Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Excerpted from The Irving library, vol. 7, no. 949. Includes debate with Stephen Douglas (June 17, 1858), speech at Independence Hall (Feb. 21, 1861), First Inaugural Address (Mar. 4, 1861), Emancipation Proclamation (Jan. 1, 1863), Gettysburg...
A letter to the editor of The Richmond times-dispatch from John T. Goolrick; a letter dated Feb. 14, 1928 to Senator Joseph Robinson from Marvin D. Boland; and a letter to Mary D. Carter from Claude G. Bowers published in The evening world on Aug....
Correspondence detailing the experiences of Joseph Franklin Culver, who served with the Illinois 129th Infantry Regiment, Company A, from 1862-1865, first as a lieutenant and later as captain.