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Photocopy of original records and title page from a bible. Also included are photocopies of three broadsides: "Dr Anderson's Famous Scots Pills" (printed Philadelphia, ca. 1787); "An Epistle from Our Yearly Meeting ... Philadelphia ... 1812"; and "At a Quarterly Meeting of Friends ... Philadelphia ... 1850", which were found inside the bible. The bible is cataloged in the Rare Book Collection and the broadsides were donated to the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1996.
Trial for the murder of J. P. Cook.
In this ""unpretending story"" published in 1867, Sarah Palmer, known to the Union soldiers she nursed during the Civil War as ""Aunt Becky,"" tells simply and directly one woman's tale of war. Palmer, believed to have been the first woman to serve as a Union Army nurse, cared for countless sick, wounded, and dying soldiers during her three years of service. Said one soldier, ""I never knew a woman so much thought of as she was by the boys - she never showed any partiality - we all got the same attention - officers no more than privates.""