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William Pendleton Palmer (1861-1927) was President of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. He collected
documents related to the history of the American Civil War and donated them to the historical society. The collection consists
of correspondence, copies of orders, original reports of the sick and wounded, lists of the dead, invoices and reports of
medicines and other hospital supplies and equipment, and other papers relating to the medical departments and hospitals of
the Union Armies along the Atlantic coast and in Louisiana, and to Confederate hospitals in Virginia and Atlanta, Georgia.
The six Army physicians to whom the papers principally relate are: Robert Battey (1828-1895), Renley S. Butler (b. 1834),
William A. Carrington, Benjamin Franklin Harrison (1811-1886), Henry M. Kirke (d. 1876), and John Payne Logan (1820-1891).
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