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Lansing, Edwin Y., fl. 1878-1892 Letterbook of outgoing correspondence with memoirs of military

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00768.02 Author/Creator: Lansing, Edwin Y., fl. 1878-1892 Place Written: Various Places Type: Manuscript Date: 1878-1892 Pagination: 306 p. : Height: 31 cm, Width: 25 cm Order a Copy

Containing pressed copies of Lansing's letters and an account of his military career, pp. 73-78 (5/19/1882). These include military letters as clerk in the Depot Quarter Master Dept (1870s), business letters and family letters to his brother Abraham in Albany, NY. The letters are written from Vancouver Barracks, Washington Territory (1878-86), Los Angeles, Cal. (1886-92) and close in retirement in Jeffersonville, Ind. (1892). The final letters close accounts in Los Angeles.

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