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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

The Richmond Enquirer. The Richmond Enquirer. (December 2 1862)

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01447.10 Author/Creator: The Richmond Enquirer. Place Written: Richmond, VA Type: Newspaper clipping Date: 2 December 1862 Pagination: 2 p. ; 68 x 52 cm. Order a Copy

Includes a list of every officer of the United States army who resigned at the start of the war to join the Confederacy. News from New Orleans and movements around Fredericksburg.

Jones family

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