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A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters ...
There are a lot of books on Civil War letters but this is a very complete set. I just couldn't let them slip by unnoticed." Thomas, 72, of Swartz Creek, ...
Bobrick says the book is a story constructed from about 90 letters written by Webb during the Civil War. Up until 1998, those letters were buried in the desks and trunks of various relatives of ...
Civil War letters popular for research worldwide. A similar project has already been undertaken in Kentucky, involving about 10,000 documents.
A letter written on patriotic stationary circa 1860s. More than 30,000 men from Brooklyn fought in the American Civil War. Bennett family collection/Brooklyn Historical Society ...
Jacob Early was a prolific letter-writer, and his wartime correspondence to his wife Sarah in Allen County was compiled in a book, “Letters Home: The Personal Side of the American Civil War ...
A Civil War soldier’s 160-year-old letters, discovered in a shoe box in Rhode Island, have been donated to an Islip historical society where they are being transcribed and made into a book.
How to preserve Civil War letters November 9, 2016 Virginia Coleman Hoag of Dillwyn, Va., looking at a page from the family Bible that lists births, including John Winn Moseley’s.
Civil War letters offer one man’s uncompromising view. September 15, 2019 at 1:00 a.m. by Tom Dillard . I have long had a vague awareness of Dr. Junius N. Bragg, a Confederate surgeon and ...
Letter details soldier%27s thoughts on Civil War and belief in racial equality Morgan W. Carter thought it was duty of all black men to elevate themselves and the race Madison%2C Ind.%2C residents ...
The Civil War is alive and so is Samuel Stratton in a series of letters purchased for 25 cents at a garage sale that were written by a young union soldier to his family during combat. Laurie ...