August F. W. Partz letters 1864 Partz, August F. W. letters

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August F. W. Partz letters 1864 Partz, August F. W. letters

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The August F. W. Partz letters pertain to Partz's experiences while living and traveling in New York, Ohio, and western Illinois during the Civil War. Partz, a mining engineer, discussed a business opportunity in Santa Fe, guerilla warfare and attacks on trains traveling through the Midwest, and military news from Missouri.

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August F. W. Partz was born in Germany on January 7, 1821 or 1822, and immigrated to the United States in 1849. He worked as a mining engineer for the Mamakating Mine in New York in 1864. That year, he intended to travel to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to explore another mining opportunity, but he elected not to travel beyond Quincy, Illinois, because of guerilla fighting in Missouri and Kansas. In 1870, Partz lived in Oakland, California; he later lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He and his wife J...

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