Letter, 1862.

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Letter, 1862.

A letter, January 4, 1862, from George W. Chandler, Company I, 5th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, to his sister Caroline, describing activities and army life at Camp Griffin, Virginia.

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United States. Army. Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, 5th (1861-1865). Company I.

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Chandler, George W., 1831-1918

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Master potter and an inventor. George W. Chandler was born in 1831 and died in 1918. His wife, Elizabeth Jane Moore, whom he married in 1856, was born in 1837 and died in 1906. Although his home was in Moingona, Iowa, and later Des Moines, Iowa, he found work in a number of other Midwest potteries in Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana. In Iowa he worked and ran the Moingona Pottery works with Sylvester H. Deering (1875-1877). Together they invented and patented a fencepost hold...