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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.

"When This Cruel War is Over."

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04706.26 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Document Date: 1863 Pagination: Order a Copy

Advertisement /song sheet with small hand-colored picture of Union soldiers in the countryside entitled "Reconnoitering Party after the battle of Gettysburg."

Winchell, Almira, fl. 1862-1865
Newman, William, fl. 1863-1865

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