One-hundred years ago this weekend, the U.S. Army formally established in Anne Arundel County a convalescent camp for recovering soldiers wounded in World War I. The camp was made possible by the noted Baltimore surgeon and gynecologist Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly (1858-1943), who offered the Army…
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Remembering Camp Purnell on the Severn for wounded WWI soldiers to convalesce
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