Series 2 - John McCurdy memoir

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P/P155/9/2

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John McCurdy memoir

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  • 1976 (Creation)

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83pp

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Reproduction of part of a published source collected by Professor Kerby Miller. Citation: Burkhard, W.H. (1976). Cumberland Valley Chronicles: A Bicentennial History. Shippensburg, Pa.: Shippensburg Historical Society.

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Materials pertaining to the memoir of John McCurdy. McCurdy's memoir materials, 'Shippensburg in 1821 - Our First Impressions of Men' and 'The Stable Brigade', were published over six instalments in the Shippensburg News from January - April 1880. Contains photocopied chapters of Cumberland Valley Chronicles: A Bicentennial History ed. William H. Burkhard (1976), one of which includes the memoir material written by John McCurdy.

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