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[A circular seal authenticating a document which grants William H. Barber the power of attorney for Hannah B. Smith]
Hannah B. Smith DS, October 31, 1881. New Haven, Ct., page 4. From a collection of correspondence and documents from during and after the Civil War. The Civil War material includes personal letters to Barber's mother; a 15-page letter to a friend that describes a railroad trip from Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Baltimore; Barber's discharge letter, which has a drop of blood on it from a fist fight with another soldier; and a letter of dishonorable discharge for three men (Barber is not one of them) for cowardice in battle. Of special interest is a letter to William from his brother Joseph, December 10, 1861, which includes a full-page pencil sketch of the layout of Fort Ethan Allen in Arlington, Virginia.
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