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RE: American Civil War Letters - February 5, 1864 - Recovery, Prayer Meetings, The Sensitive Holy Spirit
This are very cool! Where did you find them? Has your family passed them down through the years? From looking at the original scans, it looks like this was tough to transcribe! Great post (:
Thank you for reading.
They were sorely neglected in a storage area of my grandmother's place. She'd cut the stamps off them and then chucked them all into a shoe-box!
My grandmother was an only child, but all her ancestors had big families with lots of kids, so it's rather miraculous that they wound up with us.
Transcribing is tough, but it's getting easier with practice! After struggling over the first letter with a magnifying glass, I realized I could just enlarge the scan on my big monitor. Getting it up to 4x original size makes a huge difference!