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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC00768.02 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of 2 documents pertaining to Herman Melvill |
| Title | Letter book of outgoing correspondence with memoirs of military life |
| Date | 1878-1892 |
| Author | Lansing, Edwin Y. (fl. 1878-1892) |
| Document Type | Book; Correspondence |
| Content Description | Containing pressed copies of Lansing's letters and an account of his military career, pp. 73-78 (5/19/1882). These include military letters as clerk in the Depot Quarter Master Dept. (1870s), business letters and family letters to his brother Abraham in Albany, NY. The letters are written from Vancouver Barracks, Washington Territory (1878-86), Los Angeles, Cal. (1886-92) and close in retirement in Jeffersonville, Ind. (1892). The final letters close accounts in Los Angeles. |
| Subjects | American West Westward Expansion Military History Military Supplies Soldier's Diary Soldier's Letter |
| People | Lansing, Edwin Y. (fl. 1878-1892) |
| Theme | Arts & Literature |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |