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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1866

Place United States

Subjects Bowdoin College, Brothers and sisters, DuQuoin Coal Company, Illinois Central Railroad Company

Format Business records, Correspondence, Diaries, Genealogies, Invoices, Manuscripts, Personal narratives, Records

User-Contributed Transcription and waiting an hour or two for other trains.Some resident I suppose told some of the soldiers there was a copperhead newspaper published here. So in the absence of their officers, who were gone round to the bakery to look out for rations, a party of the soldiers started for the office. The building you know belongs to Mr Keyes, is on the same block with his house & uptown office. And next the Monk House. The soldier boys rushed in drove out or threw out the printers tipped over the forms, threw the type into "pe" and out the windows breaking glass sash and all, tipped over the stove of burning coal onto the floor seized upon the half printed newspaper of the week & carried

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 7 Folder 184

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 1968px × 3091px 34.84 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_184_026_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJY0

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