Past Voices Illinois Letters
Markle Richard, Co. B. 40th Reg. Ill Int. Statement from his Civil War Pension File [
CIVIL WAR]
Atkins1863 Civil War Letter from George B. Atkins to his father from Camp Douglas, Illinois [
CIVIL WAR]
Brown,L. D. of Berwyn Illinois to the St Marys Journal newspaper about the capsize of the Eastland steamboat in Chicago IL 26 July 1915
Dennis, Judson WW1 Collection of letters to his brother and mother in Tennessee and IL, 1917-1919
Early, John D. Baltimore, Maryland to "Major" Isaac Sandford, P. Master, Flora, Edgar County, Illinois, 1841
Maxwell Collection, James Maxwell. 127th IL, letters to his family 1863 - 1873 [
CIVIL WAR]
Overman, Oscar, 103rd IL Inf. From Steamer Rocket to Emma Wadsworth 1863 [
CIVIL WAR]
Peer, Levi Letter from Halton Co. Ont. to his mother Elizabeth (Marical) Peer in Hamilton Co. IL 5 Aug. 1839
Steele, James. Washington City, D. C., to George E. Levings, Esq., Cashier, Edgar Co. Bank, Paris, Illinois, April 10, 1861.
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