During the Civil War years\, hundreds of thousands of soldi ers wrote letters home\, many containing card-sized photos of themself. By the end of the conflict\, thousands of letters and images remained undeli vered at the Dead Letter Office in Washington\, D.C. For decades after the war\, the employees of the Dead Letter Office went to extraordinary effor ts to return these images to a rightful recipient. Melissa shares photos f rom her collection of Dead Letter Office images and tells the touching sto ry of these interrupted sentiments and the noble efforts by many to send t hem home.
\nMelissa A. Winn is the Director of Marketing and Communi cations for the National Museum of Civil War Medicine. \;
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