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Sarah Hopper Emerson letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Sarah Hopper Emerson letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Discusses the illness of Martha Sever (sp?) and passes on other news from the military hospital where Emerson worked as a nurse. Asks Gibbons to have a newpaper article written. Gives a list of items received from the Sanitary Commission. Expresses outrage that a "Rebel woman" has been put in charge of the Sanitary Commission's hospital supplies for wounded Confederate prisoners in Winchester, Virginia; says that "if it were not that the Sanitary and Christian Commissions were rivals and that the former does so much good, I would write a letter to the paper myself about it"; blames the leadership of Mr. Knapp.
Date:
1864-10-04
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her family
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her family
Description:
Written in Virginia during the Civil War. Discusses Colonel Russell and the capture of Petersburg. When discussing the wounded African American troops, states "I see no difference, save in complexion. It was a satisfaction to take care of them."
Date:
1864-06-15
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Julia Gibbons
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Julia Gibbons
Description:
Apparently written during Gibbons's time as a Union nurse during the Civil War. Discusses Dorothea Dix and the Sanitary Commission.
Date:
1861-1867
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her family
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her family
Description:
Briefly discusses the "Diet Kitchen" she set up in Washington, D.C. Discusses the gratitude of the soldiers whom the Sanitary Commission aided at Fredericksburg and her work as a nurse there. Describes her trip by boat to the towns of White House and Norfolk, including "contraband" and freed people of color ("Contraband" was a term used during the Civil War to refer to formerly enslaved people who had escaped to Union lines).
Date:
1864-06-12
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Julia Billings letter to Abby Hopper GIbbons
Title:
Julia Billings letter to Abby Hopper GIbbons
Description:
Writes on behalf of a Mrs. Hibbard, who is looking for employment, and recommends her for a posting at the Home (later called the Isaac T. Hopper Home), a shelter for women ex-convicts. As a member of the Committee to appeal to public charities, she suggests that the women of the Home make things for the Metropolitan Fair in order to aid the Sanitary Commission. Hopes that Gibbons will come visit.
Date:
1864-01-19
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her children
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her children
Description:
Describes the conditions of a military hospital during the Civil War where Gibbons worked as a nurse, and her experiences there. Briefly mentions the arrest of local men for insulting the Union soldiers. Says "the Sanitary Commission is an immense and powerful machinery after a battle." Was photographed with a group of disabled men (scans of these photographs, taken by James Gardner, are available from the Library of Congress).
Date:
1864-05-21
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Dr. John Stearns, Jr., letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Dr. John Stearns, letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Written on stationery of the Army of the Potomac. Gibbons and Stearns met during the Civil War while working at an army hospital in Point Lookout, Maryland. Thanks Gibbons for sending him food, and expresses discontent with the Sanitary Commission and General Hooker.
Date:
1863-05-23
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her children
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her children
Description:
Describes her work caring for the wounded at City Point.
Date:
1864-06-20
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alfred J. Bloor letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Alfred J. Bloor letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Alfred Janson Bloor was an architect, author, and assistant secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. Requests her photograph to add to his Sanitarian Album documenting Sanitarian members. Is afraid of asking the unmarried women for their photographs, including the Woolsey sisters and Miss Schuyler.
Date:
1865-06-13
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Dr. John Stearns, Jr., letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Dr. John Stearns, letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Gibbons and Stearns met during the Civil War while working at an army hospital in Point Lookout, Maryland. Stearns discusses an article about the freedmen living in Port Royal, SC, as well as Edward Philbrick's work with formerly enslaved people at Beaufort. He approves of General Grant's treatment of the "contras, i.e., contrabands, a term used during the Civil War to refer to formerly enslaved people who had escaped to Union lines.
Date:
1863-08-26
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
James Sloan Gibbons letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
James Sloan Gibbons letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Discusses shipping relief supplies to his wife Abby Hopper Gibbons, who was working as a nurse at the military hospital in Point Lookout, Maryland. Discusses politics around the Sanitary Comission and the Surgeon General.
Date:
1862-08-13
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College