While I certainly applaud this effort will there be any attempt to scan
those civil war letters that are held by the various libraries around the
state and make them available? As an example the Library of Va has letters
in their manscript collection on William R Elam and the University of Va has
additional letters on W R Elam. None of which are scanned.  When I had
copies of the file from UVA xeroxed by them, they made no adjustment for the
fact that several of them were on dark paper so I have black paper. A
digital scan would fix that problem.
Douglas Burnett
Satellite Beach
FL

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Dale Dulaney <
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> In this week’s blog entry archivist Jim Greve presents personal letters
> from our
> collection that reveal the pain one Virginia family experienced upon the
> death
> of a loved one in action during the Civil War. These letters and similar
> materials help bridge the nearly 150-year gap between that generation and
> the present one. Countless documents like these are still in private hands.
> The CW150 Legacy Project, a joint venture of the Library of Virginia and
> the
> Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission, is  now in
> progress, traveling the state to locate and digitally scan historic Civil
> War-era
> documents not housed in archives. The generosity of Virginia's citizens is
> bringing to light thousands of documents and family stories.
>
> http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/
>
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