CIVIL WAR WRITINGS & PAPERS OF CHARLES MAYNE READ

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CIVIL WAR WRITINGS & PAPERS OF CHARLES MAYNE READ Archive of Read Family Papers, consisting of 47 letters from Sargent Charles Mayne Read of 2nd Corps Artillery, Army of the Potomac, General John Sedgwick's Division, General Sumners Corps,(25 letters from 1862,16 letters from 1861, 4 letters from 1860,1 from 1859 and 1 from 1859), 13 letters from Assistant Surgeon George D. Townsend, 3rd Virginia Regiment, Sickles Division 3rd Corps to Sara Read(sister of Charles), tintype photo possibly Charles Read (showing losses), assorted photographs of family members, two of Reverend T.R. Lambert, possibly Dr. Lambert from the Episcopal Church, a CDV of Captain/ Lieutenant John A Tompkins, Artillery Battery A, 1st Rhode Island, with letter from Charles discussing his overcoming of sickness, a drawing by H.C Cushing from July 1861, showing the way they lived at great fall, with original envelope from Charlie to Sara with writings of the Battle of Bull's Run, letters regarding Charles death, personal paper's regarding Charles including his Pension, Swan Lake Cemetery receipts, Steam Marble Co. receipts, newspaper clipping of his obituary, map of Massachusetts drawn by Charles and other, a large collection of other family letters as early as 1822 through the early 20th century, including four personal diaries and writing books of Sara Read, a read more

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