Jon-Erik Gilot, Espy Post Curator
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2nd Saturday Civil War Series: Faces of Civil War Nurses – Portraits, Photography, and the Making of Caregiving History, with Ron Coddington
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesIn Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 Portrait photographs of women who served as caregivers offer rare, powerful evidence of how Americans understood nursing during the Civil War. These images—made possible by rapidly evolving photographic technology—capture not only grit and determination, but intention: how women presented themselves, how Read More
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Faces of Civil War Nurses: An Exhibit
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesIn partnership with Military Images magazine and the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall is proud to welcome a new temporary exhibit, “Faces of Civil War Nurses,” featuring portraits and personal stories of women who served as nurses during the Civil War. The exhibit first debuted in Read More
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2nd Saturday Civil War Series: The Influence of Women: How Women Worked, Served, Sacrificed, and Overcame during the Civil War, with Katie Wolfe
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesIn Person in the Studio at ACFL&MH Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 Drawn from an 1862 Harper's Weekly illustration of the same title, "The Influence of Women" will explore the many ways in which women worked, served, sacrificed, and overcame during the Civil War. Women were everywhere during the war, serving both on the Read More
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1861: Small Battles, Big Outcomes: A Civil War Symposium
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesBUY TICKETS The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall is pleased to announce our eighth annual Civil War Symposium, slated for April 17 – 18, 2026. Though overlooked in favor of later years and larger battles, the first year of the Civil War witnessed many advances and setbacks, trials and tribulations, personalities and decisions Read More
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2nd Saturday Civil War Series: The Veteran Reserve Corps with David Welker
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesIn Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 In early 1863, just two years into the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln’s Union cause was in deep trouble, and short on manpower the president was forced to implement the nation’s first general military draft. Similarly beset was Col. James B. Fry, Read More
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