| Title |
National Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia, circa 1931-1944
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| Description |
National Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia, circa 1931-1944. Caption reads: "National Cemetery. Within a radius of 25 miles of Winchester over 100 Civil War engagements took place. In 1886 the Federal government purchased a five-acre lot and established a National Cemetery. Here the remains of 4491 Union Soldiers were reinterred, 2381 being unknown. Approximately 800 were Pennsylvania and 500 sons of Ohio. State monuments have been erected by Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, a memorial to the Sixth Army Corps, and regimental monuments to the 3rd and 34th Mass., 13th and 18th Conn., 114th N.Y., 123rd Ohio, and 8th Vermont." Postcard number: 79332.
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| Extent |
2 images; Postcard; color |
| Date |
1931/1944 |
| Location |
United States; Massachusetts; Winchester; North America; Virginia; Boston |
| Subject(s) |
Cemeteries; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Postcards; Monuments and memorials |
| Citation |
Institute of American Deltiology Postcard Collection, Series Virginia, Box 15 |
| Permanent Link |
https://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/15325
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| Rights |
http://vocab.lib.umd.edu/rightsStatement#CNE
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| Terms of Use |
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