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