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Virginia Garland Moore Craig letter dated April 19, 1865

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Identifier	MCW_MDCH_11-07-16_DON0003_0013
Creator	Craig, Virginia G., 1841-1936
Title	Virginia Garland Moore Craig letter dated April 19, 1865
Subject	Craig, Virginia G., 1841-1936--Correspondence United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1806-1865--Assassination
Description	Letter dated April 19, 1865 from Virginia Garland Moore Craig to her husband, U.S. Army Captain Seldon Frank Craig. In this six-page letter written from Baltimore, Maryland, she expresses her grief and the grief felt by her fellow Baltimoreans at the death of President Abraham Lincoln. She bemoans the fact that Marylanders have been some of the worst villains of the war. She talks about the treatment of traitors, her hatred of the South, and how with Lincoln's death the South has lost one of its best friends.
Date Original	1865-04-19
Biographical/Historical Note	Virginia Garland Moore Craig was born February 8, 1841 in Baltimore, Maryland. In April 1864, she married Seldon Frank Craig, who served in the the U.S. Army Sixth Michigan Infantry, which later became the U.S. Army Sixth Michigan Heavy Artillery. The two met while Captain Craig's regiment was stationed in Baltimore. Virginia Garland Moore Craig gave birth to two daughters, Marion (who died at age 6 in 1872) and Laura (born 1868, died 1956). She was widowed in 1899. She died in Baltimore in 1936.
Extent	6 scans
Format	Digital reproduction of 6-page document, 21 x 13 cm.
Publisher	Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage Program Enoch Pratt Free Library
Date Digital	2011-07-16
Language	English
Type	Text
Coverage	1861-1870
Relation	Is Part Of The Civil War in Your Attic Is Part Of the Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage Program
Related items	Item provided to The Civil War in Your Attic Project by Norma J. Moore, digital donor number MCW_MDCH_11-07-16_DON0003
Rights	Permission to publish is required. Please contact Michael Scott, Digitization Supervisor/MDCH Coordinator, Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St., Baltimore, MD 21201, 410-545-6342, mdch@prattlibrary.org.

Identifier	MCW_MDCH_11-07-16_DON0003_0013_0001
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Transcript	[No. ]74 Baltimore, April 19th/[18]65 My Own Dear Frank , To-day, the anniversary of our wedding, has been a very sad and solemn day. I had intended celebrating it, by inviting some of my young friends to pass a sociable evening with me, but the recent terrible calamity, which has spread such universal mourning throughout the land, forbade any such joyous assembly . To-day, being set apart for the funeral services of our beloved president, it was announced that all business would be suspended, and services appropriate to the occasion would be held in most of the churches. The bells commenced tolling

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