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Title	Mead family papers, June-August 1865
Creator	Mead, James
Date Original	1865-06/1865-08
Description	Correspondence details the 1865 wartime experiences of James Mead, who joined the army in 1862 and served in both the Iowa Infantry Volunteers and the U.S. Colored Volunteer Infantry.
Topical Subject (LCTGM)	Soldiers War
Topical Subject (LCSH)	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Personal Name Subject	Mead, James
Corporate Name Subject	United States. Army. Iowa Infantry Regiment, 24th (1861-1866) United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 62nd (1864-1867)
Geographic Subject	United States
Chronological Subject	1860-1870
Type (DCMIType)	Text
Type (AAT)	Correspondence Envelopes
Type (IMT)	jpeg
Digital Collection	Civil War Diaries and Letters
Contributing Institution	University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept.
Archival Collection	Mead family papers
Collection Identifier	MSC0372
Collection Guide	http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/collguides/?MSC0372
Box Number	1
Rights Management	Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital image. Commercial use or distribution of the image is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.
Contact Information	Contact the Special Collections Dept. at The University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/contact/index.
Digitization Specifications	Scanned with Ricoh Aficio 2335 Scanner at 600 ppi, 24-bit color. Master image available in tiff format.
File Name	index.cpd
Identifier	31858055128940

Title	01_1865-06-10-Page 01
File Name	31858055128940_01_1865-06-10-Page 01.jpg
Full Text	Burnsids Baracks June 10 1865 Dear cousin i seet my self to inform you that i am well at this time and hope that when this comes to hand it will find you well. Eley i recieved your kind and welkim noat and read it with pleasure i am truly glad to think i shell see you soon for i am agoing to get out of the survis in to or three dayes and i am agoing to come to see you and stay all winter with my friends it is of no use to sind my uglyness to you for i will come in too weeks at the furthest so i shell go home for a while and then i will come to see you if i do i will stay with Robert i will want to know whether their is any young ladyes that whishes to marry a soldier if they do

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