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Find your roots and hear your ancestors' words across the generations. Discover your origins in old letters as ancestors tell their stories and reveal family relationships, past events, moments in time and details of family history. Add branches to your family tree as you search your ancestry and build your genealogy.

Friday, July 12, 2013

Civil War Letter from James Carter of Pembroke Maine 1864

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Civil War Soldier Maine Infantry Here are excerpts from a letter James Carter sent to "Sister" Annie in 1864: West Pembroke ...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

Lucius E. Bidwell Co. B, 14th Connecticut Infantry KIA at the Wilderness May 5 1864

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Battlefield of The Wilderness In camp on North side of Rapidan, Feb. 7, 1864 My Dear Mother— Our Heavenly Father has again saved your...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

KIA: 1863 Letter from Alvin Brown of Ohio Infantry

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Removing wounded across Rappahannock River after battle of Chancellorsville http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.32812 Camp Brooks Stat...
Tuesday, June 04, 2013

1863 Letter Sergeant Neil A. Baker Company F, 50th North Carolina

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Civil War Soldier, N.C. Regiment Camp Near Goldsboro, North Carolina—February 1863 Dear Jane— Having a good opportunity of sending ...
Friday, May 31, 2013

1862 Letter From Confederate Soldier Andrew Jackson Bass in Camp Lee Virginia

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Soldier 38th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A. October 31, 1862 Camp Lee, near Richmond. Dear wife it is with pleasure I seat my self down t...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Letter from Simeon Baldwin, New Haven, Connecticut, 1808

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Sample Letter Letter: New Haven Jany 4th 1808 Dear Sir I have this day received yours of the 3d Inst wishing me to enquire more parti...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Letter to Alvah Bush, Albany New York, from her sister, M. M. Bush, Cooperstown, New York 1843

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Sample letter Cooperstown Oct 11th 1843. My dear Annah, Your’s of the 3d inst reached me by due course of mail, and I assure you I rea...
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