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Language
English
Abstract
Two letters authored by Corporal John Service (Company A, 18th Connecticut) from Martinsburg describing eloquently and in
some detail how citizens and soldiers celebrated the end of the Civil War, and mourned over the assassination of President
Abraham Lincoln. (4/15/1865, four pages, incomplete) (4/25/1865, six pages, complete).
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Lincoln's Mock Funeral in Martinsburg, Civil War Letters, A&M 3378, West
Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.