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Pearce Family Collection of Pearce family correspondence [Decimalized .001-.152]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00066 Author/Creator: Pearce Family Place Written: Various Places Type: Header Record Date: 1860-1869 Pagination: 152 items Order a Copy

Correspondence of the Pearce family of Ohio. Includes letters of Ebenezer (Eben) Pearce, Edgar Pearce, the Reverend William Pearce, and other family members. Letters contain accounts of the Battles of Shiloh and Corinth, as well as of Lincoln's assassination. Transcripts available for many letters.

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