Photographs of Soldiers - Their Preservation in the Dead Letter Office
Summary
Customarily, dead letters are discarded at the end of each year, but the Postmaster General has made a selection of soldiers' and sailors' letters, especially ones that include pictures, and published the names so that someone may hopefully claim them. The paper published a list of these letters, to whom they were addressed in Maryland and the name of the sender. Applications for the letters can be sent to the Third Assistant Postmaster, Washington, D.C. and the sender should indicate what was enclosed, etc.
Article Source
Newspaper: The Herald and Torch Light
Publication Date: January 29th, 1868
Page/Column: 1H
Town: Hagerstown, MD
County: Washington
Subjects
- Other
