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Camp near Stevensburg, Virginia, 1864. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This lot contains a letter written by a soldier in the 126th New York Infantry and a clipping of an illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated newspaper, both enclosed in the letter's original mailing envelope. All are in nice shape. The four-page letter, written in light pencil, is datelined "Camp near Stevensburg, Va. March 13th 1864. It was sent by Private George S. Young to his sister, Louisa, at Waterloo, New York. The mailing envelope bears a double-ring Washington, DC postmark dated March 13 and is franked with a 3-cent Washington stamp (Scott #65) that has been canceled with a target handstamp. The wood-engraved newspaper illustration measures approximately 9½" x 6½" and pictured hundreds of dancers in a huge hall festooned with flags and garlands. It is captioned, "Washington's Birthday in the Army - Ball at the Second Corps Headquarters - From a sketch by our Special Artist, E. [Edwin] Forbes." Although the… Read More