letters

Letters to the Pennsylvania Daily Telegraph (1861-1865)

This collection contains letters written to the Pennsylvania Daily Telegraph newspaper by Pennsylvania soldiers, including William Tell Barnitz, A.H. Baum, and Samuel Reinhart. These authors were not necessarily residents of Franklin County, but they served in various regiments with Franklin County men and comment on the activities of those regiments. Some of the letters also discuss Chambersburg, and one notes conversations with Chambersburg’s merchants about the city’s burning by Confederate troops.