Civil War -- Martinsburg, W. Va.

Seven letters to John M. Speek from Daniel Lefever who as a lawyer was acting as an agent for Speek in selling his property in the vicinity of Martinsburg. In a couple of letters he mentions damages done to the buildings by the Union forces occupying them.

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).