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Osterhorn family -- Genealogy

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

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Johann Wilhelm Osterhorn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A1168
Scope and Contents 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: 1849-2000; Majority of material found within 1862-1865