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08-02-2005, 07:43 PM

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A Civil War soldier’s letters home bring past to life for Yale student

A Civil War soldier’s letters home bring past to life for Yale student
http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1281&dept_id=7576&newsid=14953121&PAG =461&rfi=9
One hundred and forty years after those words were written, Yale University
student Emily Mimnaugh is hunched over in the basement of the New-York
Historical Society, closely inspecting each word in a letter written by Civil
War soldier Jesse Brown.

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