2009-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/31/2009
Versailles Darke, Ohio, April 19, 1865, 2 ½ Pgs., fine. Good content letter written 4 days after President Lincoln's death. From Louis Spiece to her brother Abram. Reads in part: "Brother Abram, there is a good many mourning over old Abe in this town today and some of our ladies are dressed in black walking the streets"…"We got a dispatch this morning that none of the railroad hands should not work today on account of Abe's death".
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