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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:
Speakers at an anti-war rally.
Description:
Speakers at an anti-war rally [From left: Rabbi Abraham Heschel, Dr. Henry Steel Commage, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Dr. John C. Bennet].
Creator:
Goodwin, John C. (photographer)
Subject names:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Religious News Service--Archives., Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972.
Topics:
Anti-war demonstrations--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8020
Title:
Elizabeth Park Community House.
Description:
[Elizabeth Park Community House, Portland, Maine, Christmas 1946 - Santa Claus.]
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. War Services Unit., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. War Services Unit--Archives.
Topics:
Christmas--20th century., Community centers--Maine--Portland--20th century., World War, 1939-1945--War work--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Me.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8018
Title:
Youths pray for Vietnam peace, Seattle, Wash.
Description:
Youths pray for Vietnam peace, Seattle, Wash.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Anti-war demonstrations--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8016
Title:
Sanctuary of conscience.
Description:
Sanctuary of conscience: David Hawk and other conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War link arms at the Union Theological Seminary prior to arrest.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Hawk, David R.
Topics:
Anti-war demonstrations--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7994
Title:
Church meeting before peace walk.
Description:
Church meeting before peace walk.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Anti-war demonstrations--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7653
Title:
Elizabeth Park Community House.
Description:
[Elizabeth Park Community House, Portland, Maine, Children's Christmas party, December 1947.]
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. War Services Unit., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. War Services Unit--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--War work--Churches., Church war work.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Me.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7602
Title:
Rev. J. William Jones distributing tracts to soldiers.
Description:
[Illustration of Rev. J. William Jones distributing tracts to soldiers serving the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee.]
Subject names:
Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia.
Topics:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Geographic subjects:
Southern States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7315
Title:
Christian Commission on battlefield.
Description:
Christian Commission on battlefield. [From Harper's Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1868, p. 793.]
Creator:
Harper & Brothers. (publisher)
Subject names:
United States Christian Commission.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Religious aspects.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7295
Title:
Citizen's Volunteer Hospital.
Description:
Citizen's Volunteer Hospital, at Broad Street and Washington Avenue.
Topics:
Hospitals--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7292
Title:
Civil War illustration, Rebel Battery, Virginia.
Description:
[Tenney Family Papers, Civil War illustration, Rebel Battery, Virginia, July 16, 1862. From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, p. 265.]
Geographic subjects:
United States--Civil War, 1861-1865., Virginia.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7273
Title:
The President's Hymn.
Description:
The President's Hymn: Give Thanks All Ye People, in reponse to the proclamation of the President of the United States recommending a general Thanksgiving on November 26th, 1863.
Creator:
A.D.F. Randolph & Co. (publisher)
Topics:
Thanksgiving Day.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7211
Title:
Rev. Edward Parmlee Smith with dying soldier.
Description:
"I cannot come now-I will not" [Rev. Edward Parmlee Smith with dying soldier in Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri.]
Creator:
Louderbach, James W. (engraver)
Subject names:
Smith, Edward P.
Topics:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Geographic subjects:
Saint Louis (Mo.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7186
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
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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

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