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| | WILDER MSS. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | The Wilder mss., 1860-1868, consist of letters to Edson Adelman Wilder, 1845-1927, hardware merchant of Orland, Indiana, from his friends and relatives serving in the 100th regiment, Co. B., of the Indiana Infantry. |
 | | Topics discussed include camp conditions and the daily routine, the death of comrades, skirmishes and patrol duty, Negroes, transport down the Mississippi on the steamboat Iowa, and Morgan's Raid. |
 | | With the collection are a number of empty envelopes addressed chiefly to E.A. Wilder, at LaGrange Collegiate Institute, Ontario, Indiana; at Orland, Steuben County, Indiana; and at Albion, Michigan. |
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