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.

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