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This collection consists of folders in 13 manuscript boxes relating to correspondence and papers of Eli Slifer (1818-1888), an active figure in Pennsylvania politics and the Secretary of the Commonwealth under Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin, 1861-1867. Most of the letters were written during the...
Location: MC 2003.4
Subject: Business and Industry, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government
Format: Engravings and Illustrations, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
Collection Inventory: 
mc2003.04.pdf
Collection Inventory: Appendix A - Civil War Units
Collection Inventory: Appendix B - Military Affairs
Collection Inventory: Appendix C- Political Affairs
Collection Inventory: Appendix D - Business Affairs
Collection Inventory: Appendix E - Miscellaneous Affairs
Dr. Theodore S. Christ writes eleven letters to Eli Slifer, the Secretary of the Commonwealth under Governor Andrew Curtin, regarding the organization of volunteer companies and daily life in a Union Army infantry company during the Civil War. Dr. Christ describes the injuries of soldiers and...
Location: MC 2003.4, B2, F18-19
Subject: Health and Medicine, Military Affairs and Conflict
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
The Officers of the Lewisburg Infantry company - Captain J. W. Chamberlin, First Lieutenant G. H. Hassenplug, , Second Lieutenant J. Merrill Linn, and Chaplain Rev. L. W. McDaniel - file this petition to ask that Dr. Theodore S. Christ be appointed as Surgeon’s Assistant. Transcript included....
Location: MC 2003.4, B2, F18
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Dr. Theodore Christ writes six letters to Eli Slifer, the Secretary of the Commonwealth under Governor Andrew Curtin, regarding his experience as a doctor in the Union Army during the Civil War. Christ describes problems with supplies as well as military engagements in Virginia, South Carolina,...
Location: MC 2003.4, B2, F19
Subject: Health and Medicine, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
