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26 August 1866

Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: [to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.12

circa 1861-1864

Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868

Autograph note

Title: [unknown]

Note with enclosed hair.

GLC09327.16

circa 1861-1864

Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868

Photograph

Title: [York Woodward carte de visite]

GLC09327.18

January 10 1866

Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: [to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.01

January 15, 1866

Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: [to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.02

January 1866

Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: [to unknown recipient]

Either the 19th or the 25 of January as letter states "Friday Evening".

GLC09327.03

February 21,1866

Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: [to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.04

9 March 1866

Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: [to "Souli"]

GLC09327.06

14 March 1866

Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: [to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.07

22 March 1866

Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: [to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.08

30 April 1866

Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: [to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.09

15 June 1866

Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: [to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.10

4 August 1866

Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: [to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.11

8 September 1866

Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: [to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.13

26 September 1867

Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: [to "Sauiee"]

GLC09327.14

11 December 1867

Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: [to "My Cousin Mrs. Sau"]

GLC09327.15

February 22, 1868

Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: [to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.17

1866-1868

Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868

Header Record

Title: [Collection of York Woodward] [Decimalized .01- .18]

15 letters written by a Freedman's Bureau Superintendent, from January 1866 to February 1868. Many are from Abingdon, VA, and reveal the personal responses and official actions of a Pennsylvania veteran who served throughout the Occupied South as a government agent. "Our court met and adjourned till 2 o'clock we disposed of 4 cases I am yet Monarch of all I survey. The folks pass me by on the other side of the way, but if they have any trouble. I am the one they apply to the farmers have been plowing nearly all the week; it looks strange to see people at their farms work in the month of Jan…

GLC09327

February 28, 1866

Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: [to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.05

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