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Soldiers' Graves near the General Hospital, City Point, Va

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Hand colored. Seemingly endless rows of graves. Only the burials in the distant background have grave markers.

GLC05137.172

Scene in the Hospital (leg amputation)

No identification. Label on front: "Scene in the Hospital." Zouave soldiers helping a doctor with a leg amputation. Handwritten on verso: "Hospital Scene at Fortress Monroe, Va." Not the same as 5137.201

GLC05137.200

Scene in the Hospital. (arm amputation)

No identification. Label on front: "Scene in the Hospital." Zouaves soldiers helping a doctor prepare for amputate an arm. Doctors kit visible ion a table in the foreground. Handwritten on verso: "Hospital Scene at Fortress Monroe, Va." Not the...

GLC05137.201

Clara Barton

Half-bust portrait showing Barton wearing medals. With note on back (apparently in her handwriting): "I have had some old time pictures brought down to convenient size for letters. Will you kindly accept." Pencil note of a previous owner: "t[aken]...

GLC05143

[to unknown]

re: letter fragment in which Hartsuff claims that nothing has changed, although a "burial party" has been sent out to bury dead Indians and his own hospital is full of wounded. Claims that General Miles has sent a Peace Party out to the Indians to...

GLC05201.017

to "my darling wife and baby"

re: Hartsuff reports that the war commenced almost without warning. Four companies of Infantry had already struck their tents and gotten ready to leave and another four were under orders to strike their tents when the fight broke upon them....

GLC05201.020

to "my darling wife and baby"

re: Hartsuff tells his wife and daughter about the conditions in his field hospital built from nothing and now housing fifty men comfortably. Claims that most of what is in the newspapers is true, but he can add nothing to the accounts because he...

GLC05201.021

to Mary Magie

"No 10." Written from camp near Franklin. Charley returned and is now a hospital cook, which he prefers to being in the ranks. Discusses money and his plan to be out of debt, buy the Macomb Journal and have a comfortable living after the war.

GLC05241.33

to Mary Magie

"No 12." He was happy to learn that his box arrived home safely. Describes the burning of a house that blocked the line of view from the fort and visiting wounded in the hospital. One of his articles was printed in the Journal (see GLC05241.50)....

GLC05241.36

to Mary Magie

"No 14." Written from camp near Franklin. Sends home another box of clothes and more money. Discusses his plan for getting out of debt and securing a good living. Lives at the Regimental hospital and describes his breakfast there. He is upset...

GLC05241.39