TY  - GEN
AU  - Bourne,WmOland
TI  - Wm. Oland Bourne papers,
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Navy
KW  - Central Park Hospital
KW  - Workingmen's Democratic Republican Association
KW  - The soldier's friend
KW  - Amputees
KW  - Penmanship
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Civil war, 1861-1865
KW  - Periodicals
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Clergy
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Journalists
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Entries submitted in two contests sponsored by Bourne in which Union soldiers and sailors who lost their right arms by disability or amputation during the Civil War were invited to submit samples of their penmanship using their left hands, correspondence and broadsides concerning the contests, and photographs of the participants.  Also includes Civil War reminiscences recorded by patients at the Central Park Hospital, a military hospital in New York City, and correspondence pertaining to slavery, economic conditions of the working man, operation of The Soldier's Friend, and the Workingmen's Democratic Republican Association
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009056
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009056.3
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/ms009056.appx.pdf
ER  -