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United States Soldiers' Homes disbursements and account
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Biomed.0723
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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: United States Soldiers' Homes disbursements and account ledger
Source:
Tavistock Books
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0723
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(1 ledger)
Date (inclusive): 1851-1858
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access
special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on
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Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not
hold the copyright.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Tavistock Books from the Walter Jarvis Barlow History of Medicine Collection
Fund, 2019.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
8850954
This collection consists of a ledger, kept in manuscript, which records disbursements for
food (fresh beef, oats, milk, chicken, etc.), stationery, labor, medicines, hardware, and
"sundries" for The United States Soldiers' Homes (referred to on the spine of this ledger as
"U.S. Military Asylums"), at New Orleans Barracks in Louisiana, in East Pascagoula,
Mississippi, and in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, from May, 1851, through September, 1858. The
ledger was kept by Assistant Surgeon Charles McCormick at New Orleans; Brevet Major Earl Van
Dorn (1820-1863), the great-nephew of Andrew Jackson, at Pascagoula ; and Brevet Captain
L.B. Wood, 8th Infantry, at Harrodsburg.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Tavistock Books