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Marcellus Ovando Messer Correspondence

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Identifier: MSN/CW 5108
Scope and Contents Central to this collection of family letters are personal letters written by Marcellus Ovando Messer during his Civil War era military service in Company C, 19th Ohio Infantry (1861-1865). These letters date from 11 January 1862 to 23 October 1865. Stamped, postmarked envelopes are present for most. Messer writes to his parents Loren S. Messer and Chestina W. Cook Messer and younger brother, Charles Messer, at home in Warren, Ohio, and to his brother George W. Messer (who by 1863 was...
Dates: 1853 - 1924; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1865

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  • Repository: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections X
  • Subject: Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 X
  • Subject: Warren (Ohio) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 X