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Letter, 1865

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Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection consists of a single letter written by David Cunningham, a Union soldier during the American Civil War. Written at "Berkley's Station," Virginia (probably today's Berkeley, West Virginia) on April 26, 1865, the letter is addressed to Cunningham's friend, Mrs. A. E. Young. Cunningham informs Young that the report of his and Joseph's (probably Joseph Young) deaths is false, probably spread by a local Copperhead. "[H]oo ever it was," Cunningham writes, "pleas tell him to at tend...
Dates: 1865