Martin H. Burge Civil War Collection
1861-1969
Title: Martin H. Burge Civil War Collection
Dates: 1861-1969
Collection Number: GC 1245
Creator/Collector:
Extent: (Boxes: 5x7 housed in letter; ½ legal; 1 ov)
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Abstract: Soldiers' letters; postmarks and postal covers; Confederate almanac; and veterans' scrapbook.
Language of Material: English
Research is by appointment only
Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder
Martin H. Burge Civil War Collection. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Scope and Content of Collection
Soldiers' letters; postmarks and postal covers; Confederate almanac; and veterans' scrapbook. Letters from sites including
Elk River Bridge, Tennessee (1865); a letter by a woman who accompanied her medical officer husband (1864); a series of letters
by Norman Allen to his wife and family (1864-65); postmarks; Confederate Army almanac (1864); patriotic envelopes unused,
circa 1861-1865 in variations of patriotic, political and comic themes; scrapbook mostly of newspaper clippings pertaining
to the Gettysburg Reunion of 1938 with later items through 1969.