Letter : Bangor, Me., to George Alfred Townsend, 1900 Sept. 24.

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Letter : Bangor, Me., to George Alfred Townsend, 1900 Sept. 24.

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Appreciates comments on Hamlin's biography on his grandfather Hannibal Hamlin.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Hamlin, Charles Eugene

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Author; grandson of Hannibal Hamlin. From the description of Letter : Bangor, Me., to George Alfred Townsend, 1900 Sept. 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 32880684 ...

Townsend, George Alfred, 1841-1914

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Townsend was a famous Civil War correspondent who wrote under the pen name "Gath," and who later constructed an elaboraate country estate at Gathland or Gapland at Crampton's Gap in South Mountain northwest of Washington. This was the site of a battle that marked the beginning of the Antietam campaign. In 1896, Townsend built the Army Correspondents' Memorial arch on his property to commemorate the service of Civil War correspondents. The site is now a park. From the description of A...