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Image
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Date created
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1862-09-08
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Creator
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Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893
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Description
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Describes her work as a war nurse. Says that the practice of returning fugitive slaves to their masters has been stopped. Describes the "Contraband" (formerly enslaved people who had escaped to Union lines) and asks her daughter to send clothes for them. Says of the contraband that "there is a growing faith in these people and I think time is even now when liberty should be proclaimed."
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Size
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8 pages
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Type
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Text
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Subjects
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United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
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War--Relief of sick and wounded
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Contraband of war
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Fugitive slaves
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Death
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Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893
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Douglas, John Hancock, 1824-1892
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Hammond General Hospital (Point Lookout, Md.)
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Geographical location
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Point Lookout (Md.)
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Language
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English
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View full item
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https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/object/sc185826 |
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Local identifier
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A00180879
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Collection
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Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, SFHL-RG5-174
(explore contents)
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Contributing institution
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Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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Rights
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Please cite appropriately, crediting Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, SFHL-RG5-174, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College as the source and indicating the identifier of the item, A00180879. This work is believed to be in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States. For more information, see http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/.
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