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[Civil War envelope showing portrait of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth with quotation "He who noteth even the fall of a sparrow will have some purpose even in the fate of one like me"]
Summary
Addressed to Mrs. Louisa I. Winters, Crillertown [?], Lancaster Co., Pa.; bears 3 cent stamp; postmarked Harrisburgh, Pa.
Notations on verso.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
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Date
01/01/1861
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Library of Congress
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