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Major Selfridge Dies in Philadelphia

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03131.07.09 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Newspaper clipping Date: 14 July 1922 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 14.8 cm, Width: 28.5 cm Order a Copy

Major Alexander Selfridge, a civil war veteran dies at 79. He was the youngest commissioned officer in the Northern Ranks during the civil war.

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