time diaries, manuscript memoirs, medical journal and watercolor of hospital ship "Connecticut."

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