Shelton, O. C. Shelton, Mary E. Shelton, Rhoda Amanda
Description
Diaries of siblings O.C., Mary, and R. Amanda Shelton from the 1860s and a speech written by R. Amanda Shelton in 1911 about her experiences during the Civil War. O.C. Shelton served as an officer in the Iowa Infantry 45th Regiment and died of illness shortly after returning home; his sisters, under the guidance of Annie Wittenmeyer, helped set up "diet kitchens" in Union military hospitals in the South and tended to wounded soldiers. Contact the Special Collections Dept. at The University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/contact
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Keywords
- African American Soldiers
- African Americans
- Andersonville Prison
- Assassinations
- Atlanta Campaign, 1864
- Bookkeepers
- Campaigns & Battles
- Chickamauga Battlefield (Ga.)
- Christianity
- Civil War
- Civil War, 1861 1865
- Cooks
- Courtship
- Freedmen
- Guards
- History
- Housework
- Kitchens
- Mental Institutions
- Military Camps
- Military Hospitals
- Military Officers
- Nursing
- Orphanages
- Philanthropy
- Prisoners Of War
- Reading
- Shelton, O. C. Shelton, Mary E. Shelton, Rhoda Amanda Wittenmyer, Annie, 1827 1900 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809 1865
- Ships
- Sick Persons
- Slaver
- Slaves
- Soldiers
- Spies
- Teachers
- Train Travel
- United States
- United States. Army. Iowa Infantry Regiment, 45th (1864). Company G United States Christian Commission United States Sanitary Commission Burlington Hawk Eye Lucy Bertram (Steamer) Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society (Keokuk, Iowa) Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home (Davenport, Iowa) Iowa Wesleyan College Mount Pleasant State Hospital (Mount Pleasant, Iowa) Spanish American War Veterans Mississippi Valley Historical Association
- War Casualties
- Women
- Women's Rights
- Writing