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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.

Beale, James (fl. 1878) to Maj. Geo. Hooker

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09171.9 Author/Creator: Beale, James (fl. 1878) Place Written: Nepounset, MA Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 29 July 1878 Pagination: 4 p. ; 13.5 x 21.3 cm. Order a Copy

read an article in which an ex-Confederate claimed a certain battle never happen. all these indiscrepancies will give rise to the claim that the war never happened.

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