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Presbyterian involvement in wars from the Revolutionary War to the Vietnam War. Featured image: James Caldwell at the Battle of Springfield by Henry Alexander Ogden.

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Title:
Senator Charles Sumner.
Description:
Etching of Sen. Charles Sumner.
Creator:
Putnam, George Palmer, 1814-1872. (publisher), Hall, H. B. (artist)
Subject names:
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874--Portraits.
Topics:
Legislators--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5129
Title:
Protection from the army.
Description:
John Rodgers protection order.
Subject names:
Rodgers, John, 1727-1811--Archives.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5209
Title:
Interment of Rev. Dr. William Barrow Pugh.
Description:
Sounding taps at interment of Rev. Dr. William Barrow Pugh in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, Sept. 20, 1950. Dr. Pugh's family at left.
Creator:
United States. Army. (photographer)
Subject names:
Pugh, William Barrow, 1889-1950--Death and burial., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly. Stated Clerk (1938-1950 : Pugh), Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, Va.)
Topics:
Military funerals--Virginia--Arlington.
Geographic subjects:
Arlington (Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5299
Title:
Dr. William Pugh visits Iceland cemetery.
Description:
Dr. William Pugh, stated clerk PCUSA and chairman general commission of army and navy chaplains, visits military cemetery in Iceland on tour of battlefronts, 1943.
Subject names:
Pugh, William Barrow, 1889-1950., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly. Stated Clerk (1938-1950 : Pugh)
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--Chaplains., Cemeteries--Iceland., Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of--Iceland.
Geographic subjects:
Iceland.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5569
Title:
John Rodgers.
Description:
Portrait of John Rodgers.
Creator:
Welch, Thomas B., 1814-1874. (engraver), Wood, E. (artist)
Subject names:
Rodgers, John, 1727-1811--Portraits.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5599
Title:
Rev. James Power Smith.
Description:
Rev. Jas. Power Smith D.D. born July 4, 1837, died Aug. 6, 1923; Captain and aide on staff of Gen. Stonewall Jackson; Pastor Big Lick, Va., Fredericksburg, Va.; Editor Central Presbyterian; Stated Clerk, Synod of Va. for 50 years; Chairman Committee of Publication.
Creator:
Confederate States of America.
Subject names:
Smith, James Power, 1837-1923.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Clergy--United States.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6177
Title:
James Caldwell at the Battle of Springfield.
Description:
James Caldwell at the Battle of Springfield.
Creator:
Ogden, Henry Alexander, 1856-1936. (artist)
Subject names:
Caldwell, James, 1734-1781.
Topics:
Battles in art.
Geographic subjects:
Springfield (Union County, N.J.), United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Battlefields.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6835
Title:
Rev. Isaac W. K. Handy.
Description:
Rev. Isaac W.K. Handy in prison camp during Civil War.
Creator:
J. L. Gihon (Philadelphia, Pa.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Handy, Isaac W. K., 1815-1878--Imprisonment.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6908
Title:
Hampton Hospital.
Description:
Hampton Hospital. [From Christianity in the War by A.S. Billingsley, p. 93. Illustration originally published in Harper's Magazine.]
Creator:
Harper's Magazine (creator)
Subject names:
Hampton Military Hospital.
Topics:
Hospitals--Virginia--Hampton--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Religious aspects., United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Hospitals., Hampton (Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6914
Title:
Hospital Scene.
Description:
Hospital Scene [Anna Sands Roe reading to a wounded soldier. From: Christianity in the War by A.S. Billingsley p. 119. Illustration originally printed in Harper's Magazine.]
Creator:
Harper's Magazine (creator)
Topics:
Hospitals--United States--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Religious aspects., United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Hospitals.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6918
Title:
E.P. Roe as Chaplain.
Description:
E.P. Roe as Chaplain, age 26. [p. 39]
Subject names:
Roe, Edward Payson, 1838-1888.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6955
Title:
Proclamation for Thanksgiving.
Description:
Proclamation for Thanksgiving by the President of the United States of America : A Proclamation, October 3, 1863.
Topics:
Thanksgiving Day.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7007
Title:
Union Avenue, Philadelphia.
Description:
[Union Avenue, Philadelphia, during the U.S. Sanitary's Commision's Great Central Fair.]
Creator:
R. Newell (Philadelphia, Pa.) (photographer)
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7039
Title:
Dr. Henry C. McCook.
Description:
Dr. McCook as First Lieutenant 41st Illinois Infantry U.S.V.
Subject names:
McCook, Henry C. (Henry Christopher), 1837-1911.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7043
Title:
Rev. John L. Girardeau.
Description:
[Rev. John L. Girardeau.]
Creator:
W.A. Reckling (Columbia, S.C.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Girardeau, John L. (John Lafayette), 1825-1898.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7072
Title:
Civil War battle.
Description:
Picked up on battleground near Fredericksburg. [From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper describing battles near Richmond, July 16, 1862, p. 266.]
Creator:
Forbes, Edwin. (artist)
Topics:
Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Civil War, 1861-1865., Fredericksburg (Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7074
Title:
Memorial of Margaret E. Breckinridge.
Description:
Memorial of Margaret E. Breckinridge.
Subject names:
Breckinridge, Margaret Elizabeth, 1832-1864.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7106
Title:
Fighting McCooks.
Description:
Fighting McCooks, Famous in War and Peace. [Clipping from Philadelphia Press, Sunday June 28, 1903.]
Subject names:
McCook, Henry C. (Henry Christopher), 1837-1911.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7122
Title:
Headquarters in the field.
Description:
Headquarters in the field (Mr. [James R.] Miller seated on the chest, at the left.)
Subject names:
Miller, J. R. (James Russell), 1840-1912.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7139
Title:
Sergeant Furney Bryant.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Sergeant Furney Bryant, 1st North Carolina Colored Troops.
Subject names:
United States. Army. North Carolina Colored Infantry Regiment, 1st (1863-1864), Bryant, Furney.
Topics:
African American soldiers--North Carolina.
Geographic subjects:
North Carolina.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7153

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