Michigan in the Civil War

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Buckbee family.

Family of Julian Edward Buckbee (known as Edward J. Buckbee) and Mary Marble Church, of Winnetka, Ill., and their son Henry Cheever Buckbee of Escanaba, Mich.

Letters of and about Edward J. Buckbee, major with the First Michigan Sharpshooters, captured during the Petersburg (Va.) battle, June 1864; letter of William L. Church describing conditions in Vicksburg, Miss., in Aug. 1863. Also includes tintype portrait of Julian Edward Buckbee (known as Edward J. Buckbee) and copies of digitized portraits.

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