| Title |
National Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia, circa 1931-1944
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| Description |
National Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia, circa 1931-1944. Message reads: "We are seeing many historic places in Va. & N. Car." Caption reads: "National Cemetery. Within a radius of 25 miles of Winchester over 100 Civil War engagements took place. In 1866 the Federal government purchased a five-acre lot and established a National Cemetery. Here the remains of 4491 Union soldiers were re-interred, 2381 being unknown. Approximately 800 were Pennsylvanians 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., 12th, 13th, and 18th Conn., 114th N.Y., 123rd Ohio, and 8th Vermont." Postcard number: W17, 47740; Message included.
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| Extent |
2 images; Postcard; color |
| Date |
1931/1944 |
| Location |
North Carolina; United States; Asheville; Winchester; North America; Virginia |
| Subject(s) |
Cemeteries; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Postcards |
| Citation |
Institute of American Deltiology Postcard Collection, Series Virginia, Box 15 |
| Permanent Link |
https://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/15324
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| Rights |
http://vocab.lib.umd.edu/rightsStatement#CNE
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| Terms of Use |
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