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Service, John.

 Person

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Lincoln's Mock Funeral in Martinsburg, Civil War Letters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3378
Overview

Two letters authored by Corporal John Service (Company A, 18th Connecticut) from Martinsburg describing eloquently and in some detail how citizens and soldiers celebrated the end of the Civil War, and mourned over the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. (4/15/1865, four pages, incomplete) (4/25/1865, six pages, complete).

Dates: 1865