[Civil War envelope showing portrait of Colonel Horatio Gates Sickel of Co. K, 32nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, inset in medallion decorated with figures of Justice and Columbia, with message "Our Colonel, 3d. Reg. P.R.V.C."]
Summary
Addressed to Mr. William H. Heft, Richlandtown P.O., Bucks County, Pa.; bears 3 cent stamp; postmarked at Washington, D.C., December 1862.
The 32nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was the 3rd of the Pennsylvania reserve corps regiments.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127)
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Date
01/01/1861
Source
Library of Congress
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