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RG1.B10 - Newsletter
This is a collection of The Brigade Dispatch - The Journal of the Brigade of the American Revolution. The journals contain a wealth of information re the Revolutionary War with historical pieces, and encampment information. Artifact information as well is included. Some of the information is informative for reenactors.
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RG1.B10.F16 - Document
This folder contains a copy of the pension application of Eliab Egglestone W27749 describing his service during the Revolutioanry War and his time at Valley Forge and the hospital at Yellow Springs with small pox 1777-1778.
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RG1.B10.F17 - Report
This folder contains information on the Revolutoinary War Battle of the Clouds as part of the Americqn Battlefield Protection Program. Included is a full technical report of the battle supported by the Department of Interior, National Park Service and inclusion of data submitted by sites throughout Chester County
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RG1.B10.F18 - Documents
This folder contains additional information re the Revolutionary War in Chester County and the Battle of the Clouds including maps and chronoogy. Emphasis is placed on the French Creek Bridge used by General George Washington as he marched from Yellow Springs to the furnace area.
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RG1.B10.F21 - Newspaper clippings
A photocopy of newspaper clippings from THE ORANGE COUNTY PATRIOT, November 4,1817. It details the life of John O'Neal and his participation at the Battle of Brandywine and onward. He did eventually get sent to the Yellow Springs Hospital until after the Battle of Monmouth.
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RG1.B10.F22 - Research materials
This folder is a wealth of information re the American Revolutionary War. Much is produced by the Council of American Revolutionary Sites (CARS). There are timelines on the war with emphasis placed on the Philadelphia Campaign in Chester County and surrounding areas. The Journal of the Brigade of the American Revolution and newsletters of the Brigade are included containing information on the war and events held by sites. A list of American b...
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RG1.B10.F3 - Document
This document contains typed transcriptions of the 1832 pension application of Abraham Reed as well as a subsequent amendment to the application made in 1833. The application describes Reed's two terms of service (1778-1779 and 1780-1781) during the Revolutionary War. During his first term of service Reed was confined at the Yellow Springs Revolutionary War Hospital while suffering from illnesses.
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RG1.B10.F5 - Letter
This is a copy of a short letter written by General George Washington in 1778 to an army officer; the letter is a response to the officer's resignation from the army. Accompanying the letter is a print-out that briefly details the donation of the letter to Wabash College in the 1950s.
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RG1.B10.F6 - Excerpts
This document is comprised of an excerpt from Wayne Bodle's book "The Valley Forge Winter: Civilians and Soldiers in War". The excerpt deals with the Continental Army's encampment at Valley Forge (and also the outpost at Wilmington, which Washington seized for defensive reasons) during the winter of 1777-1778 and focuses mainly on the supply situation of the American Army, the issue of looting and plunder that affected the civilian population, a...
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RG1.B2.F27 - Magazine articles
These two magazine articles give insight into George Washington. One likens him to Cincinnatus, the citizen-soldier of the Roman republic. Details of the Valley Forge Encampment are given. The other article describes Washington's character: his political ideas, his morals and his phyicality and temperament.
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RG1.B3.F10 - Excerpts
Excerpt from Futhey and Cope History of Chester County, PA with Genealogical and Biographical Sketches describing hospitals in Chester County including the Yellow Springs Hospital; Uwchlan Meeting House as hospital; listings in General George Weedon Valley Forge Orderly Book
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RG1.B3.F12 - Journal article
In two journal pieces, "Medicine at Valley Forge" by William Shainline Meddleton describes medicine during the Revolutionary War with copies of correspondence between General George Washington and physicians. He describes conditions in the camps, physicans in attendance, food served, diseases, hospitals, supplies, medicines, nurses, Valley Forge today.
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RG1.B3.F14 - Exhibit Report
This exhibit report describes the various panels in the exhibit: the Yellow Springs Hospital; Archaeology at the Yellow Springs Hospital; Colonial Cures; Herbs and Gardens. Also included is a rhyme about John Coakley Lettaon, a Quaker physician.
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RG1.B3.F15 - Magazine article
This article contains information about the Moravian village of Bethlehem, PA, and the care of the sick and injured Continental Army tended there. It further describes the hospital at Lititz and its closing with remaining patients being sent to Lancaster and Yellow Springs during the Revolutionary War..
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RG1.B3.F16 - Journal article
This article discusses women as nurses beginning at the Revolutioanry War. Also included is a chronology of provision by the Continental Congress of the General Hospital at Yellow Springs.
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RG1.B3.F17 - Journal article
This article details those physicians, surgeons and mates who were with the Continental Army at Valley Forge during the Revolutionary War. It also details the medical conditions at the encampment. Lists of physicians from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Delaware, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina are included. The list from PA is incomplete. The total article is incomplete.
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RG1.B3.F18 - Journal article
This article describes Dr. Jonathan Potts , an outstanding medical figure in the Revolutionary War, and his medical career. It describes his interest in smallpox innoculations. There is also a copy of Dr. Potts' signature as Purveyor General at Reading, PA.
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RG1.B3.F2 - Manuscript
List of churches in area prior to the Revolutionary War; manuscript describing the Charlestown Presbyterian Cemetery; hand-drawn map of cemetery; lists of soldiers buried there; abstract of will of Dr. Samuel Kennedy; inscription on the Kennedy tomb.
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RG1.B3.F26 - Records
This is a copy of the pension applicaton of Abraham Reed who served in the Revolutionary War. It gives a detail of his service during this war including battles and being ill and in hospital.
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RG1.B3.F27 - Journal article
Included are print-outs from the Library of Congress re the Revolutionary War that include: General George Washington's expenses when commander-in chief, journals of the Continental Congress that mention Yellow Springs, journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
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