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Box 1

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Letter written by W. J. Stephens, a Union soldier stationed at Camp Wilcox, Alexandria, Virginia, to his father,, June 11, 1861..

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection combines three collections of Civil War material. The material dates from 1858 to 1926. Virginia Langham Olmsted donated the original collection of 98 patriotic envelopes to the University of New Mexico in 1975. These patriotic envelopes depict Civil War cartoons from a Union viewpoint. Included in this group is an envelope decorated with a popular caricature of the early war period drawn in 1860 by Frank Beard, called "Why Don't You Take It?" The drawing is General Winfield...
Dates: June 11, 1861..