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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.

Ewing, Thomas (1829-1896) to Luin K. Thacher and Henry Flesher

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08222 Author/Creator: Ewing, Thomas (1829-1896) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 09 October 1863 Pagination: Order a Copy

Two dispatches alerting Union officers of Confederate General Joseph Shelby's raids into Missouri: "I haven just received information that the rebels took Warsaw... & marched out from there on the Sedalia Road..."

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