Charles F. Blood letters, 1860-1862, 1887.

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Letters of Charles F. and Rachael A. Blood, including an 1860 letter from Charles to his future wife Rachael A. Sturm of Elmira, Illinois, describing his life while traveling to Pike's Peak in search of gold; an 1862 letter to Charles and Rachael from Franklin A. Blood at Camp Randall, Madison, Wisconsin; a letter from Albert W. Harriman (Oct. 1861) in which he describes his experiences stationed with the Union Army near Washington, D.C.; and a letter (Sept. 8, 1887) from Nellie Beard to Rachael in which Beard describes conditions at the Hudson, Wisconsin school at which she was a teacher, and reports on the theft of $12,000 apparently from the school's building fund.

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