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- GLC#
- GLC02382.208-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- circa April 18, 1874
- Author/Creator
- Brown, Bessie, fl. 1874
- Title
- to Henry Jackson Hunt
- Place Written
- Clifton, Staten Island
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 26.4 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Date inferred from contents. Pertains to the funeral of Harvey Brown. Bessie transmits the address of her father's funeral. Gives Hunt, who is to write a memorial for her father, insight into his "home life, his gentleness, consideration and thoughtful love... " Notes that her father died of Bright's disease, which he contracted in the military, and that this disease had caused him to leave Fort Meade in 1854 and Fort Pickens in 1861. Discusses memorable events of her father's life, including his service as a funeral escort for Revolutionary War notable John Paulding "the last of Andre's captors."
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