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Mary Bickerdyke was known as "Mother" Bickerdyke, due to her nursing of soldiers during the Civil War.

Young woman, appointed as major by Jeb Stuart, on horseback.

This unidentified young woman's portrait was found on the body of Civil War soldier Thomas Kilgore. Kilgore served with the 95th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.) and died in Jackson Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee on July 2, 1863 at the age of 18. An…

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[illegible] Feb. 22d [d superscript] 1864

Dear Sir,
According to your request, I send you my Autograph ect. In the latter part of the last century. [illegible] the beginning of the present persons from Penn to thes [sic] States &…