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Title: Archive from the family of Civil War General William Buel Franklin Author: Franklin, William Buel Place: Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: Including: 3 handwritten pages and 4 typed pages of Colonel Franklin’s biography; photographic copy of genealogical documents on the Franklin family in Philadelphia, 1764-1779 and some 12 pages of handwritten genealogical notes on Franklin ancestors, including the 17th century Colonial Governor of Connecticut; 2-page typed copy of an 1869 letter from citizens of Winchester, Virginia to Colonel Franklin who exercised military authority in the area during Reconstruction; 10 newspaper clippings, one about Colonel Franklin’s escape from the Confederates during the Civil War, six obituaries of him at his death in 1911, and a long 1903 obituary of his brother, General Franklin. Miscellaneous papers of the Franklin family, most relating to Civil War Colonel Walter Franklin, brother of General William Buel Franklin, corps commander in the Army of the Potomac and Admiral Samuel Rhoads Franklin. Lot Amendments Condition: Light general wear from handling; very good. Item number: 231235