03103cpcaa2200577 4500 mm 73019224 DLC 20260227111614.0 cr ||||||||||| 740118|||||||||||| eng mm 73019224 ms 76000145 DLC DLC dacs DLC G lcmd Bickerdyke, Mary Ann, 1817-1901. Mary Ann Bickerdyke papers, 1847-1905. 1,800 items. 5 containers. 2 linear feet. Open to research. Correspondence, draft memoirs, lists, biographical material, printed matter, and other papers relating to Bickerdyke's work as a Civil War nurse and agent for the United States Sanitary Commission, her activities on behalf of Civil War veterans in the years following the war, and family affairs. Includes papers relating to James H. Cook and the Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.). Family correspondents include Bickerdyke's sons, Hiram Bickerdyke and James Bickerdyke, and members of the Ball and Bickerdyke families. Correspondents include Lucien Baker, Richard Whiting Blue, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Walden Perkins, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lucy Stone. Nurse, agent for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, and pension attorney. Born Mary Ann Ball; known as "Mother" Bickerdyke to Union soldiers. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010292 Baker, Lucien Correspondence. Bickerdyke, Hiram Correspondence. Bickerdyke, James Correspondence. Blue, Richard Whiting Correspondence. Cook, James H. Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 Correspondence. Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905 Correspondence. Perkins, Walden Correspondence. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Correspondence. Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893 Correspondence. Ball family. Ball family Correspondence. Bickerdyke family. Bickerdyke family Correspondence. United States Sanitary Commission. Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.) Military pensions United States Civil War, 1861-1865. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Medical care. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Veterans. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 War work. Lawyers. itoamc Nurses. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010292 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010292.3 39241 39241