Elias Winans Price papers, 1823-1868 [manuscript].

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Elias Winans Price papers, 1823-1868 [manuscript].

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Papers of an Essex County, N.J., family, including eighty-five Civil War letters written home by E. W. Price, serving with the 5th New York Regiment in Maryland and West Virginia. Price's letters concern the discomforts of camp life; his activities as a nurse, cook, and prison guard; the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg; and his reactions to national news, especially the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Also included are antebellum papers, including records of Price's father, Jeremiah Price, constable of Essex County, N.J., relating to delinquent tax collections; letters from a brother in Michigan; and letters from E. W. Price and a brief account book Price kept while he was apprenticed to a bookbinder in Waterbury, Conn.

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