Autograph letter signed : Whitehouse Landing, Va.,
to Fanny [Ware].

Autograph letter signed : Whitehouse Landing, Va.,
to Fanny [Ware].

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care

An 1856 graduate of Harvard Medical School and son of faculty member, John Ware (1795-1864), Robert Ware was an inspector with the United States Sanitary Commission and later a surgeon with the 44th Massachusetts Volunteers. Nearly fifty letters from Ware to his family, from 1861 to 1863, have survived and present a rich and detailed picture of his work with the Sanitary Commission and experiences during the Civil War.

Robert Ware died of pneumonia at Washington, North Carolina, on April 10, 1863.

A letter from Robert Ware to his sister, Fanny, recounts Ware's work with the wounded following a battle outside Richmond.

Ware, Robert

1862 May 30-June 8

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Papers of John Ware, ca. 1813-1869 (inclusive). H MS c7.3.

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Gift of Mrs. Robert Montraville Green to the Library of Harvard Medical School, 1968.