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Scope and Content Patriotic scrapbook compiled by a Charleston, Massachusetts, resident in the first year of the Civil War. Scrapbook contains Union songsheets, mourning cards, patriotic covers, and cartoons. Much of the information relates to Colonel Ephram E. Ellsworth whose death in May 1861 caused a great upswell in patriotic sentiment in the North. Images available on Imagebase (...