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Matlack family letters to Samuel J. Matlack
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0916
Abstract
This collection consists of seventeen letters written by members of the Matlack family in Philadelphia to Samuel J. Matlack while he was serving in the Union Navy aboard the USSWissahickon, a gunboat in the blockading squadron off the coast of South Carolina, during the American Civil War, from 1862-1865.
Dates:
1862-1865
Eyewitness account of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0977
Abstract
Consists of one handwritten manuscript by John H. Stevens in which he gives an eyewitness account of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
Dates:
1865