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Memoir of Lieut.-Col. John T. Greble, of the United States Army
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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Manuscripts
A collection of material related to the life and work of Benson John Lossing. The collection includes his original manuscripts of published and unpublished works, travel notebooks, drawings, and sketches; also included are letters, chiefly addressed to Lossing, reflecting his literary interests and research methods. Many of the manuscripts include Lossing's notes, revisions, corrections, and additions. The published works include: The American Centenary (1876); The Empire State: A Compendious History of the Commonwealth of New York (1888); Our Countrymen, or, Brief Memoirs of Eminent Americans (1855); Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution (1850 to 1852); Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812 (1868); Harper's Popular Cyclopedia of United States History (1881), and other works. The pocket notebooks were kept by Lossing during his travels to the battlefields of the Civil War from 1864 to 1866.
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