Letter : Buffalo, to Guy H. Salisbury, 1863 Apr. 7.

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Letter : Buffalo, to Guy H. Salisbury, 1863 Apr. 7.

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Transmits to the Buffalo Historical Society a souvenir medal he received during the celebration of the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825; also tells of the "gun telegraph" used to signal the canal opening, from Buffalo to New York, and back to Buffalo, on 26 Oct. 1826.

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