Ridgway letter : Alviso, [Mountain View, Calif.], to sister [Mrs. A. Van Bergen, Cortland, N.Y.] : ALS, 1865 July 21.

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Ridgway letter : Alviso, [Mountain View, Calif.], to sister [Mrs. A. Van Bergen, Cortland, N.Y.] : ALS, 1865 July 21.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54833829

Discusses the end of the American Civil War, Copperheads, Jefferson Davis, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and California, including prospecting for oil near Alviso, Calif.

4 p.

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