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- GLC#
- GLC01836.02
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 15, 1861
- Author/Creator
- Townsend, Aurelia W., 1820-1885
- Title
- to Benson John Lossing
- Place Written
- Oyster Bay, New York
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 23 cm, Width: 18 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Indicates that she is sending two engravings of General William H. Winder to Lossing. Also suggests sources for Lossing's historical research on the War of 1812 and indicates that Mrs. Winder (Gertrude Polk Winder) is forwarding contacts to Townshend's mother. Hopes to exonerate General Winder of perceived errors in his defense of retreat from Washington, D.C., when the city was captured by the British in 1814. Lossing, an historian, published 'The American revolution and the war of 1812' in 1875. Townshend was clearly Winder's kin, but the exact relation is unclear.
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