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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

Exceution of Dr. David Wright

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02744.356 Author/Creator: Place Written: Norfolk, VA Type: Typed document Date: 23 October 1863 Pagination: 5 p. ; 22.8 x 29.3 cm. Order a Copy

Summary of several newspaper articles on a man who supposedly shot a Yankee Lieutenant

Burpee, Thomas F., fl. 1861-1865

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