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[Civil War envelope showing sailor climbing up flagpole to American flag with lines from poem]
Summary
Addressed to Miss Adelia Fries, Philadelphia, No. 931 No[r]th Tenth Street; postmarked [Alex]andria, Va.; bears 3 cent stamp. Notation at bottom of envelope: Wm. Birney, Maj., 4 [?] Regt., N.J. Vols.
Lines from poem The American Flag by Joseph Rodman Drake: Flag of the free heart's hope and home, by angel hands to valor given; Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, and all thy hues were born in heaven.
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
Contributors
Drake, Joseph Rodman, 1795-1820.
Location
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication.
