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Box 1

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Contains 1 Result:

Letter signed Wilhelm [Osterhorn], Camp Shermann, to Minna [Osterhorn]. (1 page, includes envelope), 1863 Sept 4

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains letters between Wilhelm and Minna Osterhorn and from friends and family. The letters from Wilhelm to Minna sometimes give first-hand accounts of conditions in the U.S. Army during the Civil War. The letters from the Buhner family in Marburg consist mostly of news about family and friends. The collection also contains Wilhelm's journal, which has untranslated receipts in German in the front and his account of his own personal history in the middle, with the rest...
Dates: 1863 Sept 4